This training video describes how reach numbers for SWR are assigned in ModelMuse.
Richard B Winston, Ph.D.
Richard Winston is a Hydrologist with the USGS Water Resources Mission Area.
I develop and document new software utilities to facilitate simulation of groundwater systems, using a variety of documented models, and provide support for users inside and outside the USGS. The programs I have written or helped write include
- ModelMuse,
- ListingAnalyst,
- MODFLOW GUI,
- SutraGUI,
- GW_Chart, and
- Model Viewer.
I also maintain an Online Guide to MODFLOW (http://water.usgs.gov/nrp/gwsoftware/modflow2000/MFDOC/)
University of Maryland, Geology (hydrogeology),1991-1994, Ph.D.,1994
University of Illinois, Geology (paleobotany),1982-1986, Ph.D.,1986
University of Illinois, Botany,1980-1982, M.S.,1982
West Virginia University, Geology,1976-1980, B.S.,1980
West Virginia University, Biology,1976-1980, A.B.,1980
I develop and document new software utilities to facilitate simulation of groundwater systems, using a variety of documented models, and provide support for users inside and outside the USGS.
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
DATES From: 1997 To: 1998
Consultant to Argus Interware
I created plug-ins for the Argus ONE software to support MT3DMS and HST3D. I also provided customer support.
DATES From: 1994 To: 1997
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University
I taught classes in Hydrogeology and Historical Geology and conducted hydrologic research.
DATES From: 1987 To: 1991
Geologist, Alabama Geological Survey
I conducted research in coal geology, especially with respect to coal-bed methane. I also did research on paleobotany.
Science and Products
This training video describes how reach numbers for SWR are assigned in ModelMuse.
This ModelMuse training video describes how to run SUTRA and display the model results.
This ModelMuse training video describes how to run SUTRA and display the model results.
This video describes how to define 3D SUTRA meshes in ModelMuse including pinch-outs.
This video describes how to define 3D SUTRA meshes in ModelMuse including pinch-outs.
This video shows how to define and visualize permeabililty in SUTRA models in ModelMuse.
This video shows how to define and visualize permeabililty in SUTRA models in ModelMuse.
This video describes how to define SUTRA boundary conditions and observations in ModelMuse.
This video describes how to define SUTRA boundary conditions and observations in ModelMuse.
This USGS training video demonstrates how time is discretized in ModelMuse software.
This USGS training video demonstrates how time is discretized in ModelMuse software.
This video describes how some data are specified at nodes and some data are specified at elements in SUTRA models.
This video describes how some data are specified at nodes and some data are specified at elements in SUTRA models.
This video shows how to use GMSH from within ModelMuse to generate a mesh for SUTRA.
This video shows how to use GMSH from within ModelMuse to generate a mesh for SUTRA.
This training video demonstrates how to create a mesh with ModelMuse for SUTRA.
This training video demonstrates how to create a mesh with ModelMuse for SUTRA.
This video describes some of the most obvious changes to ModelMuse when working with SUTRA models.
This video describes some of the most obvious changes to ModelMuse when working with SUTRA models.
This explainer video demonstrates how to start a new SUTRA model in ModelMuse.
This explainer video demonstrates how to start a new SUTRA model in ModelMuse.
This video describes how to change how grid lines are displayed in ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to change how grid lines are displayed in ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to use spreadsheets with ModelMuse and to edit multiple cells with ModelMuse.
This video describes how to use spreadsheets with ModelMuse and to edit multiple cells with ModelMuse.
This video describes how to us ModelMuse to simulate solute transport with MT3D.
This video describes how to us ModelMuse to simulate solute transport with MT3D.
This video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
This video shows how to create plots of head versus time using ModelMuse, GW_Chart, and ListingAnalyst.
This video shows how to create plots of head versus time using ModelMuse, GW_Chart, and ListingAnalyst.
This video describes how the concepts behind the Seawater Intrusion package in MODFLOW.
This video describes how the concepts behind the Seawater Intrusion package in MODFLOW.
This video describes how to create a model using the MODFLOW Seawater Intrusion package with ModelMuse.
This video describes how to create a model using the MODFLOW Seawater Intrusion package with ModelMuse.
This video describes how to create a model using the Farm Process in MODFLOW-OWHM
This video describes how to create a model using the Farm Process in MODFLOW-OWHM
This video briefly describes the Riparian Evapotranspiration package and how ModelMuse supports it.
This video briefly describes the Riparian Evapotranspiration package and how ModelMuse supports it.
Guidelines for Evaluating Ground-Water Flow Models
SutraGUI, a graphical-user interface for SUTRA, a model for ground-water flow with solute or energy transport
User's guide to Model Viewer, a program for three-dimensional visualization of ground-water model results
Programs for simplifying the analysis of geographic information in U. S. Geological Survey ground-water models
System and boundary conceptualization in ground-water flow simulation
Upgrade to MODFLOW-GUI; addition of MODPATH, ZONEBDGT, and additional MODFLOW packages to the U.S. Geological Survey MODFLOW-96 Graphical-User Interface
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Model Viewer: A Program For Three-Dimensional Visualization of Ground-water Model Results
ModelViewer is a program for three-dimensional visualization of groundwater model results.
Wellfootprint - A Map App for Visualizing Groundwater Withdrawals
Wellfootprint computes a raster map of groundwater withdrawals relative to a user-defined "Depth-Rate Index" (DRI), such as a recharge rate. Dividing each well's withdrawal rate by the length per time DRI yields an area for display for each well's 'footprint' as a circle around each well. Symbols for closely spaced wells are merged to visualize the combined withdrawals eq
Software Release: Volume-Weighted Particle-Tracking Method for Solute-Transport Modeling: Implementation in MF2K-GWT
Groundwater Transport Process (GWT)
Groundwater Transport Process (GWT) is a three-dimensional ground-water flow and solute-transport model integrated with MODFLOW-2000.
Software release: ModelArchiver and FgdcMetaEditor
WellFootprint Software Release
ModelMate
ModelMate is a graphical user interface (GUI) designed to facilitate model analysis
by software applications that invoke model simulations as external processes.
SutraGUI: Graphical Pre- and Post-Processor for SUTRA
SutraGUI is a graphical environment for setting up and executing 2D and 3D SUTRA runs, and for visualizing results from 2D SUTRA runs. It is compatible with SUTRA Version 2.2 and requires Argus Open Numerical Environments (Argus ONE) commercial software,
ZONECONC
ZONECONC is a postprocessing program that tabulates concentration statistics from concentration data generated by MODFLOW-GWT.
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Filter Total Items: 65SWR Reach Numbers
This training video describes how reach numbers for SWR are assigned in ModelMuse.
This training video describes how reach numbers for SWR are assigned in ModelMuse.
Running SUTRA and Displaying Model ResultsThis ModelMuse training video describes how to run SUTRA and display the model results.
This ModelMuse training video describes how to run SUTRA and display the model results.
Working with 3D SUTRA MeshesThis video describes how to define 3D SUTRA meshes in ModelMuse including pinch-outs.
This video describes how to define 3D SUTRA meshes in ModelMuse including pinch-outs.
Permeability in SUTRAThis video shows how to define and visualize permeabililty in SUTRA models in ModelMuse.
This video shows how to define and visualize permeabililty in SUTRA models in ModelMuse.
SUTRA Boundary Conditions and ObservationsThis video describes how to define SUTRA boundary conditions and observations in ModelMuse.
This video describes how to define SUTRA boundary conditions and observations in ModelMuse.
SUTRA Time SchedulesThis USGS training video demonstrates how time is discretized in ModelMuse software.
This USGS training video demonstrates how time is discretized in ModelMuse software.
Nodes and elements in SUTRAThis video describes how some data are specified at nodes and some data are specified at elements in SUTRA models.
This video describes how some data are specified at nodes and some data are specified at elements in SUTRA models.
Using Gmsh to Generate a MeshThis video shows how to use GMSH from within ModelMuse to generate a mesh for SUTRA.
This video shows how to use GMSH from within ModelMuse to generate a mesh for SUTRA.
Generating a meshThis training video demonstrates how to create a mesh with ModelMuse for SUTRA.
This training video demonstrates how to create a mesh with ModelMuse for SUTRA.
Main changes to the ModelMuse main window with SUTRAMain changes to the ModelMuse main window with SUTRAMain changes to the ModelMuse main window with SUTRAThis video describes some of the most obvious changes to ModelMuse when working with SUTRA models.
This video describes some of the most obvious changes to ModelMuse when working with SUTRA models.
Starting a new SUTRA modelThis explainer video demonstrates how to start a new SUTRA model in ModelMuse.
This explainer video demonstrates how to start a new SUTRA model in ModelMuse.
ModelMuse: Grid Line Display OptionsThis video describes how to change how grid lines are displayed in ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to change how grid lines are displayed in ModelMuse software.
ModelMuse: Spreadsheet Interaction and Editing Multiple Cells in TablesModelMuse: Spreadsheet Interaction and Editing Multiple Cells in TablesModelMuse: Spreadsheet Interaction and Editing Multiple Cells in TablesThis video describes how to use spreadsheets with ModelMuse and to edit multiple cells with ModelMuse.
This video describes how to use spreadsheets with ModelMuse and to edit multiple cells with ModelMuse.
ModelMuse: MT3DThis video describes how to us ModelMuse to simulate solute transport with MT3D.
This video describes how to us ModelMuse to simulate solute transport with MT3D.
ModelMuse: MODFLOW-LGRThis video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
ModelMuse: MODFLOW-CFPThis video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
This video describes how to create a MODFLOW-LGR model with ModelMuse software.
ModelMuse: Plotting Head versus TimeThis video shows how to create plots of head versus time using ModelMuse, GW_Chart, and ListingAnalyst.
This video shows how to create plots of head versus time using ModelMuse, GW_Chart, and ListingAnalyst.
ModelMuse: SWI ConceptsThis video describes how the concepts behind the Seawater Intrusion package in MODFLOW.
This video describes how the concepts behind the Seawater Intrusion package in MODFLOW.
ModelMuse: SWI ExampleThis video describes how to create a model using the MODFLOW Seawater Intrusion package with ModelMuse.
This video describes how to create a model using the MODFLOW Seawater Intrusion package with ModelMuse.
ModelMuse: Farm ProcessThis video describes how to create a model using the Farm Process in MODFLOW-OWHM
This video describes how to create a model using the Farm Process in MODFLOW-OWHM
ModelMuse: Riparian Evapotranspiration PackageThis video briefly describes the Riparian Evapotranspiration package and how ModelMuse supports it.
This video briefly describes the Riparian Evapotranspiration package and how ModelMuse supports it.
- Publications
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Guidelines for Evaluating Ground-Water Flow Models
Ground-water flow modeling is an important tool frequently used in studies of ground-water systems. Reviewers and users of these studies have a need to evaluate the accuracy or reasonableness of the ground-water flow model. This report provides some guidelines and discussion on how to evaluate complex ground-water flow models used in the investigation of ground-water systems. A consistent thread tAuthorsThomas E. Reilly, Arlen W. HarbaughSutraGUI, a graphical-user interface for SUTRA, a model for ground-water flow with solute or energy transport
This report describes SutraGUI, a flexible graphical user-interface (GUI) that supports two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) simulation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) SUTRA ground-water-flow and transport model (Voss and Provost, 2002). SutraGUI allows the user to create SUTRA ground-water models graphically. SutraGUI provides all of the graphical functionality required for settAuthorsRichard B. Winston, Clifford I. VossUser's guide to Model Viewer, a program for three-dimensional visualization of ground-water model results
Model Viewer is a computer program that displays the results of three-dimensional groundwater models. Scalar data (such as hydraulic head or solute concentration) may be displayed as a solid or a set of isosurfaces, using a red-to-blue color spectrum to represent a range of scalar values. Vector data (such as velocity or specific discharge) are represented by lines oriented to the vector directionAuthorsPaul A. Hsieh, Richard B. WinstonPrograms for simplifying the analysis of geographic information in U. S. Geological Survey ground-water models
No abstract available.AuthorsR.B. WinstonSystem and boundary conceptualization in ground-water flow simulation
Ground-water models attempt to represent an actual ground-water system with a mathematical counterpart. The conceptualization of how and where water originates in the ground-water-flow system and how and where it leaves the system is critical to the development of an accurate model. The mathematical representation of these boundaries in the model is important because many hydrologic boundary condiAuthorsT. E. ReillyUpgrade to MODFLOW-GUI; addition of MODPATH, ZONEBDGT, and additional MODFLOW packages to the U.S. Geological Survey MODFLOW-96 Graphical-User Interface
This report describes enhancements to a Graphical-User Interface (GUI) for MODFLOW-96, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) modular, three-dimensional, finitedifference ground-water flow model, and MOC3D, the USGS three-dimensional, method-ofcharacteristics solute-transport model. The GUI is a plug-in extension (PIE) for the commercial program Argus ONEe. The GUI has been modified to support MODPATHAuthorsR.B. WinstonNon-USGS Publications**
Winston, A., and Winston, R.B., 1980, Unperturbed Molecular Dimensions of Polyacrylamide in Water. Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Letters Edition, 18: 119-122.Winston, R.B., 1983, A Late Pennsylvanian upland flora in Kansas: Systematics and environmental implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 40: 5-31.Winston, R.B., 1984. The Upper Pennsylvanian conifer, Walchia garnettensis: Structure and affinities. Palaeontographica, 194B, p. 97-108.Winston, R.B., 1986. Characteristic features and compaction of plant tissues traced from permineralized peat to coal in Pennsylvanian coals (Desmoinesian) from the Illinois Basin. International Journal of Coal Geology, 6: 21-41.Pashin, J.C., Ward, W.E., II, Winston, R.B., Chandler, R.V., Bolin, D.E., Hamilton, R.P., and Mink, R.M., 1990. Geologic Evaluation of Critical Production Parameters for Coalbed Methane Resources, Part II, Black Warrior basin, Annual report. Geological Survey of Alabama, Gas Research Institute Contract No. 5087-214-1594. 177 p.Epsman, M.L., Wilson, G.V., Pashin, J.C., Tolson, J.S., Ward, W.E. II, Chandler, R.V., Winston, R.B., Richter, K.E., Hamilton, R.P., and Rheams, L.J., 1988. Geologic Evaluation of Critical Production Parameters for Coalbed Methane Resources, Part II, Black Warrior basin, Annual report. Geological Survey of Alabama, Gas Research Institute Contract No. 5087-214-1544. 178 p.Winston, R.B., 1988. Paleoecology of Middle Pennsylvanian-age peat-swamp plants in Herrin Coal, Kentucky, U.S.A. International Journal of Coal Geology, 10: 203-238.Winston, R.B., 1989. Identification of plant megafossils in Pennsylvanian-age coal. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 57: 265-276.Winston, R.B., 1990. Coal-paleobotany of the Mary Lee coal bed of the Pennsylvanian "Pottsville" Formation near Carbon Hill, Walker County, Alabama, in Gastaldo, R.A., Demko, T.M., and Liu, Y. (editors) Carboniferous Coastal Environments and Paleocommunities of the Mary Lee Coal Zone, Marion and Walker Counties, Alabama. Geological Society of America, Southeastern section, guidebook for field trip VI, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, p. 66-72.Winston, R.B., 1990. Implications of paleobotany of Pennsylvanian-age coal of the central Appalachian basin for climate and coal-bed development. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102: 1720-1726.Winston, R.B., 1990. Vitrinite reflectance of Alabama's bituminous coal. Alabama Geological Survey, Circular 139, 54 p.Winston, R.B., 1991. A structurally preserved, Lower Pennsylvanian flora from the New Castle coal bed of Alabama. Alabama Geological Survey, Circular 157, 21 p.Winston, R.B., 1991. Preliminary report on coal quality trends in Upper Pottsville formations coal groups and their relationships to coal resource development, coalbed methane occurrence, and geologic history in the Warrior coal basin, Alabama. Alabama Geological Survey, Circular 152, 53 p.Winston, R.B., 1991. Coal quality of the Mary Lee coal group and its relationship to coal resource development, coalbed methane, and geologic history in the Warrior coal field, Alabama, in Peters, D.C., (editor) Geology in Coal Resource Utilization. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, TechBooks, Fairfax, Va. p. 369-388.Winston, R.B., 1993. Reassessment of the evidence for primary fusinite and degradofusinite, Organic Geochemistry, v. 20: 209-221.Winston, R.B., 1994. Models of the geomorphology, hydrology, and development of domed peat bodies. Geological Society of America Bulletin 106:1594-1604.Winston, R.B., 1996. Design of an Urban, Groundwater-Dominated, Wetland. Wetlands, 16(4); 524-531.Winston, R.B., 1997. Problems Associated with Reliably Designing Groundwater-Dominated Constructed Wetlands. Wetland Journal. 9(1): 21-25.Winston, R.B., 2014, Modifications made to ModelMuse to add support for the Saturated-Unsaturated Transport model (SUTRA): U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 6, chap. A49, 6 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/tm6a49.Winston, R. B., and Paulinski, Scott. 2014. ListingAnalyst: A Program for Analyzing the Main Output File from MODFLOW. Ground Water. doi: 10.1111/gwat.12054.Winston, R.B., and Ayotte, J.D., 2015, Simulations of a novel well design for reducing the risk of arsenic contamination (abstract). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2015, Baltimore, MD, November 1-4, 2015Winston, R.B., 2015, ModelMuse as a Graphical User Interface for SUTRA in Maxwell, R., Hill, M., Zheng, C., and Tonkin, M. Editors, MODFLOW and More 2015: Modeling a Complex World, Proceedings: Golden Colorado, p. 330-333.Yager, R. M., K. J. McCoy, C. I. Voss, W. E. Sanford, and R. B. Winston (2017), The Role of Uplift and Erosion in the Persistence of Saline Groundwater in the Shallow Subsurface, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL072980.**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
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Model Viewer: A Program For Three-Dimensional Visualization of Ground-water Model Results
ModelViewer is a program for three-dimensional visualization of groundwater model results.
Wellfootprint - A Map App for Visualizing Groundwater Withdrawals
Wellfootprint computes a raster map of groundwater withdrawals relative to a user-defined "Depth-Rate Index" (DRI), such as a recharge rate. Dividing each well's withdrawal rate by the length per time DRI yields an area for display for each well's 'footprint' as a circle around each well. Symbols for closely spaced wells are merged to visualize the combined withdrawals eq
Software Release: Volume-Weighted Particle-Tracking Method for Solute-Transport Modeling: Implementation in MF2K-GWT
The Ground-Water Transport (GWT) Process for MODFLOW-2000 (mf2k) provides the capability to simulate three-dimensional solute transport. The GWT Process is based on the previously documented MOC3D model, which was integrated with MODFLOW-96. This data release includes compiled versions of the software, source code, documentation, and the input and output for several test cases.Groundwater Transport Process (GWT)
Groundwater Transport Process (GWT) is a three-dimensional ground-water flow and solute-transport model integrated with MODFLOW-2000.
Software release: ModelArchiver and FgdcMetaEditor
ModelArchiver is a program for creating groundwater model archives that meet USGS policy requirements. FgdcMetaEditor is a program for editing metadata for geographic information in the form specified the by Federal Geographic Data Committee. This software release contains compiled versions of both programs along with source code and example data.WellFootprint Software Release
The WellFootprint software is used to generate a 'footprint' of well withdrawals that can better communicate the distribution of well withdrawals. The compiled program, source code, documentation, and an example are included.ModelMate
ModelMate is a graphical user interface (GUI) designed to facilitate model analysis
by software applications that invoke model simulations as external processes.SutraGUI: Graphical Pre- and Post-Processor for SUTRA
SutraGUI is a graphical environment for setting up and executing 2D and 3D SUTRA runs, and for visualizing results from 2D SUTRA runs. It is compatible with SUTRA Version 2.2 and requires Argus Open Numerical Environments (Argus ONE) commercial software,
ZONECONC
ZONECONC is a postprocessing program that tabulates concentration statistics from concentration data generated by MODFLOW-GWT.