| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Brown, C., Z. Sheng, and M. Bourdon, 2007. “Phase
II Final Project Report Paso del Norte Watershed Council
Coordinated Water Resources Database and GIS Project.”
Technical Completion Report 341. New Mexico Water Resources
Research Institute: Las Cruces, NM.
- Granados-Olivas, A., C. Brown, E. Sánchez-Flores,
A. de la Mora, and O. Dena-Ornelas, 2007. “The 3 “G’s”
in Disaster Prevention: Geoinformatics, Geosciences and
Groups (People).” Paper in peer-reviewed proceedings
of the 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of
Environment. Sustainable Development Through Global Earth
Observations. San Jose, Costa Rica, 25-29 Junio, 2007.
- Ortiz, M., C. Brown, B. Creel, S. Fernald, T. Baker, and
S. Guldan, 2007. “Land Use Change Impacts on Acequia
Water Resources in Northern New Mexico, an article published
in the Journal
of Contemporary Water Research and Education. No137:47-54.
- Brown, C., C. Buscaglia, R. Czerniak, and M. Rich. 2006.
“A GIS Approach to Exploring Areas of Ecological Concern
on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Chapter in The U.S.-Mexico
Border Environment: Transboundary Ecosystem Management,
a peer-reviewed monograph published by the San Diego State
University Press: San Diego, CA.
- Tillery, S., Z. Sheng, J.P. King, B. Creel, C. Brown,
A. Michelsen, R. Srinivasan, and A. Granados, 2006. The
development of a Coordinated Database for Water Resources
and Flow Model in the Paso del Norte Watershed. Technical
Completion Report 337; New Mexico Water Resources Research
Institute: Las Cruces, NM.
- Brown, C., B. Hurd, J. Greenlee, A. Granados, and M. Hendrie,
2006. “Assessing Water Resource Vulnerability for
Arid Watersheds: GIS-based Research in the Paso del Norte
Region.” Chapter published in a Special Issue of New
Mexico Journal of Science entitled, Science on the Border.
Date of publication is September 2006.
- Granados-Olivas, A., C. Brown, J. Greenlee, B. Creel,
J. Hawley, J. Kennedy, O. Dena-Ornelas, and B. Hurd. 2006.
“GIS and Remote Sensing Technology for the U.S.-Mexico
Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act (The Mexican Academic
Perspective on Senate 214 and House 469). Chapter published
in Special Issue of New Mexico Journal of Science entitled,
Science on the Border. Date of publication is September
2006.
- Brown, C. 2005. “Transboundary Water Resource Issues
on the US-Mexico Border: Challenges and Opportunities in
the 21st Century,” an article published in VertigO,
La revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement,
an electronic journal published by l'Université du
Québec à Montréal. Journal is available
at http://www.vertigo.uqam.ca/
- Brown, C., Z. Sheng, and M. Bourdon. 2005. “Final
Project Report for the Paso del Norte Watershed Council
(PdNWC) Coordinated Water Resources Database, Phase II.”
Technical completion report produced on behalf of the PDNWC
for the El Paso Water Utilities, the funding agency for
this project. Report submitted 11 March 2005.
- Brown, C. 2005. “Un Examen Comparativo de los Instrumentos
Para el Manejo Binacional de los Recursos Hidraulicos en
la Frontera Estados Unidos-Mexico,” chapter in Seguridad,
Agua y Desarrollo: El futuro de la Frontera Mexico-Estados
Unidos," (edited by A. Cortez Lara, S. Whiteford, and
M. Chavez), a special monograph published by el Colegio
de la Frontera Norte and Michigan State University, pp.
289-331.
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| SELECTED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:
- Team leader on Assessment Project for the Non-Native Phreatophyte/Watershed
Management Plan being developed by the New Mexico Soil and
Water Conservation Commission. Total funding amount is $152,610,
with $20,000 coming to our team. Project started 31 August
2007 and runs until 30 June 2008.
- Principal Investigator on "Collaborative Development of
a GIS-based Flood Risk Assessment for the Río Bravo/Rio
Grande Basin," a proposal submitted to the Southwest Consortium
for Environmental Research and Policy. Proposal was for
$72,027, submitted on 15 October 2007.
- Principal Investigator on "Binational Transportation Infrastructure
Needs Assessment Study," a proposal submitted to the New
Mexico Department of Transportation and the U.S. Federal
Highway Administration. Amount of grant is $140,000, which
was awarded on 1 February 2007.
- Co-Principal Investigator on “The Development of
a Coordinated Database and GIS for Water Related Resources
in the Paso del Norte Watershed,” a project submitted
to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Amount of proposal
is $110,071, and the award was granted 1 September 2006.
- Principal Investigator on “Installation of River
and Drain Instrumentation Stations to Monitor Flow and Water
Quality and Internet Data Sharing,” NMSU/WRRI and
Texas A&M University Research Project Cooperative Agreement
Task Order #10. Amount of Overall grant with the US Bureau
of Reclamation is $165,000, and the portion of this coming
to NMSU is $56,000. Award received 1 February 2006.
- Principal Investigator of “The Impacts of Land
Use Change on Water Resources and Traditional Acequia Culture
in North Central New Mexico,” an NMSU Research Mini-Grant
Program Round 2 Proposal submitted through the NMSU Water
Science and Education Center of the Natural Resources Cluster.
The amount of the grant was $25,000, and the award was made
on 1 December 2005.
- Co-Principal Investigator on “Development of a Riverware
Model of the Rio Grande Flow and a Coordinated Database
for Water Related Resources in the Rio Grande Watershed,”
a project funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Performed
Under the Memorandum of Agreement between the Agricultural
Research and Extension Center at El Paso (AREC) Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station (TAES), The Texas A&M University
System (TAMU) and The Board of Regents of New Mexico State
University (NMSU) New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute
(NMWRRI). Amount of award is $66,210, awarded 1 August 2005.
- Co-Principal Investigator on “The Cost-sharing of
Transboundary Wastewater Treatment: the US- Mexico Case
Study and its Applicability to the Israeli/Palestinian Situation,”
a proposal funded by the International Arid Lands Consortium
(IALC). Total amount of the award is $100,000, granted on
11 March 2005.
- Principal investigator of a contract awarded by the El
Paso Water Utilities through the Paso del Norte Watershed
Council to NMSU and Texas A&M University to fund "Development
of a Prototype Coordinated Database Project for the Paso
del Norte Watershed Council." Total amount of the contract
is $50,000, with $28,250 being awarded to NMSU.
- Principal Investigator on “An Assessment, Inventory,
and Strategy for a Coordinated United States – Mexico
Border Region Water Resource Geographic Information System.”
a funding proposal submitted to the Southwest Center for
Environmental Research and Policy. Proposal was submitted
for $103,025, and the amount awarded on 15 March 2005 was
$90,000.
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