AGENDA

Water Information Management Systems Workshop

Missoula, Montana

                                                                                                 Wednesday, September 7

  1:00 p.m.          Welcome and Introductions

Jack Stults, Administrator, Montana Water Resources Division

Tony Willardson, Deputy Director, Western States Water Council

  1:20 p.m.          Montana's Natural Resources Information System (NRIS)

                           Jim Hill, Montana State Library

  2:00 p.m.          Remote Sensing Data Gathering and Applications

Satellite Thermal Imagery and Water Resources Management

Richard G. (Rick) Allen, University of Idaho 

NASA, HYDROS, MODIS, Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture

Steven Running, University of Montana 

  3:00 p.m.          BREAK

  3:30 p.m.          Federal Water Resource Data Gathering and Management

                  Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting Program/SCAN

Phil Pasteris, National Water and Climate Center

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service

National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)

Glenn Patterson, Cooperative Water Program Manager, U.S. Geological Survey

National Water Information System (NWIS) Webdata

Dave Briar, NWIS Web Team, U.S. Geological Survey

  5:00 p.m.          NWIS "Hands On" Demonstration

  5:30 p.m.          ADJOURN

  6:00 p.m.          "Meet and Greet" - Cash Bar

                   Thursday, September 8

  7:30 a.m.           CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

  8:00 a.m.           Water Resources Information Management Needs and Challenges

  An Informal State Roundtable Discussion

  9:15 a.m.           Surface/Ground Water Supplies and Water Use: How Much Water? Where? When?

Colorado's Decision Support Systems and Map Server

Ray Alvarado, Colorado Water Conservation Board

10:00 a.m.          BREAK

10:30 a.m.          The CRWCD's Integrated Water Resources Data Viewer

Don Meyer, Colorado River Water Conservation District

Data Handling, Processing & Dissemination for Texas’ Regional Water Planning

Dr. Barney Austin, Texas Water Development Board

Drowning in a Dry Creek Bed: Predictive Water Supply Tools

Bob DeVyldere, Oregon Department of Water Resources

12:00 p.m.      LUNCH

  1:00 p.m.          The National Hydrographic Dataset as the Basis for Idaho's Water Data 

Zach Maillard, Idaho Department of Water Resources

Water Rights Automatic Memorandum Decision (AUTOMN)

John Solum, Utah Division of Water Rights

  2:00 p.m.          Water Rights Administration/Adjudication

How Idaho is Bringing Water Right Accounting into the 21^st Century

Tony Morse, Idaho Department of Water Resources

Washington State's Water Rights and Mapping Efforts

Jeremiah Miller, Washington Department of Ecology

  3:00 p.m.          BREAK

  3:30 p.m.          New Mexico's Integration of Spatial and Non-Spatial Databases:

                           Adjudication and Administration of Water Rights

Dario Rodriguez-Bejarano, New Mexico Office of the State Engineer

                           Montana’s Water Rights Imaging Program

                           Terri McLaughlin, Montana Water Rights Bureau

  4:30 p.m.          Information Solutions

                           Josh Price, PBS&J

  5:00 p.m.          ADJOURN

                                                                       Friday, September 9

 8:00 a.m.            CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 8:30 a.m.            Water Rights Administration/Adjudication (continued)

HB 22 -- Montana’s Water Rights Adjudication Expansion and IT

Jim Gilman, Montana Water Rights Bureau

Water Rights Administration in Nevada

Dave Wooldridge, Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

South Dakota Inmates Imaging Water Rights Records

Ron Duvall, South Dakota Water Rights Program

10:00 a.m.          BREAK

10:30 a.m.          The Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI)

Streamgaging Task Force Report

Barney Austin, Texas Water Development Board

11:00 a.m.          WORKSHOP WRAP-UP and NEXT STEPS

12:00 noon         ADJOURN