Rolla Water Resources Luncheon Series

Rolla Water Resources Luncheon Series Schedule

• September 24, 2009,  The 100-Year Flood: What Is It and Why Have We Had Two In Fifteen Years?
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• November 5, 2009,  Development of Dam Breach Inundation Studies Using Advanced Remote Sensing—LiDAR for Emergency Action Planning
  • Attendees
• January 21, 2010,  Summary of the Evolution of Stormwater Regulations
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• March 18, 2010,  Modeling Impacts of Conventional and Low Impact Stormwater Controls on Receiving Streams
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• May 6, 2010,  Gage Data on the Mississippi River—A Long Look Back in Time
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• September 16, 2010,  Hydraulics of Willow Branch Stormwater Improvements—Analysis, Modeling, and Design of an Urban Stormwater System
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• October 21, 2010,  Hydropower Contributions to Mass Wasting Problem for the Osage River Below Bagnell Dam, Missouri
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• November 18, 2010,  E-Coli Monitoring At Lake of the Ozarks
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• December 9, 2010,  Water Resources in China
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• January 20, 2011,  Top 10 Meteorological and Hydrologic Events of 2009
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• February 17, 2011,  The Value of Protecting Ozark Streams
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• March 17, 2011,  Urich Log Jam Removal
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• April 19, 2011,  Wellsprings: A Natural History of Bottled Spring Waters
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• April 20, 2011   Assessing Vulnerability of Groundwater Systems to Contamination: Geochemical & Modeling Approaches
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• May 12, 2011,  Cancelled—Flooding
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• September 15, 2011,  Use of SPARROW Models to Determine the Spatial Distribution and Sources of Nutrients in Streams throughout the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins
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• September 16, 2011,  The Role of Science in the Long-term Rehabilitation of Delavan Lake
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• October 27, 2011,  Application of Watershed Disturbance Models to Predict and Assess Biological Integrity of Stream Ecosystems
• September 27, 2012, Groundwater Misconceptions, General Missouri Groundwater, and Impacts of the 2012 Drought in Missouri
• October 25, 2012, Underwater Mapping and Imagery—Defying Death on the Mexican Border and Other Cool stuff we’ve seen and done with a Multibeam Echo Sounder

PDH Participation Form

• 2009—2010 PDH Participation Form
• 2010—2011 PDH Participation Form
• 2011—2012 PDH Participation Form
• 2012—2013 PDH Participation Form

Background:

During a 14-year stay in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, I was an active participant in a group called the Champaign-Urbana Hydraulic Engineering Luncheon Series, which had been operating since 1954. The Hydraulic Engineering Luncheon Series was a non-dues, informal group that met monthly from September through May (to follow the University calendar) for the purpose of listening to a water-related seminar over lunch. The only requirement for membership was to show up for a luncheon.

The Hydraulic Engineering Luncheon Series was a very successful integration of private, public, and academic professionals (and students) in the water area, providing a forum for technical exchange of ideas and networking among professionals of like interest. The seminars ranged for academic presentations of cutting-edge research findings to practical applications of hydrologic and hydraulic design theory. The group was headed by the “Water Master” whose chief duty was to arrange for the monthly speakers and open and close the meeting. I served as the Water Master of this group from 2000 to 2005.

Given the valuable professional interactions, networking, and technical transfer offered by this kind of venue, I have met with Charles Patterson (Allgeier, Martin and Associates), Cesar Mendoza (Missouri University of Science and Technology), and Shane Barks (U.S. Geological Survey) and we have decided to test a similar endeavor here in Rolla. For the 2009-2010 school year, we will hold bimonthly meetings of what we are tentatively calling the Rolla Water Resources Luncheon Series, with the first one being September 24, 2009 at the U.S. Geological Survey, 1400 Independence Drive. If the seminars are well received and attended, we plan to continue this effort in future years and may even consider monthly meetings depending on colleague interest and speaker availability.

Please pass this information to anyone that you think will have interest in this activity. Anyone who would like to be added to the email notification should send an email to bholmes@usgs.gov.

Robert R. Holmes, Jr., PhD, P.E., D.WRE,

U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Surface Water

573-308-3581