David Rosenberg
Water
Professor

Contact Information
Office Location: ENGR 226Phone: 435-797-8689
Email: david.rosenberg@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Teaching Interests
Innovative water management. Find more information on my Website (link at bottom of Contact Information).
Research Interests
Innovative water management. We work at spatial scales from individual users (such as households) to transboundary river basins and temporal scales from seconds (toilet flushes) to millennia (tree rings). We include hydrologic, engineering, economic, ecological, behavoiral, and institutional factors plus uncertainties. Explore our work on my Website (link at bottom of Contact Information).
Awards
Best Associate Editor, 2019
American Society of Civil Engineers
Editor's Choice, 2020
Journal Climate
Editor's Choice, 2019
American Society of Civil Engineers - Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Best Associate Editor, 2017
American Society of Civil Engineers
Best Research Paper of the Year, 2015
American Society of Civil Engineers - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Quentin Martin Best Research-Oriented Paper Award, 2013
American Society of Civil Engineers -- Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Undergraduate Mentor of the Year, 2012
CEE Department, College of Engineering, Utah State University
CAREER Award, 2012
National Science Foundation
Gardner Junior Faculty Travel Fellowship , 2011
Utah State University
Best Reviewer, 2010
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management-ASCE
Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Water Policy and Socioeconomics, 2010
Universities Council on Water Resources
Graduate Research Fellowship, 2007
National Science Foundation
Jastro-Shields Research Award, 2002
International Agricultural Development Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
Jastro-Shields Fellowship, 2001
International Agricultural Development Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
Advanced rating in Arabic on ACTFL exam, 2000
Publications | Books
- Tesfatsion, B., Rosenberg, D.E, (2013). Evaluating Storage Carryover in the Weber River Basin using the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) System: Case Studies in Environmental and Water Resources Systems Analysis. American Society of Civil Engineers
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2019). Combating Water Scarcity in Jordan: Adventures in Managing Water-Real-World Engineering Experiences. American Society of Civil Engineers
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Parsinejad, M., Rosenberg, D.E, Ghale, Y., Khazaei, B., Null, S., Raja, O., Safaie, A., Sima, S., Sorooshian, A., Wurtsbaugh, W.A, (2022). 40-years of Lake Urmia restoration research: Review, synthesis and next steps. Science of the Total Environment155055, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155055
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2022). Invest in Farm Water Conservation to Curtail Buy and Dry. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148:8, doi: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001584
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2022). Adapt Lake Mead releases to inflow to give managers more flexibility to slow reservoir draw down. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148:10, 02522006. doi: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001592
- Abdallah, A.M, Rheinheimer, D.E, Rosenberg, D.E, Knox, S., Harou, J.J, (2022). An interoperable software ecosystem to store, visualize, and publish water resources systems modelling data. Environmental Modelling & Software, 151, 105371. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105371
- James, R., Rosenberg, D.E, (2022). Agent-Based Model to Manage Household Water Use Through Social-Environmental Strategies of Encouragement and Peer Pressure. Earth's Future, 10:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001883, e2020EF001883.
- Sima, S., Rosenberg, D.E, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, Null, S., Kettenring, K., (2021). Managing Lake Urmia, Iran for diverse restoration objectives: Moving beyond a uniform target lake level. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 35
- Attallah, N., Rosenberg, D.E, Horsburgh, J.S, (2021). Water End Use Disaggregation for Six Non-Residential Facilities in the City of Logan, UT, USA. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147:7, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001367
- Rosenberg, D.E, Jones, A.S, Filion, , Teasley, R., Sandoval-Solis, S., Stagge, J., Abdallah, A., Castronova, A., Ostfeld, A., Watkins, D., (2021). Reproducible Results Policy. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147, 01620001. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001368
- Avisse, N., Tilmant, A., Rosenberg, D.E, Talozi, S., (2020). Quantitative Analysis of Contested Water Uses and Management in Non-Cooperative River Basins. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146:7, 05020010.
- Akbar, H., Allen, N., Rosenberg, D.E, Chikamoto, Y., (2020). Ranchers Adapting to Climate Variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah. Climate, doi: 10.3390/cli8090096
- Rosenberg, D.E, Filion, Y., Teasley, R.L, Sandoval-Solis, S., Hecht, J.S, van Zyl, J.E, McMahon, G.F, Horsburgh, J.S, Kasprzyk, J.R, Tarboton, D.G, (2020). The Next Frontier: Making Research More Reproducible. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146:6, 01820002. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001215
- Lane, B., Rosenberg, D.E, (2020). Promoting instream flows in the changing western U.S.. J. Water Resources Planning and Management, doi: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE) WR.1943-5452.0001145
- Alafifi, A., Rosenberg, D.E, Systems Modeling to Improve River, Riparian, and Wetland Habitat Quality and Area. Environmental Modeling and Software, 126, 104643.
- Babbar-Sebens, M., Root, E., Rosenberg, D.E, Watkins, D., Mirchi, A., Giacomoni, M., Madani, K., (2019). Training Water Resources Systems Engineers to Communicate: Acting on Observations from On-the-Job Practitioners. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice145, 145:4, 04019012.
- Tarboton, D.G, Richards, C., McKee, M., Torres-Rua, A., Neilson, B.T, Tullis, B.P, Rosenberg, D.E, Stevens, D.K, Horsburgh, J.S, McLean, J.E, Johnson, M.C, Dupont, R.R, (2019). The Utah Water Research Laboratory: Empowering Water and Environmental Research in Utah and Around the World. Water Resources Impact, American Water Resources Association, 21:5, 13-15. *
- Abdallah, A., Rosenberg, D.E, (2019). A Data Model to Manage Data for Water Resources Systems Modeling. Environmental Modeling and Software, 115, 113-127. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.02.005
- Stagge, J., Rosenberg, D.E, Abdallah, A., Akbar, H., Atallah, N., James, R., (2019). A survey tool to assess and improve data availability and research reproducibility. Nature-Scientific Data
- Kraft, M., Rosenberg, D.E, Null, S., (2019). Optimizing connected aquatic habitat and water scarcity to prioritize barrier removal. Journal of American Water Resources Association, 55:2, 1-19. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12718
- Pratt, T., Allen, L., Rosenberg, D.E, Keller, A., Kopp, K., (2018). Urban Agriculture and Small Farm Irrigation Efficiency: Case Studies and Trends from Cache Valley, Utah. Agricultural Water Management, 213, 24-35.
- Rosenberg, D.E, Watkinds, D., (2018). New Policy to Specify Availability of Data, Models, and Code. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 144:9, 01618001.
- Cominola, A., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A., Abdallah, A., Rosenberg, D.E, (2018). Implications of data sampling resolution on water use simulation, end-use disaggregation, and demand management. Environmental Modeling & Software, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.11.022
- Stagge, J., Rosenberg, D.E, DeRose, R.J, Rittenour, T.M, (2018). Monthly paleostreamflow reconstruction from annual tree-ring chronologies. Journal of Hydrology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.12.057
- Horsburgh, J.S, Leonardo, M., Abdallah, A., Rosenberg, D.E, (2017). Measuring Water Use, Conservation, and Differences by Gender Using an Inexpensive, High Frequency Metering System. Environmental Modelling & Software96, 83-94. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.035
- Meeks, L., Rosenberg, D.E, (2017). High Influence: Identifying and Ranking Stability, Topological Significance, and Redundancies in Water Resource Networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 143:6, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000755
- Rosenberg, D.E, Alminagorta, O., Kettenring, K., (2016). Systems modeling to improve the hydroecological performance of diked wetlands. Water Resources Research, 52:9, 7070-7085. doi: 10.1002/2015wr018105
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2015). Blended near-optimal alternative generation, visualization, and interaction for water resources decision making. Water Resources Research, 51:4, 2047-2063. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014667
- Hale, R.L, Armstrong, A., Baker, M.A, Bedingfield, S., Betts, D., Buahin, C., Buchert, M., Crowl, T.A, Dupont, R.R, Ehleringer, J., Endter-Wada, J.L, Flint, C., Grant, J., Hinners, S., Horsburgh, J.S, Jackson-Smith, D., Jones, A.S, Licon, C., Null, S., Odame, A., Pataki, D.E, Rosenberg, D.E, Runburg, M., Stoker, P., Strong, C., (2015). iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to Study Socio-Hydro-Ecological Systems. Earth's Future/AGU , doi: 10.1002/2014EF000295
- Rosenberg, D.E, Madani, K., (2014). Water Resources Systems Analysis: A Bright Past and a Challenging but Promising Future. ASCE-Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140:4, 407-409. doi: 10.1061/%28ASCE%29WR.1943-5452.0000414
- Abdallah, A., Rosenberg, D.E, (2014). Heterogeneous Residential Water and Energy Linkages and Implications for Conservation and Management. ASCE-Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140:3, 288-297. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000340
- Santos Vanderlinder, M.E, Neale, C.M, Rosenberg, D.E, Kettenring, K., (2014). Use of remote sensing to assess changes in wetland plant communities over an 18-year period – a case study from the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Great Salt Lake, UT. Western North American Naturalist, 74:1, 33-46.
- Khader, A., Rosenberg, D.E, McKee, M., (2013). A decision tree model to estimate the value of information provided by a groundwater quality monitoring network. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17:5, 1797-1807. doi: 10.5194/hess-17-1797-2013
- Alminagorta, O., Tesfatsion, B., Rosenberg, D.E, Neilson, B.T, (2013). Simple Optimization Method to Determine Best Management Practices to Reduce Phosphorus Loading in Echo Reservoir, Utah. ASCE-Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 139:1, 122-125. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000224
- Suero, F., Rosenberg, D.E, Mayer, P., (2012). Estimating and Verifying United States Households' Potential to Conserve Water. ASCE - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 138:3, 209-306. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000182
- Aljuaidi, A.E, Rosenberg, D.E, Kaluarachchi, J., (2011). Water management with wastewater treatment and reuse, desalination, and conveyance to counteract future water shortages in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, 3:12, 266-282.
- Al-Juaidi, A., Rosenberg, D.E, Kaluarachchi, J., (2011). Water Management with Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Desalination, and Conveyance to Counteract Future Water Shortages in the Gaza Strip. International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, 3:12, 266-282. doi: 10.5897/IJWREE10.030
- Rosenberg, D.E, Kopp, K., Kratsch, H., Rupp, L.A, Johnson, P.G, Kjelgren, R.K, (2011). Value Landscape Engineering: Identifying Costs, Water Use, Labor, and Impacts to Support Landscape Choice. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 47:3, 635–649. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00530.x
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2011). Raising the Dead without a Red Sea-Dead Sea project? Hydro-Economics and Governance. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 15, 1243-1255. doi: 10.5194/hess-15-1243-2011
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2010). Residential Water Demand Under Alternative Rate Structures: A Simulation Approach. ASCE- Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 136:3, 395-402. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000046.
- Harou, J., Pulido-Velazquez, M., Rosenberg, D.E, Medellin-Azuara, J., Lund, J., Howitt, R., (2009). Hydro-Economic Models: Concepts, Design, Applications, and Future Prospects. Journal of Hyrology, 375:3-4, 627-643. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.06.037
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2009). Integrated Water Resources Management and Modeling at Multiple Spatial Scales in Jordan. Water Policy, 11:5, 615-628. doi: 10.2166/wp.2009.064
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2009). Shades of Grey: A Critical Review of Grey-Number Optimization. Engineering Optimization, 41:6, 573-592. doi: 10.1080/03052150902718125
- Rosenberg, D.E, Lund, J., (2009). Modeling Integrated Water Utility Decisions with Recourse and Uncertainty: Amman, Jordan. Water Resources Management, 23:1, 85-115. doi: 10.1007/s11269-008-9266-4
- Rosenberg, D.E, Talozi, S., Lund, J., (2008). Intermittent Water Supplies: Challenges and Opportunities for Residential Water Users in Jordan. Water International, 33:4, 488-504. doi: 10.1029/2007WR006519
- Rosenberg, D.E, Howitt, R., Lund, J., (2008). Water Management With Water Conservation, Infrastructure Expansions, and Source Variability in Jordan. Water Resources, 44:W11402, doi: 10.1029/2007WR006519
- Rosenberg, D.E, Tawarneh, T., Abdul-Khaleq, R., Lund, J., (2007). Modeling Integrated Water-User Decisions in Intermittent Supply Systems.. Water Resources Research, 43, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005340
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2007). Probabilistic Estimation of Water Conservation Effectiveness. ASCE - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 133:1, 39-49.
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2006). The Yarmouk River Agreements: Jordan-Syrian transboundary water management, 1953–2004. Arab World Geographer, 9:1, 23-39.
- Rosenberg, D.E, Lund, J., (2006). Derived Operating Rules for Storage and Recovery in Multiple, Unconnected Aquifers. ASCE - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 132:1, 25-34.
- Rosenberg, D.E, Marcotte, T., (2005). Land-Use System Modeling and Analysis of Shaded Cacao Production in Belize. Agroforestry Systems, 64:2, 117-129.
- Tanaka, S., Rosenberg, D.E, (2004). Comments on "Computer Support for Implementation of a Systemic Approach to Water Conflict Resolution". Water International, 29:3, 402-404.
Public or Trade Journal
- Abdallah, A., Rosenberg, D.E, (2012). Save water to save energy! And save energy to save water: a quantitative analysis. From the Tap! Intermountain Section of the American Water Works AssociationFall 2012, 16-17. *
- Alminagorta, O., Rosenberg, D.E, (2012). Managing water for environmental and ecological purposes. American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section NewsletterJuly 2012, 25-27. *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Research Reports
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2020). Managing the Colorado River for an Uncertain Future. *
- Schmidt, J.C, Rosenberg, D.E, (2019). Water Resource Modelling of the Colorado River – Present and Future Strategies.. Center of Colorado River Studies
- Salehabadi, H., Tarboton, D.G, Kuhn, E., Udall, B., Wheeler, , Rosenberg, D.E, Goeking, S., Schmidt, J.C, (2020). The Future Hydrology of the Colorado River Basin. Center for Colorado RIver Studies, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, White Paper No. 4 *
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2010). Value Landscape Engineering Lifecycle Analysis Final Report & User's Guide to the Spreadsheet Program. Central Utah Water Conservancy District *
- Rosenberg, D.E, Kopp, K., Kratsch, H., Rupp, , Johnson, , Kjelgren, R.K, (2010). Value Landscape Engineering Lifecycle Analysis Final Report & User's Guide to the Spreadsheet Program. Central Utah Water Conservancy District *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Bulletins
Other
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2022). Input for pre-scoping for National Environmental Protection Act effort to update operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead by 2026. Reclamation
- Rosenberg, D.E, (2022). Opinion: 3 ways we can adapt to low Colorado River flows in a drought. Deseret News
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.