Evolution of Hydrologic Methods through Computers Committee Progress Report -

2001 EWRI Water Congress in Orlando

The Evolution of Hydrologic Methods through Computer Committee was created last September and will meet for the first time officially, at the 2001 EWRI Water Congress.  A pre-creation meeting was held last year in Minneapolis.  The pre-creation meeting provided an introduction of the committee members, an overview of the committee's purpose and objectives, and made assignments in the invitation to recognized individuals for the writing of papers to address the purpose of this committee.  The committee will meet in Orlando to present progress on the inviting of papers and any drafts generated to date.  Further assignments will be made then. A summary of the committee purpose and objectives, committee officers, and assignments are summarized immediately below. 

EWRI ACTIVITIES – Committee Purpose and Objectives

Proposed Committee Name: Evolution of Hydrologic Methods through Computers

Parent Committee: Surface Water Hydrology Technical Committee

Type of Committee: Task

Committee Purpose: The Committee shall present the evolution of computer applications as developed for hydrologic analysis through publication of a paper and presentations at ASCE/ EWRI conferences.  The paper shall consist of historical review of computational methods, including simplified techniques utilized prior to the computer.  Then the progression of computer techniques into computer programs as the computer evolved from the earliest mainframe through the latest PC versions.  Finally, a discussion of "is there a better way, with existing hydrology, that the hydrologic process can be analyzed, which can be incorporated with current computer capabilities". 

Committee Objectives (Publication or other end product): A collection of papers which review the historical methods and techniques utilized in hydrologic analysis would be appropriate for the 150^th Anniversary conference in Washington, D.C., in November, 2002.  Also, it is anticipated that a session will be held at the EWRI conference in Philadelphia in 2003.

Committee Officers (All must be EWRI Members)

Chair Name: Randall R. Graham

Address: HDR Engineering, 8404 Indian Hills Dr.                    EWRI #: 152690

City: Omaha               State: NE            Zip: 68114-4049       Phone: 402-399-4889

Preferred email address: rgraham@hdrinc.com    Alternate email address:

Preferred fax number: 402-399-1111               Alternate fax number:                      

Vice Chair Name: Allen T. Hjelmfelt

Address: USDA-ARS, 268 Ag Engineering Bldg., U. of Missouri          EWRI #: 151259

City: Columbia   State: MO            Zip: 65211           Phone: 573-882-1142

Preferred email address: hjelmfeltA@missouri.edu    Alternate email address:

Preferred fax number: 573-882-1115               Alternate fax number:                      

Chair Name: Michael P. Ramey

Address: R2 Resource Consultants, 5250 NE 95^th St.                    EWRI #:

City: Redmond    State: WA            Zip: 98052       Phone: 425-556-1288

Preferred email address: mramey@r2usa.com    Alternate email address:

Preferred fax number: 425-556-1290               Alternate fax number:  

Attach list of other committee members:

Juergen Garbrecht, Craig Talbot, Tom Seybert, Baolin Paul

Assignments

To date several of the author’s have been positively approached, with Ron Rossmiller providing an abstract and additional abstracts anticipated by the Orlando meeting date.