Civil Engineer
Nathan Bonham is a civil engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Research and Modelling Team. In this role, he applies Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty methods to support reservoir operations planning in the Colorado River Basin. Nathan earned his PhD in Civil Engineering, with a focus on hydrology and water resources, from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023. His research developed statistical methods and interactive tools for evaluating the robustness of environmental management policies to climate and demand scenarios and for visualizing performance tradeoffs.