Winter Planning
9:15 am - 10:00 am
- National Weather Service - Winter Weather Outlook
o Alex Tardy, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NWS San Diego
- National Weather Service - State of the Climate and Drought Update
o Alex Tardy, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NWS San Diego
- California Nevada River Forecast Center Update
o Alan Haynes, CNRFC Service Coordination Hydrologist (Total = 45 mins)
Community Rating System
10:00 am - 10:30 am
- Flood Warning Systems and CRS Credit
o Bruce Rindahl, Hydrology Section Manager, County of Ventura
Presentation
Updates to California's ALERT Systems
10:40 am - 11:30 am
- The San Luis Obispo County ALERT System
o Dustin Idler, Civil Engineering Technician PLS, San Luis Obispo County (20 mins)
- Upgrading Your ALERT Backbone to ALERT2
o Erik Carlson, Project Engineer/Hydrologist, Water & Earth Technologies (30 mins)
Announcements
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
- AUG Fall Meeting Sponsor Announcements
o HydroLynx, SonTek, Unearth & Seveno DataSight (30 mins)
- Basics & Lessons Learned
o David Gunderson, Telecommunications Specialist, United States Bureau of Reclamation (30 mins)
Managing a Modern Flood Warning System
1:30 pm - 3:05 pm
- ALERT2 TDMA Management - Building Successful Hydrologic Monitoring and Flood Warning Systems
o Charles Yost, Meteorologist/Rainfall Analyst, OneRain (45 mins)
- Managing ALERT Base Stations in Today's Network Environment
o Brian Iserman, Hydrologist, JE Fuller/Hydrology & Geomorphology, Inc. (30 mins)
- Smart Phone / Cloud-Based Field Maintenance Documentation
o Markus Ritsch, Chief Operating Officer, TriLynx Systems, LLC (20 mins)
ALERT Users Group Fall 2016 Business Meeting
3:05 pm - 3:30 pm
- ALERT Users Group 2018 Conference Announcement
o Ron Marotto, AUG President, Supervising Hydrographer, County of Ventura (5 mins)
- User Reports and Vendor Announcements
o All Users and Vendors (20 mins)
