Accomplishments to Date

• Notable Achievements
  • Confirmed 96 members across 4 Technical Advisory Teams
  • Completed inventory of coastal user interfaces
  • Inventory of existing and ongoing statewide flood-related modeling and data-driven studies
  • TIFF Outreach Plan
  • 2022 TIFF Annual Report
  • Completed data structure criteria for the creation of a data availability tool
  • TIFF Model Inventory Viewer
• Official Recommendations (2)
  • Quality assurance and integration of historical TCOON datasets
  • Priority areas along the Texas coast for bathymetry data acquisition
• Technical Advisory Team (TAT) Meetings
  • Kickoff meeting – March 29, 2021
  • Are we asking the right questions? – December 6-9, 2022
  • Accomplishments and Future Plans – March 22-23, 2023
• Stakeholder Outreach
  • Regional Flood Planning Groups and Coastal Liaisons – July 20, 2021
• TIFF Bathymetry Workshop – May 18, 2022
  • Virtual bathymetry workshop on May 18, 2022
  • To identify the areas with an immediate need for bathymetry acquisition
  • 90  Participants
  • Gathering insight from the TIFF Technical Advisory Team (TAT) members and other bathymetry experts and end-users
  • Identified 20 high priority areas along the coast of Texas
  • Recognized by NOAA for the workshop
• TIFF Subsidence Workshop – September 7, 2022
  • To improve statewide coordination for subsidence data collection and sharing.
  • To gather insights from subsidence experts about acquisition and resource needs for advancing subsidence data in Texas.
  • 177 participants (TAT members + representatives from various agencies + faculty from various universities)
  • Nine pre-recorded presentations
  • Discussion and question-and-answer among the presenters and participants
  • Subsidence webpage added to TWDB
• Developed Subsidence Brown Bag presentation series for Winter/Spring 2023
  • January 12: John Ellis, USGS , The Land Surface Groundwater Nexus: A case study, the science, and the big picture
  • February 9: Ashley Greuter, HGSD, Overview of Data at HGSD
  • March 9: Dr. Bob Wang, UH, New Preconsolidation Heads Following the Long-Term Hydraulic-Head Decline and Recovery in Houston, Texas
  • April 13: Dr. Shuhab Khan, UH, Spatial and temporal variations in groundwater levels of the Gulf Coast Aquifer System: Implications for land subsidence
• TIFF Integrated Modeling Brown Bag Seminar
  The goal of this seminar series is to share state-of-the-art flood modeling and analysis tools and discuss the crucial needed advancements in those tools and/or analysis approaches. Such seminars could help to guide flood resiliency planning, emergency flood-response activities, and other relevant needs of water resource decision-makers. Key topics that will be covered in these seminars include:
  • Hydrologic, meteorologic, hydraulic, estuarine hydrodynamics, surge, and wave modeling and/or associated analysis for improved flood hazard characterizations
  • Probabilistic analysis approaches for compound flood hazard frequency estimation
  • Model coupling approaches for compound flooding hazard assessment
  • August 21,2023: Clint Dawson, John J. McKetta Centennial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Storm Surge Modeling with Compound Flood Effects in Texas.