RiverWare User Group Meetings

2019 RiverWare User Group Meeting

NCAR/UCAR Center Green Campus Auditorium
Wednesday, August 28, 8am–5pm
Thursday, August 29, 8am–Noon

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Agenda (PDF for printing may be downloaded HERE)

Wednesday August 28, 2019


7:30 – 8:00	Registration, Check-in, and Continental Breakfast


8:00 – 8:20	Welcome, Introductions, and Logistics
8:20 – 8:35	RiverWare News and Updates—CADSWES
8:35 – 9:00	New Features: Model Comparison, Windowing and Workspace, Browser-based Online Help—CADSWES


9:00 – 9:20	Colorado River Salinity Modeling for Minute No. 242 Salinity Differential Steve Setzer, Taylor Adams—Hydros Consulting; Bureau of Reclamation, Yuma Area Office
9:20 – 9:40	Using RiverWare to Analyze the Impacts of High Frequency versus Low Frequency Climate Change Hydrology Sequences in the Truckee Carson Basin Shane Coors—Precision Water Resources Engineering
9:40 – 10:00	RiverWare on the Snake River Plain Timothy J Brewer, PE, D.WRE—Idaho Power


10:00 – 10:30	Break and Networking


10:30 – 10:40	Scripts, Accounting and Performance Improvements—CADSWES


10:40 – 11:05	Arkansas Basin RiverWare Model – Putting RW's Flexibility to the Test with Complex Water Rights & Subaccounting AND An Application to Support Pueblo Water's Water Rights Change Cases Todd Vandergrift—Precision Water Resources Engineering; Emily Logan—Pueblo Water
11:05 – 11:25	Tacoma Water's Yield, Supply and demand Model for Analyzing reliability of the water supply system Ted Shannon—HDR Engineering, Glen George—Tacoma Water, Jason Moline—Tacoma Water
11:25 – 11:45	Developing new operating policies in Tarrant Regional Water District model, and integration with hydraulics and cost optimization models Laura Blaylock—Tarrant Regional Water District, and Nick Mander—Hydros Consulting Inc.


11:45 – 12:00	RiverWISE for Stakeholder Engagement—CADSWES


12:00 – 1:30	Lunch - Provided


1:30 – 1:50	RiverSMART, Cloud Computing, Excel DMI—CADSWES


1:50 – 2:10	Applying RiverSMART to Automate Model Development Testing for the Colorado River Basin Mid-term Operations Model Sarah Baker, Alan Butler, Shana Tighi, Alexander Pivarnik, Balaji Ramakrishnan, Conor Felletter, Genevieve Allan, Heather Patno, Beau Uriona, Nathaniel Todea—Bureau of Reclamation UC & LC
2:10 – 2:30	Lessons learned while implementing an Operations Model of the Klamath Project Marketa McGuire, Dan Broman—Bureau of Reclamation TSC; Jason Cameron, Dave Felstul, Baker McDonald—Bureau of Reclamation KBAO; David Neumann, Edith Zagona, Mitchell Frischmeyer—CADSWES
2:30 – 2:50	Using a RiverWare model to improve reservoir operations in three easy steps Jordan S. Lanini—Bureau of Reclamation


2:50 – 3:05	Borg-RiverWare MOEA—CADSWES


3:05 – 3:25	Break and Networking


3:25 – 3:45	New DMI Development to Support Exploration of Many Objective Robust Decision Making Applications in the Colorado River Basin Rebecca Smith, Jessie Khaya—Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region
3:45 – 4:05	Smart Searching for Practical Cooperative Management of the Nile Kevin Wheeler—University of Oxford


4:05 – 4:30	New Physical Process Modeling Features: Deep Aquifer Modeling; 5, 15-min timesteps; Flow/Volume Display; Plotting, Output Canvas; RPL Enhancements—CADSWES
4:30 – 5:00	Training, Licensing, Issue-Tracking, Releases, Software Maintenance—CADSWES


5:30 - 7:00	Our happy hour will be on the patio at Roadhouse Boulder Depot. CADSWES will provide light appetizers.

Thursday August 29, 2019


7:30 – 8:00	Continental Breakfast


8:00 – 8:20	Overview of RiverWare Hydropower Optimization—CADSWES


8:20 – 8:45	TVA River Management Overview and RiverWare Integration Melissa Lindquist, Gabriel Miller—Tennessee Valley Authority
8:45 - 9:10	Combining Optimization and Rulebased Simulation to Guide Grant County PUD Hydropower Operations Mike Frantz—Grant County PUD; Mitch Clement, Tim Magee—CADSWES
9:10 – 9:35	Optimizing Flex Spill on the Columbia River for BPA Short Term Planning Shane Mosier, Anna Stermer, John McCoskery—Bonneville Power Administration; Mitch Clement, Tim Magee—CADSWES


9:35 – 9:55	Integration with USACE CWMS, RTS, WAT; Deltares FEWS—CADSWES


9:55 – 10:15	Break and Networking


10:15 – 10:35	Using Ensembles to Make Objective Releases Decisions on Lake Tahoe Caleb Erkman—Precision Water Resources Engineering
10:35 – 10:55	Probabilistic Flood Hazard Analysis using RiverWare Noah Friesen, Shaun Carney, Zelalem Mekonnen—RTI International


10:55 – 11:15	Upcoming Features and Enhancements—CADSWES
11:15 – 12:00	Feedback from Users and Open Mic—CADSWES


12:00	Adjourn

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