2007
Annual RiverWare User Group Meeting
Preliminary Agenda |
Tuesday
- February 6, 2007 |
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| 7:30 - 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:00 - 8:40 |
Welcome, Introductions and Overview |
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| Introductions of CADSWES team and attendees; meeting information |
| Review of Licensing, and Current RiverWare users and Applications – CADSWES |
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| 8:40 – 9:40 |
Current and Upcoming New Development in RiverWare |
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Overview of ongoing and recently completed new development; news about upcoming development and discussion of unfunded development needs; status of Qt port. – CADSWES |
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Open forum discussion and suggestions regarding areas of development or specific needs; questions about future work – Users, sponsors and developers - All |
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| 9:40 – 10:00 |
BREAK– Snacks and drinks provided |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 |
RiverWare’s New Optimization |
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Overview of RiverWare’s optimization capabilities; description of the new (in v4.8) optimization language and constraint editor; demo of TVA’s optimization model with the new version; upcoming Integer Programming development, future integration of rulebased simulation with optimization; plans for introduction of a new cost-free optimization solver in RiverWare – CADSWES |
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Questions, suggestions and expression of needs/ interest in RiverWare optimization – All |
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New and Evolving Applications of RiverWare: Part I |
| 11:00 – 11:15 |
Tarrant Regional Water District Long Range Planning Model – Laura Blaylock (TRWD) |
| 11:15 – 11:30 |
A Benefits Study for the Panama Canal Operations Using RiverWare – Michael Kane and Marc Baldo (Riverside Technology, Inc.) |
| 11:30 – 11:45 |
RiverWare Applications in Reclamation’s Great Plains Region – Donald Frevert (Reclamation Denver Technical Services Center), Michael Kube (Nebraska-Kansas Area Office), Patrick Erger (Great Plains Regional Office), Jeremy Giovando (Montana Area Office), Ronald Thomasson (Eastern Colorado Area Office), David King and John Treacy (Denver Technical Services Center) |
| 11:45 – 12:00 |
WaterNet-The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network: opportunities to enhance RiverWare effectiveness through networking with NASA research results – Dr. Dave Matthews (Hydromet DSS) and Dr. Paul Houser (Center for Research on Environment and Water) |
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| 12:00 – 1:15 |
Lunch – Provided |
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Water Accounting and Water Rights in RiverWare |
| 1:15 – 2:00 |
Overview of water accounting modeling capabilities in RiverWare; new graphical interface features; upcoming enhancements, outline of upcoming training class – CADSWES |
| 2:00 – 2:15 |
Water Rights Allocation (solver) function in RPL: how it works and how to use it – CADSWES |
| 2:15 – 2:25 |
Lower Colorado River Authority water rights model structure comparison without and with the new solver function – Kevin Wheeler (Hydrosphere Resource Consultants) |
| 2:25 – 2:40 |
Application of the Water Rights Allocation solver: Lower Neches Valley Authority water rights model – Brad Vickers (Wave Engineering) |
| 2:40 – 2:50 |
Questions, suggestions and expressions of need for water accounting capabilities - All |
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| 2:50 – 3:10 |
BREAK– Snacks and drinks provided |
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| 3:10 – 3:30 |
Advances in Rulebased Simulation and the other applications of the RPL |
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Recent and upcoming enhancements to Rulebased Simulation modeling capabilities and other RPL applications such as Expression Slots – CADSWES |
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Questions/suggestions/needs for rulebased simulation and other RPL capabilities – All |
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| 3:30 – 4:15 |
Multiple Run Management (MRM) and the Graphical Policy Analysis Tool (GPAT) |
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Overview of capabilities of MRM, including new RPL-controlled MRM. Discussion of future further enhancements. Overview of GPAT and how to use GPAT with RiverWare’s MRM output for risk-based comparison and analysis of operating policies – CADSWES |
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Questions/suggestions/needs for MRM capabilities and risk-based analysis – All |
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New and Evolving Applications of RiverWare: Part II |
| 4:15 – 4:30 |
An Overview of the Tarrant Regional Water District Water Supply Reliability and Drought Response Planning Studies - John Carron (Hydrosphere Resource Consultants, Inc.), Laura Blaylock (Tarrant Regional Water District), Steve Setzer and Kevin Wheeler (Hydrosphere Resource Consultants, Inc.) |
| 4:30 - 4:45 |
Modeling San Juan-Chama Project Water with the Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model (URGWOM) - Craig Boroughs (B&H Engineering) |
| 4:45 - 5:00 |
Development of a Daily Operations Model for El Dorado Irrigation District – Steve Setzer and John Carron (Hydrosphere Resource Consultants), Melissa Gunter (El Dorado Irrigation District) |
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| Evening Starting ~6:30 |
Group dinner (optional - not hosted). Location to be announced. |
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Wednesday
- February 7, 2007 |
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| 7:30 - 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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Modeling Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions with RiverWare |
8:00 – 8:45 |
Two new approaches to modeling groundwater – surface water interactions with RiverWare: use of a network of groundwater objects and an interactive RiverWare-MODFLOW link - CADSWES |
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New and Evolving Applications of RiverWare: Part III |
| 8:45 – 9:00 |
Simulation of Surface water / Groundwater interaction in the Middle Rio Grande Basin – Mike Roark (USGS - Albuquerque), Nabil Shafike and Mike Gabora (New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission) |
9:00 – 9:15 |
Evaluation of the Hydrologic Component of the 2003 Biological Opinion and Other Alternatives Using URGWOM – Nabil Shafike (New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission), Marc Sidlow and Donald Gallegos (USACE - Albuquerque District) |
| 9:15 - 9:30 |
Development of RiverWare model for flood control planning for the Lower Rio Grande – Sue Tillery (University of New Mexico), Zhuping Sheng (Texas A&M University at El Paso), Phil King (New Mexico State University) |
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| 9:30 – 10:00 |
BREAK– Snacks and drinks provided |
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COE Flood Control, Hydropower and Conservation Operations Modeling |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
COE Southwest Division modeling and long-term objectives for RiverWare R&D; update of integration of RiverWare into the Corps Water Management System – Jerry Cotter (USACE - Ft. Worth District) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Overview of multi-objective modeling for flood control, conservation operations, environmental flows, and hydropower in RiverWare using modeling capabilities developed by COE (available to all users) and ancillary development, including statistical slots - CADSWES |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Lake Kemp Reallocation Study with RiverWare – John Daylor (USACE -Tulsa District) |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Direct Data Connections |
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Description and demo of direct data connections from RiverWare to DSS; Overview of design for ongoing development of direct data connections to HDB/Oracle – CADSWES |
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Questions/suggestions/needs for direct data connection capabilities – All
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| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Software Development and Maintenance, Releases and Tech Transfer |
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Overview of CADSWES software development processes and standards, software maintenance, User Support procedures, Release Processes, Bug Tracking, Training Schedules – CADSWES |
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Questions/suggestions/needs – All |
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