Molly Magnuson is with the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer and is the Bureau Chief for the Water Use and Conservation Bureau in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Major tasks include the quantification of irrigation water requirements for adjudications and litigation efforts, water conservation efforts, and drought-related planning/monitoring. She has been the bureau chief for about two years and has worked in that bureau since 2006. Prior to that, she worked for the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission in the Colorado River Bureau. In addition to working for the State of New Mexico, she has worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. She has an master’s in Agricultural Engineering from Oklahoma State University and a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from New Mexico State University.