CW3E Welcomes Taylor Dixon

August 28, 2023

Taylor Dixon joined CW3E as a Senior Hydrologist in August 2023. In this role, Taylor serves as a technical liaison between the Center and the National Weather Service (NWS) River Forecast Centers (RFCs), supports the growing Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) Program, and helps advance the Center’s hydrologic modeling and forecasting capabilities. In addition to leading and contributing to technical developments and project/program management activities, he focuses on maintaining and developing partnerships between CW3E and the academic community, water managers across the country, and operational forecasting entities.

Prior to this position, Taylor was the Development and Operations Hydrologist (DOH) at the NWS Northwest River Forecast Center (NWRFC) in Portland, Oregon. As part of the management team, he helped oversee the daily and event-driven streamflow forecasting operations and led the RFC’s multifaceted and collaborative research-to-operations (R2O) portfolio. He was also responsible for training and developing forecasting staff, and with building and nurturing productive, relevant relationships across the agency and beyond. Before moving into the DOH position, Taylor was an operational forecaster for the NWRFC for several years. His professional hydrology experience also includes time with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), where he conducted basin-scale climate change and water management studies and supported USBR water managers, and with the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR), where he led field-, laboratory-, and modeling-based studies focused on groundwater-surface water exchanges (and drivers) in agricultural and mountainous watersheds. His education includes a B.S. in Chemistry (Boise State University) and an M.S. in Hydrology (Colorado School of Mines), and he is certified as a Professional Hydrologist (PH) through the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH).