NWDTW 2024

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NWDTW 2024

8:00am CDT

Campbell Scientific Datalogger Training (Beginner) Midway 10Dave Owens In/Over the Water Training Midway 9Ayelet Delascagigas • Stephen Schmitt • Zachary Holcomb Groundwater Data Processing Midway 6Dee-Ann Mccarthy • Lance Gruhn Train-the-Trainer Short Course Midway 8Grant Walters Continuous Water-Quality: Best practices for Calibrations and Field Procedures Midway 5Cory Kavan • Taylor Camper • Ernie McCoy • Kim Shaffer • Justin Krahulik • Brent Hall Writing Format Statements for Decoding Time-Series Data (Break at Noon for Lunch 1 Hr)) Midway 3+4Laura Flight • Amarys Acosta Procedures for Running Station Levels & Hands-On Training Midway 7Crystal Hammer • Seth Bishop Rise Above (Imagery and Remote Sensing Training Track) Grand Ballroom AFrank Engel • John Fulton • Matt Gyves • Matt Nicotra • Russ Lotspeich • Dave Owens • Carl Legleiter • John Jones • Chelsea Vande Pol • Merritt Harlan • Paul Kinzel Data Chief and Field Office Chief Meeting Regency Ballroom CGary Johnson

10:00am CDT

Campbell Scientific Datalogger Training (Intermediate) Midway 10Dave Owens

1:00pm CDT

In/Over the Water Training Midway 9Stephen Schmitt • Zachary Holcomb • Ayelet Delascagigas LDM Open Forum Grand Ballroom CSonya Vasquez and Automated Records group members • Cassy Pfeifle • Heather Jeppesen Index Velocity Rating: Crash Course in Rating Development Midway 8Travis Knight Sediment Acoustics Workshop Midway 11Colleen Barr • Paul Diaz • Justin Boldt Continuous Water-Quality Records Refresher Midway 5Kim Shaffer

8:00am CDT

Opening Plenary Grand Ballroom F+E+D

1:00pm CDT

Analytics Across the Gages - How your hard-earned records get used (2024 Reboot!) Regency Ballroom CShawna Gregory • Emily Read • Cee Nell • Joe Zemmels An Update on the Next Generation Water Observing System Midway 3+4Brian Pellerin Evaluation of Alternative Coatings for USGS Water-Quality Samplers Regency Ballroom BAlyssa Thornton The 411 on Continuous Water-Quality (CWQ): Find out the latest on CWQ efforts, resources, and updates Regency Ballroom AKim Shaffer Life after your USGS Career Grand Ballroom BRobert Swanson Developing and Contributing to AQS+ DSET applications and packages Midway 6Colin Penn Best Practices, Traverse Selection, and Quality Levels for Trigonometric-Leveling Applications in the USGS―with specific reference to Indirects. Midway 11Michael Noll Measurements of Groundwater flow velocity and direction: Project investigations and long term monitoring station deployment Midway 1+2David Lampe • Lance Gruhn What Makes the Mechanical Meter QA Program Click Midway 5Christopher Wilson ADCP best practices: a quick review Midway 9Nicholas Stasulis Introduction the Image Velocimetry (IVy) Framework, a Windows Sofware Application for Processing Streamflow with Videos Midway 8Frank Engel Alternative Approaches to USGS Event Monitoring Midway 7Athena Clark Developing a New Unified Field Data Collection Application Grand Ballroom F+E+DLaura Flight Rating Review Toolbox (RRT) Demo and Q&A Grand Ballroom AWade Walker Joint HNB-OQA Listening Session on Field Support Needs Midway 10Jeffery East • Terry Kenney • Michelle Sneed • Tim Straub • Molly Wood

1:30pm CDT

Feature mapping mobile data collection – tools for tracking stream flow permanence and stream road crossings Regency Ballroom CDave Evetts • Emily Heaston • Jason Dunham • Kyle Blasch Ask the AQUARIUS Samples Team Regency Ballroom BMichael Canova Continuous Water-Quality Community - Networking/Meet your Peers Session Regency Ballroom AKim Shaffer

2:00pm CDT

Equipment Tracking in the Field with NOMS InTrac Midway 5Travis Adams Broadcasting Single Base RTK Corrections Over WiFi Midway 3+4David Stillwell Data collection and management issues for the National Water Quality Network - Groundwater Midway 1+2Bruce Lindsey Cellular Communications - Tips and Tricks Midway 6Dave Owens Areacomp3: General overview Midway 11Erich Kessler Business of Data Operations - Tools and workflows every Data Chief should know about funding gaging networks Midway 7Brian Reece DEIA Midway 9Kristy Benson Exploring New Methods for Measuring Discharge Under Ice Midway 8Matt Nicotra • Tony Trease • Riley Swanson

3:00pm CDT

NWIS Time-Series and Discrete Data Workflows Midway 9Mike Colombo An examination of the LISST-ABS and turbidity pairing factors to improve continuous estimates of suspended-sediment concentration in rivers. Grand Ballroom CCaleb Van Zante Superfly: Updates and Modifications to the National Version Grand Ballroom AErin Coenen Water Data for the Nation Show and Tell Midway 3+4Kammy Durham Basic Electronics Principles Midway 6Michael West Wading through the USGS Quality Assurance Testing Program for ADCPs and FlowTrackers Midway 5Christopher Wilson AVMs with Campbell Dataloggers Midway 8Ben Torrison QRev Extrapolation Grand Ballroom BTravis Knight Evaluation of Streamflow Measurement Techniques for Estimating Continuous Stage and Discharge in Small Streams Across the United States Regency Ballroom CDave Evetts • Max Schwid • Laura Hempel • Brandon Overstreet • Jenn Fair • Kyle Blasch • Michael Allen Discrete Water-Quality Sampling - Overview of the USGS PFAS Sampling Strategy- Regency Ballroom ALee Bodkin • Andrea Tokranov • Jerry Casile • Joe Duris Aquarius Station Analysis (AQSA) Midway 10Sonya Vasquez and Automated Records group members All Things Datum: Establishment, Storage, and Policy - An interactive Discussion Midway 11Arthur Lilienthal • Paul Rydlund Groundwater Open Forum Midway 1+2Jason Fine • Lance Gruhn • Michelle Sneed Coastal and Riverine Flood Response Overview Session 1: Storm Tide Monitoring, New Sensors Midway 7William Capurso • Athena Clark

3:30pm CDT

3D Modeling and its Application in the Field Midway 9Patrick Dellwo State of the Science for Sediment Acoustics Grand Ballroom CPaul Diaz

4:00pm CDT

Camera Types for NIMS/HIVIS Midway 3+4Dave Owens How would connecting AQUARIUS Samples, LIMS, and the Field App help you? Grand Ballroom ADave Rus • Laura Flight Introduction to the Measurement Priority Summary Shiny Application Grand Ballroom CChad Ostheimer • Matthew Conlon Meters and Measurements Midway 6Michael West Show and Tell: Field vehicle Setups Regency Ballroom BErnie McCoy Beyond Discharge: Using ADCPs for velocity mapping, bathymetry, and sediment surrogates Midway 9Justin Boldt Field Safety Midway 8Eric Williams Safe Return and Float Plans Midway 5Zachary Holcomb Indirect Measurements: Best Practices Regency Ballroom CKarl Winters Graphing and Synthesizing Continuous and Discrete Water-Quality Data Regency Ballroom ALaura DeCicco • Julia Prokopec • Kim Shaffer • Amber Jones • Harper Wavra • Matthew Diebel • Stewart Rounds

8:00am CDT

CQW Best Practices When Servicing a Sonde Regency Ballroom ATaylor Camper Upcoming Changes to Public Delivery of WaterWatch Grand Ballroom CShawna Gregory • Florence Thompson GNSS RT Surveys: Best Practices and Error Analysis Midway 1+2Paul Rydlund Batteries, Charging and Current. Midway 6Michael West Drilling into the USGS Groundwater Tapes Recalibration Program Grand Ballroom BChristopher Wilson Collecting Data with Moving Bed Conditions Midway 7Justin Boldt RIVRS: Workflow and techniques for tidal index velocity data collection and computation Midway 10Fabian Kahn Relating Rating and Shift Development to Channel Geometry Midway 9Jeff Kitchen USGS in Belize Midway 8Andrew Gorman • Chris Smith Discrete Water-Quality Sampling - (part 1 of 3) What to do before discrete water-quality samples are collected Regency Ballroom BLee Bodkin NAAR Shark Tank Award Ceremony Midway 5Crystal Hammer Automated Time-Series Records Status and Future Grand Ballroom AWade Walker GeeWhiz! The GWSI Replacement Project overview, updates, and cleanup tasks Midway 3+4Catherine Fargen • Ben Sperl

8:30am CDT

Results from the Water Temperature Thermistor Field Test, 2022-2024 Regency Ballroom AKim Shaffer • Brian McCallum

9:00am CDT

What’s new with the NOMS Water Data Exploration System (WADERS)? Grand Ballroom CCary Carman • Chuck Hansen • Colin Keating • James Merges HWM Data Collection and STN Midway 1+2William Capurso • David Stillwell Discharge Measurements in Difficult Conditions Midway 7Garret Welsh Qrev: Whats new Midway 6Mike Rehmel Introduction to Camera Usage in USGS Monitoring Networks Midway 9Chelsea Vande Pol Annual Peak Explorer Midway 10Amy Simonson Modernization of surface water station mapping of vertical control points Midway 5Nicholas Pierson The National Flood Plan Midway 8Karl Winters Discrete Water-Quality Sampling - (part 2 of 3) Techniques and Methods for Discrete Sample Collection (SW & GW) Regency Ballroom BLee Bodkin

10:00am CDT

Groundwater Field Inventory - What do I need to get data to the web? Midway 3+4Lisl Fasser ADCP Mid-Section Measurements – The Azimuth Method Midway 11Thomas Granger Hydroacoustic Resources Midway 1+2Garret Welsh Using Flowtracker2 for Water Temperature Cross Sections Grand Ballroom ADiana Phillips Water Temperature Monitoring in the Illinois River Basin Regency Ballroom ALuis Garcia • Lindsey Schafer • Lydia Shotton Media Training: Working with the News Media Midway 6Mikaela Craig Terrestrial lidar data collection, change detection, and accuracy assessment using a scanning total station along a shoreline in eastern Suffolk County, NY. Midway 8Michael Noll Show and Tell: Gage Installs, wiring to construction Midway 5Ernie McCoy The NEW HIF, same as the old HIF? Midway 10Christopher Wilson Basics of 3D scanning and 3D software use. Midway 9Bryce Redinger Give Feedback to Your Software Product Lead Grand Ballroom BTravis Knight • Pete Ruhl • Laura Flight • Wade Walker • Sonya Vasquez and Automated Records group members • Amber Jones • Melissa Riskin • Colleen Barr Imagery and Remote Sensing Listening Session Midway 7Frank Engel

10:30am CDT

QATools: Newly Augmented Flag Criteria used by the OQA’s Time-Series Check tool for Groundwater Levels Midway 3+4Michelle Sneed Common Problems with ADCPs and Qms Midway 1+2Nicholas Stasulis "How Do You Do?" Hiring the Right People Midway 11Jeremy White Q&A on Policies, Procedures, and Methods with HNB and OQA Grand Ballroom AMike Rehmel • Tim Straub • Molly Wood Discrete Water-Quality Sampling - (part 3 of 3) What Happens After a Discrete Water-Quality Sample has been Collected Regency Ballroom BLee Bodkin Real-time Phosphorus: USGS Testing and Usage of Phosphorus Analyzers Regency Ballroom AColin Peake

1:00pm CDT

Poster Session PegramAlexandra Adams • Tristan Austring • Jacob Brinkman • Victor Cortes • Hannah Davis • Samantha Dittrich • Catherine Fargen • Lawrence Fujiwara • Liam Kenefic • Andrew Knaak • Arthur Lilienthal • Casey Lovato • Gordon Mcquaid • Nick Van Nevel • Matthew Petkewich • Cory Rogaczewski • Jennifer Shelton • Marc Stewart • Ryan Waters • Molly Wood

3:00pm CDT

RESCUE- Real-time Emergency System for Checking in and Updating Entries Midway 8Ayelet Delascagigas • Carlos Willis • Sean Andrews Preliminary Testing and Developments of the Next Generation Sampler: US-PD-21 Grand Ballroom ATim Straub • Michael Manning External laboratory data: An example workflow using scripting and other tools for data management, evaluation, approval, and upload Regency Ballroom BMaura Uebner Water Level Confidence: Tackling Challenging Datum Issues with Automated GNSS Surveys Midway 1+2Trevor Violette Processing ADCP MidSection Discharge Measurements with QRevMS Midway 6Travis Knight Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch non-contact activities and services Midway 5Jack Eggleston • Frank Engel • Carole Johnson Training Basics for Water Workforce Instructors and Presenters Midway 10Grant Walters Feedback on public web delivery Grand Ballroom F+E+DShawna Gregory • Florence Thompson Telemetry Ingest and Dataflow for Non-Satellite Data Collection Midway 11Jon Wilson • Laura Flight • Erich Kessler Continuous Groundwater Levels: Site selection, instrumentation, and servicing Midway 3+4Lance Gruhn • Michelle Sneed Field Site Safety Inspections using Field Activity Safety Tracking (FAST) Midway 9Shelby Hunter What to do after you've measured the "big one": USGS peak-flow data for Hydrologic Technicians Regency Ballroom CDaniel Wagner • Padraic O'Shea • Seth Siefken

3:30pm CDT

Image Velocimetry in New York - Initial Results and Accuracy Midway 8Christopher Macpherson • Chris Grindle • Elizabeth Nystrom Top 5 Reasons Why Live Scope Sonar is Essential for Deploying Large Samplers in Large Rivers Midway 7Michael Manning

4:00pm CDT

Datalogger and Camera setup for Situational Awareness and Image Velocimetry Midway 8Martyn Smith Building a flood detection and warning system using the internet-of-things Midway 7Bill Selbig • Jim Duncker Monitoring harmful algal blooms in two Colorado reservoirs using discrete and continuous water-quality sampling, and remote sensing Regency Ballroom AKatie Walton-Day • Tanner Chapin Using FRGS to Document Datum Conversion at Gaging Stations Midway 1+2David Stillwell GPS and GPS Compasses with ADCPs Grand Ballroom AChany Huddleston Adrianza Women’s Safety in the Field Midway 5Sarina Little • Lara Chapman Show and Tell: QW Monitors Deployments Grand Ballroom BErnie McCoy

4:30pm CDT

NGWOS Soil Moisture Sensing in the Delaware River Basin Midway 8Patrick Anzman • Mitchell Weaver Autonomous Vessels for Improved Consistency In Hydrologic Surveying Midway 7Trevor Violette Replacing the Hach Nitratax: Preliminary Laboratory and Field results from the NT3 series. Regency Ballroom AColin Peake

8:00am CDT

Running Levels with a Total Station - Results and Lessons Learned from the CAWSC Midway 1+2Jeff Kitchen USGS Water Use Data Management Function Part 1 Grand Ballroom ACheryl Dieter Getting the Most out of the NOMS National Water Dashboard-internal product Midway 10Sonya Vasquez and Automated Records group members • Brian McCallum • Chuck Hansen Building a Better Groundwater Monitoring Network Midway 7Dee-Ann Mccarthy Ice Measurements with ADCP's and ADV's Midway 5Garret Welsh Image Velocimetry: NY Experience one year later Midway 6Christopher Macpherson • Chris Grindle • Elizabeth Nystrom "How Do You Do?" Running Field Trips Midway 9Jeremy White Training Design and Best Practices Midway 11Jeffrey Woods • Katherine Grindle • Megan Rogers Operation and best practices for using the LISST-ABS as a suspended sediment surrogate. Midway 8Jeb Brown Operationalizing the Dynamic Rating Method Regency Ballroom CTravis Knight • Elizabeth Heal Discrete Water-Quality Sampling - Information on the NWQL ASRs, cooler packing, and Information related to Contract Labs Regency Ballroom BLee Bodkin Quality issues and troubleshooting of water-quality monitors Regency Ballroom AKim Shaffer • Diana Phillips

8:30am CDT

USGS Water Use Data System (WUDS) Part 2 Grand Ballroom ACheryl Dieter • Nancy Barber

9:00am CDT

Hydoacoustics: A year in review Midway 6Mike Rehmel RIVRS: Index Velocity Deployment Planning Midway 5Travis Knight Goal Setting to Achieve Your Dreams! Midway 9Megan Rogers Considerations for Deploying the YSI EXO in Long-Term Deployments Regency Ballroom ATaylor Camper USGS National Water Quality Network (NWQN-SW): Overview on collection and reporting Regency Ballroom BMelissa Riskin Water Use Toolkit: Data Entry and Status Tools Part 3 Grand Ballroom AMalia Scott • Samantha Sullivan • Cheryl Dieter

10:00am CDT

Calibration E-Logbook Regency Ballroom APat Rasmussen Water Use Toolkit: Site Comparison Tool part 4 Grand Ballroom AMalia Scott • Cheryl Dieter 3D design and rapid prototyping in Hydrologic science Midway 9Bryce Redinger Well Integrity Evaluations Regency Ballroom CLance Gruhn Equipment testing update of RiverPro ADCP, RS5 ADCP, and FlowStick Grand Ballroom BTravis Knight • Justin Boldt Extending Your WSC Operations to the Regional Level: Lessons Learned in the NAAR Region Midway 11Shaun Wicklein • Jeremy White Updates on USGS Water Data for the Nation: Modernizing how you access water data Midway 10Shawna Gregory Introduction to Streamflow Measurements using the Salt Dilution Method Midway 7Lewis Craghead What's next for AQUARIUS Samples Regency Ballroom BKate Norton Establishing New Sites - MLR Feedback Session Midway 6Pete Ruhl Tips & Tricks for Running Station Levels Midway 5Crystal Hammer Sediment Records Office Hours (and any other sediment related questions) Midway 8Jeb Brown

10:30am CDT

Water Use Toolkit: Data Review and Outlier Detection tool (part 5) Grand Ballroom ASamantha Sullivan Turbidity corrections for field-based fluorescence measurements – achieving better performance Regency Ballroom AJacob Fleck

11:00am CDT

SAWSC Women in Science: An Overview Midway 9Sarina Little • Lara Chapman Salt Dilution Discharge Measurements: A viability test in utilizing on-hand conductivity probes to collect stream discharge measurements Midway 7Kaylie Butts The latest features in DSET and plans for the future Regency Ballroom BDave Rus

1:00pm CDT

Physical Installation of NIMS/HIVIS cameras Midway 5Dave Owens FEMA Mission-Assigned Inland Flood Response along the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers – A 2019 Retrospective Grand Ballroom APaul Rydlund HDAC - Open Session, with Chair Chris Smith and HDAC Members Midway 10David Pratt • Chris Smith • Brian Imig • Ernie McCoy Accessing AQUARIUS Samples Data via Alternate Means Regency Ballroom BMichael Canova NuGo2 Release Update and Training Midway 6Amber Jones Measurement Uncertainty: How do I rate this Qm? Midway 11Nicholas Stasulis "How Do You Do?" Making AAA Work Midway 3+4Jeremy White Traffic Control Awareness Midway 1+2Shelley Niesen OKI Hydrotech Bootcamp, Methods, curriculum, lessons learned. Grand Ballroom BShawn LeMaster • Andrew Gorman • Travis D. Smith Water-quality monitoring with satellite remote-sensing workflow examples Regency Ballroom CTyler King • Michael (he/him) Meyer • Jessie Garrett Aquarius Station Analysis (AQSA) Midway 9Sonya Vasquez and Automated Records group members Uncertainty in Discrete Groundwater-Level Measurements Midway 7Jason Fine • Lance Gruhn • Michelle Sneed Turbidity basics Regency Ballroom AEvan Tillman

1:30pm CDT

Why are Real Time Cameras Important Midway 5Dave Owens Evapotranspiration and the new Li-Cor 710 Grand Ballroom ATodd Caldwell

2:00pm CDT

SHARE-DLS, an advanced datalogger and script programming depot. Grand Ballroom BTravis Knight • Bryce McClenney • Bryce Redinger A brief history of underwater sound Midway 6Justin Boldt Using AirVantage with Sierra Wireless RV50, RV50X and RV55 cellular modems Midway 5Dave Owens Federal Priority Network Open Season Results Midway 8Brian McCallum • Cory Angeroth Qualitative assessment tools for Salt Dilution measurements using on hand conductivity probes and tips for Aquarius/Archival uploading Midway 3+4Kaylie Butts Overview of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program Regency Ballroom BRyan McCammon

3:00pm CDT

Closing Plenary Grand Ballroom F+E+D