Julie Padowski is a Research Associate Professor in the School of the Environment and the Co-Director for the Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach (CEREO). Her research focuses on interdisciplinary water resource issues, with a special interest in urban water sustainability.
Padowski earned her MS and PhD degrees from the Soil and Water Science Department at the University of Florida, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University with the Woods Institute for the Environment. She joined the WRC in 2014, and is currently working on issues related to water availability for municipal supply and the impacts urban demands have on local and regional water vulnerability.
Organizations
Research
- Hydrologic Study of the Skagit Estuary
- Skagit River Basin Groundwater Study
- Skagit River Tributary Instream Flow Habitat Assessment
- Skagit Basin Water Supply and Demand Analysis
- Columbia River Basin 2021 Long-Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast
- Climate Change and Stream Flow: Barriers and Opportunities
- Aiding water managers through a predictive ecohydrological modeling tool
- 2021 Columbia River Basin Long-Term Water Supply & Demand Forecast
- Streamflow Restoration Technical Guidance in support of RCW 90.94
- WRC helps develop Egyptian Center of Excellence for Water Resilience
- Technology for trade: new tools and new rules for water use efficiency in agriculture and beyond
- Potential Groundwater Availability at the Hanford Site
- NSF Innovations in Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS)
- Skagit Basin Water Mitigation Feasibility Assessment Study
- Columbia River Basin Long-Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast, 2016 Legislative Report
Activities and Products
- Climate Change and Stream Flow: Barriers and Opportunities
- Coevolution of technology and law for water management in Washington State and beyond
- Alexandria Water Resilience Center of Excellence Kickoff Workshop
- Technology for trade: new tools and rules to improve water use in agriculture and beyond (poster)
- Columbia River Basin Long-Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast, 2016 Legislative Report