The final conference program will be determined by the content of submitted and accepted abstracts. A CD-ROM Conference Proceedings of reviewed papers and abstracts will be produced. The following list of topics is provided to encourage potential conference participants to consider the full extent of multidisciplinary topics dealing with GIS and water resources; it is by no means all-inclusive. Interested persons are encouraged to submit abstracts of their work, which addresses these or other relevant topics: 

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• Spatial variability
• NEXRAD
• Numerical weather forecasting
• Other

• Moisture accounting and remote sensing
• Integration with land surface
• Other

• Flood inundation mapping
• Base map development
• FEMA map modernization
• DFIRM specifications
• Enhanced DFIRMs – FIRM beyond floodplains
• Other

• Well and drawdown mapping
• Modeling of recharge zones
• Contamination plume modeling and visualization
• Other

• Vulnerability analysis
• Assessment of drinking water supplies
• SPARROW (recent developments and applications)
• Conservation Effects and Assessment Program (CEAP) case studies
• Nutrient loading
• Spill response
• Other

• Public involvement and notification
• Data components of a successful plan
• Communicating watershed data to the public
• Other

• Trends in land use changes and impacts on runoff
• Characterization of development
• Identifying impervious cover
• Other

• Water supply systems
• Water drainage systems
• Infrastructure mapping
• Other

• Real and near-time Predictive modeling
• Spatial hydrologic simulation models
• Pre/Post processing using GIS (e.g., HEC-GeoRAS, HEC-GeoHMS, ArcSWAT)
• Integrated GIS models (e.g. BASINS, OpenMI, D4EM, FRAMES)
• Other

• Floods and flood forecasting
• Hurricanes
• Damage assessment and HAZUS
• Other

• Water quality
• Water temperature
• Parameter estimation for climate change and short term forecasts
• Class sets derived from various spectra
• Other

• Applications and Case Studies including NHDPlus
• Overview of shapefiles, Toolkits, and Data
• Watershed Characteristics
• Creating and managing datasets
• Other

• Applications and Case Studies including SSURGO and STATSGO
• Watershed Characteristics
• Other

• Applications and Case Studies including NED
• Watershed Characteristics
• Other

• Collection, processing, and quality control
• Development of digital elevation models (DEMs)
• Use of high resolution terrain data for hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
• Other

• Web services for accessing water resources information
• XML schemas for transmitting water resources information
• Combining data and simulation models
• Digital watersheds
• Other

• Software solutions
• Project data sharing across multiple offices
• Access and archiving
• Interactive animations
• Other

• Advances in surface water data model
• Groundwater data model
• Case studies
• Other

• Use of novel educational approaches in GIS and water resources
• Classroom case studies
• Technological advances
• Other