A new report outlines how FEMA could better analyze and communicate flood risk behind levees.

Improving both water quality and hydrology in the central Everglades is essential to reversing the ongoing decline of the ecosystem. This image contrasts the historical  Everglades (on left) with the degraded ecosystem of the central Everglades today (on right).

Attaining a reliable water supply for California while protecting and rehabilitating its Bay-Delta ecosystem cannot be achieved simultaneously without better planning, a new report finds.

The 17th Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture was held in April, 2012.  This year's speaker was Dr. Michael Kavanaugh of Geosyntec Consultants who gave a talk entitled, "Tradeoffs in Water Quality Management: Risk, Economics, and Equity."

Jeff assumed his current duties in February 2012, following the retirement of Steve Parker, the founding director of the WSTB in 1982.  Jeff has been with the WSTB since 1997 and has directed 30 NRC studies in his career.