Ben Livneh

Ben Livneh, Ph.D., is a physical hydrologist, with primary research interests in how land cover and climate changes will affect water availability in the western U.S. Several recent projects have focused on drought within the Colorado River Basin, its drivers, and how changes in seasonal snowpack may impact our ability to predict the total amount of water available in the river. Ben is a faculty member in Civil Engineering of Civil, a principal investigator of the Western Water Assessment, and a Fellow of the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).