GIS Hydro '98 - Classroom

Center for Research in Water Resources
The University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Directory of Exercises
• Term Papers
• Course Curriculum

Introduction

The purpose of these exercises is to provide instruction in the use of the Arcview and Arc/Info geographic information systems in their application to hydrology and water resources problems. All the data files required for them are available from this CD or via anonymous ftp from ftp.crwr.utexas.edu in directory /pub/gisclass. These exercises are taught by David R. Maidment in the Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. Each exercise normally takes 3-4 hours to be completed. If you don't have access to the Arcview software needed to do the exercises, you can still read through them and understand the nature of the analysis from the instructions and pictures presented there.

Directory of Exercises

• Exercise 1. Introduction to ArcView
• Exercise 2. Digital Watershed Delineation and CRWR-PrePro
• Exercise 3. Map Projections
• Exercise 4. Building a Base Map and a Point Shapefile
• Exercise 5. Working with Statsgo Soils Data and Land Use
• Exercise 6. Nonpoint Sources in the Mission Basin
• Exercise 7. Mapping Environmental Data Stored in Microsoft Access

Term Papers

The students in the GIS in Water Resources course each write an html term paper summarizing a piece of original investigation in the use of GIS to study water or related environmental issues. The term projects for the Spring 1998 semester are presented are presented here on this CD-ROM:

Surface and Subsurface Representation

• Eric Tate: Display of Flood Water Levels in a GIS
• Andrew Romanek: Surface Water Modeling for the Marcus Hook Refinery
• Aiza Jose: Concentration of Chemicals of Concern in the Soil Matrix for the Marcus Hook Refinery
• Scot Weaver: Subsurface Stratigraphy at Marcus Hook Using EQuIS Geology
• Michael Landrum: Constructing Potentiometric Maps in ArcView

• Nabeel Khwaja: Digital Databases for Water Rights Investigations in Texas
• Luis Aburto: Use of GIS for Calculating Flows at Ungaged Sites in WRAP
• Kevin Wei: Linking GIS (CRWR-PrePro) with the Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP)
• Seth Ahrens: Flood Forecasting for the Buffalo Bayou Using GIS and HEC-HMS
• Ben Bigelow: Georeferencing Hydrologic and Hydraulic Control Points in the Upper Mississippi Flood Studies 

Wetlands and Water Quality

• Sarah Benedict: Using GIS to Determine Risks to Habitat in Corpus Christi Bay and Evaluate Potential Sites for Constructed Wetlands
• Patrice Melancon: Modeling the Hydrology of Tillamook Bay
• Sarah Lindsay: Bacteria Loading in the Trask River
• Michael Sufnarski: Using GIS to model Water Quality in the San Gabriel Watershed
• Brad Hudgens: Improved Nonpoint Source Modeling with EPA BASINS 2.0

Scientific and Planning Studies

• Karen Mohr: Evaluating the Technique of Variational Assimilation in a Semi-Arid Environment
• Damon Scott: In Search of the "Wild and Scenic Rivers" of Texas
• Michele Simpson: GIS Analysis of Census Data and Health Care Facilities in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties, Texas

Course Curriculum

Link back to the GIS in Water Resources Class Home Page at the University of Texas at Austin

These materials may be used for study, research, and education, but please credit the authors and the Center for Research in Water Resources, The University of Texas at Austin. All commercial rights reserved. Copyright 1998 Center for Research in Water Resources.