Jim Nelson

Dr. Nelson is a Professor of Civil & Construction Engineering at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He has been a pioneer in developing geospatial hydrologic modeling and hydroinformatics tools and is the principal developer of the Watershed Modeling System (WMS) which since the 1990’s has been widely disseminated and used for development of hydrologic models and visualization of results. In recent years he and his colleagues at BYU developed Tethys Platform, free and open-source tools that lower the barrier for engineers to create web-applications for hydroinformatics. Tethys has been a foundational element of the GEOGloWS ECMWF Global Streamflow Services which provide a 40-year historical simulation and 15-day forecast on every river of the world daily (https://youtu.be/j3-ishNx104).