2018 RiverWare User Group Meeting NCAR/UCAR Center Green Campus Auditorium   Thursday, February 1, 8am–5pm   Friday, February 2, 8am–Noon Important Links General Information  Registration and Fees  Lodging Agenda  Attendee List  Maps Agenda   Thursday February 1, 2018 7:30-8:00 Registration, check-in and continental breakfast 8:00–8:20 Welcome, Introductions, Logistics and RiverWare News & Updates—CADSWES 8:20–8:50 Demos of New Features: RiverWare Interactive Scenario Explorer (RiverWISE)—CADSWES  Object, Slot and RPL Viewers—CADSWES 8:50–9:10 Predictive Modeling and Improved Water Management in the Upper Rio Grande    Jesse Roach—Tetra Tech Inc.; Marc Sidlow and Nabil Shafike—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,    Albuquerque District 9:10–9:40 Implementing a Modern Reservoir Operations Modeling System in Reclamation’s Great Plains Region    Patrick Erger, Jordan Lanini and Dale Lentz—Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains Regional Office 9:40–10:00 The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project RiverWare Model    Todd Vandegrift—Precision Water Resources Engineering 10:00-10:20 Break 10:20–10:40 Evaluation of Surface Water Sources for Domestic Supply in the Fresnillo - Guadalupe Industrial Complex    Dr. Ángel Alfonso Villalobos de Alba, Dra. Alba Nélida García Beltrán, and M.I. Hansell Omar López    Cazares—Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas 10:40–11:00 New Features: Slot Sets, Text Series Slots, Output Canvas enhancements—CADSWES 11:00–11:10 Optimization Updates—CADSWES 11:10–11:40 Improving Hydro Stakeholder Value    Gregory D. Mueller—Tennessee Valley Authority 11:40–12:00 Operational Scheduling on the Columbia River    Anna Stermer—Bonneville Power Administration 12:00-1:20 Lunch (provided) 1:20–1:40 Climate Change, Extremes—A Case for RiverWare    Jerry Cotter—USACE, Southwestern Division, Fort Worth District 1:40–1:45 Integration of RiverWare in the Corps Water Management System (CWMS)—CADSWES 1:45–2:05 Real-time, Real-world Operations: A RiverWare Application of the White River in the Corps Water Management System (CWMS)    Jennifer Short—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District 2:05–2:25 Updating the Lower Red River Period of Record      Mary Ann Duke and Sarah Harris—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District 2:25–2:45 First Steps Towards a Multi-Objective Optimization of Meeting Water Supply Demands and Hydropower Generation for Sam Rayburn Reservoir      Noah Friesen, Jonathan Quebbeman, Abby Watson and Jay Day—RTI International; Allen Avance—U.S.    Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District 2:45–3:00 New Features: RPL Set Comparison Tool and RPL Element Numbering—CADSWES 3:00-3:20 Break 3:20–3:40 Quantifying and evaluating the sensitivity of water-energy-food nexus to cooperation in transboundary river basins: The Blue Nile Basin    Mohammed Basheer—ITT  Köln, Germany, Kevin G. Wheeler—Oxford University, Lars Ribbe—ITT Köln,    Mohammad Majdalawi—University of Jordan, Gamal Abdo—University of Khartoum, and Edith A.    Zagona—CADSWES 3:40–4:00 Integration of RiverWare into a Collaborative Modeling Framework to Support Climate Change Impacts Analysis    Shane Coors and Linnet Jose—Precision Water Resoures Engineering 4:00–4:25 Operator and Modeler Collaboration on Truckee-Carson River Operations Using Ensembles    David Wathen—Deputy TROA Administrator, and Caleb Erkman—Precision Water Resources Engineering 4:25–5:00 Enhancements to Scripting, Plotting, SCT and Workspace—CADSWES; Upcoming Documentation Changes; Software Maintenance and Upcoming Changes to Bug Tracking Tools—CADSWES Evening Social Happy Hour Event at TBD. Friday February 2, 2018 7:30-8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00–8:20 A Stated Preference Modelling Approach for Eastern Nile Water Resources Management in Case of Conflicting Interests using RiverWare    Yilma Seleshi—University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 8:20–8:45 Modeling to Support Minute 323 and Transboundary Cooperative Measures for Management of the Colorado River    Alan Butler, James Prairie, Dan Bunk, and Ken Nowak—Bureau of Reclamation 8:45–8:55 RiverWare–BORG Wrapper for Multi-objective Simulation-based Optimization—CADSWES 8:55–9:15 Using Multi-Objective Optimization to Explore Operating Policies in the Colorado River Basin    Elliot Alexander—Bureau of Reclamation; Joseph Kasprzyk and Edith Zagona—University of Colorado;    James Prairie, Carly Jerla and Alan Butler—Bureau of Reclamation 9:15–9:35 Coupling RiverWare and StateMod for Simulating Water Banking in the Colorado River Basin    Taylor Adams and John Carron—Hydros Consulting, Inc. 9:35–9:50 RiverSMART Updates—CADSWES Interactive Web Maps—CADSWES 9:50-10:20 Break 10:20–10:40 A RiverSMART Testbed to Analyze Colorado River Streamflow Forecasts and Operational Projections    Sarah Baker, Jim Prairie, Carly Jerla and Alan Butler—Bureau of Reclamation;  Andy Wood—NOAA;    Edie Zagona and Balaji Rajagopalan—University of Colorado 10:40–11:00 Challenges Regarding Hourly Routing for Operations Models    Steve Setzer—Hydros Consulting Inc.; Water Operations—Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma Area Office 11:00–12:00 Open Mic—CADSWES and All ☼ CADSWES.colorado.edu ☼ Last edited March 2, 2018 ☼