The Parable of Darth Covidious
by Krey Price Easter 2020 With everyone confined to their homes this Easter, it looks like the churches will be empty; I think that means we’re all free to make up our own sermons and parables this year. That said, here’s mine: “The fight against coronavirus is like unto the Battle of Naboo…” How’s that? […]
Attenuate the peak!
March 22, 2020: World Water Day (aka Quarantine, Day 1) Being in the water industry, around this time of year I have had a habit of posting something water-related in recognition of World Water Day. Well, given the ambient hysteria, March 22 came and went this year, and it seemed like nobody was thinking about […]
What the PMF?
Please note: All training, webinars, and professional development content has been moved to hydroschool.org. Please find current content for floodways at hydroschool.org/pmf/. This page provides supplemental resources to accompany the 8 Sep 2021 free AWS webinar “What the PMF“, addressing the Probable Maximum Flood. This webinar supports a training course dedicated to the estimation […]
Dammed if you don’t…
World Water DayMarch 22, 2019 As world water day draws to a close around the planet, there has been a renewed effort to promote the fundamental human right to water as declared in UN Resolution 64/292. The 2010 resolution calls on all the world’s nations to provide the “indispensable human right” to safe, clean, accessible, […]
HEC-RAS 5.0 Training in Canberra
| Adelaide | Auckland | Bendigo | Brisbane | Canberra | Christchurch | Darwin | Hobart | Melbourne | Munich | Newcastle | Paris | Perth | Singapore | Sydney | USA | Wellington | Please visit our updated Courses page at hydroschool.org/courses/. All continuing education resources previously listed at surfacewater.biz have moved to hydroschool.org; going forward, the surfacewater.biz website will be dedicated to […]
Projection Files
One of the first steps in creating a HEC-RAS model is to set the projection in RAS Mapper. Here is a great video by Vox explaining why we need projection files: A very comprehensive online repository for downloading free projection files is www.spatialreference.org: Download our Workshop #1 pdf file to step through the process of setting […]
Particle Sheep
Herding sheep with HEC-RAS You know you’re a hydro-nerd if… …if you immediately think of particle tracing when you see sheep being herded…or fans exiting a footy match…or brake lights as you try to get around a traffic accident… Let’s try to replicate the movement of sheep movement with HEC-RAS: So it looks like sheep […]
RAS Across America!
| Adelaide | Auckland | Bendigo | Brisbane | Canberra | Christchurch | Darwin | Hobart | Melbourne | Munich | Newcastle | Paris | Perth | Singapore | Sydney | USA/Canada | Wellington | Please visit our updated Courses page at hydroschool.org/courses/. All continuing education resources previously listed at surfacewater.biz has moved to hydroschool.org; going forward, the surfacewater.biz website will be dedicated to […]
Around the world in forty years
They say you shouldn’t post to social media at 3 am, but while I’m jet-lagged in the wide-awake position in my hotel room in Sarajevo, I thought I’d upload a couple of photos (recognizing that I may be blurring the line between nostalgic introspection and gratuitous sappiness). Photo #1 is a shot from the Adriatic […]
Euro-RAS: workshops in London, Paris, and Munich
Read our RAS Solution blog article covering HEC-RAS use across Europe. 2018 HEC-RAS 2D Modelling Workshop in London JBA’s Frank O’Connell attended the June 2018 HEC-RAS training course in London and below fills us in on the exciting details of meeting the developers in person: Following the success of the 2016 and 2017 workshops, JBA […]