Dr. Gloss is the former director of the Wyoming Water Resources Center and has served as president of the National Institutes for Water Resources and the Powell Consortium, a regional organization dealing with issues relevant to the Colorado River Basin. His research interests include water resources policy and management, aquatic ecology, fisheries science, limnology, and general ecology. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of New Mexico in biology working on an interdisciplinary NSF-RANN project focusing on the Colorado Plateau and Lake Powell.