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Integrating Hydrological and Atmospheric
Datasets
Dr. David R. Maidment
University of Texas
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Foothills Laboratory 1, EOL Atrium
David R. Maidment is the Engineering Foundation
Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Research in
Water Resources at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been
on the faculty since 1981. He received his Bachelor's degree in
Agricultural Engineering with First Class Honors from the University of
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and his MS and PhD degrees in
Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, he was a
research scientist at the Ministry of Works and Development in New
Zealand, and at the International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis in Vienna, Austria, and he was also a Visiting Assistant
Professor at Texas A&M University.
Dr Maidment is a specialist in surface water hydrology, and in
particular in the application of geographic information systems to
hydrology. Since 1989, he has been cooperating in this field with ESRI,
manufacturers of Arc/Info and ArcView, the leading GIS programs
world-wide. Each year, Dr Maidment presents a survey of the state of
the art in GIS and hydrology at the ESRI User Conference, and since
1997, these surveys have been summarized on GIS Hydro CD-ROMs. Since
1991, he has also been working with the Hydrologic Engineering Center
of the US Army Corps of Engineers, to prepare GIS interfaces for HEC
models. He is the principal designer of the Arc Hydro data model, which
is a customization of the ArcGIS geographic information system for
water resources, published in the book Arc Hydro: GIS for Water
Resources in 2002. He and his research team also have current projects
applying GIS for flood plain mapping, water quality modeling, water
resources assessment, hydrologic simulation, surface water-groundwater
interaction, and global hydrology. More information about his research
can be found on Dr Maidment's home page:
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/.
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