What FEMA Accepts on a LOMR, and Where the Time Actually Goes
Summary: On a National Flood Insurance Program submittal, the schedule is set by review cycles and engine-version compliance, not by how fast the model solves. FEMA accepts named…
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Rainfall Data in Transition: NOAA Atlas 14 to Atlas 15
Summary: NOAA Atlas 14 remains NOAA’s current precipitation-frequency standard and authoritative source for the areas it covers, while Atlas 15 will gradually replace it with updated, seamless, nonstationary…
Locating Wetlands for Better Model Development and Planning
As hydrologic engineers, we would be remiss not to use all information available to us in the course of understanding water flow within a drainage basin. Increasingly, geospatial…
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Robot Engineers?
You may lose your white-collar job to a robot sooner than you think. According to the IDC (International Data Corporation), a global provider of market intelligence and analysis, big changes in the U.S. workforce will happen quickly and at a scale you would never have expected. The IDC’s report, “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide…
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How to Keep Your Head Above Water
Building and growing a business is in my blood. I come from a long line of entrepreneurs that thrived on self-employment. From my great-grandfather on my mother’s side to my dad and several more in-between, we have always enjoyed building businesses from the ground up. But it hasn’t been easy and it would…
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Is It Time for 3D Modeling?
An overview of recent magazine covers would suggest that virtual reality technology is the latest marvel to hit the consumer market. Not too long ago, Best Buy’s main display table featured a virtual reality headset by Oculus Rift. No matter that the goggles were massive, awkward, heavy and extended your forehead by…
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What Speed Dating Can Teach Us About Sales
Forbes recently published a story on research by Karen Huang, a Ph.D student at Harvard, that suggests that people who ask questions, particularly follow-up questions, may become better managers, land better jobs, and even win second dates. Huang designed a study that examined whether asking questions at a first meeting improved the relationship or made no…
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Tales in Geography: John Wesley Powell at the Helm of the USGS (Part 2)
Fights over water are pretty common these days. The San Joaquin River in California, for example, is in the thick of disputes between farmers, cities and other uses as a variety of groups attempt to restore the fishery and other aspects of a historically battered river. The recent North Dakota pipeline crisis…
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Six Traits of a Good Engineer
Robust Math Skills Engineers know that mathematical relationships form the building blocks of all that we see in nature. The famous British mathematician, engineer and computer scientist, Alan Turing, was so talented in math as a child that he could solve advanced math problems with little to no exposure to introductory calculus.…
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GeoHECRAS Update: December 28, 2017 Release
Dec 28, 2017 Release We are pleased to announce a major new release that contains numerous new features, enhancements, and functional fixes for GeoHECRAS. Many of these items came from receiving valuable feedback from our users. This new release took much longer than we expected, as the 2D modeling capabilities that we added…
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Cloud Devotee
Let’s declare right here what we all know to be true: Without a decent corporate phone system, businesses would go belly-up. An efficient, fool-proof phone system keeps the wheels spinning and business moving right along. Following in at a close second are the computers at CivilGEO, without which we couldn’t create the…
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Tales in Geography: Early Methods in Surveying
An engineer’s ability to tackle a complex modeling project requires accurate and reliable baseline data. Centuries of discovery, research, and human ingenuity have produced data in the form of LIDAR, satellite imagery, digital elevation terrain data, GIS and more. But, this huge variety of data has not always been available. As this…
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Giving Thanks in 2017
Ideally, we should give thanks every day for the people, things and circumstances that make our lives better. But life and responsibilities get in the way most of the time. When the month of November rolls around, it forces us to consider the blessings we so often ignore during the rest of…
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