Bryan P. Thoreson, Ph.D., P.E.

Dr. Thoreson has more than 30 years of professional experience in water resources and irrigation engineering both in the western United States and overseas. Most recently, Dr. Thoreson is serving as the technical lead for implementation of the South American Subbasin GSP for the South Central Groundwater Authority (SCGA) and is supporting implementation and project planning and evaluation for GSAs in the Kern Subbasin and subbasins in Butte and Tehama Counties. He has led and been part of multi-disciplinary, multi-firm teams developing and implementing 14 Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) in both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Dr. Thoreson has led a team developing a water resource master plan and led major tasks for water resource plans. He has also played a major role in developing water balances for more than 20 irrigation and water districts in the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys of California and elsewhere. Many of these water balances included crop ET developed from remote sensing (SEBAL® and METRIC ) techniques and quantification of water conserved by various conservation practices. These water balances have ranged from the field to basin scale and included analysis and formulation of conjunctive management strategies. Dr. Thoreson also specializes in water flow measurement and uncertainty analyses and data management, including database development for water balances, water right analysis, crop water use, land use analysis, and reservoir operations. Dr. Thoreson has worked extensively using Access and Oracle databases to store time series data for assembling and computing water balances. Dr. Thoreson has authored more than 40 papers focusing on data management for irrigation water resources planning and management and on analysis of crop ET developed from remote sensing (SEBAL® ) techniques.