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2001 Past Events |
| December 3-5, 2001: Dam Break Software Installation &
Training III;
Oklahoma City, Ok. The entire staff of Beacon Resources was at the State of Oklahoma Water Resources Board installing Dam Breach Analysis/ Inundation Mapping software, providing training, and evaluating program performance. Significant capability improvements were made to the Dam Break software by allowing valley cross-sections to be digitized at any orientation relative to the valley centerline. |
| November 5-9, 2001: Dam Break Software Installation &
Training II;
Oklahoma City, Ok.
The entire staff of Beacon Resources was at the State of Oklahoma Water Resources Board installing Dam Breach Analysis/ Inundation Mapping software, providing training, and evaluating program performance. Significant capability improvements were made by allowing gridded terrain data from ArcView to be triangulated and used by the program for cutting valley cross-sections. Oklahoma City was much cooler (70 Degrees) than the last time we were there in July (103 Degrees). |
| October 15-18, 2001: Channel Patrol on the MV Strong
The entire staff of Beacon Resources was on the MV Strong discussing the unique requirements and workflows of the Memphis District in performing their channel patrol functions. |
| October 3-4, 2001: NID Electronic Submittal
Training; Springfield, Va.
There was an NID Electronic Submittal Training class on October 3-4 at the Kingman Building of the Humphrey Engineering Center at TEC in Alexandria, Va. This class included participants from the States of Maryland and Vermont, and Federal Agencies included the Bureau of Reclamation, the Fish & Wildlife Service, and the International Boundaries and Water Commission. |
| September 17-20, 2001: NID Electronic Submittal
Training; Ft. Belvoir, Va.
There was an NID Electronic Submittal Training class on Sept. 18, 19 at the Humphrey Engineering Center at TEC in Alexandria, Va. This class was targeted to the special requirements and data characteristics of Federal Agencies. |
| September 9-13, 2001: Association of State Dam Safety
Officials (ASDSO) Annual Conference; Snowbird, Utah
The entire staff of Beacon Resources was in attendance at the ASDSO annual conference performing demonstrations in the exhibit area, providing NID Electronic Submittal Workflow Training in the NID Suite, and presenting a technical paper on the utility of Palm Computing Software for Dam Safety Inspection Checklists.
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| July 30-August 2, 2001: U.S. Society on Dams (USSD)
Annual Conference and Lecture; Denver, Co.
The entire staff of Beacon Resources was in attendance at the USSD Annual Conference participating in demonstrations and presentations of the latest developments in the Dam Safety Program Management Tools (DSPMT) software including the Dam Safety Program Performance Measures (DSPPM), National Inventory of Dams (NID) electronic submittal workflow, and the DSPMT Palm-based Inspection Checklist software. "The USACE Booth" "The USACE Quartet" |
| July 16-18, 2001: Dam Break Software Installation &
Training;
Oklahoma City, Ok.
The entire staff of Beacon Resources was on-site at the State of Oklahoma Water Resources Board installing Dam Breach Analysis/ Inundation Mapping software and providing training. Although it was very hot (103 Deg.), both the installation and training went well, and we are looking forward to going back to Oklahoma City for final installation and training soon. |
| May 21-24, 2001: U.S. Hydro 2001; Norfolk, Va.
The Beacon Resources booth in the Exhibit hall was a center of activity with software demonstrations being conducted as conference participants stopped by for information. Our presentation on intelligent thinning of mass data sets was well received by all except certain USACE personnel making faces during the presentation. With friends like these...
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