Prague 2017
Minutes IWGDM meeting at 11. Sept 2017 (ICUD, Prague)
Minutes IWGDM meeting at 11. Sept 2017 (ICUD, Prague)
Reports and discussion:
- Alma Schellart (Sheffield) invites to the final event of the QUICS project www.quics.eu/final_dissem
- Simon Tait (Sheffield) presents his “Big Box” an infrastructure test facility filled with sand, which will also be open for other research groups (finished Feb 2018); further Simon reports that a new code of practice on hydraulic modelling will be available as a draft in November
- Francois Clemens presents the ICUD special session “Metrology, experimentation and hypothesis testing in urban drainage”. Results shall also be disseminated in a wiki; Further he tells about an open database on drainage data in the Netherlands (infrastructure, measurements, etc.) which will be open for anyone
- Luca Vezzaro (DTU) and Günther Leonhardt (LTU) present plans for the TSS modelling competition for PhD students together with Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski (INSA Lyon) – more information in the next weeks
- Jon Hathaway (University of Tennessee ) reports on changes in the development of SWMM which is moving away from EPA to the Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management (http://www.ncimm.org/)
- Jörg reminds to fill out the Horizon Scan 'Ubiquitous Monitoring in Storm- and Wastewater' https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3738268/Horizon-Scan-Survey
- Giorgio Mannina reports about a group activity to publish a position paper on greenhouse gas emissions for urban drainage systems
- Franz Tscheikner-Grat (TU Delft) invites to send papers to a special issue on uncertainties in ‘Water’
- The group discusses possibilities of data and model sharing https://zenodo.org/ is used by some people, other suggestions are welcome
- The groups acknowledges the idea to organize a special issue on open data and open models Francois Clemens, Simon Tait, David McCarthy and Manfred Kleidorfer can imagine to be a guest editor; a fitting journal would be Urban Water Journal, but an open access issue is aspired for this
Upcoming activities:
- Urban Drainage Modelling 2018 23 – 26 September 2018 Palermo https://www.udm2018.org/
- TSS modelling competition start – first results until UDM 2018
- At UDM 2018 the group will vote for a new secretary and decide who organizes the next
- UDM in 2021 - interested people and groups (for both) should contact David McCarty and Manfred Kleidorfer.