CLAWRIM

The Computational Lab for Advanced Water Resources Informatics and Modeling (CLAWRIM)

CLAWRIM is Dr. Huidae Cho’s research group in the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU). Their research focuses on the broad applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and computational methods to water resources informatics and modeling.

About Us

Computational Solutions for Water Resources

Our comprehensive experience in hydrologic & hydraulic modeling, Geographic Information System (GIS) algorithms, and software development will bring new insights to the fields.

Hydrologic & Hydraulic Modeling

GIS Algorithms

Software Development

Ongoing Projects

NMDOT Culvert Asset Management Program (CAMP) (Cortes, Cho)

  • Statewide Culvert Capacity Analysis
  • Development of an Early Flood Warning Framework

NSF Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) (NMSU, etc.)

  • Water and Community Resilience Through Spatial Integration of Ecohydrological Processes and Traditional Sociocultural Knowledge
  • Water Availability Analysis Using SWAT

NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) (NCSU, NMSU, ASU, Yale)

  • Phase II: Growing GRASS OSE for Worldwide Access to Multidisciplinary Geospatial Analytics

USGS Water Resources Research Act 104b (Cho)

  • New Mexico Statewide Drought Vulnerability Analysis Under Future Climate Change Scenarios Using a Physically-Based Coupled Model
  • VIC + MODFLOW

Past Projects

DOE NETL PARETO (Cho, EnergyMakers Advisory Group)

  • Leveraging PARETO for Rare Earth Element/Critical Mineral (REE/CM) Recovery from Produced Water and Seismicity Response Optimization

News

“All models are wrong.”

George Box

A British Statistician