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BASINS Training

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Date Location
Dec. 15-17, 2004

Beginner BASINS-SWAT Workshop Exit EPA Disclaimer
College Station, Texas
Jan. 31- Feb. 4, 2005

BASINS/HSPF Workshop

EPA Region 2
New York, NY

BASINS is now scheduling classes. We plan to announce other classes in BASINS, HSPF, SWAT, PLOAD, QUAL2K, and CORMIX. Receive notification about future BASINS training.

BASINS training materials

With the release of BASINS 3.1, new lectures and exercises are being updated.

The following list is ordered according to the workshop schedule and provides a link to a ".zip" file (more on zip files exit EPA) which when uncompressed will provide lectures in PowerPoint format and exercises in Word documents.

Lecture 1  (614kb)

Introduction to BASINS

Lecture 2  (1mb)

HSPF Overview and Case Study
Lecture 3  (507kb)

BASINS Data Download Tool and Data Extensions

Exercise 1  (1mb)

Building a BASINS Project, Import Tools, and Data

Dataset 1 (15kb) Predefined Delineation Shapefile
Lecture 4 (455kb)

Watershed Delineation/Segmentation

Exercise 2 (1.5mb)

Manual and Automatic Watershed Delineation

Lecture 5 (290kb)

WDMUtil and Weather Data

Exercise 3 (1.8mb)

WDM Utility

Dataset 2 (45kb) Extra Training Files and West Branch Weather Data
Lecture 6 (473kb)

Operational Aspects of HSPF

Lecture 7 (4.6mb)

Hydrologic Processes and PWATER for Wetlands
Lecture 8  (360kb)

Channel Routing in HSPF

Exercise 4  (1.2mb)

Introduction to HSPF and GenScn 

Exercise 5 

Calibrating Flow in WinHSPF

Exercise 6 

Introduction to HSPFEXP

Lecture 9 

Snow Processes, Parameters, and Calibration

Exercise 7 

Simulation of Snow Accumulation and Melt

Lecture 10 

Sediment Processes, Parameters, and Calibration

Lecture 11 

Nonpoint Source (NPS) Quality Processes, Parameters, and Calibration

Lecture 12 

Water Quality Modeling: Temperature, Sediment, and General Constituents

Exercise 8a 

Sediment Erosion

Exercise 8b 

Sediment Transport Calibration

Exercise 9 

Bacteria and Temperature Modeling

Lecture 13 

Watershed Segmentation

Exercise 10 

Segmentation

Lecture 16 

Water Quality Modeling (RQUAL)

Exercise 12 

Nutrient, Dissolved Oxygen, and Algae Modeling
Lecture 17 

Watershed Model Calibration and Validation: Issues and Procedures
Exercise 13 

Water Quality Calibration
Lecture 14 

AGCHEM Processes, Parameters, and Calibration
Lecture 15 

Additional HSPF Features
Exercise 11 

AGCHEM
Lecture 18 

Analysis of Alternatives: Modeling Scenarios, BMPs, and TMDLs

Exercise 14 

Modeling Alternatives Scenarios, BMPs, and TMDLs
Exercise 15 

HSPFParm Tool
Appendix A

Installing BASINS, Extracting, and Projecting the BASINS Data
Appendix B 

Connecting Exercise 4 and 5 Before Hydrology Calibration
Appendix C 

Calculating Observed Flow Volumes for Calibration
Appendix D 

Downloading HSPEXP
Appendix E 

Using the TMDL USLE Tool to Estimate Sediment Loads
Appendix F 

Manually Adding Temperature and Fecal Coliform
Appendix G 

Pollutant Selection Tool Information

NPSM/HSPF Calibration:  Take an on-line tutorial that steps you through starting and calibrating the Nonpoint Source Model in BASINS. Or download the calibration tutorial to your hard drive, unzip the files to a clean directory, and open file di.htm to start the guide.

 

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