Dan Snead's Homepage
(Previous Commander of
the "Bravo Beast")
Greetings! Welcome to my homepage. For everyone trying to catch up with the Snead family, we are currently living in Austin, Texas. I am attending the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE) Graduate Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
· Current, Completed, and Future Course Work
· Personal
LINK to my HEC-GeoRAS GIS Exercise 
Floodplain
Visualization Using HEC-GeoRAS
My Job:
Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Next assignment after schooling:
Utilization Tour (a tour in which I 'utilize' my degree) with a USACE District, with aspirations of working with waterways in the continental United States.
CE
388N Solid Waste Management
CE394K-3 Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources
CE
390M Water Quality Management
CE 386M Water and Wastewater
Treatment Design
CE 385N Industrial Waste Treatment
CE 385K-1 Water Quality: Stream, Impoundment, and Estuarine Analysis I
CE f397 Advanced Information Tools for Project Management
CE w397 Quality Practicum
Research:
I have worked for the past year and
a half with Pete
Andrysiak on a Corps of Engineers Flood Damage Reduction project of the
Mill Creek Watershed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Hydrologic
Engineering Center's Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS), Pete developed a
hydrologic model of the watershed.
Because of the complexity of the watershed (urbanization, combined
sewerage, varying stream channel properties), the hydrologic model was
difficult to calibrate to the USGS gage station data. Pete covers this information in his report, linked on his
web page.
I used Pete’s hydrologic model and
developed a routing model using the Danish
Hydraulic Institute‘s 1-D MIKE
11 River Model. Both Pete’s
and my model were developed using a 10-yr storm event that occurred in
Cincinnati in April 1998. The MIKE
11 model uses the dynamic wave routing method. Using the MIKE 11 GIS 2000 beta version, I developed 2-D and
3-D flood animations for further analysis by the Corps. To see the animation results click on
the following .avi links:
3-D Flood
Animation of Mill Creek’s Primary Damage Center with Buildings
3-D Flyby
Animation of Mill Creek’s Primary Damage Center at Peak Stage Height
2-D Flood
Animation of Mill Creek’s Primary Damage Center without Buildings
Further research has been conducted
to calibrate the routing model by comparing the rating curves from an existing
gage station and the model. Since
the geometric data was developed from surveyed data, the only variable that
will be adjusted in the model is the resistance (Manning’s n
value). Calibration is limited to
the proximity of the gage station since there are no other gage stations along
the stream to interpolate from.
I have also started additional
research of the same model area using the HEC-RAS 3.0 beta version (HEC’s River
Analysis System) for unsteady flow.
The HEC-RAS 3.0 unsteady flow simulation is calculated using the UNET
algorithm.
I have been married to my lovely wife Melinda for six years. Melinda graduated with a BA degree in Elementary Education at Kent State University at Kent, Ohio in 1990. We have a 2 ˝ year old daughter named Charlotte Katherine. We also have a 4-year-old female Basset Hound named Chloe. If you feel like going for a run, watching some football, or fishing at the pond send us an e-mail at mailto: DSnead1968@aol.com, and come on by!
I graduated from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida
in August 1990 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation and
commissioning, I attended the Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri from September 1990 until January 1991. After attending the U.S.
Army Ranger School in March 1991 and following graduation in June 1991, I began
my first tour with A Company, 307th Engineer Battalion at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina. During my time at Fort Bragg, I served as a Combat
Engineer Platoon Leader, Engineer Equipment Platoon Leader, and Company
Executive Officer.
In August 1994 I departed Fort
Bragg for Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri to attend the Engineer Officer Advanced
Course for 6 months. In February 1995, I was assigned to Protocol Branch,
Eighth U.S. Army in Yongsan, Korea. For a year, I planned, resourced, and
coordinated the itineraries of Distinguished Visitors, VIPs, and General
Officers visiting the peninsula for military and/or political purposes.
In February 1996, I was assigned to
the 19th Engineer Battalion at Fort Knox, Kentucky. I worked as the battalion's
Assistant Operations and Plans Officer for the next 18 months. The 19th was
inactivated and I was reassigned to the 10th Engineer Battalion at Fort
Stewart, Georgia in August 1997.
In October 1997, I took command of B Company, 10th Engineer Battalion. Some of you EWRE folks may have known the outgoing commander, CPT Mike Sufnarski. He is currently an instructor at West Point. I commanded B Company for 18 months successfully deploying for 5 months with Task Force 4-64 to Kuwait for Operations Intrinsic Action 98-03 and Desert Fox.
Military Schools I Completed:
Airborne School
Jumpmaster School
Combined Arms and Services Staff School
Tampa Bay
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