Dr. Jay Lund is Vice Director of the Center for
Watershed Sciences and a Distinguished Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the University of California,
Davis. He has long enjoyed teaching, research, and engagement on
many aspects of theory and practice for water management and
policy, usually trying to integrate economics and operations
research with traditional engineering. He has become
particularly engaged in working on the wide range of water
problems in California with many collaborators, and remains
enthusiastic about the potential of system analysis and
optimization to provide understanding and insights for
management and policy.
In California, he was on the Advisory Committee for the 1998 and
2005 California Water Plan Updates, and has served as Convenor
of the California Water and Environment Modeling Forum and Chair
of California's Delta Independent Science Board. He is a member
of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has long been
involved in applying economic and optimization ideas to provide
insights on California's water problems, including the
development and use of the CALVIN model of California's water
supply system. He is a lead author of Comparing Futures for the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (UC Press 2010) and Managing
California's Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation (PPIC 2011).
Dr. Lund has a B.A. in International Relations and Regional
Planning from the University of Delaware (1979) and a BS in
Civil Engineering, MA in Geography, and PhD in Civil Engineering
from the University of Washington (Seattle). He has advised over
150 graduate students, including 15 who are faculty at research
universities globally, and has over 400 publications and
reports.
