https://qanr.usu.edu/coloradoriver/research/index.xmlPublished Research from the Center for Colorado River Studies at USU.https://templateresources.usu.edu/_resources/assets/images/U-State.pnghttps://qanr.usu.edu/en-usNews/coloradoriver/files/news/White-Paper-9.pdfThe Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (GCDAMP) currently focuses primarily on downstream resources, particularly in the Grand Canyon, without fully accounting for the diverse environmental and societal values across the entire Colorado River sysMonday, 2 December 2024/coloradoriver/files/news/White-Paper-8.pdfSuggesting an alternative approach to achieve needed flexibility through adaptive management. The rules of reservoir release be reconsidered every few years. The reconsideration would be based on the status of reservoir storage, ecosystem, river resource,Friday, 15 November 2024https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/research/richter-et-al.phpA full accounting of where the Colorado River water goes en route to its delta can aid design of strategies and plans for bringing water use into balance with available supplies, according to new research. Sunday, 31 March 2024/coloradoriver/files/news/White-Paper-7.pdfThis paper provides an analysis of the accuracy and bias of the 24-Month Study projections for future Lake Powell inflows and elevations and finds that in some years, the most probable projected inflows were higher than what actually occurred by as much aFriday, 18 February 2022https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/news/wp6.phpThis White Paper is designed to encourage wide-ranging and innovative thinking about how to sustainably manage the water supply, while simultaneously encouraging the negotiators of new agreements to consider their effects on ecosystems.Friday, 5 February 2021https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X20304116Predictions of river channel adjustment to changes in streamflow regime based on relations between mean channel characteristics and mean flood magnitude can be useful to evaluate average channel response.Tuesday, 15 December 2020https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020WR027566Many canyon‐bound rivers have downstream flow and water temperatures modified. In some regions, climate change is expected to cause lower storage in reservoirs and warmer release temperatures, which may further alter downstream flow and thermal regimes.Monday, 16 November 2020https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JF005414The sediment supply within a river system evolves depending on the discharge, flood frequency and duration, changes in sediment input, and ecohydraulic conditions that modify sediment transport processes.Tuesday, 13 October 2020https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/news/wp5.phpEffective water-supply negotiation and river management are best served if Colorado River stakeholders are mindful of the precision and accuracy of the many components of the hydrologic cycle that affect the water supply.Tuesday, 22 September 2020https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/news/wp4.phpLong-range planning of the water supply provided by the Colorado River requires realistic assessments of the impact of a continuation of the current drought that began in 2000, of extreme future droughts, and the long-term and decline in watershed runoff.Thursday, 17 September 2020https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/esp.4926Channels change in response to natural and human-caused fluctuations in streamflow and sediment. Predicting how the channel might change from alterations in streamflow and sediment supply is an important and challenging part of managing a river system.Friday, 12 June 2020https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343518300770During the last 50 years, construction of dams in the western United States declined. This is partly because of increasing recognition of diverse and unintended social-ecological consequences of dams.Wednesday, 1 April 2020https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/132/11-12/2333/583368/Channel-narrowing-by-inset-floodplain-formation-ofThe lower Green River episodically narrowed between the mid-1930s and present day through deposition of new floodplains within a wider channel that had been established and/or maintained during the early twentieth century pluvial period.Friday, 27 March 2020https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/news/wp3.phpA white paper where describing how Colorado River stakeholders face many uncertainties—issues like climate change, future water demand, and evolving ecological priorities—and are looking for new tools to help cope.Wednesday, 12 February 2020https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/news/wp2.phpA new white paper is the first of a series of papers to be produced by the Future of the Colorado River Project that explore alternative management strategies for the Colorado River that might provide benefit to water-supply users and to river ecosystems.Thursday, 19 December 2019https://eos.org/features/green-and-grand-john-wesley-powell-and-the-west-that-wasntThe American West, while steeped in mythology, is also a region that depends heavily on science for its long-term livability—and perhaps no one was quicker to realize that than John Wesley Powell.Thursday, 23 May 2019https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/research/natural-flow-regime.phpAn estimate of a river’s natural flow regime is useful for water resource planning and ecosystem rehabilitation by providing insight into the predisturbance form and function of a river.Saturday, 9 February 2019https://caas.usu.edu/coloradoriver/news/wp1.phpThe Fill Mead First (FMF) plan would establish Lake Mead reservoir as the primary water storage facility of the main-stem Colorado River and would relegate Lake Powell reservoir to a secondary water storage facility to be used only when Lake Mead is full.Thursday, 10 November 2016http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JF003436/fullThe Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, USA, and Chihuahua and Coahuila, Mexico, undergoes rapid geomorphic changes as a result of its large sediment supply and variable hydrology;Wednesday, 16 December 2015https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X13003425Abstract Since the 1940s, the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region has undergone long periods of channel narrowing, which have been occasionally interrupted by rare, large floods that widen the channel (termed a channel reset).Friday, 1 November 2013https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/gsabulletin/article/123/9-10/1908/125716We conducted stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and dendrogeomorphic analyses within two long floodplain trenches to precisely reconstruct the timing and processes of recent floodplain formation.Thursday, 1 September 2011https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X10001157Over the last century, large-scale water development of the upper Rio Grande in the US and Mexico, and of the Rio Conchos in Mexico, has resulted in progressive channel narrowing of the lower Rio Grande in the Big Bend region.Tuesday, 15 March 2011