I am the Department Head and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My primary areas of interest are in the application of structured planning approaches to water resources. This includes impacts of climate change on water resources, drought planning, real-time water resource management, and the application of decision support to civil engineering management problems. I helped to develop the field of “shared vision modeling” in water resources planning and pioneered the use of “virtual drought exercises.” Currently, I’m involved in the CCRUN NOAA RISA (Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast), which focuses stakeholder-driven research on urban climate change adaptation. I also serve as the University Director of the Interior Department’s Northeast Climate Science Center, which provides tools, information, and support for land and resource managers in the face of climate change.