Grab your lunch and join Chesapeake Stormwater Network on Tuesday, July 8th at noon, for their latest webinar.

2D Hydrodynamic modeling (2D models) provides the stream restoration community with a powerful tool to visualize the impact of flooding on restoration sites. The primary application of 2D models in restoration work is to simulate flood flows over proposed restoration terrain, allowing users to identify areas that are vulnerable to flood damage and modify those areas through iterative design. This iterative design process supported by 2D models helps to achieve two primary goals: preventing inadequate design, which can lead to projects which fail to meet their objectives or require costly repairs; and preventing over-design, which can result in excess disturbance to the landscape and un-necessary expense during construction.

 

A recently concluded project funded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust evaluated the reliability of 2D model predictions in stream restoration sites located in tributaries to the Chesapeake Bay. The results of this study add confidence to the use of 2D models in restoration, with specific insights into how these models should be applied to different kinds of restoration sites, design methods, and in the presence of infrastructure.

Speaker Bio:

Jesse Robinson, P.E

Jesse is a senior water resources and environmental engineer with Wetland Studies and Solutions. He specializes in the design of high-functioning stream and wetland restoration solutions in the eastern United States. His design experience ranges from highly constrained urban environments to large, rural headwater basins with miles of connected stream and wetland restoration. He has extensive experience in natural resource assessment, terrain development, design and optimization of restoration strategies from concept to implementation, and hydraulics analysis, primarily through 2D hydrodynamic modeling.

Speaker Bio:

Art Parola, Ph. D, P.E.

Art is a principal engineer with Wetland Studies and Solutions. Art specializes in designing stream and wetland systems, riverine mechanics, and sediment transport. He is an expert in 2D hydrodynamic modeling for stream and floodplain restoration and vulnerability assessments for infrastructure design. He has directed the design of more than 275,000 feet of stream channel and hundreds of acres of riparian habitat restoration, including floodplain wetlands. He has partnered with state and federal agencies on projects that required complex riverine modeling, including 2D hydrodynamic modeling and sediment transport analysis. Art has extensive experience with urban restoration and has designed best management practice approaches for urban outfalls, bridges/culverts, and other infrastructure.

***This webinar is FREE, but registration is required. Click this link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_On0OiU3oSaOc5bvQBUTgUA#/registration

CSN webinars are certified by the Maryland Board for Professional Engineers as meeting Continual Professional Competency (CPC) requirements. For more information on this webinar, and how to obtain a certificate of attendance please see the CSN website: https://chesapeakestormwater.net/event/reliable-uses-of-two-dimensional-hydrodynamic-flood-models-in-stream-restoration-design/