NOAA National Weather Service

Innovators Program

Planning for 2016 Summer Institute

National Water Center

34 students, 30 advisors, 22 universities

Faculty mentors: David Maidment, Sagy Cohen, Ibrahim Demir, Alfonso Mejia, Sarah Praskievicz, and Albert Van Dijk,

with contributions from Jon Nelson, USGS

17 May 2016

Summer Institute Participants

Student Advisor UniversityAmir Javaheri Meghna Babbar-Sebens Oregon State UniversityBingqing Lu Yong Zhang University of Alabama

Brenda Elisa Bazan Jude Benavides UT Rio Grande Valley

Christopher Zarzar Jamie Dyer Mississippi State UniversityDawne Butler Hatim Sharif UT San Antonio

Dinuke Munasinghe Sagy Cohen University of AlabamaDongmei Feng R. Edward Beighley Northeastern University

Emily Nicole Poston Paola Passalacqua UT AustinJames Matthew Coll Xingong Li University of Kansas

Jiaqi Zhang Nick Fang UT ArlingtonKrishna Karthik Gadiraju Ranga Raju Vatsavai North Carolina State University

Kyung Min Kim Ben R. Hodges UT AustinLingcheng Li Zong-Liang Yang UT Austin

Mark Hagemann Mi-Hyun Park Umass Amherst

Summer Institute Participants

Student Advisor University

Michael Gomez Alfonso Mejia Pennsylvania State University

Mike Johnson Keith Clarke University of California, Santa Barbara

Mohammad Nabatian DJ Seo UT ArlingtonPaul Ruess David Maidment UT Austin

Richard Henry Garth Bryan Chastain UT DallasRyan Patrick McGehee Puneet Srivastava Auburn University

Sanjib Sharma Alfonso Mejia Penn State UniversitySeyed Ehsan Omranian Hatim Sharif UT San Antonio

Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseiny

Virginia Smith Villanova University

Shahab Afshari Balazs FeketeCity University of New York / City

CollegeWhitney Elizabeth Henson Tanveer Islam Jacksonville State University

Xing Zheng David Maidment UT AustinYan-ting Liau May Yuan UT DallasYu-Fen Huang Yi-Leng Chen University of Hawaii at Manoa

Summer Institute Student Assistants

Student Advisor University

Adnan Rajib Venkatesh Merwade Purdue University

Peirong Lin Zong-Liang Yang UT AustinRidwan Siddique Alfonso Mejia Penn State UniversitySavannah Keane Jim Nelson BYUChristian Kesler Dan Ames BYUChris Franklin Bryan Chastain UT Dallas

Schedule of Activities for Summer Institute

Period Dates Activity

Week 1 Monday June 6 Arrival, check in, welcome

Tuesday – Friday Summer Institute Overview

Week 2 June 13-17 Project development

Weeks 3-6 June 20 to July 15 Project research

Week 7 Wednesday July 20 Summer Institute Capstone Event

(July 18-21) Thursday July 21 Students leave campus

Faculty Advisors are welcome to visit the National Water Centerat any time to see the Center and to work with their students. CUAHSI can support travel for one trip by each faculty advisor. You are especially encouraged to visit during the first two weeks during the overview and research formulation phases, or for the Capstone Event.

Summer Institute Overview

Dates Activity Speakers

Monday June 6 Arrival, check in, welcome

Tuesday June 7 Intro to National Water

Center, Overview of

Research Themes

Louis Uccellini, Director of

the National Weather

Service

Weds June 8 Flood emergency

response in Tuscaloosa

Walter Maddox, Mayor of

Tuscaloosa

Thursday June 9 National Water Model data

access

SI leaders, assistants,

NWC staff

Friday June 10 Regional Flood

emergency response

James Spann,

meteorologist, ABC News,

Birmingham, AL

Friday June 10 Research theme review Theme leaders

National Water Model (NWM)

Runoff

Inundation and ImpactWeather

Hydrology

Forecasts for 2.7

million unique

catchments and

stream reaches

Computed for the continental US at NOAA Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputer System (WCOSS) starting 28 June 2016

Hydraulics

From County to State Level Response

Begin with Flood Emergency Response for Tuscaloosa County

End with real-time flood inundation mapping

for state of Alabama

Wednesday June 8 Wednesday July 20

Mobile-Alabama River System

Research Themes

Flood Inundation Mapping

Densified

Measurement and

Flow modeling

Data Assimilation

and Forecast Error

Flood Emergency

Response

Community

Case Studies

Continental Water Balance

Summer

Institute

Ibrahim Demir

Sagy Cohen

Sarah Praskievicz

Jonathan Nelson

USGS

David Maidment

Albert Van Dijk

Alfonso Mejia