Instructors:
Todd Plessel (Plessel.Todd@mintra.epa.gov)
Stephen Bourne (Stephen.Bourne@atkinsglobal.com)
David Eslinger (dave.eslinger@noaa.gov)
Chris Renschler (rensch@buffalo.edu)
John Kelley (John.Kelley@noaa.gov )
Phil Morefield (morefield.philip@epa.gov )
Graham Hayes  (gshayes@buffalo.edu )
Martin Minkowski (mwm@buffalo.edu)

Purpose:          
The purpose of the workshop is to introduce participants to existing tools for geospatial data access and decision-support for coastal systems, including estuaries and their associated watersheds. 

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
At a minimum, participants will be exposed to the Estuary Data Mapper (geospatial data access, visualization, and download), NOAA’s NOWCoast (real-time coastal environmental data access and display), ACES (interface for working with estuarine data model and evaluating water quality effects on estuaries), EPA’s ICLUS (integrated land-use/climate change scenarios and GIS tool that can be used to generate scenarios of housing-density changes and calculate impervious surface cover for the conterminous United States), OpenNSPECT, a new, open-source version of the Nonpoint-Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT), which uses MapWindow (http://mapwindow.org/), similar to the EPA's BASINS suite of tools, and GEO-WEPP (Geo-spatial interface for the Water Erosion Prediction Project).  Participants will learn how to access geospatial data for decision-support tools or models using the Estuary Data Mapper and NOWCoast, access or create new land-use scenarios with ICLUS, view demos of the Analytic Framework for Coastal and Estuarine Systems (ACES), and learn how to apply OpenNSPECT and GEO-WEPP to investigate watershed management options.

Additional Information:
Most existing geospatial data access and decision-support tools focus on inland waters and do not consider coastal systems, or interoperability between watershed and estuarine decision-support systems.  This workshop will explore tools currently under development/refinement and allow users to provide input on future directions.

Attendees’ Requirements:
Laptop computer configured for internet access

Agenda/Schedule:
8:00AM Welcome and introductions
8:15AM Overview of tools
9:35AM Break
9:45 AM Break-out session 1 for demonstration or hands-on application of tools *
10:15 AM Break-out session 2 for demonstration or hands-on application of tools
10:45 AM Break-out session 3 for demonstration or hands-on application of tools
11:15 AM Break-out session 4 for demonstration or hands-on application of tools
11:45 AM Discussion of next steps needed
12 Noon End

Participants interested in WEPP, GeoWEPP, and ArcSWAT oveviews will review these in sequence and will not rotate among other break-out groups

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Instructors:
Dean Djokic, ESRI, Redlands, CA (ddjokic@esri.com)

Purpose:          
To present to GIS and water resources analysts ArcGIS capabilities to support hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) analyses using established GIS tools. The target audience includes hydrologists, water resources engineers and managers, GIS analysts, and anyone interested in learning what GIS can do for H&H data collection, preparation, model assembly, and result processing.  

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
The expected outcomes from the workshop are that participants will understand the fundamental principles of GIS and H&H modeling integration, will see GIS and modeling tools in action, will gain appreciation for what GIS can and cannot do for modeling, and understand the GIS and model limitations with respect to quality of supporting data.

Additional Information:
As a technology for spatial data storage, processing, and visualization, GIS offers many capabilities that can be used to support H&H modeling. Over the years, GIS technology has been successfully used to both perform simple modeling and support complex numerical models. This workshop presents GIS techniques that can be used for terrain analyses, spatial and temporal integration, hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics extraction, numerical model input and output, modeling process automation, and result mapping.

Attendees’ Requirements:
Attendees should have some background in GIS and/or H&H modeling. The participants will not be using computers during the workshop, so experience with particular GIS or modeling software is not required.

Agenda/Schedule:
Topics will include: HEC’s GeoHMS and GeoRAS, Streamline Technology’s ICPR, and USGS’s StreamStats, each built upon foundation methodologies, data model, and toolset provided by Arc Hydro, form the modeling backbone for H&H analyses used in this workshop. The workshop will take full advantage of ArcGIS and its extensions in order to support a variety of requirements that H&H analyses pose to GIS technology.

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Instructors:
Paul Duda, Senior Project Engineer AQUA TERRA Consultants pbduda@aquaterra.com

Purpose:          
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the environmental/water resources professional to the capabilities of BASINS 4.0, especially the features related to constructing a watershed model.  The session will provide an overview of BASINS 4.0, and then guide the attendees through a series of demonstrations/computer exercises illustrating the process a BASINS user undertakes to set up a watershed model.     

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
The attendees will gain an appreciation of the breadth and capabilities of the BASINS 4.0 system, and will obtain an understanding of how one uses BASINS to set up a watershed model.  In addition, the attendees will understand general design considerations of the BASINS 4.0 system, and will see how collaborative efforts are expanding and refining the system.

Additional Information:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) is a multipurpose environmental analysis system designed for use by regional, state, and local agencies performing watershed and water quality-based studies.  It was developed by the EPA's Office of Water to facilitate examination of environmental information, to support analysis of environmental systems, and to provide a framework for examining management alternatives.  BASINS integrates environmental data, analytical tools, and modeling programs under a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment to support development of solutions to watershed management problems and environmental protection issues, including development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). 

Attendees’ Requirements:
Students are encouraged to bring laptops, but not required. 

Agenda/Schedule:
8 AM             Welcome and Introductions
8:15 AM       Introduction to BASINS
9 AM             Software installation
9:30 AM       Exercise:  Data Download through BASINS
10:00 AM    Break
10:15 AM    Meteorological Data and Model Setup Tools
10:45 AM    Exercise:  Running WinHSPF through BASINS
11:15 AM    Recent Enhancements and Future Directions
11:45 AM    Discussion and Wrap-up
12 AM   End

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Instructors:
David Phillip “Phil” Guertin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (dguertin@cals.arizona.edu)
Ian Shea Burns (Shea), ARS USDA, Tucson, AZ  (shea.burns@ars.usda.gov)

Purpose:          
This 4 hour training course provides an introduction to the AGWA tool that parameterizes and runs two watershed runoff and erosion models: KINEROS2 and SWAT.  The AGWA tool has been designed to investigate the hydrologic impacts of land-cover/land-use change.  It is an intuitive interface, requiring relatively little hydrologic expertise to identify areas that are more susceptible to land use impacts and evaluate different management scenarios or alternative futures.      

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
•      Basic characteristics of the KINEROS and SWAT models
•      Review of the AGWA parameterization process
•      Application of KINEROS and SWAT in a watershed assessment

Additional Information:
The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA, see: www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa) tool is a GIS interface jointly developed by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wyoming to automate the parameterization and execution of the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and KINEmatic Runoff and EROSion (KINEROS2) hydrologic models. By employing these two models AGWA can conduct hydrologic modeling and watershed assessments at multiple time and space scales. AGWA uses commonly available, national, GIS data layers to fully parameterize, execute, and visualize results from both the SWAT and KINEROS2. Through an intuitive interface the user selects an outlet from which AGWA delineates and discretizes the watershed using a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The watershed model elements are then intersected with soils and land cover data layers to derive the requisite model input parameters. The chosen model is then run, and the results are imported back into AGWA for visual display. This allows managers to identify potential problem areas where additional monitoring can be undertaken or mitigation activities can be focused. AGWA can difference results from multiple simulations to examine relative change over a variety of input scenarios (e.g. climate/storm change, land cover change, present conditions and alternative futures). The AGWA tool is being further developed for online decision support to provide ready access to environmental decision-makers, resource managers, researchers, and user groups. In addition, a variety of new capabilities have been incorporated into AGWA. They include handling FAO soils for international application; pre- and post-fire watershed assessments; and, multiple options for user defined land cover change.  

Attendees’ Requirements:
Laptop Computer, ArcGIS 10.0, with Spatial Analyst Extension, experience with ArcGIS would be useful

Agenda/Schedule:
1:00 – 1:15 Welcome and Introductions
1:15 – 2:15 Introduction to AGWA (Goodrich/Kepner)
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 4:30 AGWA Tutorial One “Land Cover Change and Hydrologic Response
4:30 – 5:00 Wrap up and Questions.

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Instructors:
Jeff Simley, Cartographer, USGS, Denver, CO (jdsimley@usgs.gov)
Ariel Doumbouya, Geographer, USGS, Denver, CO (atdoumbouya@usgs.gov)
Pete Steeves, Physical Scientist, USGS,  (psteeves@usgs.gov)

Purpose:          
This workshop is in two parts. The first part will introduce the National Hydrography Dataset. The second part introduces how to use the HEM Tool to create events on the NHD. This can be performed on a case by case basis or by importing user databases. Attendees will also learn how to import these user created events into StreamStats for analysis including searches up and down the hydrography network, drainage area estimates, batch delineation of watersheds and more. New and improved tools will also demonstrate how to perform event searches not only on high resolution (1:24K) NHD data but also NHDPlus data. This allows users to harness not only the power of the NHDPlus but also additional EPA data.

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
Become familiarized with NHD and its purposes and uses and learn how to use the NHD as a basis for creating events and performing scientific analysis using StreamStats.

Additional Information:
Part 1 (1.5 hours) - The National Hydrography Dataset has become an indispensable foundation to the study of water resources in geographic information systems.  Without a proper introduction, the NHD can be difficult to understand and is often not exploited to its full potential because of its complexity.  Fortunately it is easy to “demystify” the NHD in just a few hours of good training and allow the student to master a basic understanding of the NHD.  This workshop will explain the objective of the NHD, discuss its capabilities and limitations, demonstrate the acquisition of the data, explore the data structure, review the feature catalog, address networking, describe linear referencing, and introduce data stewardship.  An expert instructor will conduct a live ArcMap demonstration of a variety of NHD data across the country.  At conclusion the student, from GIS analyst to resource manager, will be well-equipped to move forward with utilizing the NHD in their science.

Part 2 (2.5 hours) - The features that make up the NHD have a basic set of attributes that describe these features.  These features may have additional information linked to them describing other characteristics relating to hydrology, water quality, biology, regulations, and a host of other data.  This linked information greatly contributes to the power of the NHD to serve not just as spatial data, but also as an information system, and further as a base for analysis and knowledge.  The Hydrography Event Management (HEM) tools have been developed to give users a full suite of capability in creating and managing events in the NHD.  This ability to manipulate and manage events ensures that events can be utilized to the fullest extent possible and therefore maximize the effectiveness of the NHD.  Events can be utilized for further analysis and modeling by applications such as StreamStats. StreamStats is a Web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that provides users with access to an assortment of analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering design applications, such as the design of bridges. StreamStats allows users to easily obtain stream flow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for user-selected sites on streams.

Attendees’ Requirements:
Laptop with the ArcGIS 9.3 or ArcGIS 10, Windows XP or Windows 7. HEM Tools installed or with administrative privileges to install. HEM Tools are publicly available at nhd.usgs.gov

Agenda/Schedule:
8:00AM        Welcome and introductions
8:15AM        NHD Introduction (hands on)
9:00AM        Hydrography Event Management Tool Introduction (hands on)
10:15AM     Break
10:30AM     StreamStats Introduction
11:00 AM    StreamStats Tools (hands on)
12 Noon      End

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Instructors:
NHDGeoEdit Tool – Paul Kimsey, Cartographer, USGS, Denver, CO (pjkimsey@usgs.gov)

Purpose:          
The USGS currently has many partners who use the NHD Geo Edit tool and associated scripts/utilities to submit updates to the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD).. The current process is very complex and cumbersome. The workshop will allow current (and potential partners) to experience a much more stream lined process to submit updates to the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD).

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
Basic understanding of the USGS NHD update process

Additional Information:
A stewardship program has been developed wherein the states edit the data and submit it back to the USGS.  Due to the complexity of editing the NHD, a NHD-specific edit tool was developed.  Over the last eighteen months the USGS has developed a new improved NHD Edit Tool.  This new tool (1) has an improved installation process, (2) expedites the process of checking data in and out of the national database, (3) Graphic User Interface (GUI) of the tool makes editing simpler and more user friendly, (4) the quality control checks have been streamlined into a one step process.   Significant improvements to the supporting On-line help/Video documentation  has also been accomplished.  All these new and improved features included in the NHD Edit Tool are expected to make the learning curve much easier, decrease the amount of on-site training, and ultimately increase the number of edits made to the national NHD database.  Participants in this workshop will have a hands-on experience updating NHD subbasins working within the new process.  Participants will be required to bring a laptop to the workshop and virtual machines (VM ware) will be provided on external drives. The workshop will be limited to 12 students participating in the hands on exercises, however, the workshop will accommodate others who wish to observe only.

Attendees’ Requirements:
Basic understanding of NHD model and concepts http://nhd.usgs.gov/. 

Agenda/Schedule:
1:00 PM       Welcome and introductions
1:15 PM       Model’s history and science components
2:00 PM       Model installation & training on use of software
3:15 PM       Break
3:30 PM       Continued training on use of software – example applications
4:00 PM       Hands on use & discussion
4:50 PM       Close & wrap up
5:00 PM       End

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Instructors:
Daniel P. Ames, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID (dan.ames@isu.edu)
Jiri Kadlec, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID (kadljiri@isu.edu)
Yang Cao, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID (caoyang@isu.edu)

Purpose:          
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to the CUAHSI HIS system including sharing data using HydroServer and discovering data using HydroDesktop.

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
Become familiarized with the CUAHSI HIS and its purposes and uses and learn how to use HydroServer and HydroDesktop for data discovery and download.

Additional Information:
The growing number of CUAHSI HIS HydroServers world-wide presents a unique opportunity to explore tools and techniques for efficient server side data sharing and client-side data discovery and download. This workshop will show how to use the open source server side HydroServer and desktop GIS enabled HIS software tool, HydroDesktop. HydroServer can be installed on a Windows Server and can be used with the ODM database structure to share any climate or hydrologic data sets. HydroServer uses ArcGIS Server together with custom code for sharing data. HydroDesktop is a desktop software application and search and discovery tool for exploring the distributed network of HIS servers, downloading specific data series, visualizing and summarizing data series and exporting these to formats needed for analysis by external software. HydroDesktop is based on the open source DotSpatial GIS developer toolkit (www.DotSpatial.org) which provides it with map-based data interaction and visualization, as well as an extensive plug-in interface that can be used by third party developers and researchers to easily extend the software using Microsoft .NET programming languages.  

Attendees’ Requirements:
Participants should have a basic understanding of hydrologic time series data, and should come prepared to run HydroDesktop on their own Windows laptop computer (or Mac computer using a Windows emulator).

Agenda/Schedule:
8:00 AM       Welcome and Introductions
8:15 AM       Intro to HIS, HydroCatalog, and HydroServer
9:00 AM       Hands on –  HydroServer
10:15 AM    Break
10:30 AM    Intro and hands on with HydroDesktop
12:00            End

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Instructors:
Daniel P. Ames, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID (dan.ames@isu.edu)
Jiri Kadlec, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID (kadljiri@isu.edu)
Yang Cao, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls,ID (caoyang@isu.edu)

Purpose:          
The purpose of this workshop is to teach software developers and model programmers how to use the new DotSpatial libraries to program custom plugins for HydroDesktop and MapWindow 6.

“Take Aways” or Learning Objectives of the Workshop
Participants will learn how to write code in C# or VB.NET to add extended functionality to HydroDesktop and the free open source MapWindow 6 GIS platform.

Additional Information:
HydroDesktop is built on the DotSpatial open source GIS framework developed by the MapWindow GIS team over the past 10 years. Using this platform, water resources engineers and software developers can add extended functionality to HydroDesktop using a simple plugin programmer interface using Visual Basic .NET or C#. Learn more about HydroDesktop  (www.hydrodesktop.org), DotSpatial (www.dotspatial.org) and MapWindow 6 (http://mapwindow6.codeplex.com).

Attendees’ Requirements:
Participatns should have a basic understanding of programming in VB.NET or C# and should bring a laptop computer with either VB.NET or C# 2010 (full or express edition).

Agenda/Schedule:
1:00 AM       Welcome and Introductions
1:15 AM       HydroDesktop and MapWindow 6 review, plugin exploring
2:00 AM       Hands on – Build a simple plugin    
3:15 AM       Break
3:30 AM       Advanced concepts in vector and raster data analysis
5:00               End

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