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Wednesday, September 29 • 9:45am - 10:45am
Moving the Needle on Flood Data Visualization and Open Water Data

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Improving access to data and enabling open exchange of water information are critical to identifying, understanding, and mitigating existing water resource and flood issues. This panel will discuss the current state and need for flood and open water data platforms, organizations moving the needle in this space, and the future of open data.
Moderators
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Sam Marie Hermitte

Assistant Deputy Executive Administrator of Water Science and Conservation, Texas Water Development Board
Sam Marie Hermitte’s responsibilities at the Texas Water Development Board include strategic planning, legislative analysis and implementation, water data, drought policy and project coordination, priority flood research projects, and such special initiatives as the development... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Robert Mace, Ph.D., P.G.

Robert Mace, Ph.D., P.G.

Executive Director and Chief Water Policy Officer, The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment - Texas State University
Robert Mace is the executive director and chief water policy officer of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a professor of practice in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. Robert has more than 30 years of experience in hydrology, hydrogeology, stakeholder... Read More →
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Will Mobley

Research Scientist, Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas
Will Mobley is a research scientist with the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas. His work focuses on applying cutting edge research and technology to flood risk reduction. Most recently, his focus has been on the planning and implementation of the Texas Disaster Information... Read More →
avatar for Michael Young, Ph.D.

Michael Young, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology
Michael Young is senior research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin. His current work focuses on conservation of water and land resources and data management, among other things. He is currently the principal investigator... Read More →

Wednesday September 29, 2021 9:45am - 10:45am CDT
Amphitheater 204, Meeting Level II
  Breakout Session, Flood: Prevention and Planning for the Inevitable