CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System Symposium
Agenda, March 7-9, 2005
Commons Building, Pickle Research Campus, University of Texas at Austin
Monday March 7 Room 1.102
Session 1: 8:30-10AM Introduction to the Project
8:30-9 Welcome to the University of Texas and the Symposium David Maidment, Director, Center for Research in Water Resources Welcome to CUAHSI – Rick Hooper, CUASHI and Wendy Graham, University of Florida
9 – 10 Overview of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System – David Maidment, University of Texas 10-10:30 Break
10: 30 – 12 noon Description of HIS Components Room 1.102
Hydrologic Digital Library – John Helly, San Diego Supercomputer Center Hydrologic Metadata – Michael Piasecki, Drexel University Modelshed and Remote Sensing – Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
12 – 1 Lunch provided at the Commons Building Atrium
1 – 3PM Demonstration of HIS Room 1.102
Hydrologic Digital Library John Helly, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Hydrologic Observations Database David Maidment, University of Texas
Digital Watershed, Hydrologic Fluxes and Flows Venkatesh Merwade, Jon Goodall, Gil Strassberg University of Texas Integration of Remote Sensing using Modelshed Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois
3 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5PM Discussion and feedback from the project collaborators and conference participants
7:00 pm Dinner at Baby Acapulco’s 9505 Stonelake Blvd. Ste B Located just north of the Embassy Suites on Stonelake Drive Tuesday March 8
Session 1: 8:30-10AM Assessment of User Needs Room 1.102
Summary of User Needs – Chunmaio Zheng, University of Alabama, David Tarboton, Utah State University
Profiles of User Needs at particular institutions David Tarboton, Utah StateUniversity Xu Liang, University of California Berkeley Yao Liang, Virginia Tech
Hydrologic Information Needs for Aquatic Ecology LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University
10-10:30 Break
10: 30 – 12 noon CUAHSI and Related Programs Room 1.102
NEON project (Bill Michener, Univ. of New Mexico CUAHSI Hydrologic Observatory Program - Rick Hooper, CUAHSI CUAHSI Hydrologic Synthesis Center Susan Hubbard, Deb Agarwal and Norm Miller
12 – 1 Lunch provided at the Commons Building Atrium
1 – 3PM National Data Sources Room 1.102
Space and Time in Hydrologic Information Systems - Upmanu Lall, Columbia University Climate Data (ACIS) – Bill Noon, Cornell University Atmospheric Science information – Ben Domenico, Unidata National Hydrography Dataset – Cindy McKay, Horizon Corporation
3 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Hydrologic Cyberinfrastructure Issues Room 1.102
Water resources observations – Ken Lanfear , USGS GEON Project and Geological Data Model – Randy Keller, UT El Paso Storing Hydrologic Model information – Norman Jones, BYU Groundwater modeling – David Steward, Kansas State Univ.
Wednesday March 9 8:30 – 12 Training Workshops (1) Hydrologic Digital Library – John Helly, San Diego Supercomputer Center Room 1.138 (2) Digital Watershed – Venkatesh Merwade, Jon Goodall, Gil Strassberg, David Maidment, UT- Austin Room 1.162
1 – 4:30 Training Workshops (repeat of morning sessions)