Texas A&M University
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Francisco Olivera, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
"Para qué quieres esperanza si
tienes la realidad."
Ignacio (15 años), Julio 2005
"All that matters is what YOU
think about your work ... and your SAT score."
Anonymous, December 2007
General Information
Resume as of February 18, 2008
Research
GIS Tools
Network Tracing Method (NTM) for developing large-scale coarse-resolution river networks from fine-resolution stream data.
PrePro2002 for pre-processing digital spatial data for HEC-HMS.
Watershed and Stream Delineation Tool (WSDT) for stream and watershed delineation from digital elevation models (DEMs).
Conference Presentations, Conference Posters, and Seminars
Congreso Nacional de Ingenieria Civil - Arequipa, Peru, 1 - 5 de Octubre 2007
Escuela Complutense de Verano, Madrid, España
SWAT 2007, Delft, The Netherlands
Hydrologic Model Integration (4.9 Mb). Presented at the Tropical Storm Allison: Two Years Later Conference organized by Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 8, 2003.
Hydrologic Topology (5.4 Mb). Poster presented at the Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 16, 2002.
Applications of GIS to Water Resources Engineering (5.0 Mb). Seminar given at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 4, 2002.
Applications of GIS to Water Resources Engineering (4.5 Mb). Seminar given at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Maryland, College park, Maryland, March 11, 2002.
Effect of the Watershed Size on the Shape of its Hydrologic Response (7.0 Mb). Poster presented at the AGU 2001 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12, 2002.
Applications of GIS to Water Resources Engineering (4.3 Mb). Seminar given at the Environmental and Water Resources Division of the Department of Civil Engineering of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 12, 2001.
Teaching
Civil Engineering Applications of GIS (CVEN 689/658)
Fall 2008
Fall 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2005
Spring 2004
Spring 2003
Spring 2002Urban Stormwater Management (CVEN 455 - 500)
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Fall 2005
Fall 2002Geomatics in Civil Engineering (CVEN 423)
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Fall 2005
Fall 2004Hydraulic Engineering (CVEN 458)
Spring 2006
Fall 2004
Fall 2001Water Resources Engineering (CVEN 339)
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Links
Former life. My web page before coming to Texas A&M University in 2001, when I worked at the Center for Research in Water Resources of the University of Texas at Austin
Neighborhood. Web pages of other faculty of the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division of the Department of Civil Engineering of Texas A&M University.
Water Network. Web pages of faculty from other universities in the fields of geographic information systems and environmental and water resources engineering.
Texas A&M University
Department of Civil Engineering
3136 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3136
Tel.: 979-845-1404
FAX: 979-862-1542
e-mail: folivera@civilmail.tamu.edu
Updated on 08/21/2008 by Francisco Olivera