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Contact: |
clarksiler@mail.utexas.edu |
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Degrees: |
PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Texas at
Austin (in progress) |
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MS, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin (2008) |
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BS, Civil Engineering,
Brigham Young University (2005) |
Biography
Coming from Utah, Clark brought his wife, Maryann, and
two small children, David and Rebecca, to Texas where he
works towards advanced degrees in water resources
engineering. Clark likes learning and helping others, but he
loves his family.
While at Brigham Young University (BYU),
Clark was fascinated by the abilities provided by digital
terrain data to model watersheds and predict water paths.
BYU houses the think tank Environmental Modeling Research
Laboratory (EMRL), origin
of the Watershed Modeling System (WMS)
software. Through traditional hydrology and hydraulics
courses and an applied digital watershed mapping course,
Clark was drenched in his pursuit of learning about water
engineering and geospatial hydrology.
After graduating and working briefly at EMRL, Clark came
to work with and study under Dr. David Maidment at the
Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR)
where the application of digital information for the
advancement of hydrological science is at its peak.
Research
The Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP)
is a computer model for simulating water resources
management. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
uses WRAP as part of its water availability modeling. Clark
is involved in research to take the output of WRAP and
display it in a geographical information system (GIS)
environment. This research involves not only the
programmatic development of digital tools, but an
exploration into the future of database management
techniques and strategies.
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