| James Prairie Hydraulic Engineer 303.492.8572 |
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| Bureau
of Reclamation Upper Colorado Regional Office duty station: CADSWES - Univ. of Colorado at Boulder |
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Current Projects
- Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS) Salinity Projection Model
- Natural Flow and Salt Computation Model
- Upper Colorado River Basin Consumptive Uses And Losses
- Stochastic Hydrology and Salinity Research
- GunnisonEIS
- Incorporating a changing climate in long-term projections
Education
Ph.D. in Civil Engineer (Water Resources), University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006.
M.S. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources), University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002.
B.S. (Cum Laude) in Environmental Resource Engineering,
Research Interests
- Incorporating climate variability and change in decisions
- Colorado River Basin management and policy
- Modeling salinity at the river basin scale
- Decision support systems
- Improved uncertainty analysis and visualization
- Stochastic modeling of hydrology and salinity
- Hydroclimatology ands its incorporation in decision support
systems
- Data Management Systems
Publications
Prairie, J., Nowak, K. Rajagopalan, B., Lall, U. and Fulp, T., (2008) "A stochastic nonparametric approach for streamflow generation combining observational and paleo reconstructed data."
Water Resources Research, 44, W06423,
doi:10.1029/2007WR006684.Prairie, J.R. and Rajagopalan, B. (2007), "A basin wide stochastic salinity model."
Journal of Hydrology, 344,
doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.06.029.Prairie, J., and Rajagopalan, B, (2007). "Stochastic Streamflow Generation Incorporating Paleo-Reconstruction."
Proceedings of the
World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Tampa, FL.Prairie, J., Rajagopalan, B., Lall, U. and Fulp, T.,
(2007) "A
stochastic
nonparametric technique for space-time disaggregation of streamflows."
Water Resources Research, 43, W03432, doi:10.1029/2005WR004721.
Civil Environmental
and Architectural
Engineering Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Prairie, J., Rajagopalan, B., Fulp, T., and Zagona, E.,
(2006). "Modified
K-NN Model for Stochastic Streamflow Simulation." Journal
of
Hydrologic Engineering, 11(4), 371-378.
Proceeding of the International Salinity Forum, Riverside, CA.Prairie, J., Rajagopalan, B., Fulp, T., and Zagona, E.,
(2005). "Statistical
Nonparametric Model for Natural Salt Estimation." Journal of
Environmental
Engineering, 131(1), 130-138.
Prairie, J.R. (2002), "Long-Term Salinity Prediction with Uncertainty Analysis: Application for Colorado River above Glenwood Springs, CO."
Civil Environmental and Architectural
Engineering M.S.
Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.Prairie, J., Rajagopalan, B., and Fulp, T., (2002). "Long-term Salinity Prediction with Uncertainty Analysis."
Proceedings of the
Second Federal Interagency Hydrologic
Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, NV.Invited Presentations
On "Water Resources And Adaptation In The Colorado River Basin", (abstract)
invited presentation at the
Mountain Climate Research Confernece, Silverton, CO, June 10,
2008.
On "A Streamflow Generation Technique Under Climate Change Using Paleo and Observational Data for Colorado River", (abstract)
invited presentation at the
American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26,
2008.
On "An Analysis of Hydrologic Variability Sensitivity in the Colorado River Basin", (abstract)
invited presentation at the
American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, March 26,
2008.
On "A stochastic nonparametric technique for space-time disaggregation of streamflows", (abstract)
invited presentation at the 2005
Joint Assembly with AGU, New Orleans, LA, May 23-27, 2005.
Select Presentations
On "Stochastic Streamflow Generation Incorporating Paleo-Reconstruction."
presented at the ASCE
World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Tampa, FL. May 16,
2007.
On "Repairing the long-term salinity projection model for the
presented at the International
Salinity Forum, Riverside, CA, April 25-28, 2005.
On "Investigating
the Colorado River System”, (abstract)presented at Dept. of Civil,
Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Apr. 22, 2003.
On "Modeling framework for long-term salinity with uncertainty in the Colorado river", (abstract)
presented at the American
Geophysical Union,
Hydrology
Days, Fort Collins, CO, April 1 -4, 2002.
On "Long-term salinity prediction with uncertainty analysis: application for Colorado River above Glenwood Springs, CO,"
presented for Master Defense at
Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural
Engineering, University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO, May 2002.
On "Long-term salinity prediction with uncertainty"
presented at the Second
Federal
Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Jul 28 – Aug
1, 2002.
On "Incorporating climate information in long tern salinity prediction with uncertainty analysis”, (abstract)
Dept. of Civil, Environmental and
Architectural Engineering, University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Apr. , 2001.
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, June 14, 2001.
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, June 14, 2001.
On "Comparison of natural streamflows generated from parametric and nonparametric stochastic model", (abstract)
presented at the American
Geophysical Union,
Hydrology Days, Fort Collins, CO, Apr.1-3, 2001.
Honors
Star Award: Bureau of Reclamation, February 2008.
Star Award: Bureau of Reclamation, December 2007.
Engineer-of-the-Year Upper Colorado Region: Bureau of Reclamation, October, 2007.
Quality Co-worker Award: Bureau of Reclamation, April, 2007.
J. Ernest Flack Graduate Fellowship: University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2002
Star Award: Bureau of Reclamation, August 2001.
last updated: 2008/7/28