- Configure groundwater management programs within GAP under direction — establishing geographies, zones and management areas, water accounts, and water measurement types such as evapotranspiration, precipitation, and metered extraction.
- Assemble, integrate, and perform QA/QC on the data behind groundwater accounting, including third-party meter and telemetry data, OpenET evapotranspiration data, self-reported extraction, allocation records, and parcel spatial data.
- Prepare and process parcel and spatial data for parcel-level accounting using GIS tools.
- Help translate allocation rules, carryover and transfer provisions, true-up procedures, and other demand management policies into platform configuration and accounting logic, and document the assumptions used.
- Build and validate dashboards and reports that give agencies and growers a clear view of usage, allocations, deadlines, and compliance status.
- Support development of data management strategies, including analyzing current data workflows, inventorying data sources and systems, and synthesizing pain points and dependencies.
- Prepare workshop materials, training guides, and platform demonstrations, and help facilitate stakeholder workshops, Technical Advisory Committee and Board meetings, grower training sessions, and the GAP user community.
- Draft sections of proposals, scopes of work, findings memos, and technical documentation that are clear, concise, and well-supported.
- Grow, over time, toward independent ownership of program configuration and client and stakeholder support.
What’s Special About Our Groundwater Accounting Platform Team
Groundwater is one of California's most important and most stressed resources, and under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, agencies across the state are being asked to bring basins back into balance. Our team builds and operates the Groundwater Accounting Platform (GAP) — an open-source system that helps Groundwater Sustainability Agencies and their growers do exactly that: track allocations, report and verify pumping, manage demand, and administer their programs transparently and defensibly.
What makes this work different is that we sit at the intersection of policy, data, and people. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with NGO partners, agency staff, Technical Advisory Committees, Boards, and the growers whose livelihoods depend on these decisions — translating complex sustainability rules into systems they can actually understand, trust, and operate. We also help lead a nationwide community of practice across groundwater management agencies, state funders, the consultant community, and NGO partners, sharing what works and continually improving the platform. Together, we turn groundwater policy into working tools that make a real and lasting difference for California's water future.