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David L Blodgett

Dave is a hydro informatics specialist with the USGS Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division Geo-Intelligence Branch. He is currently working as a hydro-informatics lead accross the USGS Water Mission Area and the hydroscience community.

Dave holds a B.S. in civil and environmental engineering and an M.S. in water resources engineering form the UW-Madison. Dave started his career with the USGS in 2009 with a focus on hydrology and ecology modeling data. Within the USGS, Dave is a program manager for the Data Cyberinfrastructure and Information Delivery Program and pursues a mix of hydroinformatics research and software development tasks in his project work. Outside the USGS, Dave is a technical leader in Earth Science Information Partners Information Technology and Interoperability working group and the Open Geospatial Consortium hydrology domain working group. 

Education and Certifications

  • University of Wisconsin Madison — BS Civil and Environmental Engineering 2002-2008

  • University of Wisconsin Madison — MS Water Resources Engineering 2008-2010

Affiliations and Memberships*

  • Co-Chair OGC/WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group

  • OGC Architecture Board Member

  • Technical Advisor to the 3D Hydrography Program Working Group

  • Standards Working Group Chair for OGC WaterML2 Part 3: Surface Water Hydrologic Features – HY_Features

  • NetCDF-CF Conventions Committee

Science and Products

Filter Total Items: 16

New service interface for River Forecasting Center derived quantitative precipitation estimates

For more than a decade, the National Weather Service (NWS) River Forecast Centers (RFCs) have been estimating spatially distributed rainfall by applying quality-control procedures to radar-indicated rainfall estimates in the eastern United States and other best practices in the western United States to producea national Quantitative Precipitation Estimate (QPE) (National Weather Service, 2013). Th
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David L. Blodgett
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Water Resources Mission Area, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data

The increasing availability of downscaled climate projections and other data products that summarize or predict climate conditions, is making climate data use more common in research and management. Scientists and decisionmakers often need to construct ensembles and compare climate hindcasts and future projections for particular spatial areas. These tasks generally require an investigator to procu
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David L. Blodgett
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Community for Data Integration (CDI)

Description of the U.S. Geological Survey Geo Data Portal data integration framework

The U.S. Geological Survey has developed an open-standard data integration framework for working efficiently and effectively with large collections of climate and other geoscience data. A web interface accesses catalog datasets to find data services. Data resources can then be rendered for mapping and dataset metadata are derived directly from these web services. Algorithm configuration and inform
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David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel L. Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Jessica M. Lucido
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Water Resources Mission Area, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Description and testing of the Geo Data Portal: Data integration framework and Web processing services for environmental science collaboration

Interest in sharing interdisciplinary environmental modeling results and related data is increasing among scientists. The U.S. Geological Survey Geo Data Portal project enables data sharing by assembling open-standard Web services into an integrated data retrieval and analysis Web application design methodology that streamlines time-consuming and resource-intensive data management tasks. Data-serv
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David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel L. Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Roland J. Viger
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Water Resources Mission Area, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
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Science and Products

Filter Total Items: 16

New service interface for River Forecasting Center derived quantitative precipitation estimates

For more than a decade, the National Weather Service (NWS) River Forecast Centers (RFCs) have been estimating spatially distributed rainfall by applying quality-control procedures to radar-indicated rainfall estimates in the eastern United States and other best practices in the western United States to producea national Quantitative Precipitation Estimate (QPE) (National Weather Service, 2013). Th
Authors
David L. Blodgett
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Geo Data Portal: an integrated broker for climate and geospatial data

The increasing availability of downscaled climate projections and other data products that summarize or predict climate conditions, is making climate data use more common in research and management. Scientists and decisionmakers often need to construct ensembles and compare climate hindcasts and future projections for particular spatial areas. These tasks generally require an investigator to procu
Authors
David L. Blodgett
By
Community for Data Integration (CDI)

Description of the U.S. Geological Survey Geo Data Portal data integration framework

The U.S. Geological Survey has developed an open-standard data integration framework for working efficiently and effectively with large collections of climate and other geoscience data. A web interface accesses catalog datasets to find data services. Data resources can then be rendered for mapping and dataset metadata are derived directly from these web services. Algorithm configuration and inform
Authors
David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel L. Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Jessica M. Lucido
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Description and testing of the Geo Data Portal: Data integration framework and Web processing services for environmental science collaboration

Interest in sharing interdisciplinary environmental modeling results and related data is increasing among scientists. The U.S. Geological Survey Geo Data Portal project enables data sharing by assembling open-standard Web services into an integrated data retrieval and analysis Web application design methodology that streamlines time-consuming and resource-intensive data management tasks. Data-serv
Authors
David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel L. Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Roland J. Viger
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
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*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government