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Florence Thompson

Florence has been a geographer at the Texas Water Science Center in Austin, Texas since 2006.  She has worked on numerous Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects, including 1:1,000,000-scale hydrographic data production for the National Atlas of the United States, a wildland fire history along the middle Rio Grande in New Mexico, the Watershed Boundary Dataset, watershed modeling,

Education and Certifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, History, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

    Master of Applied Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

Abstracts and Presentations

  • Thompson, F.E., 2010, “The National Atlas of the United States 1:1,000,000-Scale Hydrography Dataset,” 2010 ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA July 2010 

Science and Products

Simulation of streamflow and the effects of brush management on water yields in the upper Guadalupe River watershed, south-central Texas, 1995-2010

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority, developed and calibrated a Soil and Water Assessment Tool watershed model of the upper Guadalupe River watershed in south-central Texas to simulate streamflow and the effects of brush management on water yields in the watershed and to Canyon Lake for 1995–2010.
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

Production of a national 1:1,000,000-scale hydrography dataset for the United States: feature selection, simplification, and refinement

During 2006-09, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Atlas of the United States, produced a 1:1,000,000-scale (1:1M) hydrography dataset comprising streams and waterbodies for the entire United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for inclusion in the recompiled National Atlas. This report documents the methods used to select, simplify, and refine feat
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
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Plan Your Next River Trip to Explore the Great Outdoors From Your Computer Using Streamer

Streamer is an online mapping application for exploring downstream and upstream along America’s rivers and streams.

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