The 2011 ISIS User Conference was held on Tuesday 21st June at Halcrow's offices in Hammersmith, London and was a great success. The conference attracted almost 100 attendees from local authorities, drainage boards, universities, engineering consultants and the Environment Agency. The conference included popular and informative sessions that are independently chaired by Chris Whitlow from Edenvale Young Associates.
Programme
The conference provides the opportunity to learn from the experiences of other modellers who will be presenting case studies, network with fellow modellers in the industry and help direct the future development of ISIS. Speakers and presentations will include:
- Helen James (Environment Agency) will present the work the Environment Agency have been carrying out since the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Modelling Strategy was published a year ago
- Konrad Adams (Halcrow) will discuss the new features, updates and improvements to ISIS v3.5 which has been developed in response to user needs
- Richard Dun (British Waterways) will present an approach that has been developed to assist in the understanding of breach risk from canals
- Jon Wicks (Halcrow) will present a case study on how ISIS FAST was used to model pluvial flood risk for the whole of Scotland (78,000km2).
- Kevin Hemmings (Capita Symonds) will discuss a case study on an integrated flood forecasting model for the Upper Forth which presents the work undertaken translating existing models, building new models and producing a complete flood forecasting solution using ISIS combining both hydrodynamic and routing reaches
- Jon Bartlett (Black & Veatch) will consider, using a number of case studies, the lessons learnt when moving from one-dimensional to two-dimensional modelling
- Simon Jepps and John Jepps (Thomas Mackay in partnership with Hyder Consulting) will present a joint case study on flood modelling of the River Colne tributaries at Huddersfield and the challenges faced during the study
- Maria Jarquin (Edenvale Young) will present a talk on modelling oblique bridges in which she will cover a comparison between the ISIS outputs using a number of different assumptions and the results from a TUFLOW only model of the channel
- Paul Crossley (Hyder Consulting) will present a case study entitled ‘A tale of two tadpoles’ which discusses the modelling of heavily modified watercourses in an upside down catchment
- Jon Wicks and Konrad Adams (Halcrow) will hold an open discussion to discuss the future developments within ISIS.
Presentation downloads
Please note that the views and opinions within these presentations are of the author and/or presenting organisation and not necessarily those of Halcrow Group Ltd. In addition, any of the results provided within these presentations are for example purposes only.
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Huddersfield Data Improvement Project - Uncertainty in Unusual Catchments Presentation by John Jepps at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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Modelling Heavily Modified Watercources in an Upside-down Catchment Presentation by Paul Crossley at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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Recent and future developments in ISIS Presentation by Konrad Adams at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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National Pluvial Flood Risk Mapping with ISIS FAST Presentation by Jon Wicks at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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FCRM Modelling Strategy 2010-2015 - One year on … Presentation by Helen James at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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An Integrated Catchment Flood Forecasting Model for the Upper Forth Presentation by John Dudley at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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Improving the Understanding of Risk from Canal Breaches Presentation by Richard Dun at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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Moving from 1D to 2D modelling - How different are the answers? Presentation by John Bartlett at 2011 ISIS User Conference |
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Videos
View Jon Bartlett's presentation on Moving from 1D to 2D modelling - How different are the answers?
View Richard Dun's presentation on Improving the Understanding of Risk from Canal Breaches
View Helen James's presentation on Flood and Coastal Risk Management Modelling Strategy 2010-2015 - One year on ....
Photos of the day
Previous conferences
For more information on our previous conferences, please visit the pages below.
Speaking at the User Conference
Do you have an interesting application of ISIS on a project or in research? If you do, contact us at if you would like to speak about it at the next User Conference.