Research Interests & Background
Dr. Waskom was the Director of the Colorado Water Institute and as Director of the Colorado State University Water Center, where his responsibility was to address water research and information needs for the State of Colorado. Much of his research focused on agricultural water conservation in the Colorado River basin, surface and groundwater interactions in the S. Platte Basin, and impacts of oil & gas production on water resources in Colorado. Earlier research topics included phosphorus runoff from irrigated fields, impacts of meadow management on stream water quality, irrigation management practices in Colorado, irrigation runoff, aquifer sensitivity and vulnerability, and producer adoption of BMPs.
Selected Colorado River Publications & Presentations
Publications
Taylor, P.L., K. MacIlroy, R. Waskom, P.E. Cabot, M. Smith, A. Schempp, and B. Udall.聽 2019. 鈥淓very ditch is different: Barriers and opportunities for collaboration for agricultural water conservation and security in the Colorado River Basin.鈥澨� Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 74:3, May/June;
Pica, Nasim E., Ken Carlson, Jeffrey J. Steiner, Reagan Waskom. 2017. Produced water reuse for irrigation of non-food biofuel crops: Effects on switchgrass and rapeseed germination, physiology and biomass yield. Industrial Crops and Products, 100:65-76.
El Gafy, I., Grigg, N., and R. Waskom. 2016. Dynamic Behaviour of the Water鈥揊ood鈥揈nergy Nexus: Focus on Crop Production and Consumption. Irrigation and Drainage,
Waskom, Reagan, Kevin Rein, Dick Wolfe, MaryLou Smith. 2016. How Diversion and Beneficial Use of Water Affect the Value and Measure of a Water Right. Colorado Water Institute Special Report No.25.
Waskom, Reagan M., and MaryLou Smith.聽 2016.聽 鈥淯se it or Lose It鈥� In Colorado Water Law.聽 The Water Report.聽 Issue # 147, May 15.聽
Waskom, Reagan. 2013. Written Testimony of Reagan Waskom Submitted to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing on Bureau of Reclamation鈥檚 Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study. July 16.聽
Kiang, Julie E., J. Rolf Olsen, and Reagan M. Waskom.聽 2011.聽 Introduction to the Featured Collection on Nonstationarity, Hydrologic Frequency Analysis, and Water Management.聽 American Water Resources Association, 47(3):433-435, June.
Pritchett, James, Alan Bright, Andrea Shortsleeve, Jennifer Thorvaldson, Troy Bauder, and Reagan Waskom.聽 2009.聽 Public Perceptions, Preferences, and Values for Water in the West: A Survey of Western and Colorado Residents.聽 Colorado Water Institute, Special Report No. 17.
DiNatale, Kelly, Todd Doherty, Reagan Waskom, and Rick Brown.聽 2008.聽 Meeting Colorado鈥檚 Future Water Supply Needs: Opportunities and Challenges Associated With Potential Agricultural Water Conservation Measures.聽 Colorado Water Institute, Special Report No. 20.
Barta, Rachel, Robert Ward, Reagan Waskom, and Dan Smith.聽 2004.聽 Stretching Urban Water Supplies in Colorado: Strategies for Landscape Water Conservation.听听 Colorado Water Institute, Special Report 13.
Presentations
鈥�2020 Vision on Colorado鈥� Water Plan Goals: Agriculture鈥� at the 2020 Annual Convention of the Colorado Water Congress.聽 Westminster, CO; January 30, 2020.
鈥淭he Changing Face of Agriculture in the South Platte Basin鈥� at the South Platte Forum.聽 Westminster, CO; October 23, 2019.
鈥淭he Push for More Storage in Headwaters鈥� at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists.聽 Fort Collins, CO; October 12, 2019.
鈥淎g is for Everybody鈥� at the Summer Conference of the Colorado Water Congress. Steamboat, CO; August, 20, 2019.
鈥淜eeping Agriculture Profitable鈥� at the annual convention of the Colorado Water Congress. Westminster, CO; February 1, 2019.
鈥淪olving Conflict Through Prior Appropriation (sort of): The South Platte Story.鈥澛� University of Colorado.聽 Boulder, CO; June 8, 2018.聽
鈥淧artners in Progress: Together Toward Tomorrow鈥� at the South Platte Forum.聽 Loveland, CO; October 28, 2017.
"Stretching Our Water Supply: Research and Innovation鈥� at the Law of the Rio Grande, CLE International; Santa Fe, NM; April 6, 2017
鈥淐olorado State of Mind鈥� TV (PBS) show, reporting on the functioning of the Interim Guidelines and the Lower Basin structural deficit.聽 (With Doug Kenney.)聽 January 21, 2016.聽
Presenter at the Colorado River Symposium of the Water Education Foundation, . September 17-18, 2015.聽