Projects
Selected engagements and open-source contributions from HydroMap's portfolio — from federal agency partnerships and international water programs to mobile apps delivering the National Water Model to the public.
In progress
HydroMap product · app.hydromap.com · 2026 – present
Free public web app for exploring live water data in any U.S. HUC-8 watershed: USGS streamgages color-coded by flow condition, SNOTEL snowpack, reservoirs, NLDI river tracing, NWM and GEOGLOWS forecasts, and an AI assistant grounded in the on-screen data.
CIROH / BYU Hydroinformatics Lab · 2024 – present
Mobile application delivering real-time NWM river flow data, short-term forecasts, and 100-year flow benchmarks for any U.S. stream reach. Powered by a custom NWM API and spatial reach index developed by HydroMap.
Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology · 2023 – present
Design and development of a production-grade Application Developer Interface for the U.S. National Water Model, enabling downstream tools, forecasts, and dashboards across the hydrology community.
Confidential — software patent litigation · 2024
Technical expert consulting and written reports in civil litigation involving GIS and hydrologic modeling software, provided personally by Daniel P. Ames, PhD, whose decades of source-code-level familiarity with GIS and water-modeling systems and peer-reviewed publication record support testimony in complex software disputes.
Federal · international · academic
United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization · 2023
Contributed to groundwater data and modeling analysis for a regional briefing covering aquifers in Jordan and Palestine, supporting the UN-FAO regional groundwater program.
Academic research program · 2023
Technical advisory on water data infrastructure and hydrologic information systems for research partners in China, including Yellow River basin workflows.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Office of Research & Development · Multi-year
Long-running collaboration integrating open-source GIS with EPA's environmental assessment and non-point source pollution modeling tools, including contributions to the NOAA-EPA NSPECT framework.
Dewberry · FEMA · Multi-year
Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) production workflows and GIS tooling in support of FEMA floodplain mapping programs, in collaboration with Dewberry.
RTI International · 2012 – 2013
GIS and watershed modeling components for RTI's OpenTERRAworks environmental decision-support platform, funded through EPA and distributed for public use.
University of Idaho Extension · Early 2010s
Web-based GIS mapping application design supporting a statewide volunteer water-quality monitoring program across Idaho watersheds.
University of Texas at San Antonio · 2019
Specialized consulting services in hydrologic modeling and GIS integration for the UTSA research group.
Strategic Fishing Systems, Inc. · Multi-year
Custom GIS toolboxes and data processing pipelines for mapping 'Fishermen's Ecological Knowledge' and commercial fisheries intelligence products.
Public software
HydroMap engineers have founded, contributed to, and maintained several foundational open-source projects in GIS and hydroinformatics. These tools are used by public agencies, research groups, and companies worldwide.
The original open-source programmable GIS desktop application — a foundational .NET GIS environment used for research, teaching, and custom application development.
Visit project GIS library for .NET developers to incorporate spatial data and mapping into desktop and server applications.
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Search, discovery, and visualization tool for the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System — a desktop client for hydrologic observations data.
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Collaborative environment for sharing hydrologic data and models across the CUAHSI research community. HydroMap contributors have supported architecture and data services.
Visit projectWe work selectively with agencies, utilities, academic groups, and legal teams that need deep expertise in water modeling and GIS software.
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