The Severe Sustained Drought Study
Acknowledgements
The major funding for this project was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, under Award No. 14-08-001-G1892 and by the National Drought Study of the Institute of Water Resources of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Financial support was also provided by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Upper Colorado River Basin Commission and by the Water Resources Research Institutes at the University of Arizona, University of California, Colorado State University, Utah State University, and the University of Wyoming.
The participants in the present study wish to acknowledge the contributions of those who conceived and planned the project and to recognize the endeavors of the Phase I team in laying the ground work for this continued effort. Professor Henry P. Caulfield of Colorado State University chaired the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Directorate's planning for a major study of the nature, potential impacts and policy responses to a severe sustained drought. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from universities throughout the Colorado River Basin developed a two-phase plan, and the Man and the Biosphere Program supported the first phase of the work. The Phase I report provided initial analyses of tree ring evidence for sever sustained droughts in the southwest, and included studies of the hydrologic, water quality, legal, political and economic ramifications of coping with such droughts (Gregg and Getches, 1991). Contributors to the earlier report who were not participants in Phase II efforts reported in this issue were Dorothea M. Bradley, John A. Dracup, Frank Gregg, Pamela Hathaway, Donald R. Kendall, William E. Martin and Henry J. Vaux, Jr.
Professor L. Douglas James, then Director of the Utah State University Water Research Laboratory, spearheaded the planning, conceptualization and proposal preparation that culminated in the Phase 2 effort reported in this issue, and served as Principal Investigator and Technical Coordinator for the first two years of the Project. Professor Henry Vaux, then Director of the University of California Water Resources Research Institute, and an active participant and contributor in the Phase I study, aided greatly in the early planning and fund-raising efforts. When Professor James took leave from Utah State University in September 1992, David S. Bowles became Director of the Utah Water Research Laboratory, and took over the administrative management for the remainder of Phase 2. At that same time, William B. Lord of the University of Arizona assumed the role of Technical Coordinator, succeeded in February 1993 by R. A. Young. The Powell Consortium, consisting of the Directors of the Water Resources Research Institutes of the Colorado River Basin, also have provided financial support, advice and encouragement throughout the conduct of the project. J. P. Matusak of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California provided advice, information, and helpful comments throughout the study. Last but not least, William Werick of the Institute of Water Resources, Corps of Engineers, provided wise counsel to the program and facilitated our contracts with modeling experts.