Dr. Vincent Tidwell is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He has over 20 years’ experience conducting and managing research on basic and applied projects in water resource management, nuclear and hazardous waste storage/remediation, and petroleum recovery. His efforts have helped establish a program at Sandia devoted to the creation and application of computer-aided decision support tools and stakeholder mediated decision processes. Applications range from regional to international and include long-term water planning, integrated energy-water planning, renewable energy, climate change and rural sustainability. He is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech and the University of Arizona. He served on Governor Richardson’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on water and is a member of the author team for the 2013 National Climate Assessment.