Water Rights Branch Staff
Chuck Pettee: Branch Chief, Supervisory Hydrologist, MS in Watershed
Science. Specialty areas include water rights establishment and protection
and water resources policy.
Bill Hansen: Adjudication and Information Mangement Program Leader, Supervisory Hydrologist, MS in Hydrology. Specialty areas include water right establishment and protection, surface water hydrology, water rights policy, and wild and scenic river management.
Dan McGlothlin: Monitoring and Enforcement Program Leader, Supervisory Hydrologist, BS in Watershed Hydrology. Specialty areas include water rights establishment and protection and water resources policy.
Jennifer Back: Hydrologist, MS in Watershed Science. Specialty areas include ground and surface water interactions and stable isotopes.
Paul Christensen: Hydrologist, MS and BS in Geology. Specialty areas include hydrogeology, water resources, and water rights.
Paula Cutillo: Hydrologist, PhD in Hydrogeology. Specialty areas include hydrogeology and numerical modeling.
Chris Gable: Hydrologist, BS in Watershed Sciences. Specialty areas include surface water hydrology, field methods, instrumentation, and data analysis.
Gwen Gerber: Hydrologist, MS in Geology. Specialty areas include surface water and groundwater hydrology, field methods, instrumentation, and data analysis.
Jim Harte: Hydrologist, BS in Forestry/Watershed Sciences. Specialty areas include surface water hydrology, sediment transport, and watershed management.
Jeff Hughes: Hydrologist, MS in Watershed Sciences. Specialty areas include water rights and surface water hydrology.
Bill Van Liew: Hydrologist, BS in Civil Engineering, BS in Geology, and MS in Groundwater Engineering/Environmental Hydrogeology. Specialty areas include groundwater hydrology and ground-water surface-water interactions.
Mark Wondzell: Hydrologist, BS in Forestry, MS in Agricultural Engineering.
Kathryn Converse:SCEP, Hydrologist, BS in Earth Science.
Eric Lord: Eric Lord: Water Rights Specialist. BS in Mineral Land Management; JD; MS in Forest Science.
Flora Romero: Colorado State University Administrative Assistant, Water Rights Quantification and Protection Projects.
Sharla Stevenson: SCEP Hydrologist, BS in Agriculture, PhD Candidate in GeoSciences. Specialty areas include: surface water hydrology, modeling and climate change effects.
Joe Chafey: Colorado State University, Hydrologic Technician, BS in Natural Resource Management, BS in Business Administration
Mallory Hall: Colorado State University, Student Research Technician, Water Rights Protection Project Assistant, pursuing a degree in