Chuck Young
Senior Scientist
Charles is a water resources engineer with over 15 years of professional and research experience in water management issues. Expertise includes model development for river basin planning using the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) system, groundwater modeling, and geographic information systems. Recent projects have included climate change analysis on the American River Basin, California, the development of a water balance planning model of the Portland, Oregon water distribution system, development of a reservoir operations model used in hydro-power re-licensing in Missouri, the development of a database to support sediment transport modeling on the Sacramento River, California, and the creation of a regional scale groundwater flow model of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, California. Charles received his Ph.D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2004.