Bill has over seventeen years experience in water resource engineering and has worked with public, private, and governmental entities. Bill is Vice-President of Applegate Group, Inc. and manages the company’s Water Resources Planning and Management Department. Bill received his Bachelors degree from the Colorado School of Mines and is a registered professional engineer in the States of Colorado and Wyoming. Bill is a member of the National and Colorado Sections of AWRA, the Colorado Section of ASCE, and a member of ACEC. Bill enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors.
Laurel is a project manager and senior water resources engineer at Bishop-Brogden Associates, Inc. She has over eleven years engineering experience including surface water and groundwater hydrology and modeling, augmentation plan preparations, water rights evaluations, data analyses, historical use investigations, statistical analyses, hydraulic and structural analyses, model and database development and analysis, project management, and field investigations. Laurel has served as an expert witness in hearings before the State Engineer as well as in water court proceedings. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. Laurel has a B.S. degree in Engineering and a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Trinity University. She also received an M.S. degree in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado. Laurel focused her graduate work on residential water uses and has experience in water efficiency and conservation evaluation. She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Section of AWRA and as the Website Committee Chair since 2001.
Bill has been an active member of AWRA since 1993, serving on conference committees, publishing in JAWRA, and presenting papers at meetings. He has authored or co-authored six JAWRA articles since 1990. Bill served as a National AWRA director, from 2003 - 2007. Bill received a B.A. in Geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1984, and a M. E. in Geological Engineering, from the Colorado School of Mines, in 1992. He began his professional career in 1982, installing wells and measuring water-levels as a technician for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in New Jersey. Bill returned to the USGS in 1985 as a hydrologist working on studies of groundwater supply and groundwater quality as a function of land use. In 1989, Bill transferred to the USGS office in Colorado to work on issues related to the occurrence of agricultural chemicals in midwestern water resources. He has helped design and conduct studies investigating the occurrence of pesticides in streams, reservoirs, groundwater, rain, and the air. He is currently working on investigations of the occurrence of glyphosate in midwestern streams, fungicides in potato growing regions, hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and its relation to nutrient flux of the Mississippi River, the decline of amphibian populations in North America, and the susceptibility of public water supplies to surface-water contamination.
David is a Water Resources Planner at Denver Water, where he has worked since 1996. David is responsible for the daily operation of Denver’s raw water collection system, particularly the South Platte River system. He also negotiates and develops new non-potable water agreements for Denver’s Planning Department, and helps plans new water supply projects. David has a bachelors degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has over 20 years experience in Colorado water resources.
Jessica is a Professional Research Assistant with the University of Colorado and NOAA's Western Water Assessment. In this position, she conducts extensive research on complex water resource policy issues in Colorado in order to help NOAA scientists understand the current and future climate informational needs of local water managers. Her goal is to help scientists translate those needs into useful climate products and services. She facilitates communication between scientists and water managers and helps inform water managers about applicable climate products by producing a monthly publication, the Intermountain West Climate Summary. In addition, she is particularly interested in drought planning, conservation, and water supply management for sustainable future growth. Jessica is a recent graduate of the Environmental Studies Master's program at the University of Colorado. She also has a B.S. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Maryland.
Dennis is a Colorado native and since graduating from Dartmouth College (1985), has gained over 22 years of experience in the consulting business. He is a registered Engineer (Colorado) and Geologist (Arizona and Wyoming). His expertise includes ground water supply evaluations, well testing and design, pumping system design; well rehabilitation; stream depletion analyses; and computer modeling of ground water systems. He serves clients in Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho. He has worked for Bechtel (3 years); Layne Western (3 years) and Leonard Rice Engineers (16 years), where he is currently a principal and leader of the ground water group. He has served as the AWRA (Co. section) newsletter editor and Treasurer during the last three years. He also belongs to the Colorado Ground Water Association. In his free time, he enjoys coaching youth sports (soccer, baseball, and skiing). He has four teenage children.
Karen has been involved in basin-scale hydrologic assessment and modeling for over 14 years with work focused in the Antarctic, Arctic, and American southwest. She joined the S.S. Papadopulos & Associates Boulder office in 2001. While with SSPA, Dr. MacClune has been involved in conjunctive groundwater/surface-water water budget quantification; groundwater modeling and groundwater supply analysis; assessment of impacts to water resources resulting from conversion from surface to groundwater irrigation; and, application of past and projected future climatic data to questions of water availability and demand. Karen has served as the CO AWRA membership chair since May 2006, and as a board member since May 2007.
Andy has 28 years of experience in water resources engineering experience in northern Colorado. Andy is employed by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District as its Water Resources Department Manager. Andy has a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Colorado State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. Andy has worked on a number of water resources projects including water rights evaluations, water supply planning projects, stream flow forecasting, water supply availability forecasting, modeling of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project operations and operational policy changes. Andy’s department is responsible for water rights investigations, water supply availability projections, and operations modeling. He is a native of Colorado and grew up on farms in the greater Windsor-Greeley-Ft. Collins area before it became urbanized. Andy has been a long-time member of AWRA and has served on the Board since 2005.
Steve Smith has been a water resources engineer for MWH for four years and has primarily been working on projects involving fluvial geomorphology, floodplains, and ground water. He has been a member of AWRA Colorado since 2004 and has helped write the AWRA Colorado newsletter since 2007. He moved to Colorado in 2002 for graduate school in civil engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and has since decided there is no place like Colorado to call home. He spends summers riding bikes and hiking as many mountains as possible in his free time, and skiing or snowshoeing make up most of his weekends during the winter. Before living in Colorado he received a bachelor's degree in environmental geology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and worked as a geologist primarily on hazardous waste restoration projects as well as a few water supply studies. He is recently married and has two dogs that he and his wife call family.
Karen is a Principal and Senior Hydrogeologist with Spronk Water Engineers, Inc. She has over eighteen years experience performing a wide variety of projects in the areas of hydrogeologic and environmental investigations, water rights, water resources protection and development, hazardous waste management, environmental regulatory compliance, and project management of CERCLA and RCRA projects. Karen earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Geology from Colorado State University and her Master’s Degree in Geology from the University of Montana, after which she spent ten years in the environmental consulting field at Nationwide Environmental Services and Applied Hydrology Associates. Prior to joining Spronk Water Engineers, she worked for the City of Thornton as a Water Resources Administrator, with responsibility for water rights acquisition and protection, water supply planning and development, and representing the City at the Colorado Water Quality Forum.
Ms. Wynne is a Hydrologist with Bishop-Brogden Associates, Inc. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science with an emphasis on water resources from Oklahoma State University and completed a Master of Arts degree in Physical Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her graduate work was focused on hydrology and fluvial geomorphology and her thesis examines the relationship between high flows and invasive macroinvertebrates in Boulder Creek, Colorado. Ms. Wynne’s duties include water rights evaluations, water use accounting, historical use studies, and data analysis. She is a member of the American Water Resources Association.