Associate Research Engineer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Josue Medellin is interested hydro-economic modeling of regional water resources systems, adaptation to climate change, consumptive use, and economic representation of water demands. His professional experience includes environmental management positions for industry, and consulting and collaboration for non-governmental organizations such as the El Colegio de Mexico, Natural Heritage Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, the Public Policy Institute of California, Stockholm Environment Institute, and the World Bank. He has led hydro-economic studies on adaptation to climate change in California, water management in the US Mexico border having developed Baja CALVIN in collaboration the University of Baja California. Josue is a co-developer for the SWAP and the CALVIN models for water resources managemen tin California. Since 2015, Josue serves as the Convener of the California Water and Environemtal Modeling Forum (CWEMF), a non profit and non-partisan organization to advance the usefulness of water and environmental models in California. Josue Medellin-Azuara CV (In PDF, updated October 2015).

Josué Medellín-Azuara
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Economic Feasibility of Irrigated Agricultural Land Use Buffers to Reduce Groundwater Nitrate in Rural Drinking Water So...
Published in Hydro Nepal Journal of Water Energy and Environment
Agricultural irrigation leachate is often the largest source for aquifer recharge in semi-arid groundwater basins, but contamination from fertilizers and other agro-chemicals may degrade the quality of groundwater. Affected communities are frequently economically disadvantaged, and water supply alternatives may be too costly. This study aimed to de...
Optimizing the dammed: Water supply losses and fish habitat gains from dam removal in California
Published in E3 Journal of Environmental Research and Management
Dams provide water supply, flood protection, and hydropower generation benefits, but also harm native species by altering the natural flow regime and degrading aquatic and riparian habitat. Restoring some rivers reaches to free-flowing conditions may restore substantial environmental benefits, but at some economic cost. This study uses a systems an...
Agricultural Losses from Salinity in Californias Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Published in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
Sea level rise, large-scale flooding, and new conveyance arrangements for water exports may increase future water salinity for local agricultural production in California\textquoterights Sacramento\textendashSan Joaquin Delta. Increasing salinity in crop root zones often decreases crop yields and crop revenues. Salinity effects are nonlinear, and v...
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Economic Analysis of the 2015 Drought for California Agriculture
The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. In 2015, the states agricultural economy directly will lose about 1.84 billion and 10,100 jobs because of the ...
What If Californias Drought Continues?
California is in the fourth year of a severe, hot droughtthe kind that is increasingly likely as the climate warms. Although no sector has been untouched, impacts so far have varied greatly, reflecting different levels of drought preparedness. Urban areas are in the best shape, thanks to sustained investments in diversified water portfolios and con...
Economics of the Drought for California Food and Agriculture
The extreme drought that has gripped California over the past several years is causing onerous adjustments in the natural and human environments. Agriculture, which uses much of the states water, is at the center of many of these arduous responses. The 2015 impacts of the continuing drought are still underway, but in this special ARE Update issue, ...