NH33B:
Dams and Reservoirs: Natural Hazards, Risks, and Solutions II Posters

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Session ID#: 22596

Session Description:
Throughout civilization dams and reservoirs have provided a means of addressing spatial and temporal variability in water supply. Demands for reliable supplies of water for irrigation, hydropower, municipalities, navigation, and flood control result in social and environmental tradeoffs and concerns regarding the safety of dam structures and release patterns. Dam risks vary globally with the US facing aging dam issues, while countries such as China, South Korea, and Japan are constructing new dams and addressing changes in environmental regimes. Identifying and addressing these challenges are the focus of this session.

We welcome contributions addressing dam hazards and risks associated with uncontrolled or emergency water releases, changes in flood risk, seismic activity, and increasing age and the need for restoration, retrofitting, or removal. Innovative methods of identifying and monitoring dams and dam safety, assessing safety and cost trade-offs, environmental impacts, sedimentation, and achieving robust dam design and operation are also encouraged.

Primary Convener:  Michelle W Ho, Columbia University of New York, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States and Xun Sun, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Chairs:  Xun Sun, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Michelle W Ho, Columbia University of New York, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States and Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michelle W Ho, Columbia University of New York, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Organized with:
Natural Hazards, Hydrology, Public Affairs, and Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1808 Dams [HYDROLOGY]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hydrological impact of high-density small dams in a humid catchment, Southeast China (274071)
Weiwei Lu1, Huimin Lei1 and Dawen Yang2, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
Assessing changes in failure probability of dams in a changing climate (266917)
Iman Mallakpour1, Amir AghaKouchak2, Hamed Moftakhari3 and Elisa Ragno3, (1)University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (2)University of California, Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, California, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Improvements in the spatial representation of lakes and reservoirs in the contiguous United States for the National Water Model (253960)
Sadiq Khan1,2, Fernando Renzo Salas3, Kevin Michael Sampson4, Laura K Read5, Brian A Cosgrove6, Zhe Li1,7 and David J Gochis8, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA/NWS National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (3)NOAA, Geospatial Intelligence Division, Office of Water Prediction, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, United States, (4)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Boulder, United States, (5)Upstream Tech, Denver, United States, (6)NOAA/NWS/NWC, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (7)NOAA/NWS/NWC, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Flood Inundation Mapping and Management using RISAT-1 derived Flood Inundation Areas, Cartosat-1 DEM and a River Flow Model (266663)
Kuldeep Kuldeep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, P K Garg, UTU Uttarakhand, Dehradun, India and R D Garg, IITR, Roorkee, India
Bear Meadow Paleoseismic Investigations, West Shore Lake Oroville, Northern California (255515)
Don F Hoirup Jr1, Ozgur Kozaci2, Judith A Zachariasen3, Chris Bloszies4, Christopher S Hitchcock2, Rich David Koehler5, Scott C Lindvall6, Eric McDonald7, Leah Feigelson8, Hans Abramson-Ward9, Ross Hartleb6 and Matt Huebner9, (1)California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)InfraTerra, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States, (3)Sierra Geoscience, Truckee, CA, United States, (4)Lettis Consultants International, Inc., Concord, CA, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, Center for Neotectonic Studies, Reno, United States, (6)Lettis Consultants International, Inc., Valencia, CA, United States, (7)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (8)CA Dept. of Water Resources, West Sacramento, CA, United States, (9)Lettis Consultants International, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
A Study of the Optimal Planning Model for Reservoir Sustainable Management- A Case Study of Shihmen Reservoir (251068)
Yun Yu Chen1, Chih Chao Ho2 and Liang Cheng Chang1, (1)National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, (2)Construction and Disaster Prevention Research Center, Feng Chia University,, Taichung, Taiwan
Nonlinear scaling of the Unit Hydrograph Peaking Factor for dam safety (289169)
Nawa Raj Pradhan, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States and Drew Loney, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Design of Environmental Flows Below Diversion Hydropower Dams: Is There Benefit to Advanced Streamflow Prediction in Sparse Data Landscapes? (253394)
Kelly Maren Kibler, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States and Mohammadhossein Alipour, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
The Dams and Monitoring Systems and Case Study: Ataturk and Karakaya Dams (272903)
Yunus Kalkan, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Turkey, Serdar Bilgi, Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey and Ayşe Giz Gülnerman, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

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