Lt Col Justin D. Delorit, Ph.D., P.E.
Program Chair and Assistant Professor of Engineering Management
Publications
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Delorit, J. D. and Block, P. J., On the robustness of forecast option value: testing agricultural use of
season-ahead water allocation and crop prices to guide water market transactions Journal Article, Madison,
Wisconsin. (in review), 2019
Delorit, J., Parker, D., and Block, P. J.: An agro-economic approach to framing perennial farm-scale water
resource management for water rights markets, Agricultural Water Management, 218:68-81, 2019.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.03.029
Delorit, J. D. and Block, P. J., Water market-scale forecast-informed option contracts. Journal of Water
Resources Planning and Management, Volume 125, Issue 5, 2019
DOI: https://10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001068
Delorit, J. D. and Block, P. J., Promoting competitive water resource use efficiency at the water-market
scale: An inter-cooperative demand equilibrium-based approach to water trading. Water Resources
Research, 54(8), 5394-5421, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR022323
Delorit, J., Gonzalez Ortuya, E. C. and Block, P. J., Evaluation of Model-Based Seasonal Streamflow and
Water Allocation Forecasts for the Elqui Valley, Chile. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21(9): 4711–4725., 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4711-2017
Delorit, J., Racz L., Evaluation of Activated Sludge for Biodegradation of Propylene Glycol as an Aircraft
Deicing Fluid, Water Environment Research, Volume 86, Number 4, April 2014, pp. 366-371(6)
BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Badiru, A., Racz, L., Delorit, J., Measurements of Land, Handbook of Measurements: Benchmarks for
Systems Accuracy and Precision, CRC Press, 2016
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Delorit, J., Hydroclimactic prediction to guide robust water market-scale agricultural water resource
decision-making for semi-arid, water rights managed basins: application to the Elqui Valley, Chile,
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2018. (Sponsors: United States Air Force,
$36,030). https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9912481845602121
Delorit, J., Burwinkle A., The Safe Jobsite, Air Force Civil Engineer, Vol. 22 No. 2, 2014
https://www.afcec.af.mil/Portals/17/documents/About-Us/AFCE-Magazine/AFD-141103-038.pdf
Delorit, J., Evaluation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Activated Sludge for Biodegradation of
Propylene Glycol as an Aircraft Deicer, Master of Science Thesis, Air Force Institute of Technology,
March 2012. (Sponsors: US Environmental Protection Agency, $34,300; Air Force Institute of Technology
Faculty Research Council, $12,300). https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a556371.pdf