Below you will find a listing of papers, reports and presentations published by our research team on topics related to coastal dynamics:

Journal Publications:

 Reports:

  • P.E. Tissot and Doug Martin. (2011). Determining the Tidal or Non-Tidal Nature of Indian River Water Level Stations. Final report submitted to Cooner and Associates, Land O’Lakes, Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida. Report under review by the NOAA National Ocean Service Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services.
  • Jennifer Kennedy and Philippe Tissot (2010). Coastal Bend Workshop on Streaming Atmospheric and Oceanographic Environmental Data. Report provided to participants of the August 27 workshop of the same name  and the Texas General Land office, September 20, 2010.
  • P.E. Tissot, Doug Martin and Lori Busch. (2010). Determining the Tidal or Non-Tidal Nature of Florida Keys Water Level Stations. Final report submitted to Cooner and Associates, Land O’Lakes, Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida. Report reviewed by the NOAA National Ocean Service Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services.  The full report will be included in the surveying database LABINS or Land Boundary Information System, the on-line survey and maps information system for the state of Florida.  The report will be used by land surveyors working in the Florida Keys.
  • P.E. Tissot and J. Rodriguez. (2007). Coastal Navigational Safety in Texas: A study of the causes of navigational accidents along the Texas coast with comparisons with Florida, and the United States. Final report submitted to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Environmental Cooperative Science Center.
  • P.E. Tissot, R. Ball and J.S. Adams. (2007). Monitoring and Predictive Modeling of Water Temperatures in the Laguna Madre. Final report to Texas Parks & Wildlife and the Coastal Conservation Association, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science, Corpus Christi, Texas. (link).
  • P.E. Tissot. (2005). Study of a Possible Link between Drowning and Near-Drowning Events and Surf Conditions in South Texas. Final report submitted to Texas Sea Grant.

Conference Proceedings, Trade Journals, Abstracts, & Invited Presentations:

  • P.E. Tissot, “CBI-TCOON: An Integrated Observations and Operational Predictions System for Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waters” oral presentation at the 11th Symposium on the Coastal Environment, AMS 93rd Annual Meeting, 6-10 January 2013 in Austin, TX.
  • P.E. Tissot, “Climate Change and the Gulf Coast”. Invited presentation at the Texas Center for Climate Studies ‘Gulf of Mexico Regional Climate Modeling Workshop’, May 30-31, 2012, College Station, Texas.
  • Philippe E. Tissot and Waylon Collins, “Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for the Prediction of Thunderstorm Location”, presentation at the 10th Conference on the Application of Computational Intelligence to Environmental Science, AMS 92nd Annual Meeting, January 2012, New Orleans, LA.
  • P.E. Tissot, G. Jeffress, N. Warner, X. Huang, and D. Martin, “Variability and Local Impact of Sea Level Rise in Economically Sensitive Areas Dominated by Vertical Land Motion” presentation at the 20th International Conference on GeoInformatics, Hong Kong, June 15-17, 2012.
  • Philippe Tissot, “Application of Computational Intelligence for the Design and Implementation of Real-Time Coastal Models”, oral presentation at the 12th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, St. Augustine, Fl, Nov. 7-8, 2011.
  • Scott C. Cordero, Philippe E. Tissot and Jennifer Kennedy, “Coastal Bend Collaborative Consortium of Streaming Atmospheric and Oceanographic Environmental Data”, presentation at the Coastal Zone 2011 conference, Chicago, Illinois July 17 to July 21, 2011.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, “Predictive Modeling and the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON)”, invited presentation, Environmental Engineering Seminar, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, April, 11, 2011.
  • Tissot, P.E. “Operational Models for the Support of Navigation and Coastal Decisions at CBI-TCOON”, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), Silver Spring, MD, 11 March 2011.
  • Tissot, P.E. “Relative Sea Level Rise and the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON)”, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), Silver Spring, MD, 10 March 2011.
  • Simoniello, C., Tissot, P., McKee, D., Adams, A., Ball, R., Butler, R. A Cooperative Approach to Resource Management: Texas Gamefish Win. Presentation at the 2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 13-18, 2011.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, “Sample Application of CI: Coastal Water Level Predictions”, presentation at the 2011 American Meteorological Society Educational Forum on Computational Intelligence Techniques, Seattle, January 23, 2011.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, “Coastal Modeling at the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON)”, presentation at the Technical Session of the 2010 TCOON Meeting, Austin, Texas June 2, 2010.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, “Coastal Modeling and the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network
  • (TCOON)”, invited presentation, US Army Corps of Engineer, ERDC, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 27, 2010.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, “CBI Real-time Coastal Predictions”, invited presentation at the 2010 Corpus Christi Weather Forecast Office Marine Workshop, Corpus Christi, Tx, May 14, 2010.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, Lori Busch and Doug Martin, “Determining the Tidal or Non Tidal Nature of Florida Keys Water Level Stations”, Poster presentation at the 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, February 22-26, 2010.
  • Tissot, P.E. and Rizzo, J. “CBI-TCOON: An Integrated Observation and Operational Forecast System for the Gulf of Mexico”, invited presentation, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), Silver Spring, MD, 18 November 2009.
  • Philippe E. Tissot, “A Comparative Discussion of Machine Learning and Physical Models for Coastal Ocean Observation Networks”, Proceedings of the Data Integration and Management on the Gulf of Mexico Workshop, Corpus Christi, TX, May 14-15, 2009, pp. 65-74.
  • Niall Durham, Philippe Tissot, James Davis and Scott Duff, “On Demand Neural Network Based Water Level Prediction System”, Data Integration and Management on the Gulf of Mexico Workshop, Corpus Christi, TX, May 14-15, 2009, p. 88.
  • Philippe Tissot, Daniel Prouty, Don Mulcare, James Rizzo, Stacey Lyle, Gary Jeffress, “An Offshore Water Level Network for Hurricane Storm Surge Measurements and Predictions”, Presentation at the Gulf Coast Hurricane Preparedness, Response, Recovery & Rebuilding Conference, November 11-14, 2008, Mobile, Alabama.
  • Philippe Tissot, Daniel Prouty, Gary Jeffress and James Rizzo, “TCOON Based Storm Surge Predictions for Texas Bays and Estuaries and Future Offshore Extension”, Presentation at the Severe Storm Prediction and Global Climate Impact on the Gulf Coast, October 29-31, 2008, Rice University, Texas.
  • Philippe Tissot, “Coastal Modeling at the Division of Nearshore Researcher (DNR)”, presentation at the 2008 TCOON Stakeholder Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 10, 2008.
  • Philippe Tissot, James Davis, Niall Durham and Waylon Collins, “Implementation and performance of a neural network based surge prediction system for the Texas coast”, presentation at the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 88th Annual Meeting, January 2008 New Orleans, LA.
  • Daniel Bruce Prouty, Philippe Tissot and Arif A. Anwar, “Using ensembles of artificial neural networks for storm surge predictions in the North Sea” presentation at the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 88th Annual Meeting, January 2008 New Orleans, LA. 
  • Waylon Collins, Philippe Tissot, “An Artificial Neural Network to Forecast Thunderstorm Location: Performance Enhancement Attempts” Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Probability and Statistics, AMS 88th Annual Meeting, January 2008 New Orleans, LA.
  • Waylon Collins, Philippe Tissot, ”An Artificial Neural Network to Forecast Thunderstorm Location: A Search for More Relevant Land Surface Input Data”, proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/18th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, June 25-29 2007, Park City, Utah.
  • Philippe Tissot, “DNR/TCOON Real-Time Surge Prediction Models”, Presentation at the 2007 Ozone Season Meteorologist Briefing, April 27th, Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Philippe Tissot, Beate Zimmer, ”ANN Training Methods Targeting Performance during Extreme Events”, presentation at the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007 in San Antonio, TX.
  • Waylon Collins, Philippe Tissot, ”Use of an Artificial Neural Network to Improve the Forecasting of Thunderstorm Location”, proceedings of the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007 in San Antonio, TX.
  • Zimmer, G. Beate, Phillipe E. Tissot, Jeremy Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley, “Water Level Forecasting Along the Texas Coast:  Interdisciplinary Research With Undergraduates,” Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, CD-ROM Session 1165, Portland, Oregon, June, 2005.
  • P.E. Tissot, S. Duff, P. Michaud, J. Rizzo and G. Jeffress, “DNR-TCOON: An Integrated Observation and Operational Forecasts System for the Gulf of Mexico”, Proceedings of the Symposium on Living in the Coastal Zone, San Diego, California, January 9-13, 2005.
  • P.E. Tissot, S. Duff, A. Mostella and K. Duraisamy, “Performance and Comparison of Water Level Forecasting Models for the Texas Gulf Coast” invited presentation at the Corpus Christi Weather Forecasting 2004 Coastal Flood workshop, Corpus Christi, Texas, November 17th, 2004.
  • P.E. Tissot, “Neural Network Modeling and the Texas Coastal ocean Observation Network”, invited presentation at the Fourth Seminar on Selected Topics of Applied Mathematics on Ocean Engineering, Mexico City, Mexico, May 28, 2003.
  • P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, and P.R. Michaud, “Optimization and Performance of a Neural Network Model Forecasting Water Levels for the Corpus Christi, Texas, Estuary”, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Environmental Science, Long Beach, California, February 2003.
  • P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, D. Cox, Z. Bowles, J. Stearns, A. Drikitis, “Neural Network Forecasting of Water Levels along the Texas Gulf Coast” invited presentation at the National Weather Service 2003 Coastal Flood workshop, Corpus Christi, Texas, January 30, 2003.
  • A.R. Patrick, W.G. Colllins, P.E. Tissot, A. Drikitis, J. Stearns, P. Michaud, D. Cox, “Use of the NCEP MesoEta Data in a Water Level Predicting Neural Network” Proceedings of the 19th AMS Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, 12-16 August 2002, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 369-372, 2002.
  • P.E. Tissot, J. Perez, F. J.  Kelly, J. Bonner, P. Michaud “Forecasting HF Radar Current Maps using Dynamic Neural Network Modeling”, presentation at the 2001 HF Radar Workshop, Miami, Florida on April 4-5, 2001,
  • P. E. Tissot, “Neural Network Forecasting of Water Levels”, presentation at the 2001 Southern Region Marine Forecaster Workshop, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 2001.
  • Tissot, P.E., Perez, J., Kelly, F.J., Bonner, J.S. and Michaud, P., “Dynamic neural network modeling of HF radar current maps for forecasting oil spill trajectories”, Proceedings of the twenty-fourth Arctic and Marine Oil spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, No. 24 (2001) 519-529.
  • P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, P. Michaud, “Water Level Changes on the Texas Coast”, invited presentation to the quarterly meeting of the Intra Coastal Waterway (ICW) users meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, January 2001.
  • P. E. Tissot, P. Michaud, D. Cox, “A New Real Time Model for the Forecasting of Water Level Changes”, invited presentation at the Texas Gulf Coast Emergency Manager Association conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 2000.

Student Conference Proceedings

  • Whitney Rutledge, Philippe Tissot and Waylon Collins: “A Sea Surface Temperature Neural Net model for the Prediction of Cloud to Ground Lightning”, to be submitted for presentation at the 2013 TAMUCC Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • Wenbo Zhu, Hoang Nguyen and Philippe Tissot: “Model Comparison for Improving Water Level Data Quality”, to be submitted for presentation at the 2013 TAMUCC undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • Natalya Warner, Blair Sterba-Boatwright, Philippe Tissot and Gary Jeffress,: “Estimated Increase in Inundation Probability with Confidence Intervals for Texas and Florida stations”, oral presentation at the 11th Symposium on the Coastal Environment, part of the AMS 93rd Annual Meeting, 6-10 January 2013 in Austin, TX
  • Sergey Reid, Philippe Tissot & Deidre Williams: “Inundation Analysis Using GIS and Hydrodynamic Modeling”, oral presentation at the 11th Symposium on the Coastal Environment, part of the AMS 93rd Annual Meeting, 6-10 January 2013 in Austin, TX
  • Natalya Warner, Blair Sterba-Boatwright, Philippe Tissot and Gary Jeffress, “Estimated Increase in Inundation Probability with Confidence Intervals for Pensacola, Florida and Key West, Florida” Proceedings of Oceans’ 12, 120517-057, 2012.
  • Natalya Warner, Blair Sterba-Boatwright, Philippe Tissot and Gary Jeffress, “Estimated Increase in Inundation Probability with Confidence Intervals for Pensacola, Florida and Key West, Florida” oral presentation at Oceans’ 12, Hampton Beach, Virginia Oct. 14-19, 2012.
  • Boris Radosavljević,  James C. Gibeaut and Philippe Tissot, “Sea-Level Rise: Estuarine Wetlands of Mustang Island at Imminent Risk of Submergence”, poster presentation EGU2012-6554 (session HS10.2/GM8.2), EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria.
  • Morgan Matchett and Philippe Tissot, “The Effects of Adding Wave Data to a Water Level Predictive Model”, poster presentation at the 11th Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair, January 22, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Morgan Matchett and Philippe Tissot, “The Effects of Adding Wave Data to a Water Level Predictive Model”, presentation at the LSU Triple Ex Symposium for Undergraduate Research, November 4, 2011, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • Natalya Warner, Blair Sterba-Boatwright, Philippe Tissot and Gary Jeffress, “Storms, Sea Level Rise and Estimated Increase in Inundation Probability with Confidence Intervals for Galveston, Texas” oral presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Estuarine & Coastal Modeling, St. Augustine, Fl, Nov. 7-9, 2011.
  • Sergey Reid and Philippe Tissot, “Hydrodynamic Model Implementation for Navigation Support in Corpus Christi Bay” poster presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Estuarine & Coastal Modeling, St. Augustine, Fl, Nov. 7-9, 2011.
  • Whitney Rutledge and Philippe Tissot, “A Water Level Prediction Model for the Port of Baltimore” poster presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Estuarine & Coastal Modeling, St. Augustine, FL, Nov. 7-9, 2011.
  • Julien Clifford, Cristian Romo, Sergey Reid and Philippe Tissot, “Development and Implementation of Mobile Applications for Access and Visualization of Coastal Predictions” poster presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Estuarine & Coastal Modeling, St. Augustine, Fl, Nov. 7-9, 2011.
  • Whitney Rutledge and Philippe Tissot, “A Water Level Prediction Model for the Port of Baltimore” oral presentation at the Eleventh Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Tx, Sept. 23, 2011.
  • Julien Clifford, Cristian Romo, Sergey Reid and Philippe Tissot, “Development and Implementation of Mobile Applications for Access and Visualization of Coastal Predictions”, oral presentation at the Eleventh Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Tx, Sept. 23, 2011. (presentation won 2nd place in the oral presentations competition).
  • Morgan Matchett and Philippe Tissot, “Effects of Adding Wave Data to a Water Level Predictive Model”, presentation at the Nineth Annual SURF Symposium, August 4, 2011, Corpus Christi, Texas.
  • Jennifer Kennedy, Gary Jeffress & Philippe Tissot, “Coastal Bend and State of Texas Collaborative Consortium of Streaming Atmospheric and Oceanographic Environmental Data”, oral presentation at the Fifth Annual Graduate Scholarly Works Symposium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, Apr. 22, 2011.
  • Sergey Reid, Yelena Nevel, James Davis and Philippe Tissot, “Hydrodynamic Model Comparison for Corpus Christi Bay”, poster presentation at the American Meteorological Society Tenth Annual Student Conference, Seattle, WA, January 22-23, 2011.
  • Sergey Reid, Yelena Nevel and Philippe Tissot, “Hydrodynamic Model Comparison for Corpus Christi Bay”, oral presentation at the 10th TAMUCC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, TX, September 25, 2010 (presentation won 1st place in the oral presentations competition).
  • Domingo Hiracheta, Sergey Reid and Philippe Tissot, “Potential for Application of ANN Water Level Prediction Models Around the Gulf of Mexico”, Poster presentation at the 10th TAMUCC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, TX, September 25, 2010 (presentation won honorable mention in the poster competition i.e. 4th place).
  • Ijeoma C. Ekeh, Sergey Reid and Philippe Tissot, “Coastal Modeling System Grid Optimization for Corpus Christi Bay”, presentation at the Eight Annual SURF Symposium, July 29, 2010, Corpus Christi, Texas.
  • Roberto Chavez, Philippe Tissot, Waylon Collins and Oliver Probst “On the accuracy of numerical weather prediction models for wind speed predictions along the Texas Gulf coast”, presentation at the 2010 American Wind Energy Association Windpower 2010 Conference, May 23-26, 2010, Dallas, Texas.
  • Boris Radosavljević,  James C. Gibeaut and Philippe Tissot, “Vertical Accretion Rates in Estuarine Wetlands Using Cs-137, Mustang Island, TX”, poster presentation at the 2010 Texas Bays and Estuaries Conference, April 15-16, Port Aransas, Texas.
  • Natalya Warner, Philippe Tissot, Blair Sterba-Boatwright, and Gary Jeffress, “Comparison of Extreme Value Statistical Distributions and Implications for Galveston Pier 21”, Poster presentation at the 2010 Sea Level Rise Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 1-3, 2010.
  • Sergey Reid and Philippe Tissot, “Performance of a Water Level Predictive Model at Freeport, Texas”, Poster presentation at the 9th TAMUCC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Oct.10, 2009. (this presentation was awarded 2nd place in the poster competition).
  • Anthony S. Reisinger, Philippe Tissot, David W. Hicks, and James C. Gibeaut, “A neural network spatial model for salinity in Bahia Grande”, presentation at the 2009 Texas Bays and Estuaries Conference, April 28-30, Port Aransas, Texas.
  • Angelica Villarreal, P.Tissot and Richard Hay, “Analysis and verification of NEXRAD precipitation estimates for the Texas Coastal Bend”, Poster presentation at the 8th American Meteorological Society Student Conference, Phoenix, Arizona,  January 10,11, 2009.
  • Robyn Ball, P. Tissot, B. Zimmer, and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Comparison of random forest, artificial neural network, and multi-linear regression: a water temperature prediction case”, Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences, January 11-15, 2009, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Angelica Villarreal, P.Tissot and Richard Hay, “Analysis of NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates for the Texas Coastal Bend”, Oral presentation at the 8th TAMUCC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, TX, Nov.1, 2008 (awarded 2nd place).
  • Jenny Rodriguez and Philippe Tissot, “Navigational Safety in Texas: A comparative study of causes of accidents between Texas, Florida, and the rest of the United States”, presentation at the Quarterly meeting of the Texas US Coast Guard Auxiliary, August 11, 2007, Canyon Lake, TX.
  • Robyn Ball, Philippe E. Tissot, John Adams, G. Beate Zimmer, and Blair Sterba-Boatwright, “Artificial Neural Network Predictive Water Temperature Modeling of Cold Water Events in the Laguna Madre”, presentation at the Graduate Student Association Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas. 21 April 2007.
  • Robyn Ball, Philippe Tissot, Beate Zimmer, Blair Sterba Boatwright ”ANN Predictive Water Temperature Modeling of Cold Water Events in a Shallow Lagoon”, proceedings of the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007 in San Antonio, TX.
  • Robyn Ball, “Understanding Conditions that Precede a Fish Kill in the Laguna Madre”, presentation at the 14th Annual South Texas, Mathematics Consortium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, February 25th, 2006, Corpus Christi, Texas.
  • Dawn Lalmansingh, P.E. Tissot and Richard Hayes, “Neural Network Modeling of Spring Levels Linked to a Karst Aquifer: Case Study of the Comal Springs“, presented at the National Groundwater Association 2005 Ground Water Summit, San Antonio, Texas, April 17-20.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations Between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, presented at the National Groundwater Association 2005 Ground Water Summit, San Antonio, Texas, April 17-20.
  • D. Prouty and P.E. Tissot, “Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Storm Surge Propagation in the North Sea and the Thames Estuary” presented at the 4th conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Environmental Science, San Diego, California, January 9-13, 2005.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004. Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent poster presentation*.
  • N. Cook, P.E. Tissot and J. Mott, ”ANN Forecasting of Indicator Bacteria Counts in Corpus Christi Bay”, presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004. Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent poster presentation*.
  • K. Duraisamy and P.E. Tissot, “Cross Station Now-casting Using Artificial Neural Networks in a Shallow Embayment”, poster presentation at the 2nd Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas October 16, 2004.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, poster presentation at the 2nd Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas October 16, 2004.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Fourth Undergraduate Research Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 9, 2004. (This presentation won third place in the oral presentation competition).
  • Dawn Lalmansingh, P.E. Tissot and Richard Hayes, “Neural Network Modeling of Spring Levels Linked to a Karst Aquifer: Case Study of the Comal Springs“, 2004 Meeting of the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Corpus Christi, Texas, April 1-3, 2004.
  • A. Mostella, A.L. Sadovski, S. Duff, P. Michaud, P. Tissot, C. Steidley, “Comparison of Gap Interpolation Methodologies for Water Level Time Series using Perl/PDL”, presentation at the XIV International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences, San Pedro, Costa Rica, February 18, 2004.
  • Z. Bowles, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, A. Sadovski, S. Duff and C. Steidley, “Engineered Training Sets: Enhancing the Learning Power of Artificial Neural Networks for Water Level Forecasts”, XIVth International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences (XIV SIMMAC), San Jose, Costa Rica, February 17-20, 2004.
  • Z. Bowles, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud and A. Sadovski “Artificial Neural Network Predictions of Water Levels in a Gulf of Mexico Shallow Embayment”,  Third International Conference on Multivariate Approximation Theory and Applications, Cancun, Mexico, April 24-29 2003.
  • J. Stearns, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, W.G. Colllins, and A.R. Patrick, “Comparison of MesoEta Wind Forecasts with TCOON Measurements along the Coast of Texas” Proceedings of the 19th AMS Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, 12-16 August 2002, San Antonio, Texas, pp. J141-J144, 2002.