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| Preliminary Agenda
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Subject to change. Rooms are in parentheses. For information about the spouse and family program, click here.
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| Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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| 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm NHWC Board of Directors meeting |
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| Monday, June 3, 2013 |
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| 8:30 am - 10:30 am Registration Desk Open (Champions Foyer Registration Desk) |
9:00 am - 12:00 pm NHWC ALERT2 Technical Committee Meeting (Governor's Ballroom)
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 am ASFPM Certified Floodplain Managers (CFM) Q&A Study Session (Players B) |
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| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm LUNCH on own (see mobile app for nearby restaurants) |
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12:00 pm - 6:00 pm NHWC Best Ball Golf Scramble at Ponte Vedra Country Club Golf Course meet in hotel
lobby at 11:30 am
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12:00 pm - 6:00 pm First-ever NHWC Tennis Challenge (meet in hotel lobby at 11:30 am)
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| 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Self-Guided Tour of St. Augustine |
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6:30 pm - 7:30 pm NHWC Welcome Social (Cascade Deck) (Sponsored by Alert Users Group)
Registration Desk Open (Cascade Deck)
Chipping Green Challenge (Sponsored by Design Analysis & Associates, Inc.) |
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| 7:30 pm - till DINNER on own (see mobile app for nearby restaurants) |
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8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Hospitality Suite open (Sponsored by Hydrolynx, Inc.)
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| Tuesday, June 4, 2013 |
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| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Desk open (Champions Foyer Registration Desk) |
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| 8:00 am - 12:00 pm EXPO2013 exhibitors setup (Champions D&E) |
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8:00 am - 12:00 am WORKSHOP 1: The Future of Hydrometeorlogical Forecasts and Warnings
Lans Rothfusz, NOAA NSSL
(Champions A) |
8:00 am - 12:00 am WORKSHOP 2: Hydrologic & Hydraulic Modeling/Support using ArcGIS
Dean "Dan" Djokic, ESRI
(Champions B) |
8:00 am - 9:45 am WORKSHOP 3: Campbell Scientific ALERT, ALERT2, and Beyond
Sam Utley and Ken Conner, Campbell Scientific, Inc.
(Champions C)
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8:00 am - 9:45 am WORKSHOP 4: Hach Hydromet: Monitoring Stage and Discharge Effectively and Economically
Ronan O'Maitiu, Hach Hydromet
(Champions F)
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| 9:45 am - 10:15 am BREAK in Champions Ballroom Foyer |
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10:15 am - 12:00 pm WORKSHOP 5: Innovyze vendor training
Kendric Szana, Innovyze
(Champions C) |
10:15 am - 12:00 pm WORKSHOP 6: HydroLynx: How to upgrade your HydroLynx transmitter to use the ALERT2 protocol
Kim Blair and David Leader, HydroLynx
(Champions F) |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm LUNCH on your own |
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| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm EXPO2013 opens! (Champions D & E) |
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm WORKSHOP 7: High Sierra Electronics vendor training
Sue Swenor, High Sierra Electronics, Inc.
(Champions A) |
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP 8: NESDIS STIWG webinar
(Champions B) |
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP 9: USGS Flood Frequency Techniques
Robert Mason, U.S. Geological Survey
(Champions C) |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm WORKSHOP 10: Design Analysis vendor training
Gary Baker, Design Analysis & Associates
(Champions F) |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm ASFPM CFM examination (Champions G) |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm BREAK in EXPO2013 Hall (Champions D & E) |
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP 11: OneRain vendor training
Mike Zucosky, OneRain, Inc.
(Champions A) |
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP 12: FTS Environmental vendor training
Eric Embacher, FTS Environmental, Inc.
(Champions F) |
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6:00 pm - 9:00 pm NHWC Tuesday Night Dinner and Networking Event (Sponsored by YSI)
(meal provided additional to registration fee)
Board buses starting at 5:30 pm at Champions Foyer near Registration Desk |
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| 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Hospitality Suite open (Sponsored by Hydrolynx, Inc.) |
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| Wednesday, June 5, 2013 |
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7:00 am - 4:30 pm Registration Desk open (Champions Foyer Registration Desk) |
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| 7:00 am - 8:00 am Refreshments in EXPO2013 hall (Champions D & E) |
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8:00 am - 4:30 pm EXPO2013 open (Champions D & E)
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| 8:00 am -10:00 am General Session 1 (Champions A-C) |
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Welcome - Dr. David Curtis, NHWC President
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Mr. Roy Wright
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Deputy Director, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration
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"Climate Risk Management at local level"
Dr. Debra Hemming
United Kingdom Office of Meteorology
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| 10:00 am - 10:30 am BREAK in EXPO2013 Hall (Champions D&E) |
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| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm General Session 2 (Champions A-C) |
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Mr. Robert Mason
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Acting Director, Office of Surface Water |
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"Communicating Across Flood & Drought"
Sonia Harvat
City of Nashville, Tennessee
Public Information Officer |
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm LUNCH (meal included with registration fee)
(Masters A-D)
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 1: First Line of Defense-Planning and Preparations
(Champions A) Moderator: Marie Peppler |
"North Carolina Inundation Mapping: It's What's Inside that Counts"
David Herlong, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
"Not Your Average Risk Assessment: Multi-Stage Risk Assessments for 21 Sites
in the Passaic River Basin"
Stuart Geiger, Dewberry, Inc. |
"Effectiveness of Warnings for Hydrologic Events"
Will Lehman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 2: Boots on the Ground-Field Techniques
(Champions B) Moderator: Mike Griffin |
"Advanced Flood Warning Systems"
Frank Gutierrez, High Sierra Electronics, Inc. |
"An Efficient and Effective System for Bathymetric Surveys"
David Velasco, Sontek, Inc. |
"Nogales, Sonora Flood Warning and Modeling Network"
Floyd Gray, U.S. Geological Survey |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 3: Policy, Practices and Operations: Addressing Specific
Flooding Challenges in Florida and Coastal Southeast United States
(Champions G) Moderator: Glenn Austin |
"Implementation of NFIP in Florida Communities: Mitigation Planning, Grants,
and the SilverJackets Program"
Joy Duperault, NFIP Coordinator for Florida |
"CRS Flood Warning Credits-Revisions for Flood Warning Systems"
Al Goodman, AWG Consulting & David Curtis, WEST Consultants, Inc. |
"Putting it Together: Building the Bridge between Flood Plain Management,
Emergency Management, and Flood Warning Systems Operators"
Eugene Henry, Hillsborough County |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 4: Partnerships-Communications & Outreach
(Champions F) Moderator: Brad Heilwagen |
"Overcoming Limitations - Successfully Communicating Risk in a Rural State"
Lesly Durham, Alabama Department of Economic & Community Affairs |
"Growing Trends in Social Media and Flood Warning Information
Dissemination"
Mike Zucosky, OneRain, Inc. and Jim Moffitt, Gnip, Inc. |
"From Maps to Actions: Experiences from "Superstorm" Sandy in
Communicating Uncertainty in Risk"
Mariana Leckner, Leckner Consulting |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 5: Southeast US Drought Workshop, Part I
(Champions C) Moderator: Ed Clark |
"Extreme Drought: Summary of Hydrologic Conditions in Georgia, 2011"
Andrew Knaak, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Georgia in the 21st Century: A Tale of Three Droughts and Their Impact on the State"
Pam Knox, University of Georgia |
"Networks and Partnerships: The Role of Social Capital in Early Warning and
Drought Risk Reduction Strategies"
Chad McNutt, NOAA NIDIS |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm BREAK in EXPO2013 Hall (Champions D&E) |
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3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 6: First Line of Defense-Planning & Preparations: Warning
Systems (Champions A) Moderator: Mariana Leckner |
"Upgrading the Chehalis River Basin Flood Warning System"
David Curtis, WEST Consultants, Inc. |
"The Colorado Flood Threat Bulletin Program -- Identifying Flood Hazard Days
Before They Happen"
John Henz, Dewberry, Inc. |
"Evaluation of Radar-based Flood Warning System (Texas Medical Center)
in 2012"
Nick Fang & Phillip Bedient, Rice University |
"Planning for the Probable and the Improbable"
Andrew Rooke, AMR Consulting |
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 7: Boots on the Ground-Field Techniques
(Champions B) Moderator: Andrew Ebner |
"The Importance of the High-Water Mark"
Andrew Knaak, U.S. Geological Survey |
"A New Procedure for Disaster Response of Major Flood Events: The Collection
and Mapping of High Water Marks"
Mike Griffin, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Real-Time Flood Forecasting Inundation Mapping for Nashville Tributaries"
Brad Heilwagen, AMEC, Inc. & Bill Charlie, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
"USGS Streamflow Program in Florida"
Richard Kane, U.S. Geological Survey |
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 8: Storm Stories-Lessons Learned
(Champions C) Moderator: George Wilkins |
"Examining the Behavior of Storm Surge from Hurricane Ike and
Other Modeled Events"
Antonia Sebastian, Rice University |
"Tropical Storm Irene Data for Coastal and Riverine Areas of Southern
New England"
Gardner Bent, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Hurricane Irene Rainfall Analysis-Bringing Back the Bucket Survey"
Bill Kappel, Applied Weather Associates |
"Past Flood Events: Learning From the Past to Ensure a Resilient Future"
Rich Gilroy & Sara Rassi, FloodSmart |
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 9: Partnerships-Communications & Outreach
(Champions F) Moderator: Chris Crompton |
"30 Years of ALERT System Operation in Orange County, California--Key
Milestones and Lessons Learned"
Chris Crompton, County of Orange |
"ARkStorm Hydrology Models in Ventura County"
Bruce Rindahl, Ventura County Watershed Protection District |
"Water Resources Forecasting in the Western U.S."
Rob Hartman, National Weather Service |
"Real Time Simulation Modeling"
Sam Crampton, Dewberry, Inc. |
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 10: Field Training-Flood Warning Systems & ALERT2
(Champions G) Moderator: Ben Pratt |
"Specialized Tools and Techniques for Maintaining a Flood Warning System"
Ron Marotto, Ventura County Watershed Protection District |
"Simulated Desert Stream Deployment of Pressure Transducers: Impacts of
Extreme Diurnal Shifts on Response of Water Level Measurements"
Dr. Barbara Utley, Cambell Scientific, Inc. |
"Tipping Bucket Calibration Issues"
David Haynes, Distinctive AFWS Designs, Inc. |
"Managing ALERT2: Tracking Owners and IDs"
James Logan, OneRain, Inc. |
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| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Vendor Reception in EXPO2013 Hall (Champions D & E) |
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| 7:30 pm - till DINNER on your own (see mobile app for nearby attractions) |
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| 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Hospitality Suite open (Sponsored by Hydrolynx, Inc.) |
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| Thursday, June 6, 2013 |
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| 7:00 am - 8:00 am Refreshments served in EXPO2013 Hall (Champions D & E) |
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7:00 am - 11:00 am EXPO2013 open (Champions D & E)
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8:00 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Session 11: Boots on the Ground-Flood Inundation Mapping
(Champions A) Moderator: Stu Geiger |
"IWRSS Flood Inundation Mapping: Plans for a Collaborative Future"
Marie Peppler, U.S. Geological Survey |
"USACE Modeling, Mapping & Consequence Center-How Can You Use Our
Inundation Mapping Products"
Edward Stowasser, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
"Development of Flood-Inundation Map Libraries for Indiana Communities:
Partnerships at Work"
Moon Kim, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Techniques used to verify flood inundation maps"
Anthony Gotvald, National Weather Service |
8:00 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Session 12: Partnerships-Communications & Outreach
(Champions B) Moderator: Ben Pratt |
"How Data Streaming Improves Flood Risk"
Alan Lulloff, ASFPM |
"Nashville SAFE: Building Partnerships for a Community-Wide
Flood Warning System"
Brad Heilwagen, AMEC, Inc. |
"Hydro-meteorological, River Ice and Snow Data Collection in the
Upper Ohio River Basin--A Collaboration Between the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers and the National Weather Service"
Werner Loehlien, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers |
"Facilitating River Forecast Expansion in the Upper American River/Collaborative
Modeling Efforts to Improve Hydropower Generation and Flood Forecasts in the
American River Basin"
David Curtis, WEST Consultants, Inc. and Rob Hartman, NOAA NWS |
8:00 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Session 13: Storm Stories-Lessons Learned Since NHWC 2011
in San Diego
(Champions C) Moderator: Brian McCallum |
"Hydrologic Effects of Tropical Storm Debby"
Kevin Grimsley, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Australian Floods 2011-12"
Jeff Perkins, Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
"Data for Emergency Management and Decision Making: A Look at Streamflow
and Its Inherent Uncertainty During the 2011 Floods"
Robert Holmes, U.S. Geological Survey
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"USGS Field Response to 2011 Records Flooding in Missouri"
Shane Barks, U.S. Geological Survey
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8:00 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Session 14: Cutting Edge Research-ALERT2
(Champions F) Moderator: Don Van Wie, Chair |
"ALERT2 Panel Discussion and Workshop"
NHWC Technical Working Group |
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| 10:00 am - 10:30 am BREAK in EXPO2013 Hall (Champions D & E) |
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Session 15: First Line of Defense-Planning & Preparations:
Warning Systems
(Champions A) Moderator: Kevin Stewart |
"High Resolution Flood Simulation Informs the Planning Process"
Baxter Vieux, Vieux & Associates, Inc. |
"Building High Availability into Your Flood Warning System"
Brian Iserman, JE Fuller, Inc. |
"Problems and Solutions in Real-Time Streamflow Forecasting"
Adam Schneider, David Ford Consulting |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Session 16: Cutting Edge Research
(Champions B) Moderator: John Joiner |
"Multi-path Use of ALERT Repeaters"
David Leader, HydroLynx, Inc. |
"Cool-Season PMP/PMF Meteorological Time Series for Snow Melt Calculations"
Bill Kappel, Applied Weather Associates |
"Taking Advantage of TDMA in ALERT2 Systems"
Don Van Wie, Telos Services |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Session 17: Boots on the Ground-Response & Recovery
(Champions C) Moderator: Lori Armstrong
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"USGS Monitoring of Storm-Tide for Hurricanes Irene, Isaac, and
Sandy, 2011-2012"
Brian McCallum, U.S. Geological Survey |
"High-Water Mark Recovery After the Storm: Lessons Learned from
Hurrican Sandy along the New Jersey Shore"
Andrew Ebner, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Mitigation In Action- Post Sandy Advisory Flood Data Development and
Dissemination"
Paul Weberg, PE, Federal Emergency Management Agency Region II
Stuart Geiger, Dewberry, Inc. |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Session 18: Florida Coastal Flooding Workshop
(Champions F) Moderator: Ed Clark |
"Surface Runoff Modeling at the Lower St. Johns River Basin during
the Tropical Storm Fay based on Curve Number Method"
Dingbao Wang, University of North Florida |
"Evaluating Baseflow Contribution to Floods during Tropical Storm
Fay at the Lower St. Johns River Basin"
Dingbao Wang, University of North Florida |
"Coupled Hydrologic-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Watershed Runoff,
Storm Surge, Tides and Sea Level Rise in Florida's Lower St. Johns
River (Tropical Storm Fay)"
Peter Bacopoulos, University of North Florida |
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm LUNCH with Guest Speaker (meal provided with registration fee)
(Masters A-D) |
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Dr. Rick Knabb
NOAA-National Weather Service
Director, National Hurricane Center
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| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm NHWC Annual Meeting |
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1:30 pm - 2:00 pm EXPO2013 Last Blast! with Door Prize Drawing
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Session 19: Boots on the Ground-Response & Recovery
(Champions A) Moderator: Stu Geiger |
"Creating a More Robust ALERT Communication System: Using
Handheld Radios"
Corey Helton, JE Fuller, Inc. |
"Building Enhanced Situational Awareness and Public Data
Dissemination into Yavapai County's Flood Detection Program"
Brian Iserman, JE Fuller, Inc. |
"West Creek Flood Response Plan -- Saving Lives in a Colorado
Fire-Burn Recreational Basin"
John Henz, Dewberry, Inc |
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Session 20: Southeast US Drought Workshop, Part II
(Champions B) Moderator: Andrew Rooke |
"Launching an Enhanced Drought Risk Atlas: Decision Support for
Drought Risk Management"
Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center |
"Where Did Lake Brooklyn Go?"
Peter Singhofen, Streamline Technologies |
"Development of Community Water Deficit Index (CWDI) for Small to
Mid-size Communities of the Southeastern United States"
Keith Ingram, University of Florida |
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Session 21: Storm Stories-Lessons Learned
(Champions C) Moderator: David Haynes |
"Historic Coastal Flooding Produced by Hurricane Sandy in Southeastern
New York"
Christopher Schubert, U.S. Geological Survey |
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"The Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) Project"
Kodi Monro, NOAA-NSSL |
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Session 22: Training-New Techniques for Hydrologists
(Champions F) Moderator: Marie Peppler |
"Collection and Integration of Survey Data for Inundation Mapping in
Indiana"
Moon Kim, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Estimating the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods In California"
Anthony Gotvald, U.S. Geological Survey |
"USACE MMC Dam Failure Modeling - LiDAR vs USGS DEM - Is Better
the Enemy of Good Enough?"
Edward Stowasser, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm BREAK in Champions Foyer |
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3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Concurrent Session 23: Partnerships: Communications & Outreach
(Champions A) Moderator: Keith Ingram |
"Real-time Acquisition, Consolidation and Quality Control of 1-hour Rain
Gauge Data"
Tye Parzybok, Metstat, Inc.
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"Real-Time Emergency Notifications for Small, Remote Dams - Innovative
Designs and Unique Partnerships"
Lex Kamstra, Bureau of Reclamation
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"The FEMA Community Rating System: Flood Warning and Response Needs
and Responsibilities"
Al Goodman, AWG Consulting |
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Concurrent Session 24: Cutting Edge Research
(Champions B) Moderator: Brian McCallum
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"Extending Flash Flood Lead-Time"
Baxter Vieux, Vieux & Associates, Inc. |
"Transitioning Flash Flood Warings from Meterological based to Hydrologic based
decision support systems"
Edward Clark, NOAA National Weather Service
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"Remote Erosion Monitoring Systems"
Tom Ogden, High Sierra Electronics, Inc. |
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Concurrent Session 25: Cutting Edge Research
(Champions C) Moderator: Joshua McSwain
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"Debris Flood at Valle del Sol, Mendoza, Argentina"
Ignacio "Pedro" Hernandez, CONICET, Argentina
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"Using NOAA Atlas-14 Data as an Additional Guidance Source in the Flash Flood
Monitoring and Prediction (FFMP) System for Assessing the Recurrence Interval
of Heavy Rainfall Events"
Mike McClane, National Weather Service |
"Evaluation of the NSSL-WRF Model in an Operational Colorado Flood Threat
Prediction Program"
John Henz, Dewberry, Inc.
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3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Concurrent Session 26: Boots on the Ground-Response & Recovery
(Champions F) Moderator: Dave Curtis
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"Australian Bureau of Meteorology - Next Generation Flood Systems-
Enabling Agility and High Availability"
Robert Thompson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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"Update on USACE Reachback Experiences in Providing Support for
International Hydrologic Emergencies"
Mark Jourdan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
"Redundancy and Completeness with Telecommunications"
Ilse Gayl, OneRain, Inc.
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6:30 pm - 9:00 pm NHWC Awards Banquet with Grand Prize Drawing (meal included with registration fee)
(Island Green Pavilion) |
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| 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Hospitality Suite open (Sponsored by Hydrolynx, Inc.) |
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| We can't wait to see you in 2013! |
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