Wyoming Water Forum

2025-26 Presentations

September 2025: Wyoming State Engineer, Brandon Gebhart & Interstate Streams Staff: Wyoming State Engineer's Program Update 

November 2025: Rachel Eryes: Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms (HCBs) in Wyoming Waters 

December 2025: Wyoming Association of Irrigation Districts: Brief History and Current Issues Facing Wyoming Irrigation Districts 

January 2026:  Paul Dey: Applying Wyoming’s Stream Quantification Tool on Savery Creek: 5 years of Monitoring Results

February 2026:  Jim Mildenberger & Maren Anderson: Microbial Source Tracking at WPHL 

March 2026:  Joseph Cook: Consumptive use and conservation efforts   

April 2026: David Ketchum : Getting More from Remote Sensing: Improvements in Field Scale Water Use Estimates 

May 2026: Nicholas Taylor, Wyoming Stream Stats 

2024-25 Presentations

October 2024: Bart Geerts, Predicting changes in precipitation and seasonal mountain snowpack in Wyoming

November 2024: Danny Hogan, Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation

December 2024: Thad Kuntz, HydroData: A Water Resources Data Management Tool

January 2025: Samir Budhathoki, Evaluation and Techno-economic assessment of Lithium extraction technologies from the produced water brines in WY

February 2025: Robert Ettema, Can Hydraulic Structures Handle Ice?

March 2025: Mahdi Asgari, Economic Impacts of Water Conservation and Curtailment in Southwestern Wyoming

April 2025 Cancelled: Mary O'Neill, Responding to the Future of Water: Perspectives of Agricultural Leaders of the Green River Basin, Wyoming

May 2025:Eli Boardman, Wind River Range Snow Water Supply Forecast: 2024-2025 Update

2023-24 Presentations

September 2023: Samir Budhathoki, Evaluation of the Rare Earth Elements in the produced water samples from different River basins of WY

October 2023: Pallavi Pokharel, Investigating Wyoming Residents' relation to water through Storytelling 

November 2023: Sarah Collins, WRP Projects on Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms

December 2023: Shari Meeks, Salinity in the Upper Green River

January 2024: Austin Madson, Assessing Sediment Inputs into the Shoshone River to Determine Areas for Protection and Restoration Practices

February 2024: Sarah Bargsten, Cheyenne's Water Supply

March 2024: Eli Boardman, Advances in Water Supply Forecasting: Fusion of Airborne Snow Maps and Physical Modeling

April 2024: Theodore Barnhart, Future Streamflow Estimates Suggest a Shift in Streamflow Magnitude and Timing by the End of the Century 

May 2024: Strike Consulting Group, Demand Management Demonstration Project Updates

2022-23 Presentations

May 2023: A regional streamflow drought early warning system prototyped for the Colorado River Basin

April 2023: Trout Unlimited Demand Management Demonstration Project Update

March 2023: WDEQ's RBDMS Groundwater Data Warehouse

September 2022: Wyoming WRP Project: Different Contribution of Microbial Sources

October 2022: Aquatic Invasive Species Recording

October 2022: Aquatic Invasive Specie Presentation

November 2022: Building a Decision Making Tool: a Water Right Approach Data

November 2022: Building a Decision Support Tool: a Water Right Data Approach

December 2022: Sediment & Fisheries Recording

January 2023: WY Fish Passage Prioritization Tool

February 2023: Imagining the Future

2021-2022 Presentations