Tuesday, March 18th, 10:00 am – 11:30 am GROUP1A
Total Water Management – Approaches to Managing water resources is
W. A. Meeting Future Water Supply and Resource becoming increasingly complex in
10:00-10:20 Kreutzberger CH2M Hill Needs at Local to River Basin Scales regions with continued growth and
Project impacts to water quality
Quantifying Project Impacts to Water Quality have traditionally been assessed
10:20-10:40 Karen Myers MVK Using HGM utilizing complex models. For the
Bayou Lafourche is a natural
Mississippi River Water Reintroduction Into distributary channel of the lower
10:45-11:05 Kyle Winslow CH2M Hill Bayou Lafourche Mississippi River in Louisiana that
Flood control projects alter the
Charles A. Assessing Environmental Impacts to Aquatics natural flooding regime resulting in
11:05-11:25 McKinnie MVK and Waterfowl environmental impacts to aquatic
Tuesday, March 18th, 10:00 am – 11:30 am GROUP1B
BIM, BIM, BIM. If you go to any
major Geospatial technology
10:00-10:20 Stephen Spangler ERDC-ITL Has CAD Gone the Way of the Dinosaur? conference, you can’t avoid hearing
In GIS applications such as
hydrology, the GIS system is at the
10:20-10:40 Nancy Towne ERDC-ITL Interior GIS Data Model core of the workflow. In contrast,
Agencies within the DoD have
written memorandum and
10:45-11:05 Allyson Windham ERDC-ITL BIM/GIS Usage and Interoperability regulations requiring geospatial
The LiDAR Industry’s abilities to
Optimal process, classify and utilize LiDAR
11:05-11:25 Mark Brooks Geomatics Lidargrammetry Value and Uses data have dramatically increased
Tuesday, March 18th, 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm GROUP 2A
The Geotechnical & Structures
Laboratory (GSL) of the
1:15-1:35 Bill Heard ERDC-GSL Modular Protective System Engineering Research and
Throughout the recent military
Large-Area Indirect Fire Protection in the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,
1:35-1:55 Billy Bullock ERDC-GSL CENTCOM AOR U.S. and coalition base camps
Under the Magneto-Inductive
Magneto Inductive-Remote Activation Munitions Remote Activation Munition System
2:00-2:20 Jon Windham ERDC-GSL System: COLD FIRE Concepts (MI-RAMS) program, the capability
Explosive detonations that are
ERDC Capabilities to Investigate RC Damage coupled, i.e., in-contact or
2:20-2:40 Jay Ehrgott ERDC-GSL from Coupled Detonations embedded, to reinforced concrete
Criteria for designing structures to
resist the effects of accidental
2:40-3:00 Stephen P. Rowell ERDC-GSL High Strain-Rate Testing of Mechanical Couplers explosions are defined by TM 5-
Tuesday, March 18th, 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm GROUP 2B
The U.S. Army Engineer Research
Dr. Gary L. Joint Rapid Airfield Construction: JRAC in the and Development Center (ERDC)
1:15-1:35 Anderton ERDC-GSL Outback began a six-year comprehensive
This paper will discuss the
Investigations for Airfield Damage Repair Kit experiments and analyses
1:35-1:55 Chad Gartrell, P.E. ERDC-GSL Modifications - Supporting the C-17 conducted to evaluate options to
Production of bio-polymers that can
replace or out-perform petroleum
2:00-2:20 Christopher Griggs ERDC-EL Ammending Soils with Modified Biopolymers based biopolymers that are
The US Army owns and maintains
an estimated 2,000 bridges
2:20-2:40 Terry R. Stanton ERDC-GSL Bridge Safety on Army Installations throughout the United States and
Over the years the success of our
Wilmel Varela- LOAD TESTING OF MILITARY VEHICLES ON US military forces has been
2:40-3:00 Ortiz ERDC-GSL STEEL MULTI-BEAM BRIDGES dependant on the education,
Tuesday, March 18th, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm GROUP3A
This discussion presents a system
C.H. and methodology for high definition
Fenstermaker High Definition Superstructure and Submerged Underwater Acoustic Imaging (UAI)
& Associates, Substucture Inspection Mapping and Integrated for substructure inspection and
3:30-3:50 Ken LaBry Inc As-Found Model Construction shallow water bottom mapping
Streambed Roughness Simulations Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Porous Medium (CFD) has been used extensively
3:50-4:10 Jeffrey Allen ERDC-ITL Approach for modeling fluid flows in a large
4:15-4:35
Coastal Land-building sediment diversions,
Engineering such as the Mississippi River
Consultants, Sediment Flux and Fate in the Mississippi River Diversion at West Bay, can be used
4:35-4:55 T. Mitchell Andrus Inc. Diversion at West Bay: Observation Study as important building blocks in
Tuesday, March 18th, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm GROUP3B
Using Enterprise Geographic Information
Systems and Database Management Solutions Using Enterprise Geographic
Barbara Barrett to Efficiently Manage Levee Construction Project Information Systems and Database
3:30-3:50 James Stevenson PBS&J Rights of Way Management Solutions to Efficiently
Thomas As a result of recent Congressional
Schweitzer, P.E., action, the USACE has received
3:50-4:10 CFM PBS&J USACE National Levee Database the mandate and resources to
In 2002 the Vicksburg District was
Yazoo Backwater Landscape Scale Wetland challenged by EPA Region IV to
4:15-4:35 David R. Johnson MVK Delineation come up with a method that could
In order to explain the benefits of a
3D GIS Flood Animation of the Yazoo Backwater complex system of levees and a
4:35-4:55 Joey Windham MVK Area/Pumping Plant large pumping station proposed for
Wednesday, March 19th, 8:30 am – 9:30 am GROUP 4A
Historically, there has not been a
Speler T. well-documented, centralized
8:30-8:50 Montgomery ERDC-GSL Worldwide Construction Practices source of information regarding
The internet provides a stage that
Wikineering - Using Mass Collaboration to Solve can bring people from around the
8:50-9:10 Robert Walker ERDC-GSL the Nations Engineering Problems world together to exchange ideas,
Constrained budgets, quick
Reaching the Future with Value Engineering as a schedules, and customers
9:10-9:30 Brandy Alexander MVK Solution demanding results are the driving
Wednesday, March 19th, 8:30 am – 9:30 am GROUP 4B
The The London Load Test was
Commander specifically designed to determine
8:30-8:50 COL Jeffrey Bedy HPO The London Load Test the safe water elevation in the
L.C. Boggs Lock and Dam is
Low Flow Navigation Study on the Lower Red located on the Red River at river
8:50-9:10 Mike Alexander MVK River mile 44. Navigation from here to
Estimating Flood Limits in Large Riverine
Systems Using Unsteady-State Hydraulic The ability to accurately estimate
Brian Greathouse, Malcolm Modeling (HEC-Ras). Case Study: Modeling the flood limits in large riverine systems
9:10-9:30 P.E. Pirnie, Inc Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River System is critical in today’s constant state
Wednesday, March 19th, 10:00 am - 12:00 am GROUP 5A
Barge Gate at Company Canal
Expedited Flood Gate Construction Without
INCA Dewatering In the greater New Orleans post
10:00-10:20 David Lapene Engineers Katrina world designing and
Over the last three years, the
Randy Thompson, Development of the Controlled Overtopping author has been developing an
10:20-10:40 M.S., P.E. Propex Inc. Levee Design Logic innovative erosion protection
Geotechnical Data Storage, Analysis, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Charles E. Bishop, Reporting Upgrades for Hurricane Protection districts and contractors unfamiliar
10:40-11:00 Jr., P.E. MVR System Projects with New Orleans District’s
Hurricane Katrina provided the
Hydraulic Support for Hurricane Katrina greatest natural water resource
11:00-11:20 Ben Stubbs MVK Unwatering of New Orleans related disaster and challenge the
Numerical model investigations of
Hydraulic Modeling of Hurricane Katrina in the Hurricane Katrina flooding in New
11:20-11:40 John B. Smith MVK New Orleans Metro Area Orleans Metro Area were
Immediately after Hurricane
Kathy Berek Hurricane Katrina Emergency Recovery - Katrina, KBR mobilized to assist
11:40-12:00 Glenn Hughes KBR and KBR Mission to Un-Water Plaquemines Parrish with the emergency recovery effort.
Wednesday, March 19th, 10:00 am - 12:00 am GROUP 5B
Current World Class Drainage
A Case for Concrete Volutes and Optimal Pumping Station Design must
10:00-10:20 John Ehlers, P.E. Evans-Graves Drainage Pumping Station Design utilize best principles and
Use of Articulated Concrete
Tom Gambucci, Articulated Concrete Matting (ACM) for Spillway Matting (ACM) for overflow
10:20-10:40 P.E. MVR Design spillways has great ability to resist
KBR & Vinyl Sheet Pile for Levee Seepage Control and In the past two decades, vinyl sheet
Dr. T. (Jerry) Shih Audubon Drainage Canal Bank Slope Failure piles have been gradually adopted
10:40-11:00 Dr. Man-Wai Ho Engineering Rehabilitation to secure shoreline or to
KBR & Dallas Working closely with Dallas Water
Utility District Utilities (DWU) staff, KBR’s Dam
John Wise Project Creative Solutions for Dam Safety Improvements Services Team developed some
11:00-11:20 Cassia Sanchez Manager to Bachman Dam creative solutions to improve the
Hydropower is not only back- it’s
Private Hydorelectric Projects at Corps Dams: A smarter, greener, and more
11:20-11:40 Jeffrey M. Auser Brookfield Power
Partnership to Power the Nation economical than ever. As
Dr. Karim El The flow over bed forms consists of
Kheiashy contracting flow, flow separation
Dr. Alex KBR & UNO Bed Forms Patterns in the Lower Mississippi and expanding flow. Typically, flow
11:40-1200 McCorquodale Professor River separation occurs near the crest of