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2005
Annual RiverWare Users Group Meeting
Boulder Marriott
Preliminary Agenda |
| Tuesday
Morning, March 1, 2005 |
| 7:30 - 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast - Montrachet
Foyer |
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| 8:00 - 8:20 |
Welcome, Introductions
and Overview - Montrachet A&B
Introductions of CADSWES team and attendees, Meeting Information Steve
Setzer, CADSWES
Summary of RiverWare Applications - Edie Zagona, CADSWES |
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Policy Modeling and Analysis with
RiverWare |
| 8:20 - 8:35 |
New Features in RiverWare: Scenario Manager and
RiverWare Viewer - Brian Eyster, CADSWES |
| 8:35 - 8:55 |
The Four URGWOM Models
- Marc Sidlow USACE-Albuquerque and Mike Roark, USGS-Albuquerque |
| 8:55 - 9:05 |
URGWOM Model Acceptance and Use - Steve
Bowser and Garret Ross, BOR-Albuquerque Area;
Marc Sidlow USACE-Albuquerque; Mike Roark and Dave Wilkins (retired)
USGS-Albuquerque;
William Miller, William J. Miller Engineers, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 9:05 - 9:20 |
The Graphical Policy Analysis Tool (GPAT) Updates and Future Work
-Tim Magee and Neil Wilson, CADSWES; Dave
King, BOR-Technical Services Center |
| 9:20 - 9:40 |
Using CRSS to Explore Shortage Studies on
the Lower Colorado - Russ Callejo and Terry Fulp,
BOR-Boulder Canyon Operations |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
BREAK |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
CRSS-Lite, Model for Stakeholders on the Colorado River - Carly
Jerla, CADSWES and Terry Fulp, BOR-Boulder Canyon
Operations |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
New Features in RiverWare: RPL Analysis Tool - Brian Eyster
and Carly Jerla, CADSWES |
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Water Accounting
and Water Rights Modeling with RiverWare:
Enhancements, Designs, Techniques and Applications |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Water Accounting Enhancements and Account
Network Visualization Plan - Bill Oakley, Phil Weinstein and Kenny
Gruchalla, CADSWES |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
Update on the Lower
Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Water Supply Model - John Carron
and
Kevin Wheeler, Hydrosphere Resource Consultants, Inc.; Brad Vickers,
Wave Engineering; Ron
Anderson, Richard Brown and Kris Martinez, LCRA; Kirk Kennedy and
Bob Brandes, R.J. Brandes
Co. |
| 11:05 - 11:25 |
Techniques for modeling prioritized
water rights in RiverWare - Brad Vickers, Wave Engineering |
| 11:25 - 11:35 |
Water Accounting Training Class - A
preview - Steve Setzer, CADSWES |
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Featured RiverWare
Applications |
| 11:35 - 11:55 |
Truckee River Modeling
System - Tom Scott, Mike Mann, Jeff Rieker and Shane Coors, BOR-
Lahonton Basin Area Office |
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| 11:55 - 13:15 |
Lunch - Down Home Country Deli Buffet
(provided) |
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2005
Annual RiverWare Users Group Meeting
Boulder Marriott
Preliminary Agenda |
| Tuesday
Afternoon, March 1, 2005 |
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Featured RiverWare
Applications (continued) |
| 13:15 - 13:35 |
Capturing Non-storable
Flows on the Lower Colorado River and All-American Canal - Tony
Dubin, Brown and Caldwell, Seattle. |
| 13:35 - 13:55 |
East Bay Municipal
Utility District: Planning and Operations with RiverWare - Alejandro
Joaquin and Rey Encarnacion, East Bay Municipal Utility District,
Oakland, California |
| 13:55 - 14:15 |
Computing Natural
Flows in the Colorado River Basin - Jim Prairie, BOR - Salt Lake
City |
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Corps of Engineers
Flood Control Modeling |
| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Overview of RiverWare
R&D sponsored by the Corps of Engineers - Jerry Cotter, USACE
Ft.
Worth District |
| 14:30 - 14:50 |
Update on COE Flood
Control Methods in RiverWare - John Daylor, USACE Tulsa District |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
The Corps of Engineers
HEC integration of RiverWare into the Corps Water Management System
(CWMS) - Joan Klipsch,, USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) |
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| 15:10 - 15:30 |
BREAK - snacks and drinks provided |
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Enhancements: Engineering
Algorithms and Rule Functions |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
New and Upcoming Engineering Algorithms
- Steve Setzer and Sarah Stapleton, CADSWES |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
New and enhanced RPL functions, and
how to execute DMIs from Rulebased Simulation - Patrick Lynn, CADSWES |
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Software Development
and Maintenance, Licensing, Releases and Tech Transfer |
| 16:00 - 16:10 |
Current Licensees, Legal agreement
for licensing RiverWare, License Fees for Cost-sharing Software Maintenance,
upcoming Release and Training schedules - Edie Zagona |
| 16:10- 16:20 |
Software development processes, software
maintenance - Bill Oakley and Brian Eyster, CADSWES |
| 16:20- 16:30 |
User Support, Release Processes,
Bug Tracking - Steve Setzer, CADSWES |
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Runtime Performance
and Memory Usage |
| 16:30 - 16:40 |
Recent improvements to Runtime Performance
- Nancy Hall, CADSWES |
| 16:40 - 16:55 |
Model size issues, Service Pack 2 tuning,
Future Linux, 64-bit and other thoughts - Bill Oakley, CADSWES |
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| Evening |
Group dinner optional (not hosted)
-- Zolo Grill,
2525 Arapahoe Ave. (immediately south of the Boulder Marriott on the
north side of Arapahoe). |
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2005
Annual RiverWare Users Group Meeting
Boulder Marriott
Preliminary Agenda |
| Wednesday
Morning, March 2, 2005 |
| 7:30 - 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast - Montrachet
Foyer |
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Optimization in
RiverWare |
| 8:00 - 8:20 |
Optimizing TVA’s
Hydro System Using RiverWare - Susanne Biddle, TVA |
| 8:20 - 8:30 |
Recent enhancements to RiverWare’s
Optimization Toolbox - Tim Magee, CADSWES |
| 8:30 - 8:50 |
Stochastic Optimization - Research
and future implementation - JD Emmert, CADSWES |
| 8:50 - 9:05 |
Review of coming (this year) new Optimization/Rules
Policy Editor - Kenny Gruchalla, Tim Magee and Patrick Lynn, CADSWES |
| 9:05 - 9:15 |
CPLEX issues and need for alternative
solvers - thoughts and discussion - Tim Magee, CADSWES |
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New/Improved Features
in RiverWare |
| 9:15 - 9:30 |
Workspace migration to Qt, enhancements
and future possibilities - Kenny Gruchalla, CADSWES |
| 9:30 - 9:40 |
New Expression Slots with RPL - Patrick
Lynn and Carly Jerla, CADSWES |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
BREAK |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Mulitple Run Management and Run Control
Enhancements - Bill Oakley, CADSWES |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Planning the RiverWare interface
to DSS (Corps Data Storage System) and future directions in
DMIs and output options - Bill Oakley, CADSWES |
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Open Forum |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Reserve 5 to 10 minutes to discuss:
- your model,
- technical issues of special interest to you,
or
- your agency or company and its interest or experience
in RiverWare
(let us know if you would like to reserve some
time). |
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Discuss needs, problems and wishes
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