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Jay R. Lund is Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences and Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of California - Davis. He has served as President of the Universities Council on Water Resources, on Advisory Committees for the 1998 and 2005 California Water Plans, as Convenor of the California Water and Environment Modeling Forum, and Editor of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. He is a member of the International Water Academy and has won awards for water-related research and service from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is the principal developer of the CALVIN economic-engineering optimization model of California’s inter-tied water supply system, applied to explore water markets, conjunctive use, integrated water management, climate change, and environmental restoration. He also has had a major role in policy analysis and science for California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and engaged in many other applications of systems analysis around the world. His principal specialties are simulation, optimization, and management of large-scale water and environmental systems, the application of economic ideas and methods, reservoir operation theory, and water demand theory and methods. He is author or co-author of over 250 publications and obviously has a short attention span.