Rio Grande - Rio Bravo Studies

Dr. Daene C. McKinney
Center for Research in Water Resources
The University of Texas at Austin

Since 2001, researchers from the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR) at The University of Texas at Austin have been engaged in a program of developing water management tools for use in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin shared between Mexico and the United States. This research has been funded by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the North American Development Bank (NADBank), The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA). Some of the results of this research are available at the links listed below. For more information, contact Dr. Daene McKinney at: daene@aol.com.

Reports, Publications and Software:

• Rio Grande Geodatabase:
  ftp://ftp.crwr.utexas.edu/pub/outgoing/PATINOC/RioGrandeInfo
   
• Patio-Gomez, C., and D. C. McKinney, GIS for Large-Scale Watershed Observational Data Model, CRWR Online Report 05-07, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, December 2005
  http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/reports/2005/rpt05-7.shtml
   
• Nicolau del Roure, R. A., and D. C. McKinney, Rio Conchos WEAP Exercises Rio Conchos Ejercicios WEAP, CRWR Online Report 05-11, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, December 2005
  http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/reports/2005/rpt05-11.shtml
   
• Teasley, R., and D. C. McKinney, Modeling the Forgotten River, CRWR Online Report 05-12, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, December 2005
  http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/reports/2005/rpt05-12.shtml
   
• R. L. Teasley, D. C. McKinney, and C. Patino-Gomez, Modeling the Forgotten River Segment of the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Research in Water Resources, December, 2004    Modeling the Forgotten River.pdf
   
• Patino, C., Goodall, J., D. C. McKinney, and D. R. Maidment, Water Management Information System for the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin: Creation of a Georeferenced Database, Second International Symposium on Transboundary Waters Management, 2004     TransWMngmt2004_Paper1-Final.pdf
   
• Patino, C., Whiteaker, T., D. C. McKinney, and D. R. Maidment, Raster - Network Regionalization Process Applied to the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin, Second International Symposium on Transboundary Waters Management, 2004    TransWMngmt2004_CRWRPaper-Final.pdf
   
• Patino, C., D. C. McKinney, and D. R. Maidment, Water Management Information System for the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin, GIS-Hydro 2004, Proceedings ESRI User Conference, San Diego, August 2004    Rio_Grande-Bravo_Basin.htm
   
• Patino, C., D.C. McKinney, and D.R. Maidment, Water Availability Model and Geodatabase Development for the Rio Grande Basin, First International Symposium on Transboundary Water Management, Monterrey, Mexico, Nov. 2003, pp. 155-162    Transboundary-Water-2003.pdf
   
• Water Management on the Rio Grande Basin   USGS_INEGI_Apr04.ppt
   
• Patino, C., D. C. McKinney, and D. R. Maidment, Water Management Information System for the Rio Bravo/Grande basin: Recent Achievements, March, 2004: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/papers/riogrande/Accomplished_March2004.pdf
   
• Patino, C., D. C. McKinney, and D. R. Maidment, Development of a Hydrologic Geodatabase for the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin, AWRA Spring Specialty Conference: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Water Resources III, Nashville, TN, May 17-19, 2004: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/papers/riogrande/AWRA_2004Paper.pdf
   
• Map Inventory of the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin: ftp://ftp.crwr.utexas.edu/pub/outgoing/PATINOC/MAPS_1.htm
   
• List of Digital Information and Inventory: ftp://ftp.crwr.utexas.edu/pub/outgoing/PATINOC/INF_SOURCE-WebPage.htm
   
• WRAP Hydro Training Course Notes: ftp://ftp.crwr.utexas.edu/pub/outgoing/PATINOC/WRAPHydro_TrainingCourse/
   
• ArcHydro training course in Spanish November 2002: ftp://ftp.crwr.utexas.edu/pub/outgoing/PATINOC/ArcHydro_SpanishCourse/

Other Sites:

• Wild and Scenic River: http://www.nps.gov/rigr/

• American Heritage River: http://www.epa.gov/rivers/98rivers/riogrande.html

• Water in the West: Rio Grande: http://www.waterinthewest.org/riverbasins/riogrande/riogrande.htm

• Upper Rio Grande Study: http://www.waterinthewest.org/reading/readingfiles/fedreportfiles/upperrio.pdf

• Photos: http://www.photovault.com/Link/Nature/Texas/x/Places/RioGrandeRiver.html

• Natural Heritage Institute: http://www.n-h-i.org/Projects/InternationalRivers/RioGrande/RioGrande.html

• Green Nature-Riogrande: http://greennature.com/article622.html

• Handbook of Texas: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/RR/rnr5.html

• Rio Grande / Rio Bravo Coalition: http://www.rioweb.org/basinfacts.html

• IBWC: http://www.ibwc.state.gov/, http://www.ibwc.state.gov/wad/rio_grande.htm

• Summer 2002 news: http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/07/07022002/reu_47708.asp

• TAMU: http://riogrande.tamu.edu/, http://www.brc.tamus.edu/srin/projects/tnrcc.html, http://elpaso.tamu.edu/Research/wateris.htm

• USGS: http://nm.water.usgs.gov/mrg/index.htm

• Univ of New Mexico (Upper Basin): http://www.unm.edu/~wrp/urg.htm

• New Mexico State University: http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/techrpt/tr317/downl.html

• USEPA: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/final/grants/95/water/schmandt.html

• TCEQ: http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/admin/topdoc/pd/020/00-10/riogrande.html, http://www.usgs.gov/state/state.asp?State=TXrgbdb/

• UT LBJ School: The State of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo : A Study of Water Resources Issues Along the Texas/Mexico Border (Profmex Monograph Series),  Diane Tate Thesis

• Texas Center for Policy Studies: http://www.texascenter.org/borderwater/rio_conchos/presentations.htm

• Maps: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/runymaps.html

• Legal resources: http://lawschool.unm.edu/library/water/links/riogrande.htm

• UC Berkeley - Rio Grande Drought Study: http://www.sahra.arizona.edu/research/TA5/5_1.html#1

• Univ of Az - Rio Conchos Drought Study: http://www.sahra.arizona.edu/research/TA5/5_4.html#1  

Interesting things:

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