Workshop on modeling of Devils Lake flooding

We will have a workshop on modeling and prediction of Devils Lake flooding on May 5 (Thursday) starting 1:00 pm in the room CH 368 (the class room). The workshop include individual presentations and group discussion. The speakers include USGS scientists, Dr. Skip Vecchia and Dr. Gregg Wiche, UND/Civil Engineering Dr. Howe Lim, UND/ESSP  Dr. Andrei Kirilenko and Mr. Dave Barta. The meeting is open to anybody who is interested and if this meeting may be of interest to someone you know, please invite them.

Here is tentative agenda.

Xiaodong: introduction of speakers and purpose of the workshop
Gregg: the background on the history of flooding in Devils Lake and the Red River
Skip: the USGS Devils Lake stochastic simulation model with implications for climate change and/or variability
Lim: using U.S. Army Corps of Engineering's HEC HMS and HEC ResSim models to simulate Devils Lake's hydrological process
Andrei: climate change and its effect on Devils Lake flooding
Dave: Economic analysis on Devils Lake mitigation projects
Group discussion

Again everybody is welcomed and refreshment will be provided.

34th ISRSE in Sydney

Presented "Web-based near real-time remote sensing data system providing decision support for precision agriculture" on April 14 (Thursday).

Manuscripts submitted for review

H. Czerski, M. Twardowski, X. Zhang, and S. Vagle, Resolving size distributions of bubbles with radii less than 30 microns with optical and acoustical methods, was submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research

Xiaodong Zhang, Hojin Kim, Clinton Streeter, Dave Claypool, Ramesh Sivanpillai,  and Santhosh Seelan, Near Real-Time Meter-Resolution Airborne Imagery for Precision Agriculture: AEROCam, was submitted to GeoCarto International

Catch-up of earlier events

2011-03-01: Kate Overmoe Kenninger was awarded a North Dakota Water Resource Research Institute Fellowship for her study of Assessment of Water Quality in Devils Lake using Satellite Imagery.

2011-02-02: Junyu Yang successfully passed his M.S. Thesis Defense: Remote Sensing Methods of Energy Fluxes Measurements: Intercomparison between SEBAL, Scintillometer and Eddy-covariance measurements and Landsat Images.

2011-01-24: "Retrieving Composition and Sizes of Oceanic Particle Subpopulations from the Volume Scattering Function" by Xiaodong Zhang, Michael Twardowski and Marlon Lewis is accepted for publication in Applied Optics.

2010-11-29: Santosh Rijal successfully passed his M.S. Thesis Defense: Developing a remote sensing algorithm for deriving soil moisture concentration from spectral reflectance

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