Continuing Education
Water modeling basics
• Nooksack River QUAL2Kw Temperature Model and Climate Change Scenarios • Modeling Nutrients: Nutrient Cycles, Potential Impacts on Water Quality, and Developing Nutrient Endpoints • Modeling Nutrients in Rivers, Streams, Lakes, Reservoirs, and Estuaries • Sediment Modeling — Part 1 • Sediment Modeling — Part II • Modeling Dissolved Oxygen • Watershed Modeling Using Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) • Introduction to Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) • Introduction to Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) • Introduction to Water Quality Simulation Program (WASP) • EPA’s Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) • Introduction to EPA’s Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) v3 Webinars are recorded and archived on EPA’s website at www.epa.gov/ waterdata/surface-water-quality-modeling-training.
Free, two-hour EPA webinars address surface water quality topics.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Water Modeling Workgroup has hosted a series of free webinars to help water quality professionals better understand surface water quality modeling and how models can be used to solve common problems that face water quality regulators. The webinars are focused on modeling as it applies to the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), Standards, and Water Quality Permitting Programs, but they are applicable to a wide range of audiences. These two-hour webinars cover modeling basics such as selecting, developing, and running hydrology andwater qualitymodels tomodeling specific pollutants and parameters (e.g., nutrients, sediment, and metals), specific types of models, and emerging issues in water quality modeling. Webinars currently available include: • Water Quality Models 101 —What Are These Things? • Brick by Brick: How Water Quality Models are Developed • Interpreting and Using Water Quality Models
Information provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov).
Safe wood design and construction
Think Wood Research Library offers fire and seismic studies.
News articles and reports increasingly cite fire and seismic safety concerns related to wood design and construction with a call for more research. The Think Wood Research Library, launched in 2017, is now stocked with nearly 900 unique pieces of research to aid architects, engineers, and other industry professionals in building safe, high- performing buildings that can stand the test of time. The Think Wood Research Library offers several studies that address the fire performance of wood, including calculating the fire resistance of exposed wood members. Seismic concerns pose another design challenge, particularly in active seismic regions of the United States. Many studies available in the Think Wood Research Library evaluate the seismic performance and resilience of wood buildings . In addition to fire and seismic resources, the library houses case studies, reports, and research papers on a range of other design topics — from acoustics and vibrations, to energy and environment, to building codes and cost.
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental Facility at the University of California, San Diego provides a large, high-performance, outdoor shake table to support research in structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Recent seismic events — as well as research into material performance — have given designers and engineers critical insight into how buildings perform under such stress, which is reflected in building code and project applications.
Check out the full Think Wood Research Library at https://research. thinkwood.com/resource.
Information provided by Think Wood (www.thinkwood.com).
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