Heron Hydrologic

This advanced-level workshop is designed for Raven users who want to extend their modelling practice into management optimization, enabling decision focused simulations for reservoirs, lakes, operations, and multi-objective systems. Through two live virtual sessions, participants will learn how to configure Raven for management workflows, define operational goals, and troubleshoot complex optimization challenges.

The workshop is ideal for consultants, researchers, and agencies who need to evaluate operational strategies, test management scenarios, or integrate optimization into hydrologic modelling.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Configure Raven to run management optimization
• Define and structure management goals and operational objectives
• Implement lake and reservoir management logic within Raven
• Handle over-constrained problems and design feasible solution spaces
• Develop penalty structures for optimization
• Understand how Raven evaluates management decisions during simulation
• Explore additional advanced management topics as time allows