Training Adelaide Australia

Sustainable Resources Industry Training (SRIT) hosted a GMS training course in Adelaide, Australia from October 4-7. The course was a great success with attendees from Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Thank you to all who attended and to Geoff and Glenys Flight from SRIT for organizing the course.

September 2011 Sprint Highlights

Some of the more interesting accomplishments from the September 2011 sprint:

• Released GMS 8.1 with 64 bit support, faster MODFLOW I/O, enhanced lighting options and other features.
• Almost finished the MODFLOW NWT interface coming with GMS 8.2.
• Posted an update of GMS 8.0.
• Fixed over 30 bugs
• Furthered the development of the ADH interface for the US Army Corp of Engineers
• Completed changes to the MODPATH interface to make automatically running MODPATH optional. Will be available in GMS 8.2.
• Added support for the MODFLOW DE4 solver, to be available in GMS 8.2.
• Added support for preserving comments at the top of MODFLOW package files in the NWT and UZF packages (available in GMS 8.2).

GMS 8.1 officially released with 64-bit support

Today we officially released GMS 8.1, meaning it is no longer in beta. The biggest change is that a 64 bit edition is now available. See the full list of what's new in GMS 8.1 and download it today.

Article on Using GMS With TOUGH2 and Complex Geology

A neat article in June's issue of Computers and Geosciences shows how the author's used GMS to set up a 3D grid used with TOUGH2. An account is required for full access to the article.

August 2011 Sprint Highlights

Some of the more interesting accomplishments from the August  2011 sprint:

• Fixed over 36 bugs
• Posted a new video about the Text Import Wizard on our YouTube channel
• Posted a new video about the automated parameter estimation with PEST on our YouTube channel
• Posted the video from July's "What's new in GMS 8.0" webinar
• Completed phase two of the ADH interface for the Army Corp of Engineers
• Made progress on the MODFLOW-NWT interface
• Assisted the consulting group on several projects

July 2011 Sprint Highlights

Some of the more interesting accomplishments from the July 2011 sprint:

• Fixed over 29 bugs
• Did a live webinar on what's new in GMS 8.0 and 8.1. Unfortunately we don't have the recording posted yet but hope to soon.
• Posted a new video about interpolating MODFLOW layer elevations on our YouTube channel
• Completed phase one of the ADH interface for the Army Corp of Engineers
• Started the MODFLOW-NWT interface
• Finished the 3D grid display option to contour a second specified data set
• Fixed a few FEMWATER bugs
• More wiki clean up and progress on Wiki to PDF feature
• More manual testing of 64 bit GMS
• Assisted the consulting group on several projects
• Visited the University of Michigan to discuss an "Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting" project for the U.S. Navy
• Added an image in the image gallery

GMS Webinar July 21, 2011

The GMS team held its first webinar on July 21, 2011. The webinar highlighted new features in GMS 8.0 and 8.1. We wanted to thank everyone that took time out of their schedule to attend the webinar. If you have any feedback please send it to us at webinar@aquaveo.com. We hope to post a recording of the webinar shortly. Here is a list of some of the features that were demonstrated:

1. General Features
1. Learning Center - www.aquaveo.com/gms-learning
2. YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/aquaveo
3. GMS Community Edition - www.xmswiki.com/xms/GMS:Community_Edition
4. Import from Web
5. ArcGIS map server layers
2. Improved 3D Graphics
1. Transparency
2. New lighting options
3. Faster data set switching
4. Faster frame rate (real time pan/rotate)
5. Block Fill contours
6. Save to Google Earth
3. New Modeling Features
1. MODFLOW 2005
2. UZF Package
3. LMG3 package - Parallel Versions of MODFLOW 2000 & 2005
4. Open Containing Folder
5. Parameter Estimation - Different types of regularization
6. SEAWAT
7. Regional to Local model enhancements
4. 64 bit Version of GMS
1. Coming with version 8.1
2. Load larger models
3. Work with larger data sets
4. 64 bit versions of MODFLOW