Hydrologic Modeling Water Resource PlanningClimate Change Impact & AdaptationFlood ForecastingHydroinformaticsEnvironmental Planning & RestorationWatershed, River, & Coastal Management
Hydrologic Modeling
Lynker develops hydrological models to analyze, understand, and explore solutions for sustainable water management in order to support decision makers and operational water managers. The application and development of hydrological models are key activities of Lynker. This allows us to increase our knowledge about hydrological processes, and provide sustainable solutions for integrated water resources management based on hydrologic scenario analysis.
Jamestown Automated Flood Warning System (AFWS)
Salt Basin Groundwater System Appropriation—New Mexico
Development of Synthetic Hydrologic Records for Modeling Shasta Temperature Management
Instream Flow Modeling to Support Hydroelectric Plant Permit Application
South Platte Decision Support Systems Model
Runoff Risk Guidance Tool to Mitigate the Water Quality Impacts of Nutrient Application
Modeling Analysis of a Tailings Storage Facility Dam Breach for the Proposed Pebble Mine
Llandegfedd Reservoir Optimization
Water Resource Planning
Lynker is leading the development and implementation of integrated water resources planning solutions to help our clients manage these kinds of complex environmental challenges, where active management of the built and natural components of the water cycle are key to water sustainability.
City of Aurora Water Supply Planning
State of Oklahoma Watershed and Water Permitting Management
Idaho Groundwater Appropriators Conjunctive Use and Water Rights
City of Boulder Water Supply and Climate Change Planning
Carlsbad Hydrologic Unit – Lagoon TMDL Monitoring
Eagle River Water Rights Operations Model
Climate Change Impact & Adaptation
We work with clients to interpret and communicate climate change science. We help develop business cases for risk assessment and adaptation, visualize climate change and provide training and stakeholder engagement. Using straightforward tools and approaches to identify and prioritize risks, we assess climate change impacts for a diverse range of vulnerable communities.
Future Avoided Cost Explorer: Colorado Hazards (FACE:Hazards)
California Climate Change Assessment
Drought Resilience Modeling - Stochastic Hydrology Modeling
California Ranch Climate Assessment
Projecting Climate Change Impacts to Extreme Temperature and Precipitation for Denver Water’s Infrastructure
Reservoir and Irrigation District Water Supply Study
Colorado River Water Availability Study
Colorado Drought Plan Update
Climate Change Impacts on Municipal Stormwater Intensities
International Projects
Colorado Drought Plan Vulnerability Dashboard
Flood Forecasting
Lynker develops hydrological models to analyze, understand, and explore solutions for sustainable water management in order to support decision makers and operational water managers. The application and development of hydrological models are key activities of Lynker. This allows us to increase our knowledge about hydrological processes, and provide sustainable solutions for integrated water resources management based on hydrologic scenario analysis.
The increasing abundance of climatological, hydrological, and remote sensing ‘big’ water data in the public domain nowadays calls for enhanced data analysis, data handling, data management and data integration methodologies to translate scientific data to knowledge products that are informative, intuitive, understandable and supportive in water resources decision making. Lynker knows what data is available, how to access it, and how to translate data into useful integrated products. We can combine data with objective-specific hydrological simulation models in hydroinformative products. We are specialized in visualizing and converting complex results of numerical models to comprehensible information for policy makers.
Jamestown Automated Flood Warning System (AFWS)
National Water Center – Geo Intelligence Division (GID)
National Water Center – Machine Learning Approach to Reservoir Operations
Colorado Decision Support Systems
Mount Werner Water & Sanitation Macarthur/Yampa Meadows Alluvial Aquifer Investigation
Environmental Planning & Restoration
Lynker provides a variety of environmental assessment, restoration services, and environmental litigation support for public and private entities, including businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and local governments, and work with these entities to secure funding for restoration projects along the Gulf Coast and other locations.
Watershed, River, & Coastal Management
Lynker’s Water Resources professionals incorporate our water resources experience with our respected geomorphology practice to provide watershed planning and stream assessments, water quality and quantity analyses, river restoration, and coastal environment management. From desktop analysis to field assessments to design and on the ground construction, our technical staff conduct assessments on the existing condition of the watershed that can be included with and incorporated into a comprehensive water quality and quantity model to aid in the identification of restoration opportunities within a watershed and on streams, information can then be used to prioritize restoration activities and restoration design-build projects led by our experienced professionals.
Jamestown and James Creek Master Plan
State of Oklahoma Watershed and Water Permitting Management
Design for Restoration of James Creek between Jamestown and Left Hand Creek Confluence
Stream stewardship through citizen science and adaptive management
Lefthand Creek Watershed Master Plan
Chatfield Watershed Model
NNDWR Gauge Network Optimization
Citizen Science Initiative on the Yakima River
Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Feature Project
Lynker scientists are currently working with the State of Colorado on a first-of-its-kind climate risk analysis project – Future Avoided Cost Explorer (FACE: Colorado Hazards). This statewide study estimates dollar-value damages from future floods, droughts, wildfires across select sectors of Colorado’s economy. The State of Colorado has recognized that these hazards are likely to worsen as the impacts of climate change intensify the severity of the hazards and as population growth increases the number of people at risk.
By helping Coloradans better understand their current and future economic risks from flood, drought, and wildfire, this tool can help stimulate the implementation of smart adaptation strategies and policy frameworks that can improve the prospects for sustainable prosperity in a rapidly changing environment.