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Recent water issues and challenges continue to threaten the sustainability of water resources in the western watersheds. Given current climate change projections, increasing temperature is likely to modify the timing, form, and intensity of precipitatin events, which consequently affect regional and local hydrologic cycles. As a result, drought, water shortage, and subsequent water conflicts may become an increasing threat in natural and managed water systems in the western states.

As such, Dr. Ryu's Western Watershed and Water Resources Research (W3R2) Group is focusing on developoing collaborative management modeling approaches for highly managed water resources system. The W3R2 is investigating how to identify future climate affects regional water resources outlooks over the next few decades, develop sustainable water resources planning and adaptive management against uncertain future cliamte, link the existing computer models to a socioeconomic model in human dimensions.