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
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Twelve-digit hydrologic unit actual evapotranspiration and snowpack water equivalent storage from the National Hydrologic Model Infrastructure with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System 1980-2016
This dataset is part of the National Water Census Water Budget Estimation and Evaluation Project's ongoing development of best estimates of daily historical water budgets for over 100,000 hydrologic units across the United States. In this release, estimates of actual evapotranspiration and snowpack water equivalent storage are added to the already released estimates of soil moisture...
National Water Model V2.0 retrospective for selected NWIS gage locations (1993-2018)
This dataset contains modeled hourly streamflow in cubic meters per second at each of about eighteen thousand selected operational and water-quality stream gage locations. It was assembled from publicly available retrospective V2.0 National Water Model outputs. The streamflow variable was extracted from model output files and the data were reshaped to optimize read performance. The...
National Water Model V1.2 Retrospective and Operational Model Run Archive for Selected NWIS Gage Locations
This dataset contains modeled hourly streamflow at each about eighteen thousand selected operational and water quality stream gage locations. It was assembled from publicly available retrospective and operational V1.2 National Water Model outputs. The streamflow variable was extracted from model output files and the data were reshaped to optimize read performance. The stream gage...
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Downscaled climate projections for the Southeast United States: evaluation and use for ecological applications
Climate change is likely to have many effects on natural ecosystems in the Southeast U.S. The National Climate Assessment Southeast Technical Report (SETR) indicates that natural ecosystems in the Southeast are likely to be affected by warming temperatures, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, and changes in rainfall and evapotranspiration. To better assess these how climate changes...
Authors
Adrienne M. Wootten, Kara Smith, Ryan P. Boyles, Adam Terando, Lydia Stefanova, Vasru Misra, Tom S. Smith, David L. Blodgett, Fredrick Semazzi
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Jessica Lucido
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Roland J. Viger
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 15
Twelve-digit hydrologic unit actual evapotranspiration and snowpack water equivalent storage from the National Hydrologic Model Infrastructure with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System 1980-2016
This dataset is part of the National Water Census Water Budget Estimation and Evaluation Project's ongoing development of best estimates of daily historical water budgets for over 100,000 hydrologic units across the United States. In this release, estimates of actual evapotranspiration and snowpack water equivalent storage are added to the already released estimates of soil moisture...
National Water Model V2.0 retrospective for selected NWIS gage locations (1993-2018)
This dataset contains modeled hourly streamflow in cubic meters per second at each of about eighteen thousand selected operational and water-quality stream gage locations. It was assembled from publicly available retrospective V2.0 National Water Model outputs. The streamflow variable was extracted from model output files and the data were reshaped to optimize read performance. The...
National Water Model V1.2 Retrospective and Operational Model Run Archive for Selected NWIS Gage Locations
This dataset contains modeled hourly streamflow at each about eighteen thousand selected operational and water quality stream gage locations. It was assembled from publicly available retrospective and operational V1.2 National Water Model outputs. The streamflow variable was extracted from model output files and the data were reshaped to optimize read performance. The stream gage...
Filter Total Items: 17
Downscaled climate projections for the Southeast United States: evaluation and use for ecological applications
Climate change is likely to have many effects on natural ecosystems in the Southeast U.S. The National Climate Assessment Southeast Technical Report (SETR) indicates that natural ecosystems in the Southeast are likely to be affected by warming temperatures, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, and changes in rainfall and evapotranspiration. To better assess these how climate changes...
Authors
Adrienne M. Wootten, Kara Smith, Ryan P. Boyles, Adam Terando, Lydia Stefanova, Vasru Misra, Tom S. Smith, David L. Blodgett, Fredrick Semazzi
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Jessica Lucido
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...
Authors
David L. Blodgett, Nathaniel Booth, Thomas C. Kunicki, Jordan I. Walker, Roland J. Viger
*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