California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum

CWEMF is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to increase the usefulness of models for analyzing California’s water & environment related problems. CWEMF carries out this mission by: • Providing a consensus-building atmosphere on water & environment issues; • Maintaining a modeling clearinghouse that provides an open forum for the exchange, improvement, and pooling of models, modeling information, and professional resources; • Assisting in mediating technical disputes involving physical, chemical, biological, and economic modeling; • Conducting impartial peer reviews of models in order to document strengths and weaknesses, suggest improvements, and identify appropriate applications; • Seeking input from California water stakeholders and decision makers about their modeling needs; and • Providing educational opportunities through conferences and technical CWEMF has approximately 320 individual members and 13 organizational members (of different membership size). Activities of CWEMF are guided by a Steering Committee composed representatives from many governmental water organizations, universities, environmental organizations, private consultants, water user agencies, and the general public.