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The Reed Group will be recruiting new MS/PhD students for Fall 2025. Interested student are welcome to apply to the Environmental & Water Resources Systems area.

 

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Latest News

2025

January 9 – California Wildfires and Water Supply Challenges (The Hill)

2024

November 14 – Lake Powell at Existential Risk As River Basins Head for ‘Tipping Point’ (Newsweek)

November 13 – Colorado River basins could face tipping point, drought study warns

September 20 – New tool to help decision makers navigate possible futures of the Colorado River

August 27 – AI modeling delivers more benefits, less risk for water partnerships

May 31 – Informal contracts could provide quicker, cheaper ways to reduce impact of droughts

May 15 – Reed invited speaker for the European Water Futures Project Workshop in Athens, Greece presenting advances in Many-Objective Robust Reinforcement Learning in Water Supply Pathway Planning

May 6 – Reed presents recent collaborative work with University of Brasilia exploring equity in water supply pathways for Federal District of Brazil

April 8 – 2024 Reed Research Group postdoctoral position(s)

Feb 1 – Reed shares AGU Fellows Speak Perspective in the February Hydrology Newsletter

Jan 26 – Reed participates in NCA5 Webinar – Complex Systems and Compound Extreme Events

Jan 8 – Karimi et al ‘Diagnostic Framework for Evaluating How Parametric Uncertainty Influences Agro-Hydrologic Model Projections of Crop Yields Under Climate Change’ honored with WRR Editor’s Choice Award

2023

Nov 28 – 600 years of tree rings reveal climate risks in California

Nov 14 – Reed invited speaker for the CSIRO Sustainability program

2023-2024 Postdoctoral position(s) in the Reed Research Group (Apply Now!)

May 3 – Reed featured in Wall Street Journal informational video ‘The Fate of Urban Freshwater’

April 22 – Collaborative paper lead by Matteo Giuliani ‘Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Mitigation for African river basin’ honored as a 2023 National Champion Finalist for the Frontiers Planet Prize

March 9 – Dave Gold wins UCOWR top 2023 dissertation in Natural Science & Engineering

March 2 – Reed and Characklis research groups provide an infrastructure investment briefing to Tampa Bay Water

January 26 – Reed co-chairs US scientific leadership report on biological, climate science

2022

November 14 – Reed invited speaker to the World Bank Learning Session on Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty

November 2 – Reed invited speaker to the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS) seminar

September 23 – Reed keynote speaker at International Federation of Automatic Control’s Workshop on Control Methods for Water Resources Systems

September 19 – Reed elected AGU Fellow

August 25 – Reed invited panelist in eCornell Keynote ‘Engineering a Livable Future for Everyone’

August 23 – Andrew Hamilton’s resilient CA water portfolio planning research highlighted in LA Times

July 20 – Reed invited speaker for the National Academies Urban Sustainability Infrastructure Workshop

June 30 – UNC and Cornell research on designing inter-utility cooperative investment agreements featured in Smart Water Magazine’s June 2022 Issue No 13

June 14 – Reed invited speaker in Alphabet X  seminar on challenges and recent innovations for addressing risk and resilience in Food-Energy-Water systems

June 9 – Reed invited speaker to share MultiSector Dynamics Research Vision and recent Reed Group research with the Papo Conexus initiative lead by several national Brazilian groups and their international network of collaborators

May 19 – Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) Highlights WaterPaths Work Designing Inter-Utility Agreements in the Research Triangle, NC

May 11 – Reed Invited Speaker to the South Florida Water Management District’s Resiliency Working Group

May 11 – Andrew Hamilton’s resilient CA water portfolio investment partnerships research highlighted on NPR

May 4 – Eos Research Spotlight: Assessing Water Infrastructure Investments in California

April 22 – Reed contributes to DOE science advisory briefings related to bioeconomy, energy transitions, and climate change research opportunities and investments

April 7 – Study examines financial risks of water resilience planning in California

February 10 – ‘PNNL: Human-Earth Interactions Researchers Set Vision for 2030’

February 10 – ‘MultiSector dynamics’ studies how human, Earth systems interact

February 1 – Study urges global cooperation to protect water, food security in African river basins

January 20 – Reed Appointed as an Editor in the American Geophysical Union’s Earth’s Future Gold Open-Access Journal

2021

November 1 – David Gold Invited Speaker at Equity in Water Resources Planning, part of the 2021 Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Society Webinar Series

October 29 – David Gold Invited Speaker at the 2021 IEEE Vis Conference Session on Visualization Challenges in Deep Uncertainty

October 26 – Reed Invited Speaker at the 2021 New York Scientific Data Summit Providing a Vision for Innovating Water Planning under Deep Uncertainty using AI and High Performance Computing

July 28 – Reed Group (Cornell) and Characklis Group (UNC) Brief Tampa Bay  Water Authority Board on New Infrastructure Pathway Planning Decision Support Tool

June 17 – CEE engineers author Science perspective on climate-induced relocation

March 26 – Study exposes global ripple effects of regional water scarcity

January 25 – Reed awarded $1.4 M grant to advance human-natural system modeling

2020

December 11 – Collaborative work lead by Andrew Hamilton (UNC) on snowpack-based index insurance risk tradeoffs for hydropower featured in EOS Editor’s Highlight

November 19 – Julie Quinn and Antonia Hadjimichael Eos Research Spotlight for their work in the Upper CO evaluating the scenario neutral assumption in DMDU

November 18 – Rebecca Smith’s Walter Orr Roberts Public Lecture explaining how the Bureau of Reclamation is applying MORDM in the Colorado River Basin

November 10 – Reed conference opening plenary speaker for DMDU 2020 discussing Learning & Actions in Adaptive Pathways

September 17 – Reed plenary speaker for the UK Operational Research Society OR62 Conference

September 16 – The Aerospace Corporation Highlights Reed Group Collaborations Over Last Two Decades of Satellite Portfolio Design Innovations using Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization

July 15 – Reed research on satellite constellations wins gold at the ‘Humies’

July 14 – Reed is 2nd author on JWRPM paper awarded the Best Seminal Paper of 2020

July 10 – Keyvan Malek’s Work Highlights Climate Change Forces Farmers to Pick Low Yields or Revenue Instability

July 1 – Tom Wild’s Sambor Work Honored With the Quentin Martin Best Practice Oriented Paper Award 

June 26 – National Center for Supercomputing Applications Feature Reed Group Petascale Accomplishments on Blue Waters

May 18 – Antonia Hadjimichael Highlights the Challenging and Complex Dynamics of Water Scarcity in the Upper Colorado

May 12 – Reed Invited  Remote Speaker for the Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Summer Seminar Series

March 12 – Reed Invited  Remote Speaker at the Symposium on Vulnerability and Urban Resilience: Socio-hydrological Risks in Mexico City (MEGADAPT)

February 25 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker for the Computational Urban Sciences Group at Oak Ridge National Lab

January 16 – Nature Research Highlight for the Reed Group and The Aerospace Corporation Discovery of Low Cost, Long Life Near Continuous Global Coverage Satellite Constellations

January 14 – US NSF Research Highlight for the Reed Group and The Aerospace Corporation Discovery of Low Cost, Long Life Near Continuous Global Coverage Satellite Constellations

January 10 – Reed Group and The Aerospace Corporation Discovery of Low Cost, Long Life Near Continuous Global Coverage Satellite Constellations

2019

December 2019 – Integrated water infrastructure investment pathways work by Reed and Characklis research groups honored with the 2019 INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources

December 12 – Reed presents the Fall 2019 AGU Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture on Conflict, Coordination, and Control in Water Resources Systems Confronting Change (see video)

November 22 – Reed invited speaker at Tecnológico de Monterrey for the Social Policy and Public Entrepreneurship Research Area

November 4 – Reed invited speaker at KWR in Utrecht, Netherlands discussing urban water supply investment pathways

September 17-19 – Reed invited speaker and panelist for Planning for Change in CA hosted by CA Department of Water Resources

July 31 – Reed selected as AGU 2019 Paul A. Witherspoon Lecturer

June 11 – Reed Invited Plenary Speaker in the 1st Binational Meeting on Sustainability, Vulnerability, and Adaptation to Climate Change, Merida, Mexico

April 30 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker for the Notre Dame Environmental Fluids Program

April 5 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker at MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

March 29 – Jon Lamontagne’s Nature Climate Change paper highlighted in the LA Times emphasizing the importance of the next decade of action

March 25 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker in the Princeton Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment  (C-PREE)

March 12 – Jon Lamontagne’s Nature Climate Change paper highlighted in National Geographic

February 27 – Reed Invited Speaker at Technion Israel Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

February 19 – Reed Invited to Present on Emerging Multiobjective Stochastic  Control and Decision Support for Food-Energy-Water Systems at the Pacific Northwest National Lab

January 14 – Reed Invited to Present a Colloquium at TU Delft on Complex Adaptive Infrastructure Systems

January 10 – Reed Honored with the Cornell College of Engineering’s Research Excellence Award

2018

December 27– Scientific American feature on Complex Systems in Climate Change drawn from Ch 17 of NCA4 where Reed served as a co-author

December 10– Reed Group Efforts to Explore Ecological Alternatives to the Sambor Mega Dam in the Southern Mekong

Effective November – Reed Awarded the Joseph C. Ford  Endowed Professorship

November 5– Reed Invited Keynote Speaker for the Department of Energy Earth and Environmental System Modeling PI Meeting

Latest News

2025

January 9 – California Wildfires and Water Supply Challenges (The Hill)

2024

November 14 – Lake Powell at Existential Risk As River Basins Head for ‘Tipping Point’ (Newsweek)

November 13 – Colorado River basins could face tipping point, drought study warns

September 20 – New tool to help decision makers navigate possible futures of the Colorado River

August 27 – AI modeling delivers more benefits, less risk for water partnerships

May 31 – Informal contracts could provide quicker, cheaper ways to reduce impact of droughts

May 15 – Reed invited speaker for the European Water Futures Project Workshop in Athens, Greece presenting advances in Many-Objective Robust Reinforcement Learning in Water Supply Pathway Planning

May 6 – Reed presents recent collaborative work with University of Brasilia exploring equity in water supply pathways for Federal District of Brazil

April 8 – 2024 Reed Research Group postdoctoral position(s)

Feb 1 – Reed shares AGU Fellows Speak Perspective in the February Hydrology Newsletter

Jan 26 – Reed participates in NCA5 Webinar – Complex Systems and Compound Extreme Events

Jan 8 – Karimi et al ‘Diagnostic Framework for Evaluating How Parametric Uncertainty Influences Agro-Hydrologic Model Projections of Crop Yields Under Climate Change’ honored with WRR Editor’s Choice Award

2023

Nov 28 – 600 years of tree rings reveal climate risks in California

Nov 14 – Reed invited speaker for the CSIRO Sustainability program

2023-2024 Postdoctoral position(s) in the Reed Research Group (Apply Now!)

May 3 – Reed featured in Wall Street Journal informational video ‘The Fate of Urban Freshwater’

April 22 – Collaborative paper lead by Matteo Giuliani ‘Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Mitigation for African river basin’ honored as a 2023 National Champion Finalist for the Frontiers Planet Prize

March 9 – Dave Gold wins UCOWR top 2023 dissertation in Natural Science & Engineering

March 2 – Reed and Characklis research groups provide an infrastructure investment briefing to Tampa Bay Water

January 26 – Reed co-chairs US scientific leadership report on biological, climate science

2022

November 14 – Reed invited speaker to the World Bank Learning Session on Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty

November 2 – Reed invited speaker to the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS) seminar

September 23 – Reed keynote speaker at International Federation of Automatic Control’s Workshop on Control Methods for Water Resources Systems

September 19 – Reed elected AGU Fellow

August 25 – Reed invited panelist in eCornell Keynote ‘Engineering a Livable Future for Everyone’

August 23 – Andrew Hamilton’s resilient CA water portfolio planning research highlighted in LA Times

July 20 – Reed invited speaker for the National Academies Urban Sustainability Infrastructure Workshop

June 30 – UNC and Cornell research on designing inter-utility cooperative investment agreements featured in Smart Water Magazine’s June 2022 Issue No 13

June 14 – Reed invited speaker in Alphabet X  seminar on challenges and recent innovations for addressing risk and resilience in Food-Energy-Water systems

June 9 – Reed invited speaker to share MultiSector Dynamics Research Vision and recent Reed Group research with the Papo Conexus initiative lead by several national Brazilian groups and their international network of collaborators

May 19 – Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) Highlights WaterPaths Work Designing Inter-Utility Agreements in the Research Triangle, NC

May 11 – Reed Invited Speaker to the South Florida Water Management District’s Resiliency Working Group

May 11 – Andrew Hamilton’s resilient CA water portfolio investment partnerships research highlighted on NPR

May 4 – Eos Research Spotlight: Assessing Water Infrastructure Investments in California

April 22 – Reed contributes to DOE science advisory briefings related to bioeconomy, energy transitions, and climate change research opportunities and investments

April 7 – Study examines financial risks of water resilience planning in California

February 10 – ‘PNNL: Human-Earth Interactions Researchers Set Vision for 2030’

February 10 – ‘MultiSector dynamics’ studies how human, Earth systems interact

February 1 – Study urges global cooperation to protect water, food security in African river basins

January 20 – Reed Appointed as an Editor in the American Geophysical Union’s Earth’s Future Gold Open-Access Journal

2021

November 1 – David Gold Invited Speaker at Equity in Water Resources Planning, part of the 2021 Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Society Webinar Series

October 29 – David Gold Invited Speaker at the 2021 IEEE Vis Conference Session on Visualization Challenges in Deep Uncertainty

October 26 – Reed Invited Speaker at the 2021 New York Scientific Data Summit Providing a Vision for Innovating Water Planning under Deep Uncertainty using AI and High Performance Computing

July 28 – Reed Group (Cornell) and Characklis Group (UNC) Brief Tampa Bay  Water Authority Board on New Infrastructure Pathway Planning Decision Support Tool

June 17 – CEE engineers author Science perspective on climate-induced relocation

March 26 – Study exposes global ripple effects of regional water scarcity

January 25 – Reed awarded $1.4 M grant to advance human-natural system modeling

2020

December 11 – Collaborative work lead by Andrew Hamilton (UNC) on snowpack-based index insurance risk tradeoffs for hydropower featured in EOS Editor’s Highlight

November 19 – Julie Quinn and Antonia Hadjimichael Eos Research Spotlight for their work in the Upper CO evaluating the scenario neutral assumption in DMDU

November 18 – Rebecca Smith’s Walter Orr Roberts Public Lecture explaining how the Bureau of Reclamation is applying MORDM in the Colorado River Basin

November 10 – Reed conference opening plenary speaker for DMDU 2020 discussing Learning & Actions in Adaptive Pathways

September 17 – Reed plenary speaker for the UK Operational Research Society OR62 Conference

September 16 – The Aerospace Corporation Highlights Reed Group Collaborations Over Last Two Decades of Satellite Portfolio Design Innovations using Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization

July 15 – Reed research on satellite constellations wins gold at the ‘Humies’

July 14 – Reed is 2nd author on JWRPM paper awarded the Best Seminal Paper of 2020

July 10 – Keyvan Malek’s Work Highlights Climate Change Forces Farmers to Pick Low Yields or Revenue Instability

July 1 – Tom Wild’s Sambor Work Honored With the Quentin Martin Best Practice Oriented Paper Award 

June 26 – National Center for Supercomputing Applications Feature Reed Group Petascale Accomplishments on Blue Waters

May 18 – Antonia Hadjimichael Highlights the Challenging and Complex Dynamics of Water Scarcity in the Upper Colorado

May 12 – Reed Invited  Remote Speaker for the Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Summer Seminar Series

March 12 – Reed Invited  Remote Speaker at the Symposium on Vulnerability and Urban Resilience: Socio-hydrological Risks in Mexico City (MEGADAPT)

February 25 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker for the Computational Urban Sciences Group at Oak Ridge National Lab

January 16 – Nature Research Highlight for the Reed Group and The Aerospace Corporation Discovery of Low Cost, Long Life Near Continuous Global Coverage Satellite Constellations

January 14 – US NSF Research Highlight for the Reed Group and The Aerospace Corporation Discovery of Low Cost, Long Life Near Continuous Global Coverage Satellite Constellations

January 10 – Reed Group and The Aerospace Corporation Discovery of Low Cost, Long Life Near Continuous Global Coverage Satellite Constellations

2019

December 2019 – Integrated water infrastructure investment pathways work by Reed and Characklis research groups honored with the 2019 INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources

December 12 – Reed presents the Fall 2019 AGU Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture on Conflict, Coordination, and Control in Water Resources Systems Confronting Change (see video)

November 22 – Reed invited speaker at Tecnológico de Monterrey for the Social Policy and Public Entrepreneurship Research Area

November 4 – Reed invited speaker at KWR in Utrecht, Netherlands discussing urban water supply investment pathways

September 17-19 – Reed invited speaker and panelist for Planning for Change in CA hosted by CA Department of Water Resources

July 31 – Reed selected as AGU 2019 Paul A. Witherspoon Lecturer

June 11 – Reed Invited Plenary Speaker in the 1st Binational Meeting on Sustainability, Vulnerability, and Adaptation to Climate Change, Merida, Mexico

April 30 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker for the Notre Dame Environmental Fluids Program

April 5 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker at MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

March 29 – Jon Lamontagne’s Nature Climate Change paper highlighted in the LA Times emphasizing the importance of the next decade of action

March 25 – Reed Invited Seminar Speaker in the Princeton Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment  (C-PREE)

March 12 – Jon Lamontagne’s Nature Climate Change paper highlighted in National Geographic

February 27 – Reed Invited Speaker at Technion Israel Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

February 19 – Reed Invited to Present on Emerging Multiobjective Stochastic  Control and Decision Support for Food-Energy-Water Systems at the Pacific Northwest National Lab

January 14 – Reed Invited to Present a Colloquium at TU Delft on Complex Adaptive Infrastructure Systems

January 10 – Reed Honored with the Cornell College of Engineering’s Research Excellence Award

2018

December 27– Scientific American feature on Complex Systems in Climate Change drawn from Ch 17 of NCA4 where Reed served as a co-author

December 10– Reed Group Efforts to Explore Ecological Alternatives to the Sambor Mega Dam in the Southern Mekong

Effective November – Reed Awarded the Joseph C. Ford  Endowed Professorship

November 5– Reed Invited Keynote Speaker for the Department of Energy Earth and Environmental System Modeling PI Meeting

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Dr. Patrick M. Reed, Professor
Cornell University
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
211 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-3501 Phone: (607) 255-2024
Fax: (607) 255-9004
E-mail: patrick.reed@cornell.edu

Contact Information

Dr. Patrick M. Reed, Professor
Cornell University
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
211 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-3501 Phone: (607) 255-2024
Fax: (607) 255-9004
E-mail: patrick.reed@cornell.edu

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