Interests
Dr. McKinney's research interests include planning and management of water resources, especially integrated management considering engineering, economic, environmental and political considerations in transboundary basins, developing and applying numerical methods for simulation, optimization, and uncertainty analysis of water resources planning and management problems, and the development of laboratory and field experimental techniques for the characterization and remediation of aquifer and groundwater contamination. He is currently engaged in research on regional planning of water resources and development of hydrologic models for large scale water resources assessments and planning. For more information, see Dr. McKinney's web site.

Education
B.S., Humboldt State University, Environmental Resources Engineering, 1983
M.S., Cornell University, Environmental Engineering, 1986
Ph.D., Cornell University, Environmental Engineering, 1990

Dinar, A., S. McCaffery, S. Dinar, and D. McKinney, Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Cooperation and Negotiation, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2007.

Patiño-Gomez, C., D.C. McKinney, and D.R. Maidment, Sharing Water Resources Data in the Bi-National Rio Grande/Bravo Basin, K. Water Resour. Planning and Management, 133(5):416-426, 2007.

Schluter, M., A. Savitsky, D. McKinney and H. Lieth, Optimizing long-term water allocation in the Amudarya river delta - A water management model for ecological impact assessment, Environmental Modeling and Software, 20(5):529-545, 2005.

Cai, X., D.C. McKinney, and L. Lasdon, An integrated Hydrologic-Agronomic- Economic Model for River Basin Management, J. Water Reour. Planning and Management, 129(1):4-17, 2005.

Cai, X., D.C. McKinney, and L.Lasdon, A Framework for Sustainability Analysis in Water Resources Management and Application to the Sry Darya Basin, Water Resour. Res., Vol. 38, No. 6: 21/1-12/14, 2002.