AWRA 2012 Spring Specialty Conference - GIS & Water Resources VII
Plenary Session
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Conference Opening Plenary Session
Monday / March 26 / 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
William A. Battaglin
William A. Battaglin
President, American Water Resources Association
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO


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John C. “Jack” Hampson
Conference General Chair
Atkins, North America, Tampa, FL


Keynote Speaker
Colonel Robert J. Ruch

Colonel Robert J. Ruch
Commander, Omaha District, US Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, NE

Special Plenary Session
Monday / March 26 / 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
Plenary Panel

Panelists

Katherine Lins, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
Robert Wallace, USACE, Vicksburg, MS
David Tarboton, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Sharon Mesick, NOAA, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Jerry Johnston, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
Sharon Mesick, NOAA, Stennis Space Center, MS

Two key technology needs emerging in water resources are the demand to quickly and reliably distill reliable, actionable information from the massive explosion of new data sources; and the demand for an integrated approach among scientists, engineers, policy makers and the public in order to meet the increasingly complex challenges we face.  At the same time, the emergence of astonishing web-based capabilities has happened so fast that we routinely use smartphones to track our location on an aerial in real time.  The panel members will each discuss how new technologies are changing the way their slice of the water resources community is doing business, and what they foresee.  Brief individual presentations during the first hour will be followed by a 30-minute discussion and Q&A with the audience.