ASCE Surface Water Hydrology Committee
Meeting held at Roanoke, Virginia
Date and Time: Sunday May 19th, 2002 at 9:00 am -12:00 (Noon)
The meeting started at 9:15 am where the Committee Chair Jose D. Salas briefly summarized the communications received from Committee members prior to the Roanoke meeting. A sign up sheet was passed to verify the names of those present at the meeting and their current addresses.
1. Agenda Review and Approval
· The agenda was reviewed and approved without modifications.
2. Approval of the Minutes of the Orlando Meeting of May 2001were made.
3. Administrative Matters
3.1 Meetings. It was agreed that the next annual meeting of the SWHC will take place at
3.2 Control Members
Paul DeBarry, Ex-Chair (Industry)
Jose D. Salas, Chair (Academia)
Rollin Hotchkiss, Vice-Chair (Academia)
Robert Swain, Secretary (Government)
Jurgen Garbrecht (Government)
Randall Graham (Industry)
Rao Govindaraju (Academia)
Ananta Nath (Government)
The following member will be secretary next year:
Randall Graham, Secretary (Industry)
The following member was added for unsupported next year:
Nazeer Ahmed (Industry)
3.3 Review of Membership
· Dr. Salas will send a letter of interest to those listed on this committee.
3.4 Others (e.g. website)
· Allen Hjelmfelt had initiated a committee roster on the University of Missouri system. Apparently Allen has retired.
· Tom Seybert volunteered to generate a web site on Penn State University system and link it to EWRI. Tom will coordinate with Allen.
4. Executive Committee Report (Dr. Bijay Panigrahi, Watershed Council Chair)
· Bijay invited all to Watershed Council meeting at 2-5:00 pm in the Palm Court. Dr. Salas and Graham will represent SWHTC at this meeting.
· Bijay would like to see progress report on the SWHTC task committees
· Budget requirements are being removed from EC. Bijay ask that any new task committees be specific on end product: MOP, standard; and on funding required. Requests will go through EWRI, Wayne Davis.
· . ASCE will not give preparation monies for seminars and training, but EWRI will. Income will then be maintained by EWRI. Similar with publications, go through EWRI.
· EWRI will have annual meetings, around late June. The meeting locations will be Philadelphia next year, followed by Salt Lake City, then Alaska.
5. Review of 2001-2002 Activities
5.1 Task Committee Reports
· Mitigating Floods/Droughts with Modern Technology (S.S. Fan)
o There was no one at this meeting to provide a status report. Dr. Salas will contact the Chair of the Task Committee.
· Hydrologic Monitoring of Wetlands (Ananta Nath)
o TC should have finished last year. Only Ananta and Lisa Roig working on final report. Lisa needs to finish and currently unavailable. The remainder of the commitments will be transferred to Wetlands Hydrology TC. Ananta’s committee should be off the roster next year.
· Curve Number Hydrology (Allen Hjelmfelt)
o There was no one at this meeting to provide a status report. Jurgen will contact Allen for a status report.
· Paleoflood Hydrology (Robert Swain)
o Committee has been on hold for past year due to unfortunate circumstances. Bob Swain is confident that the progress will pick up this year.
· Evolution of Hydrologic Methods Through Computers (Randy Graham)
o TC on-schedule for goals to have a session at the 150th Anniversary; have a mini-symposium at 2003 EWRI water conference; and have a publication at the 2003 conference. TC will meet at this conference. We are at end of the commissioned two years, so will need a year extension.
· Climate Variations, Climate Change, and Water Resources Engineering (Jurgen Garbrecht)
o Committee has 10-12 members. Has two sponsored sessions and four chaired sessions at this conference. Have outline of report that they will publish. There will be two parts to report. First will be on how it affects engineering. Second part will be submitted papers on application. TC will meet at this conference. Anticipate asking for a year or two extensions.
· Darcy Memorial Congress on the History of Hydraulics (Glenn O. Brown)
o History of Hydraulics Symposium planned in Philadelphia meeting in honor of Darcy and to produce a stand-alone document. They have identified a descendent of Darcy who will be present at symposium. Wish to obtain papers on updates in last 50-years. Will also have a history of IIHR at conference. Other institutes, such as GA. Tech and CSU are sought. Also, BuRec and HEC are being sought. Three Gorges University in China has shown some interest in presenting. Ananta suggested large SFWMD and Corps work in the Everglades. TC meeting will need to be rescheduled.
· Distributed Hydrologic Modeling (Fred L. Odgen)
o Paul DeBarry presented that status of committee still unknown. This will be a continuation of a previous committee if approved. Bijay later stated that it is a go. The TC will be considered commissioned this year.
· Others?
o Rao Govindaraju stated that Remedial Investigation of Contaminated Sites is not listed, but should be a current TC. Dr. Salas believes there was finished report in 2002. Dr. Salas will contact the TC chair.
o Bill Ritter presented, as chair of Journals, that his TC is looking for volunteers for state-of-art articles or reviewers of articles. Ritter is asking SWHTC to get with editors for topics on above. Kavvas stated that Journal of Hydrology has seen 20% increase. There is a concern with an attempt for ASCE to have a Groundwater Journal, which was argued against by Ritter and Kavvas.
5.2 Award Activities
· Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award (Joe Van Mullen)
o Dr. Salas presented for Joe. Joe has not received any new nominees. Dr. Salas strongly encouraged that SWHTC actively suggests more names for consideration. Joe plans to prepare a package of nominees by September to the control members for votes. Then, from that vote, a recommendation from SWHTC will be sent above.
· Chow Award (Anand Prakash)
o Paul DeBarry presented that the Council took over the responsibility of awarding the Chow Award last year in lieu of SWHTC. This year the SWHTC will be making the final recommendation. Rao Govindaraju volunteered to take over responsibility for coordinating the Chow Award from Anand.
5.3 Other Activities
6. New Task Committee Proposals
· Statistical Distributions in Hydrology (N. Ahmed)
Linda Weiss was initial chair, but currently off committee. Nazeer has interest, but needs volunteers. This committee has not been commissioned to date. Theme is to produce a publication to cover entire spectrum, including software, application, theory, etc. Recommendations are to become more specific in committee goals. Recommendations of assistance are Bob Swain and John England (BuRec), Dr. Salas, and Stedinger.
· Dr. Salas proposed a committee on drought analysis (given current drought in Colorado and elsewhere), with end product of book on drought prediction, forecasting, indices, etc. Dr. Salas will be putting together a proposal, but was looking for volunteers. Suggested names were J. Valdes, L. Kavvas, and D. Frevert. Recommendations were put forth on focus, audience, etc.
7. New Business
· Paul encouraged abstracts for Philadelphia and would SWHTC assist. Anyone interested in abstracts or sessions, contact Paul DeBarry, Conference Technical Chair, pdeb@haestad.com,
· Kavvas suggested that SWHTC investigate generating task committees or other methods to investigate the topic: “Prediction in Ungaged Basins”, which is receiving international interest. Also a potential track/opic for next years’ meeting in Philadelphia.
· Geoff Bonin from NOAA/NWS indicated that he is substituting for Dr. J. Ingram from the same agency. He briefly summarized some of the recent activities of the NWS/Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHP Service) and that they may be of interest to some of the current and proposed Task Committees on issues related to floods, droughts, and extreme hydrologic events in general. For further information the interested reader may like to access the page: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/ahps/
8. Adjourn
· The meeting was adjourned at 12:50 pm.