Stormwater Task Force
Stormwater Task ForceThe Lower Rio Grande Valley TPDES Stormwater Management Task Force is a joint program between the Research, Applied, Technology, Education and Service (RATES) and various municipalities all across the Rio Grande Valley to educate and improve how cities and civil engineers plan for stormwater management, as a joint effort to develop a proactive...
River and Estuary Observation Network (REON)
River and Estuary Observation Network (REON) History The River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) was in 2008 by RATES and Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) and originally comprised several seasonal moored profiling platforms and four year-round Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) deployed in the Hudson River watershed and interfaced to a Real-Time Hydrologic Station (RTHS). Profilers...
Coastal Current Modeling
Coastal Current Modeling RATES’ inventory includes short-, medium-, and long-range HF-Radar (CODAR). With Texas General Land Office (GLO) funding, RATES personnel commissioned and operated the first HF-Radar Network on the Texas Gulf Coast, from Corpus Christi to Roll Over Pass, primarily to support GLO spill response initiatives. Data from these stations and their successors are...
Flood Resiliency
Lower Rio Grande Valley Flood Response and Resiliency Network (FRRN) The Lower Rio Grande Valley Flood Response and Resiliency Network (FRRN) is a regional collaborative effort to develop a real-time stage height and stream flow monitoring network that is coupled with a near-real-time flood forecasting tool and integrated decision support system. Flood Early Warning System...
Water Wizard
Water WizardWater Wizard is a Decision Support Framework developed specifically to enable engineers, managers, planners and other decision makers of small and mid-sized water, wastewater and watershed management systems to maximize productivity and efficiency. Water Wizard was conceived as a Rules-Based Decision Support System that provided recommended actions to operational decisions using a combination of...
National Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA)
National Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA)The Water Column Exposure Modeling Toolbox (WCEMT) is a set of modeling tools developed to meet the needs of Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA) for viable methods to assess ecological impacts of significant marine oil spills based on limited empirically obtained petroleum chemistry data. The developed modeling tools estimate water column exposures...
Community Outreach and Education
Annual LRGV WQMP Conference2022 will feature the 24th edition of the Annual Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) Water Quality Management and Planning (WQMP) Conference, which focuses on research topics germane to South Texas and the U.S.-Mexico border region. A primary goal of the conference is to develop team-based and research-inspired programs to train and educate...