2013 RiverWare User Group Meeting NCAR/UCAR Center Green Campus Auditorium   Tuesday, August 27, 8am - 5pm   Wednesday, August 28, 8am – 12:30pm Important Links General Information  Registration and Fees  Lodging Presentations  Attendee List  Maps  Presentations     Tuesday August 27, 2013 7:30–8:00 Registration, Check-in and Continental Breakfast 8:00–8:20 Welcome, Introductions and Overview Introductions of CADSWES team and attendees; meeting information; agenda 8:20–8:45 Selected New Capabilities and Features - Demos and Presentations—CADSWES RiverWare Applications 8:45–9:05 Modeling the Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA) in RiverWare Shane Coors (Precision Water Resources Engineering) 9:05–9:25 Off-channel Storage Modeling in the Lower Colorado River (LCRA) Steve Setzer (Hydros Consulting, Inc.) 9:25–9:45 Riverware Modeling in the Deschutes Basin: An Integrated Basin Scale Opportunity Assessment Sara Niehus, Marshall Richmond & Simon Geerlofs (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)  9:45–10:05 Break 10:05–10:25 New Features: Dynamic Report Generation and Unit Schemes—CADSWES RiverWare Applications 10:25–10:45 RiverWare Modeling Application for Existing System Operation for the Red River John Daylor, P.E. (USACE—Tulsa District) 10:45–11:05 Adoption and Modification of the USACE Red River Model for Hydrologic Investigations in SE Oklahoma Cody Hudson and Barney Austin (INTERA, Inc.) 11:05–11:25 An Accounting Model in Development of the Fryingpan—Arkansas Project, Southeastern Colorado Terry Dawson (BOR—Great Plains); Tom Stockton (Stockton Engineering, Inc.); and Tim Miller, Andrew Gilmore & James VanShaar (BOR—Great Plains) 11:25–11:45 Role of RiverWare in the Newlands Project Planning Study Heather Gacek (Precision Water Resources Engineering) 11:45–1:15  Lunch (provided) 1:15–1:30 Optimization Updates—CADSWES New Features, Training, and CPLEX Licensing Agreement RiverWare Applications 1:30–1:50 Improved Optimization Modeling Tim Magee (CADSWES) 1:50–2:10 Using RiverWare to Enhance Hydropower Modeling in Renewable Generation Integration Studies Mitch Clement (CADSWES) 2:10–2:30 What are the tradeoffs? A Many-objective Approach to Water Resources Planning Joseph Kasprzyk, Assistant Professor, & Rebecca Smith, M.S. Student (University of Colorado at Boulder) 2:30–2:50 Between a Mussel and a Hard Place – Update on Drought Modeling in North Texas Jon Albright (Freese and Nichols, Inc.) 2:50–3:10 Break 3:10–3:25 New Features—CADSWES Groundwater and Water Quality Modeling Enhancements RiverWare Applications 3:25–3:45 Salinity Projection Model for Yuma Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation Steve Setzer (Hydros Consulting, Inc.) 3:45–4:05 Northern Water Daily Planning Model Overview Luke Shawcross, Andy Pineda, and Katie Melander (Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District) 4:05–4:25 Mid Term Operations Probabilistic Model on the Colorado River Basin Anthony Powell (Precision Water Resources Engineering), Daniel Bunk & Shana Tighi (BOR-Lower Colorado Region), Katrina Grantz (BOR-Upper Colorado Region) 4:25–4:35 New Features—CADSWES Scenario Manager for Stakeholders 4:35–5:00 Software Development and Maintenance, Releases and Tech Transfer—CADSWES   Overview of CADSWES software development processes and standards; software maintenance; User Support procedures; Release Processes; Bug Tracking; new Training Modules and Demo/Evaluation Modules After 5pm... Meet for happy hour and/or dinner at The Pub at Boulder Beer (not hosted)   Wednesday August 28, 2013 7:30–8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00–8:40 RiverSMART: The New Suite of RiverWare Software for Complex Studies—CADSWES RiverWare Applications 8:40–9:00 Modeling to Support the Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study Alan Butler, Carly Jerla, & Ken Nowak (BOR—Lower Colorado Region); and Jim Prairie (BOR—Upper Colorado Region) 9:00–9:20 The Eastern Nile RiverWare Model for Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan and Ethiopia - Seeking Alternatives for Trans-boundary Collaboration Kevin Wheeler (Water Balance Consulting, LLC) 9:20–9:40 Upcoming and Future Possible Enhancements—CADSWES  9:40–10:10 Break RiverWare Applications 10:10–10:30 Rio Grande Reservoir Cooperative Project—Building Consensus and Trust for a Multi-use Storage Project Kelly DiNatale and Arista Hickman (DiNatale Water Consultants, Inc.) 10:30–10:40 Single Model for all Applications of the Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model (URGWOM) Amy Louise, Marc Sidlow (USACE—Albuquerque District) and Craig Boroughs (BH&H Engineering, Inc.) 10:40–11:00 Modeling the Rio Grande Project in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Nick Mander, John Carron and Steve Setzer (Hydros Consulting, Inc.) 11:00–12:30 Open Mic Discussion of current and future needs, issues, ideas, suggestions; open questions and discussions with everyone, including the CADSWES R&D team ☼ CADSWES.colorado.edu ☼ Last edited August 30, 2013 ☼