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Chris Goodell is the Principal Consultant for H&H at Kleinschmidt Associates and works out of the Portland, Oregon office. He is a registered professional engineer and diplomate of water resources engineering. Chris has over 25 years of experience in water resources engineering with a specialization in computational hydraulics and probabilistic modeling. He is a former developer of HEC-RAS and is the author of the blog The RAS Solution, the popular book “Breaking the HEC-RAS Code, and co-host of the Full Momentum vodcast.

Chris will be discussing techniques for dam breach modeling using the HEC-RAS software program, covering both the conventional breach parameter definition and the Simplified Physical breach approach. He will also discuss strategies for building fast and stable HEC-RAS dam breach models. Chris will conclude the talk with a discussion on probabilistic dam breach modeling using McBreach with HEC-RAS. A free version of McBreach will be available for all that attend.