Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Future climate scenarios have the potential to complicate already fragile international agreements over internationally shared or transboundary water agreements between nations. There is a serious potential for future climates to severely affect river flow regimes, leading to increased frequencies and intensities of both floods and droughts that may impact overall global water security. This talk presents specific experiences working with USAID, the U.S. State Department, and various host nations on determining appropriate methods to analyze these impacts and adaptation strategies using state-of-the-art climate, hydrologic, and water management models. Specific case studies include the Indus River in South Asia, Syr Darya and Amu Dayra Rivers that feed the Aral Sea in Central Asia, and the Parana River in South America.
William (Bill) Doan is currently a PhD student in the CEE Department at CSU. Bill’s on-going dissertation research concerns climate change impacts on International Transboundary Rivers and international water-sharing agreements. Specific case studies include Indus River in South Asia, Syr Darya and Amu Dayra Rivers that feed the Aral Sea in Central Asia, and Parana River in South America. Bill recently retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where over his career he served as the Senior Water Resources Engineer at the U.S. Embassy Brasilia Brazil, U.S. Embassy Islamabad Pakistan, and U.S. Embassy Kabul Afghanistan. In these positions, Bill performed international water resources work, primarily in global water security, in formulating and implementing United States Government water resources policy and providing technical advice to Host Nations on water resources infrastructure design and operations, transboundary water analyses, and climate resilience. Bill led international water-sector donor coordination and developed complex hydrologic and water management models that involved multi-purpose reservoir stochastic streamflow and reservoir simulation models that guided water resources infrastructure investment decisions for the Governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Panama, and Brazil.
Bill also has extensive experience working on hydrologic and hydraulic analysis of large river systems, including seven years as a Senior Water Resources Manager at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Northwestern Division Missouri River Basin where he was responsible for making short and long-term reservoir forecasts as well as making complex reservoir release decisions that historically has optimized $1B in annual benefits for all reservoir purposes, including hydropower generation, water supply, flood control, environmental support, and irrigation for the largest reservoir system in the U.S.
Bill has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska and an M.S. degree in Hydrologic Science and Engineering from Colorado State University. Bill is currently a member of the Davenport Research Group @ CSU. Bill’s personal website is located at www.williamdoan.org.