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Presenters & Moderators

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CONFERENCE KEYNOTES & SPEAKERS

Keynote

Dr. John C. Tracy

Dr. Tracy serves as Director of the Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University, starting his position in the summer of 2022. Dr. Tracy has led research and outreach initiatives on understanding and developing sustainable water management practices in a wide range of hydro-climatological systems across the western United States, including the western High Plains, Northern Plains, Southern Plains, Great Basin, and Pacific Northwest regions. His more recent programs have focused on increasing our understanding of the integrated behavior of water resource systems under the influence of changing hydrologic, economic, and social conditions; and understanding community water security from a socio-technical perspective. Dr. Tracy received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering at Colorado State University in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering at the University of California at Davis in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Prior to his position at the Colorado Water Center, Dr. Tracy served as Director of the Center for Watershed and Environmental Sustainability at the Desert Research Institute, the Director of the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute at the University of Idaho, Director of the Texas Water Resources Institute at Texas A&M AgriLife, and Department Head for the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. Dr. Tracy also served as President of the American Water Resources Association, the University Council on Water Resources, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the National Institutes for Water Resources.

Ed Clark
Director of the National Water Center and Deputy Director of the Office of Water Prediction
NOAA NWS

Edward Clark is the director of NOAA’s National Water Center (NWC) in Tuscaloosa, AL and deputy director of the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP). As director, Clark oversees operations, guides the management and strategic direction of the Office of Water Prediction, and facilitates collaborative efforts to evolve NOAA’s water prediction capabilities. Under Clark’s leadership, OWP and the NWC have continuously grown as an organization to directly enhance the mission of NOAA. Since 2016, there have been rapid advancements made to improve water resources including, but not limited to:

• NOAA’s first hydrologic modeling framework, National Water Model - which includes expansion to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands with expansion to Alaska to be provided in 2023
• An interagency Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework
• The first ever NWS Cooperative Institute focused on operational hydrology known as the “Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology” (CIROH)
• Signed Flood Inundation Mapping Construct of Operations
• Collaboration with federal agencies as well as academia to support 8 years of the National Water Center’s Innovator’s Program through the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc, to explore and develop next generation national flood forecasting.

Before becoming NWC director, Clark served as OWP’s Geo-Intelligence Division Director. In this role, he worked closely with multiple federal agency partners, including USGS, USACE and FEMA on a variety of projects associated with the Integrated Water Resources Science and Services consortium. Earlier in his career, Ed served in NWS headquarters as the National Flash Flood Service Leader in the Analyze, Forecast, and Support Office. Clark began his career in the NWS as an operational hydrologic forecaster, working as a senior hydrologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center in Salt Lake City for seven years. He is a civil engineer by training with an emphasis in water resources and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Utah.

REGISTRATION NOTE & CANCELATION POLICY

All conference participants (presenters, moderators, panelists, etc.) must register at the appropriate registration rate. AWRA Gateway members are not eligible for discounted conference rates. The registration fees are the major source of funding for the Conference, and the sharing of registrations is prohibited - every person attending the conference must register. For presenters, if two or more individuals will be presenting, each individual must register for the conference. This includes: all technical session presenters; all panel session presenters; and all poster session presenters.

All conference participants must adhere to the AWRA Code of Conduct. Cancelations must be made in writing, received by June 19, 2023, and will be subject to a processing fee of 30% of total fees. Refunds will be processed after the conclusion of the conference. Your registration may be transferred to someone else by June 19, 2023. If transferring a Super Saver or Early Bird registration after June 19, 2023 the transferred registration must pay the difference to the current rate. Abstract submission fees are nonrefundable.