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Working Group Reports

Working Group 1

Software System Design and Implementation for Environmental

Modeling

Gene Whelan, Ph.D. Olaf David, PhD.U.S. EPA-ORD Colorado State University/USDA-ARSAthens, GA Ft. Collins, CO

Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling2013/2014 Annual General Meeting

Hosted by the U.S. Department of EnergyForrestal BuildingWashington, DC

February 25-26, 2014

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Foster the exchange of information about environmental modeling tools, modeling frameworks, and environmental monitoring databases

Purpose

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Objectives

Harmonize existing and evolving environmental modeling systems

Investigate and provide guidance and deployable tools for use by multiple frameworks

Promote the standardization of data exchange protocols

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Key Federal Collaborators EPA – Gene Whelan, Gerry Laniak, Gabriel Olchin*, Noha Gaber,

Marirosa Molina, Richard Zepp, Keewook Kim, Tom Purucker, Annie Jarabek, Eric Weber, Caroline Stevens, Kurt Wolfe, Rajbir Parmar, Mike Galvin, Justin Babendreier, Mike Cyterski, Tim Dawson, Lourdes Prieto, Katie Price, Craig Barber

USDA-ARS – Olaf David, Yakov Pachepsky, Dorcas Franklin, Mark Borchardt

NRC – Tom Nicholson, Ralph Cady

ACOE-ERDC – Pat Deliman, Billy Johnson, Jeff Gerald, Mark Dortch (retired)

DOE – PNNL: Mitch Pelton, Karl Castleton, Jim Droppo; LBNL: Nigel Quinn

NOAA – Dave Schwab (retired), Kevin Kelleher

NASA – Gary Geller

USGS – Pierre Glynn, Mary Hill, Steve Corsi, Dale Robertson* No longer with the Agency.

Activities

Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) Program Field studies, Automate the assessment process, and Develop a QMRA

IEM framework EPA, USDA-ARS, USGS Status: Currently Active

SDMProjectBuilder Development Software interface that automates many of the manual steps associated

with setting up a standard watershed assessment; it currently pre-populates HSPF input files for quantitative microbial risk assessments

EPA, DOE-PNNL, USDA-ARS Status: Currently Active, prototype developed

Updates to PEST/PEST++ and Linkages to FRAMES Parameter Estimation Tool for IEM frameworks EPA, NRC, DOE-PNNL Status: Currently Active, being checked

Activities (cont’d)

Linkages to Remote Sensing Data and Large Open Water Body Model

Link NLDAS (and QPE/QP2) Remote sensing data to IEM; Link FVCOM to Watershed and risk models in IEM Framework

EPA, NOAA, USDA-ARS Status: Currently Active

IEM SERDP: Environmental Fate Simulator Chemical Properties Estimator to supply IEM frameworks EPA, DOE-PNNL, ACOE-ERDC Status: Currently Active

IEM ESTCP Joint Proposal: Working Groups 4 and 1 Field Demonstration and Validation of TREECS and EFS for the Risk

Assessment of Contaminants on DoD Ranges ACOE-ERDC, EPA, DOE-PNNL, NRC Status: Currently Active, Funded for CY14-CY16

Activities (cont’d)

Federal Review Panel OpenTerraWorks Design: IEM framework to modify landscape

characteristics EPA, NRC, USGS, ACOE-ERDC, DOI-USFWS, DOI-OSM Status: Completed

Conferences/Workshops 2014 International Environmental Modelling & Software

Society (iEMSs) Biennial Conference, San Diego, CA USA (June 15-19, 2014)

Technical Sessions Innovative Architectures and Approaches of Cloud and Mobile

Technology for Environmental Modeling (Olaf David, Wesley Lloyd, Jim Ascough)

Complexity, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Issues in Integrated Environmental Models (Jim Ascough, Francesca Pianosi, Timothy Green, Thorsten Wagener, Olaf David, Giorgio Mannina)

Agro-Ecosystem Modeling for Spatial Solutions to Watershed Conundrums (Tim Green, Jim Ascough, Olaf David, Riccardo Rigon, Mark Walbridge)

Wicked Problems and Clumsy Solutions: Are Environmental Modeling Software System Designers Ready to Meet the Ultimate Challenge (Justin E. Babendreier, M. Bruce Beck, Stephen M. Beaulieu)

Environmental Modeling, Software, and Data to Support Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments (QMRAs) (Gene Whelan, Jeffrey Soller, Yakov Pachepsky)

Workshops Scientific Computing in the Cloud (S. Thomas Purucker)

EPA, USDA-ARS

PublicationsJournal Articles Blaustein, R., Y.A. Pachepsky, R.L. Hill, D.R. Sheldon,

and G. Whelan. 2013. E. coli Survival in Waters: Temperature Dependence. Water Res, 47(2):569–578.

USDA-ARS, EPA

Kim, K., G. Whelan, S.T. Purucker, T.F. Bohrmann, M. Cyterski, M. Molina, Y. Gu, Y.A. Pachepsky, A. Guber, and D. Franklin. 2013. Rainfall-runoff model parameter estimation and uncertainty evaluation on small plots. Hydrol Process (DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10001).

EPA, USDA-ARS

Martinez, G., Y.A. Pachepsky, D.R. Sheldon, G. Whelan, R. Zepp, M. Molina, and K. Panhorst. 2013. Using the Q10 Model to Simulate E. coli Survival in Cowpats on Grazing Lands. Environ Int, 54:1-10

USDA-ARS, EPA

Whelan, G., K. Kim, M.A. Pelton, J.A. Soller, K.J. Castleton, M. Molina, Y.A. Pachepsky, J. Ravenscroft, R. Zepp. 2014. An Integrated Environmental Modeling Framework for Performing Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments. Environ Modell Softw (Accepted)

EPA, DOE-PNNL, USDA-ARS

Whelan, G., K. Kim, M.A. Pelton, K.J. Castleton, G.F. Laniak, K. Wolf, R. Parmar, J. Babindreier, and M. Galvin. 2014. Design of a Component-based Integrated Environmental Modeling Framework. Environ Modell Softw (Accepted)

EPA, DOE-PNNL

Martinez, G., Y.A. Pachepsky, G. Whelan, A.M. Yakirevich, T.J. Gish, A. Guber, E. Plischke. 2014. Rainfall-induced fecal indicator organisms transport from manured fields: model sensitivity analysis. Environ Int, 63:121-129.

USDA-ARS, EPA

Pachepsky, Y.A., R. Blaustein, R., G. Whelan, D.R. Sheldon. 2014. NOTE: Comparing temperature effects on E. coli, Salmonella, and Enterococcus survival in surface waters. Letters on Applied Microbiology. (Submitted)

USDA-ARS, EPA

Kim, K., G. Whelan, M. Molina, S.T. Purucker, Y.A. Pachepsky, A. Guber, M. Cyterski, J. Ravenscroft, and D. Franklin. 2014. Rainfall-induced release of microbes from manure: model development, parameter estimation, and uncertainty evaluation on small plots. Appl Environ Microb (Submitted)

EPA, USDA-ARS

Guber, A.K., Y.A. Pachepsky, A.M. Yakirevich, D.R. Shelton, G.Whelan, D.C. Goodrich, and C.L. Unkrich. 2014. Modeling Runoff and Microbial Overland Transport with KINEROS2/STWIR Model: Accuracy and Uncertainty as Affected by Source of Infiltration Parameters, J Hydrol, (in Review Process)

USDA-ARS, EPA

Publications (cont’d)

Peer Reviewed Proceedings Whelan, G., K. Kim, R. Parmar, K. Wolfe, M. Galvin, P. Duda,

M. Gray, M. Molina, R. Zepp, Y.A. Pachepsky, J. Ravenscroft, L. Prieto, B. Kitchens. 2014. Using IEM to Automate a Process-based QMRA. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 2014 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Bold Visions for Environmental Modeling, Sixth Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA USA. June 15-19, 2014 (under development).

EPA, USDA-ARS

Whelan, G., E. Weber, C. Stevens, M.A. Pelton, K. Wolfe, R. Parmar, M. Galvin, S. Hilal, J. Babendreier. 2014. A Chemical Properties Simulator to Support IEM. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 2014 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Bold Visions for Environmental Modeling, Sixth Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA USA. June 15-19, 2014 (under development).

EPA, DOE-PNNL

Kim, K., K. Price, G. Whelan, M. Galvin, K. Wolfe, P. Duda, M. Gray, Y.A. Pachepsky. 2014. Using Remote Sensing and Radar Meteorological Data to Support Watershed Assessments Comprising Integrated Environmental Modeling. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 2014 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Bold Visions for Environmental Modeling, Sixth Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA USA. June 15-19, 2014 (under development).

EPA, USDA-ARS

Peer Reviewed Reports Moore, R., A. Hughes, N. Gaber, G. Geller, P.

Glynn, G.F. Laniak, A. Voinov, and G. Whelan. 2013. International Summit on Integrated Environmental Modeling. EPA/600/R/12/728|December 2012|www.epa.gov/research and BGS OR/12/087, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, British Geological Survey, and U.S. Geological Suvey. Washington, DC.

EPA, NASA, USGS

ISCMEM-related Journal Articles Laniak, G.F., G. Olchin, J. Goodall, A. Voinov, M.

Hill, P. Glynn, G. Whelan, G. Geller, N. Quinn, M. Blind, S. Peckham, S. Reaney, N. Gaber, R. Kennedy, A. Hughes. 2013. Integrated Environmental Modeling: A Vision and Roadmap for the Future. Environ Modell Softw, 39:3-23.

EPA, USGS, NASA, ACOE-ERDC