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Robert E. Dickinson, one of the world’s leading experts in wastewater and urban drainage modeling, has joined MWH Soft’s Technical Directorate as Urban Drainage Technology Leader. Dickinson, who comes to the company from CDM, will be charged with maintaining, enhancing and supporting MWH Soft’s flagship SWMM-based product line (InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM), the industry’s leading wastewater and urban drainage systems design and modeling software. He will also be responsible for coordinating vital collaborative research and technology transfer with key universities and government organizations as well as developing business strategies that advance MWH Soft’s overall growth objectives in wastewater and stormwater systems management and heighten its initiatives in both U.S. and international markets.
More Information about the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) for watershed water quality, hydrology and hydraulics modelers can be found at these additional WebSites.
Do you have any good stories to tell in the environment science group? I have been trying to get some of the local colleges to join (Bowdoin, Bates, Colby) since they have been floating PR stories that they are interested in environment studies. However, when I press them they have no idea, and no resources, to do anything innovative in this area. I do believe that computational science absolutely the best way to make forward progress on environmental issues, particularly if we can couple the different models together: weather, waste water, pollution, oceanography, ecology, biology. Clearly this will take a decade since very few organizations have individuals that comprehend all these issues and career structures at universities don't encourage young professors to go interdisciplinary and the tenured folks don't seem to understand computational science. So, if we can fill the environmental science portion with interesting stories and news maybe we can rally the different folks together and make some forward progress. Do you think you can help here?
Welcome! Your background sounds very interesting. Stillwater is working with two German Universities that do ground water modeling, but I would love to hear more about urban drainage modeling.
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Do you have any good stories to tell in the environment science group? I have been trying to get some of the local colleges to join (Bowdoin, Bates, Colby) since they have been floating PR stories that they are interested in environment studies. However, when I press them they have no idea, and no resources, to do anything innovative in this area. I do believe that computational science absolutely the best way to make forward progress on environmental issues, particularly if we can couple the different models together: weather, waste water, pollution, oceanography, ecology, biology. Clearly this will take a decade since very few organizations have individuals that comprehend all these issues and career structures at universities don't encourage young professors to go interdisciplinary and the tenured folks don't seem to understand computational science. So, if we can fill the environmental science portion with interesting stories and news maybe we can rally the different folks together and make some forward progress. Do you think you can help here?
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Welcome! Your background sounds very interesting. Stillwater is working with two German Universities that do ground water modeling, but I would love to hear more about urban drainage modeling.