Bradley H. Udall is a Senior Water and Climate Research Scientist / Scholar at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center. His expertise includes how climate change will impact hydrology and water policy in the American West, with a focus on the Colorado River. In 2007, he was one of six authors for the first-ever climate change analysis for a Bureau of Reclamation Environmental Impact Statement. He was a co-author of the initial climate change report for the Colorado Water Conservation Board in 2008. Brad was a co-author of the 2009 and 2018 National Climate Assessments and a contributing author to the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment. Brad has testified before the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and the Colorado Legislature on the impacts of climate change on U.S. water resources. He has been invited to present to multiple National Academy of Science panels. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles on the causes of the declining Colorado River flows and on the ongoing aridification of the Western US. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Arizona Republic and Arizona Daily Star among other publications. He has appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, PBS, the Weather Channel and other media outlets. He has given hundreds of invited talks about how climate change will impact water resources. Brad was formerly the Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the University of Colorado - NOAA Western Water Assessment. Brad has an engineering degree from Stanford and an MBA from Colorado State University.