Steven Markstrom

Steve Markstrom is a hydrologist with the USGS National Research Program, Central Region, Denver, Colorado. He has been a member of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling research group since 1991. The research group has the broad goal of understanding precipitation-runoff processes and developing improved hydrologic models.

Steve Markstrom has worked as hydrologist at the USGS National Research Program, Central Region, Denver, Colorado since 1991 where he is a member of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling research group. The research group has the broad goal of understanding precipitation-runoff processes and developing improved hydrologic models. He is currently part of the team developing an integrated gound- and surface- water simulation model (GSFLOW). He is a technical team leader for the Watershed and River Systems Management Program (WARSMP), a cooperative effort between the USGS and US Bureau of Reclamation to develop decision support systems and tools that integrate physically based process models and resource management models. Also, he develops and supports the Modular Modeling System (MMS).

Publications

• Markstrom, S.L., Regan, R.S., Niswonger, R.G., and Prudic, D.E., 2006, GSFLOW - A basin-scale model for coupled simulation of ground-water and surface-water flow - Part A. Concepts for modeling surface-water flow with the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System model: Proceedings of the 3rd Federal Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Reno, Nevada, April 2-6, 2006.
• Niswonger, R.G., and Prudic, D.E., Markstrom, S.L., and Regan, R.S., 2006, GSFLOW - A basin-scale model for coupled simulation of ground-water and surface-water flow - Part B. Concepts for modeling ground-water flow with the U.S. Geological Survey MODFLOW model: Proceedings of the 3rd Federal Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Reno, Nevada, April 2-6, 2006.
• Umemoto, M., Hay, L.E., Markstrom, S.L., and Leavesley, G.H., 2006, Luca: a wizard style GUI for easy and systematic multi-objective, step-wise calibration of Hydrologic models. Joint 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference abd 3rd Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, April 2-6, 2006, Reno, Nevada.
• Leavesley, G.H., Markstrom, S.L., Viger, R.J., and Hay, L.E., 2005, USGS Modular Modeling System (MMS) - Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) MMS-PRMS, in Singh, V., and Frevert, D., eds., Watershed Models: Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, p. 159-177.
• Leavesley, G.H., Hay, L.E., Viger, R.J., and Markstrom, S.L., 2003, Use of a priori parameter estimation methods to constrain calibration of distributed-parameter models: in Duan, Q., Gupta, H.V., Sorooshian, S., Rousseau, A.N., and Turcotte, eds., Calibration of Watershed Models, WaterScience and Application 6, American Geophysical Union, p. 255-266.
• Leavesley, G.H., Markstrom, S.L., Viger, R.J., Coffelt, J.L., and Livingston, R.K., 2002, A decision support system for impact analysis of wildland fires: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report: 02-0011, p. 86.
• David, O., Markstrom, S.L., Rojas, K. W., Ahuja, L. R., and Schneider, I. W., 2002, The Object Modeling System, chapter in: Agricultural System Models in Field Research and Technology Transfer, CRC Press.
• Markstrom, S.L., King, D., and Davidson, P., 2001, Decision Support System for the Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado: in Proceedings of Decision Support Systems for Water Resources Management, American Water Resources Association, June 2001, Snowbird, UT, pp. 389 - 394.
• Leavesley, G. H., Markstrom, S.L., Brewer, M. S., and Viger, R. J., 1998, The Modular Modeling System (MMS) - The Physical Process Modeling Component of the Watershed and River System Management Program: in Proceedings of the First Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, April 1998, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 5-93 to 5-100.
• Viger, R. J., Markstrom S. L., and G. H. Leavesley, 1998, The GIS Weasel - An Interface for the Treatment of Spatial Information in Watershed Modeling and Water Resource Management: Proceedings of the First Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, pp. 7-73 - 7-80.
• Leavesley, G. H., Viger, R. J., Markstrom, S. L., and Brewer, M. S., 1997, A Modular Approach to Integrating Environmental Modeling and GIS: in Proceedings of the World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modeling, and Applied Mathematics. International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 24-29, 1997. 7 p.
• Leavesley, G. H., Markstrom, S. L., Brewer, M. S., and Viger, R. J., 1996, The Modular Modeling System (MMS) - The Physical Process Modeling Component of a Database-Centered Decision Support System for Water and Power Management: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 90, pp. 303 - 311.
• Leavesley, G. H., Grant, G. E., Markstrom S. L., Viger, R. J., and Brewer, M. S., 1996, A Modular Modeling Approach to Watershed Analysis and Ecosystem Management: in Proceedings of Watershed '96, June 8 - 12, Baltimore, MD, pp. 794 - 797.
• Winkelbauer, L. and Markstrom, S. L., 1990, Symbolic and Numerical Methods in Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision Support: Expert Systems with Applications 1(4), pp. 345 - 358.