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Critical Infrastructure Systems Lab

Connecting climate, water, and energy

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December 11, 2025

We will be at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting! Please drop by to see one of our posters or attend one of our talks! Here’s a link to our...

December 8, 2025

We are creating an interdisciplinary cohort of PhD students and Postdoctoral Research Fellows to work across several institutions and topic areas to progress towards a global...

December 6, 2025

A new paper on collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and UC Santa Barbara: “Lost Opportunities in Sustainable Hydropower: The Overlooked Role of Sediment Management and...

October 14, 2025

Rohan is supported by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Sciences supporting collaborative research projects using AI to...

August 25, 2025

We are excited to welcome Yingfan and Yingying, two new PhD students joining our group this...

July 17, 2025

An open source hydrological water management model for the Mekong has just been published on Environmental Modelling & Software The source code is available on...

July 16, 2025

Our new paper describing the 20 version of PowNet is now available on the Journal of Open Source Software: PowNet 20: A production cost modeling framework for large-scale power...

July 14, 2025

Please check out our commentary “Advancing the Representation of Human Actions in Large-Scale Hydrological Models: Challenges and Future Research Directions“, which...

June 11, 2025

We have just released the latest version of VIC-Res, which includes major updates: Enhanced Reservoir Routing Scheme Refactored Auto-Calibration Wrappers Environmental Flow and...

June 3, 2025

The latest version of PowNet is now online Major updates include: Fixed and validated DC-OPF (Angle and Kirchhoff formulation) Refactored Reservoir module for speed and...

May 23, 2025

Yingying Liu — a MSc student from The University of Tokyo — will visit us this May Yingying works on the assimilation of SWOT data into hydraulic models While visiting...

April 18, 2025

Our recent paper on AGU Advances has just been highlighted on EOS: “Modeling the Past, Present, and Future of...