Arc Hydro River Workshop Program

Day 1, Wednesday, December 1 – Outline and Overall Scope

Venue: West Pickle Research Building – Auditorium

List of Attendees Attendees.xlsx

8 – 8:30AM: Arrival and registration

8:30 – 9:45AM: Introduction of the participants and goals of the meeting. Overview of Arc Hydro River
(David Maidment)

9:45AM – 10AM: Preliminary discussion and assessment of goals

10:00 – 10:30AM Break

10:30AM – 11AM: Hydro Base Map
(Erika Boghici - ESRI)

11AM – 11:20AM: Geospatial Data Layers for Arc Hydro River
(Clark Siler- UT Austin)

11:20AM – 12 noon: Finding Water Data with CUAHSI HIS Demo of CUAHSI HydroDesktop
(Tim Whiteaker -UT Austin)

12 noon – 1 PM Lunch

1:00PM – 1:30PM: Processing terrain data in the river proximity
(Erin Atkinson - Halff and Associates)

1:30PM – 2:00PM: Floodplain maps and flooded depths
(Melinda Luna - TNRIS)

2:00PM – 2:30PM: River Ecology and Environmental Flows
(Eric Hersh - UT Austin)

2:30PM – 3:00PM Break

3:00PM – 3:30PM: Stream Geomorphology in Arc Hydro River
(John Gray – USGS - WebEx)

3:30PM – 5:00PM: Discussion about overall goals and direction of Arc Hydro River

Day 2, Thursday, December 2 – Implementation in the United States

Venue: West Pickle Research Building - Hill Country Room (WPR 3.1004)

8:30AM – 9AM: Surface water for the US – The National Hydrography Dataset Update
(Jeff Simley - USGS)

9AM – 9:30AM: FEMA’s Flood RiskMap Program and Processing LIDAR Data
(Gray Minton, Andy Bonner - AECOM)

9:30AM –9:45AM: The Watershed Boundary Dataset Update
(Karen Hanson – USGS)

9:45AM –10:15AM: NHDPlus Version 2 (Cindy McKay - Horizon Systems Corp)
NHDPlus Applications Sampler (Tommy Dewald - EPA,)

10:15 – 10:30AM Break

10:30AM-11AM: National Water Census
(Eric Evenson – USGS, presented by Susan Hutson)

11AM – 11:30AM: Streamstats Overview
(Kernell Reis - USGS)

11:30AM – 12 noon A View of Water Use Data
(Mark Nardi - USGS)

12 noon – 12:15 PM: StreamStats for Water Use
(Kernell Reis - USGS)

12:15PM – 1 PM Lunch

1:00 – 1:45PM: Current Arc Hydro Functionality
(Dean Djokic - ESRI)

1:45PM – 2:30PM: ArcGIS 10 and Beyond
(Steve Kopp - ESRI)

2:30PM – 3:00PM Break

3:00PM – 3:30PM Multi Flow Directions in ANUDEM
(Michael Hutchinson – Australian National University - WebEx)

3:30PM – 5:00PM: Discussion about Arc Hydro River in the context of US datasets

Day 3, Friday, December 3 – Project Planning

8:30 — 10AM: Presentation of tentative Arc Hydro River plan
(David Maidment)

Descriptive Characteristics of Water Use (Susan Hutson)

10:00 – 10:30AM Break

10:30AM – 12 noon: Discussion about work plan and final insights

12 noon – Meeting Concludes

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