You, Me, and WRE
He is a Graduate Engineer and the newest member of the WPM Water Resources group
Who is Shazzad Rahman?
This Texas storm is still deadliest storm in US History
What is the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
This natural phenomena, also known as a "typhoon" when occurring in the Northwest Pacific, can bring high winds, rainfall, and deadly storm surge along the Texas Coast when crossing into the Gulf of Mexico
What is a hurricane?
Prior to the release of HEC-HMS, this USACE program performed hydrologic modeling calculations based on punchcard-style inputs
What is HEC-1?
This word (previously acronym) is used to refer to spatially varied high resolution topographic data that is captured using aerial radar technology
What is lidar?
These four WRE team members are Principals
Who are Andy Yung, Kevin Vogel, Kelly Dillard, and Andres Salazar?
This 2001 storm caused billions of dollars in damage to the Texas gulf coast, and resulted in the installation of flood gates in the Texas Medical Center as well as a complete re-study of the Harris County floodplains.
What is Tropical Storm Allison?
This subterranean karst formation is the source of drinking water for over two million people in Central Texas and is home to the endangered Texas Blind Salamander
What is the Edwards Aquifer?
This version of HEC-RAS introduced a two-dimensional component to the hydraulic modeling options provided by USACE for the first time
What is version 5.0?
This ubiquitous equation for open channel flow derives it's name from the Irish engineer who devised it
What is Manning's Equation?
This is the name of the Water Resources firm that WPM acquired in 2012
What is Dodson & Associates?
This was the year when the "flood of record" for the Houston area (until it was superseded in 2017 by Hurricane Harvey) and directly resulted in the formation of the Harris County Flood Control District and construction of the Barker and Addicks Reservoirs.
When is 1935?
What is Buffalo Bayou?
This free software can be used to perform basic water network modeling
What is EPA-NET?
Commonly referred to by it's acronym, GARR, this spatially-varied radar data has been ground-truthed with rain gauge readings and is considered more accurate than raw radar readings
What is Gauge-Adjusted Radar Rainfall?
These three team members are all born on January 20th.. spooky
Who are Christina Hughes, Mark Starks, and Kelly Dillard
This city bore the brunt of a 2015 flash flood that caused the Blanco River to rise more than 30 feet in less than three hours
The shortest river in Texas, this water body is located entirely within the limits of the City of New Braunfels and is a popular tubing destination in the summer
What is the Comal River?
The Federal Highway Administration created this free software that can be used to calculate culvert headwater-flow rating curves
What is HY-8?
This cloud-based app/program will allow you to geolocate photos and notes in the field in real-time and is part of the "Arc" family of programs
What is ESRI Collector?
This current team member has been employed at WPM/Dodson longer than anyone else
Who is Mark Starks?
A rain gauge in this city recorded the highest total rainfall during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 - 60.58 inches!
What is Nederland, Texas?
This 278-foot concrete behemoth sits on the Colorado River, impounding Lake Travis, and is the largest dam in Texas
What is the Mansfield Dam?
Prior to 2016, this program, which can only be run on 32-bit computers, was used to develop PMP storm totals
What is HMR-52?
This storage-routing method models a channel reach as a linear reservoir and is generally considered to be an appropriate method for channel routing in flat watersheds
What is the Modified-Puls Method?