New HEC-RAS resources and features 
coming in 2019!
Berwick Flooding
December 2018 Newsletter Surface Water Solutions
New online courses now open for registration

I'll be teaching a series of online courses facilitated by ICE WaRM throughout 2019. The following courses are available for registration if you have any colleagues or professional contacts who might be interested in attending:

Just released: HEC-RAS Version 5.0.6

Click here to download the latest version of HEC-RAS released in November 2018, which includes a number of bug fixes and improvements as documented in the release notes.
 
Coming soon: HEC-RAS Version 5.1
We are looking forward to the upcoming beta testing phase for HEC-RAS Version 5.1, which will include spatially varying rainfall, infiltration, and many other new features that will help make HEC-RAS a powerful rainfall-runoff modelling tool. Scroll ahead to 23:15 in this YouTube video here to get a preview. We will continue to post updates on the anticipated timelines to our
2019 Courses: USA Road Trip

We are collecting expressions of interest for upcoming hydrologic and hydraulic modelling courses worldwide, including a June-July 2019 road trip around the USA with multiple stops. If you would like your city or your office to be included as a destination, please fill out the registration of interest form here or pass the link along to any colleagues or professional contacts who may be interested in attending.

HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS in Auckland 8-11 April 2019

Our next course in Auckland is now open for registration. Please forward this link to any friends or colleagues who might be interested in attending. Professional membership discounts are available.

Australian courses in 2019

We are planning to hold a course in Canberra on Monday 13 May in conjunction with the FMA conference. We are also collecting expressions of interest for a May 2019 course in Adelaide. Please fill out our registration of interest form here.

Consulting Services
  
If you have any needs related to review or quality control of deliverables, setting up new models, troubleshooting models,  drainage design, flood mapping, dam assessment, or other consulting services, please contact me for a quotation.

In-house Courses
  
If additional training needs arise in the future, we also offer specialised training in bridge modelling, HEC-HMS, GIS interfacing, sediment transport, hydraulic structure design, and other topics that can be customised to suit your client and organisational demands. Courses can be delivered in-house at your location or online. 
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Thanks to all who participated in our 2018 training courses and to everyone who has supported us throughout the year. It has sure been an exciting year with courses held in Munich, Paris, Sarajevo, Manila, Singapore, and other locations around the world. We've had attendees from over 80 countries in our online courses and webinars, and the interest continues to grow. We really appreciated the chance to get to know so many wonderful people across the globe this year - so many people doing their best to apply hydraulic modelling to help improve the world around us!
 
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2019 promises to be full of additional innovations in hydraulic modelling! We'll be sure to keep you current as we look forward to further improvements and advances in both hardware and software.
 
And above all, we wish you and yours a happy festive season as we close out the year!  
Just released: Free dam breach webinar!

Click here to watch the free recording of our recent webinar covering dam breach assessment. If you'd like to try it yourself, sign up for our upcoming online dam breach course.

Free dam breach webinar

Our series of free HEC-RAS webinars also includes rain-on-grid modelling, what's coming in Version 5.1, and customising HEC-RAS with the HECRASController.
 

Subscribe to our new YouTube channel

We'll be adding new instructional videos each week during the holidays. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when new videos are posted.
 
The following new HEC-RAS features are covered in a one-hour set of instructional videos on our channel (~ten minutes each): 
Follow along with workshop exercises covering the new features by flooding Hobbiton or Making Middle Zealand by severing New Zealand's North Island in two. And if that's not enough, try herding particle sheep with HEC-RAS! 
 
Herding sheep with HEC-RAS

Join our new LinkedIn groups  

Please join our new LinkedIn groups for Dam Breach and Sediment Transport.  

 
Terrain modification in HEC-RAS
 
Click here to view our series of three tutorial videos covering terrain modification in HEC-RAS, including workshop examples.   
 
Slicing off Northland
  
Articles
 
Click here for our articles, including a three-part series on extracting rating curves from 1D models, Euro-RAS, frequency storms for direct precipitation, and written instructions on terrain modification to accompany our video series.
 

Rivers on Mars
 
Click below for a video about using HEC-RAS to model rivers on Mars and more cool things that hydraulic engineers can do using HEC-RAS.

Projection files
 
Click below for a great explanation of why we need projection files:


Feedback
   
For any previous course attendees, I would appreciate your feedback on the course through our online survey (please be completely candid and stay anonymous if you'd like!) I would like you to be able to recommend our courses to your friends and colleagues without reservation, so please be assured that I will make every effort to incorporate all of your suggestions as future courses are planned and course materials are updated. 
Additional links and resources:

Here is a random sample of online resources that may be of use in your modelling efforts:
If you are interested in additional course materials, the Corps of Engineers has recently made their training materials available for free download here.    
 
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We would love to find out how HEC-RAS is being used around the world, particularly for any completed projects, so if you use HEC-RAS for an upcoming project, please contribute your own articles to share on the blog.