drchaos

2007-01-22T17:07:00.000-08:00

January 21,

Mose Allision
http://www.moseallison.com/

The Shedd, Eugene, OR
http://www.ofam.org/

Mose must be in his early 70's. Saw him first at Redondo beach
in 79 (?) when he must of been in his mid/late 40's. Mose show is
always something special, and now that I am getting along in years
I think Mose is passing Randy Newman in my most listen to catagory.
His music and songs are particularly aging well, though I can not
image who will 'carry' on the Mose tradition. His style of songs,
playing, arrangments, and singing are uniuqe. We have Elvis immitators,
why no Mose?

His voice was a bit thin and his play less forceful than years earlier, but
always holds my attention 100 percent. Mose leaves little 'space' in his music
always seeming to prefer to fill the space with close in hand note runs. I was
particularly struck by this when he did a Duke Ellington a song done
by Duke Ellington, 'Do nothin till you hear from me'. It was the only
song that was 'cord' driven and had an initial sense of space and movement
determined by chords and not Mose's funky melody. Still Mose only made through
about half way before he started some more Mose melody in it, he always seems
uneasy with any vacum in sound. Mose abhors a vacum.

I was also struck at how fixed his arrangements now our. Fixed by now classy
and classic. The drumer was really into Mose, seems like they have been playing
togher a long time, or he is just a hugh Mose fan. The drumer was quite good,
and end up being the main focus of attention during the playing with out really
trying to be.

Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me by ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Do nothing till you hear from me
Pay no attention to what's said
Why people tear the seam of anyone's dream
Is over my head

Do nothing till you hear from me
At least consider our romance
If you should take the words of others you've heard
I haven't a chance

True, I've been seen with someone new
That doesn't mean I've been untrue?
While we're apart, all the words in my heart
Reveal how I feel about you

Some kiss may cloud my memory
And other arms may hold a thrill
But please do nothing till you hear it from me
And you never will

True, I've been seen with someone new
That don't mean I've been untrue?
While we're apart, the words in my heart
Reveal how I feel about you

Some kiss may cloud my memory
And other arms may hold a thrill
But please do nothing till you hear it from me
Please do nothing till you hear it from me
Please do nothing till you hear it from me
Baby you never will

2007-01-17T14:18:00.000-08:00

Apple Inc. just annouced 1 billion in profit for the quarter and 21 million iPod sales. Wow.

2006-10-20T10:09:00.000-07:00

Set up basic wiki new hydrologic measurment instrumentation at
http://www.hmfwiki.org

Todays Talk:

Interested in photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and/or mapping?

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)

SEMINAR:

An Introduction to LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) Technology for Forestry and Hydrologic Applications.

Presented by: Russell Faux, Watershed Sciences, Inc.

Abstract: Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data are more commonly being used for urban planning, hydrology and floodplain analysis, forestry mapping, riparian and wetland mapping and restoration design. LiDAR points are typically processed to generate digital terrain models (DTMs), vegetation canopy surfaces, and building surfaces. Recent software developments allow direct point processing for forest inventory and fuels analysis. Watershed Sciences, Inc. owns and operates the highest pulse rate and most accurate LiDAR system on the market. They have conducted LiDAR acquisitions for a variety of natural resource applications throughout the Western United States. This presentation will explore the technology and methods used to collect high density LiDAR data and provide examples of products used for forestry and hydrologic applications.

All are welcome

Friday, October 20, Peavy 272, 12 noon

Hosted by the OSU APSRS Student Chapter

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Michael G. Wing, PhD, PE, PLS
Assistant Professor
Forest Engineering Department
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331 USA

2006-10-19T16:10:00.000-07:00

The PUB --- Prediction in Unguaged Basins --- meeting was just held in Corvallis at Oregon State University during the past four days. The meeting was organized by Jeff McDonnell in the Forestry Department at OSU to introduce the American Hydrology Community to the work and methods of PUB. More about PUB can be found at their Web Site:

http://pub.iwmi.org/

Some of the major outcomes of the meeting was a renewed interest and focus on `networks', perhaps captured by directed graph models, to capture the heterogeneity in hydrological systems. There was also much discussion on how to better connect measurements and modeling in the direct testing, validation, and falsification of hydrologic models and their (implicit or explicit) scientific hypothesises. Some of the major topics of the workshop will be captured and communicated in an EOS article.

Here is the Meeting Agenda:

home about agenda register & submit abstract directions lodging links of interest contact cuahsi home

USA PUB Workshop—October 16-19, 2006

LaSells Stewart Center | Oregon State University, Corvallis

USA PUB Workshop

Towards a community action plan for the hydrological sciences

Agenda as of September 24, 2006 [download PDF version]
Sunday 15 October
6:00 - 7:00pm 7:00 - 9:00pm	Registration, Hilton Garden Inn Welcome Reception OSU Room Hilton Garden Inn
Monday 16 October
7:30am	Registration, LaSells Stewart Center
8:30am	Opening, LaSells Stewart Center, Construction and Engineering Room Welcome by OSU President, Ed Ray (tentative) Welcome by Director, OSU Inst. Water and Watersheds, Michael Campana Workshop Goals: Jeff McDonnell, OSU
	Plenary Session: The PUB Movement Chaired by Michael Campana, OSU
8:45am	The IAHS PUB movement: Past, present and future Jeff McDonnell, OSU
9:15am	CUAHSI and PUB: Towards a community science agenda for the USA Rick Hooper, CUAHSI
9:45am	PUB and vision for a new science of hydrology Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois
10:15am	Coffee
	Plenary Session: Watershed Classification Chaired by Chris Duffy, Penn State
10:45am	Towards a typology of catchments Ross Woods, NIWA New Zealand
11:15am	The new USGS watershed classification system Dave Wolock, USGS Kansas
11:45am	Geology as destiny at the large watershed scale Gordon Grant, USFS Corvallis
12:15pm	Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West)
	Plenary Session: Conceptualization Of Process Heterogeneity Chaired by Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois
2:30pm	Seeing through process heterogeneity in the subsurface: Coupled hydrolopedalogical systems Henry Lin, Penn State University
3:00pm	Thresholds as a characteristic form of nonlinearity in hydrogeomorphic systems Jonathan Phillips, University of Kentucky
3:30pm	From landscape heterogeneity to terrain-based scaling rules Peter Troch, University of Arizona
4:00pm	Beer (or coffee) and Poster Session Chaired by Jeff McDonnell Posters will remain "up" for the duration of the conference in the coffee area
6:00pm	End of Sessions
6:30pm	PUB at the pub: Squirrels Tavern, 100 SW 2nd St, Corvallis (beer and food), Pub crawl back to OSU to follow…….
Tuesday 17 October
	Plenary Session: Uncertainty Estimation and Model Diagnostics Chaired by Larry Band, UNC
8:30am	Bayesian uncertainty estimation approaches Jim Freer, Lancaster University
9:00am	Towards an uncertainty framework Thorsten Wagener, Penn State University
9:30am	Scaling in hydro-geomorphology and its use in modelling and prediction Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of Minnesota
10:00am	Coffee
	Plenary Session: Development and Use of New Data Collection Approaches Chaired by Rick Hooper, CUAHSI
10:30am	Field based mass spectrometers for real time water cycle tracing Carol Kendall, USGS
11:00am	On the need for new radar technologies Witold Krajewski, University of Iowa
11:30am	Fibre optic hydrology John Selker, OSU
Noon	Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West)
1:30pm	Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Where are the gaps? Goal of these breakout groups - Build on talks and posters to discuss, in a highly interdisciplinary way: What the current state of the art? What are the current gaps in the state of the art?
	(1) Watershed classification Chair: Gordon Grant (2) Conceptualization of process heterogeneity Chair: Larry Band (3) Uncertainty estimation and model diagnostics Chair: Rick Hooper (4) New data collection approaches Chair: Ty Ferre (5) New hydrological theory and modelling Chair: Siva Sivapalan
3:30pm	Coffee
	Plenary Session: New Hydrological Theory Chaired by Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois
4:00pm	New theory derived from systems theory Hoshin Gupta, U. Arizona
4:30pm	Self-similarity and a new hydrology Chris Duffy, Penn State University
5:00pm	It's not that we need physically based models-it's what physics do we use in our models? Jim Kirchner, UC Berkeley
5:30pm	End of Discussions
6:30pm	Conference Dinner, OSU Alumni Center Dinner music by John Bliss Xtet; Dinner Speaker: Robert Glennon, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona (book signing to follow) Tales of Bottled Water and French Fries: The Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping
Wednesday 18 October
	Plenary Session: New Modelling Approaches Chaired by Chris Duffy, Penn State
8:30am	TopDown modelling David Post, CSIRO Townsville
9:00am	Large scale models of ungauged basins Upmanu Lall, Columbia University
9:30am	Ecologically-based models Marc Stieglitz, Georgia Tech University
10:00am	Coffee
10:30am	Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Filling in the gaps Goal of these breakout groups - Build on talks, posters and previous day's discussion to address: Where do we want to be in 10 yrs? What do we need to do to get there? What science can be done with today's infrastructure? What science cannot be done with today's infrastructure?
	(1) Watershed classification Chair: Gordon Grant (2) Conceptualization of process heterogeneity Chair: Larry Band (3) Uncertainty estimation and model diagnostics Chair: Rick Hooper (4) New data collection approaches Chair: Ty Ferre (5) New hydrological theory and modelling Chair: Siva Sivapalan
12:30pm	Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West)
	Plenary Session: PUB Implementation Chaired by Siva Sivapalan, U. Illinois
1:30pm	International PUB Implementation Ian Littlewood, CEH Wallingford
2:00pm	CUAHSI HIS and PUB David Tarboton, Utah State U.
2:30pm	Remote sensing, Hydroclimatology modelling and PUB Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois
3:00pm	Coffee
3:30pm	What type of facilities do we need? Larry Band, University of North Carolina
4:00pm	Detailed Reports back to the group from break-out group chairs
6:00pm	End of Sessions, Evening on your own
Thursday 19 October
8:30am	Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Recommendations Goal of these breakout groups - Build on previous breakout group discussions to address cross-cutting issues: What cannot be done in the current funding model? What do we want to recommend to NSF (for new rfp's, program solicitations, etc)
	(1) Infomatics and Cyber-infrastructure Chair: Dave Tarboton (2) Field data and data collection (sensors, remote sensing and beyond) Chair: John Selker (3) Community facilities Chair: Larry Band (4) Barriers to including the human dimension Chair: Rick Hooper (5) Education and Outreach: How to engage beyond NSF funding Chair: Ian Littlewood
	Coffee break on a group-by-group basis as needed
11:30am	Reports back to the group by discussion chairs
Noon	Plenary Discussion: Summary, Synthesis and Way Forward Jeff McDonnell, OSU
12:30pm	End of Conference - Lunch

drchaos

USA PUB Workshop—October 16-19, 2006

USA PUB Workshop

Towards a community action plan for the hydrological sciences

Agenda as of September 24, 2006

[download PDF version]

Sunday15 October

Monday16 October

Tuesday17 October

Wednesday18 October

Thursday19 October

Sunday
15 October

Monday
16 October

Tuesday
17 October

Wednesday
18 October

Thursday
19 October