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John Tracy
Director, Texas Water Resources Institute
Texas A&M University


Dr. Tracy serves as Director of the Texas Water Resources Institute at Texas A&M University. Dr. Tracy has led research initiatives on understanding and developing sustainable water resource management practices in a number of basins across the western United States, including the western High Plains, Northern Plains, Great Basin and Pacific Northwest hydro-climatological regions. As a Research Administrator he works with private, state, regional and federal entities in the development of research programs that more effectively support their water and environmental resource management objectives. His recent work has focused on developing an integrated understanding of the behavior of water resource systems under the influence of changing hydrologic-economic-social conditions. Dr. Tracy currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the National Institutes for Water Resources. He has also served as President of the American Water Resources Association (2015) and the University Council on Water Resources (2008-2009). Dr. Tracy received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering at Colorado State University in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering at the University of California at Davis in 1986 and 1989 respectively.

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