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bbass@HARCresearch.orgBill Bass is a geospatial technology and analytics expert, and is a certified GIS professional (GISP). Bill has over 25 years professional experience having worked in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, including global management consulting firms and research organizations. His professional interests include program/project management, geospatial enterprise architecture, analytics, data warehousing, information architecture, environmental spatial analysis, and developing interactive mapping and analytical applications. He has a master’s degree in Geography from Texas State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Management Systems from Arizona State University. In addition, Bill serves as a member of Bayou Land Conservancy's Board of Directors and volunteers through their Ambassador program.
Bill Bass, GISP
Geospatial & Analytics Senior Manager
281-364-6087
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Hurricane Harvey brought more than 50 inches of rain in a single week to a regional that normal receives 45 inches of rainfall in a year.
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Over the past two decades Texas has seen extraordinary economic growth and development to all major metropolitan areas. The Houston-Galveston region is no exception to this growth trend.
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Normally the Houston-Galveston region receives on average 45 inches of rainfall a year. During Hurricane Harvey, some areas received over 50 inches of rain in less than a week.
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Freshwater wetlands in the Houston-Galveston region provide many ecosystem services.
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Why did Houston flood? Watch a video by NOVA PBS discussing challenges and strategies for Houston.
HARC's Geospatial Technologies researcher Bill Bass contributes maps to article discussing Houston flooding and the need for current data. For more information, explore HARC researchers Lisa Gonzalez and Erin Kinney’s Texas General Land Office sponsored
http://harcresearch.org/wetlandplanningtool.
HARC researchers discuss changes to impervious coverage, loss of natural areas, and flooding. "You need to keep water in some of these systems and out of the bayou in the first place.” HARC’s Bill Bass
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Project Announcements
HARC has recently taken delivery of high-accuracy Lidar data flown in 2018 for the greater Houston-Galveston region. The dataset includes both elevation datapoints as well as building footprints.
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Publications, Lectures & Presentations
HARC GIS team recently presented at the 2018 International ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA.
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HARC’s Bill Bass, Geospatial & IT Senior Manager, has been appointed to the Bayou Land Conservancy board of directors effective March 20, 2018
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Publications, Lectures & Presentations
HARC Geospatial Manager Bill Bass, GISP will be presenting at the 2017 Houston Area GIS Students Day event on Thursday, November 16, 2017.
Recent Features
If you took a Geography course over 20 years ago, you might recall the subject involving little more than memorizing the locations of continents, countries, cities, as well as climate and cultural facts. In that time, many universities have expanded their geography programs by entering the world of Geographic Information Systems, or GIS for short.
We all know that our region is facing enormous challenges as we grapple with flooding. While many factors such as development patterns and climate change affect flood risk, it comes down to how much rainfall we get and how runoff from storm events can be managed. Accurate information on rainfall amounts is essential to address these threats.
Hurricane Harvey brought record rainfall to the Houston-Galveston region and the Texas coast. After making landfall near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 storm on August 25, 2017 and lingering for more than four days, Harvey dropped more than 50 inches of rain in parts of Houston, leaving behind a devastated region.
In a four-year, $4 million effort, The Coastal Impacts Technology Program (CITP), a research initiative of the HARC Environmentally Friendly Drilling Program (EFD) engaged a diverse group of stakeholders in research to benefit the Texas
