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Irrigation and Diversions Scenario Training and IHM Basic Skills Training

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Irrigation and Diversions Scenario Training using the Integrated Northern Tampa Bay Model


When:

Thursday and Friday
April 9 & 10, 2020
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Where:

Tampa Bay Water
2575 Enterprise Road
Clearwater, FL 33763


The two-day training will be an interactive, hands-on experience. Attendees will learn through presentations by the trainers and active participation by creating irrigation, diversion, and well pumping scenarios using the INTB model, then running and interpreting INTB model results. The training experience will be enhanced for those that have access to geographic information system software but it is not required. Attendees will improve their understanding of the decision-support benefits of the INTB model and improve their proficiency to apply the INTB model. Skills learned by participants who attended previous INTB scenario training will be reinforced and expanded.

New users are encouraged to attend Basic Skills Training before Scenario Training.

Irrigation and diversions scenario training using the Integrated Northern Tampa Bay (INTB) Model will be held on April 9-10, 2020 in Clearwater, Florida at the headquarters of Tampa Bay Water. The INTB model is a calibrated application of the Integrated Hydrologic Model (IHM) simulation code. The INTB model domain covers 4,000 square miles to the north and east of Tampa Bay. Follow the links to download fact sheets for both the IHM and the INTB Model.

The INTB model is used to support water supply planning and management, minimum flows and levels, evaluation of changes to flows and levels resulting from changes in water extraction, landuse, and climate, and more. Future scenarios often consider changes to either or both well pumping and surface-water diversions.

Due to the hydrologic and hydrogeologic characteristics within the INTB model domain, streamflow and aquifer water levels are influenced by changes in both well pumping and diversions. Since irrigation is linked to anthropogenic extraction of water, irrigation changes must also be considered in water management scenarios when changes are investigated for either well pumping or diversions.

Attendees are required to:

  • Register for Irrigation/Diversions Scenario training by March 13, 2020 (no registration fee)
  • Register as an IHM user and assent to the End User License Agreement
  • Bring a laptop to the training event with IHM and INTB model files installed
  • Bring cash for a box lunch or bring your own lunch (see registration for lunch options)

IHM Basic Skills Training


When:

Wednesday
April 8, 2020
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Where:

Tampa Bay Water
2575 Enterprise Road
Clearwater, FL 33763


The one-day training will be an interactive, hands-on experience. Attendees will learn through presentations by the trainers and active participation by using the Integrated Hydrologic Model (IHM) User Interface (UI) to create, run, and postprocess IHM simulation scenarios. Attendees will learn about IHM integration paths that facilitate dynamic simulation of hydrologic interactions among uplands, water bodies, and saturated ground-water processes. Throughout the course, attendees will practice navigation through the IHM folder and file structure and the IHM UI and will develop a basic understanding of the IHM input database (MS Access). Attendees will practice developing and simulating well pumping scenarios. The training experience will be enhanced for those that have access to geographic information system software but it is not required. Attendees will improve their understanding of the decision-support benefits of an integrated model like the IHM.

Basic Skills training for the Integrated Hydrologic Model (IHM) will be held on April 8, 2020 in Clearwater, Florida at the headquarters of Tampa Bay Water. The IHM is a powerful computing tool that is designed to simulate all surface and subsurface processes of the hydrologic cycle and their dynamic interactions within a Windows operating system environment. The IHM couples two well established and broadly used model codes to simulate hydrologic processes: Hydrologic Simulation Program–FORTRAN (HSPF) to simulate surface and vadose zone processes and MODFLOW to simulate saturated groundwater processes. IHM simulations have durations ranging between 1 day to many years or decades and model domains ranging from 0.01 to 10,000 square miles. The IHM represents the third generation of HSPF–MODFLOW coupling which was first developed in the late 1980s. Follow the link to download an IHM fact sheet that provides more information.

Attendees are required to:

  • Register for Irrigation/Diversions Scenario training by March 13, 2020 (no registration fee)
  • Register as an IHM user and assent to the End User License Agreement
  • Bring a laptop to the training event with IHM and INTB model files installed
  • Bring cash for a box lunch or bring your own lunch (see registration for lunch options)

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Box Lunch Options

All box lunches come with a chocolate chip cookie. Water and other beverages will be provided.

  1. Traditional Box Roasted Turkey breast: multi-wheat bread, tomato, lettuce, chips, pickle
  2. Traditional Box Roast Beef: multi-wheat bread, tomato, lettuce, chips, pickle
  3. Traditional Box Ham: multi-wheat bread, tomato, lettuce, chips, pickle
  4. Deli Club Box: multi-wheat bread, ham, roasted turkey breast, bacon, cheddar, swiss, tomato, lettuce, chips, pickle
  5. Croissant Club Box: croissant, ham, roasted turkey breast, bacon, cheddar, swiss, tomato, lettuce, chips, pickle
  6. Spinach Veggie Wrap Box: wheat wrap, spinach, guacamole, pico de gallo, mushrooms, asiago, salsa, side of fruit