The key focuses of the conference include:

• Sustainable development for flood management and sea level rise

• Lessons learned and moving forward from 2021 floods

• Design with traditional knowledge and resiliency

• BC Flood Strategy and Governance

Registration

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Sponsorship and Exhibitors

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Technical Sessions

Abstract submissions is closed.

Workshop: Hydrologic Modelling with the Raven Framework

Date
October 5, 2023 9 AM – 5PM

Short Course Objectives
This course is intended to provide an accelerated introduction to the Raven Hydrologic Modelling Framework. By the end of the course, each participant should:

• have an improved appreciation for the capacity of Raven for flood forecasting, reservoir management, water budgeting, and transport simulation
• be able to apply, test, modify, and interpret simple models built with Raven and Raven-UBCWM,
• understand the modelling workflow process , I/O, and basic implementation details
• have an understanding of the extended capabilities of Raven; understand the logistics associated with building and testing more advanced Raven models
• Have an improved appreciation for the challenges of trustworthy model development

Instructor
James R. Craig, Ph.D., P.Eng., jrcraig@uwaterloo.ca
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Hydrologic Modelling and Analysis,
University of Waterloo

Prof. James Craig, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a Canada Research Chair in Hydrologic Modelling and Analysis and an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. Prof. Craig is an expert in hydrological model development, lead author of the Raven hydrological modelling framework, and an award-winning University instructor. His research focuses upon in numerical and analytical modelling of environmental systems, with a focus on surface water hydrology, regional scale groundwater flow, and subsurface heat and pollutant transport simulation.

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