Join us on May 14, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Preventing Fatalities in Confined Spaces at Dams. Most dams have facilities that include permit-required confined spaces. These spaces can include towers, risers, galleries, manholes, vaults, conduits, instrument enclosures, tunnels, adits, drainage systems, etc., that are often unmarked and possess several unique hazards to dam inspectors, operators, and trespassers that are not intuitive...

From the delivery of healthcare and public benefits to emergency management and national security, generative AI – GenAI, for short – presents opportunities for governments to enhance constituent services. GenAI can empower front-line civil servants, improve the accessibility of public services, and enhance back-office processes. In pursuit of these benefits, federal spending on AI increased 22 percent since 2021—and 250 perc...

Join us on June 11, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Construction Quality Control / Information Data Systems for Dam Rehabilitation. We live in an information age. A huge variety of digital tools and methods are in use to assure quality in dam construction. These tools can be leveraged to verify compliance with specifications, excavation limits, production rates, construction limits, structure size, geotechnical instrumentation trends, and...

Join us on September 10, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Hydraulic Tour of Standard NRCS Inlet Risers. This webinar will describe USDA-NRCS riser inlets for watershed dams. USDA-ARS research on various riser configurations informed the current standard NRCS riser design. Other NRCS inlet risers exist for specific design situations. Maintenance concerns for continued optimum riser performance will be discussed. Finally, this webinar will ex...