Jay Lund

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Vice Director
Faculty

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jay Lund is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

He is on the editorial board of several water resources publications, has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the 1998 and 2005 California Water Plan Updates, and has served as Convenor of the California Water and Environment Modeling Forum (CWEMF) and President of the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR), and the Delta Independent Science Board. 

His principal research interest is in the application of systems analysis, economic, and management methods to infrastructure and public works problems. He has led development and application of a large-scale optimization modeling for California's water supply, as well as various other modeling studies for the management of flood control and environmental purposes. Climate warming, water marketing, conjunctive use, and integrated water resources management problems have been examined using this model.

He is co-author of several books and reports on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, published by the Public Policy Institute of California and University of California Press. He co-authored an analysis of economical water supply alternatives to Hetch Hetchy Dam.

Outside of California, he has been involved in optimization modeling of other major river systems, including the Columbia River system, the Missouri River system, South Florida, the US Southeast, and the Panama Canal.

Lund is also interested in integrated urban water supply planning and management, water transfers and markets and economic design and evaluation of stormwater quality management.

He is a frequent contributor to CaliforniaWaterBlog.com

 

View Jay Lund's primary website at: https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/lund/ 

 

Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1986
  • M.A., Geography, University of Washington, 1983
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1983
  • B.A., Regional Planning & Int'l Relations, University of Delaware, 1979
Honors and Awards
  • 2020 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Prize for Water (PSIPW)
  • 2018 Elected Member of National Academy of Engineering
  • 2016 Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Engineering
  • Water Resources Management

Jay Lund's Recent Projects

Water Modeling in Agricultural Production

This technical workshop in collaboration with the California Water and Enviornmental Modeling Forum (CWEMF). This workshop presents various alternatives for modeling the economics of water use and water scarcity within an agricultural production setting, with a particular focus on California.

SWAP Model

This website provides and overview and resources on the Statewide Agricultural Production Model (SWAP).

California Fourth Climate Change Assessment

To more accurately estimate the threat posed by sea level rise and intense storms to coastal infrastructure, this research will provide assess coastal flood risk accounting for changing climate patterns, erosion rates, shifting beach forms, and vertical land movement. Methods will be developed to support site-specific, project level assessments of coastal vulnerabilities to sea level rise through integration of models of projected sea level rise and climate scenarios, coupled with local and regional-scale erosion rates and vertical land motion estimates.

Integrated Environmental Modeling

The National Science Foundation is sponsoring an Integrated Modeling Workshop to explore ways to improve the development and application of modeling for multipurpose management of changing estuarine systems. The two-day workshop will bring together experts from Europe, Asia and across the U.S. Potential solutions will be identified and discussed from multiple perspectives: government, academia, NGOs, consultants and stakeholders.

Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (2007)

Beginning in December 2005, a group of faculty and researchers affiliated with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences/John Muir Institute of the Environment and the nonprofit Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) began meetings to discuss the future of the Delta. The intent was to complete a major independent report analysing options for managing the increasingly unstable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The group included Ellen Hanak (Economist) with PPIC and from UC Davis: Jay Lund (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Jeff Mount (Geology), Peter Moyle (Wildlife and Conservation Biology), Richard Howitt (Agricultural and Resource Economics), and William Fleenor (Civil and Environmental Engineering).