Integrated groundwater and surface water modeling
of watersheds should become a very important part of
the wetland restoration and management process. The
modeling can be used to predict the effects of climate
change on watersheds and wetland systems, and ultimately be used to design a wetland more resilient
to climate change. There will need to be a shift from
applying two-dimensional event-based models, which
cannot accurately simulate the complex behavior of
the system, to three-dimensional models such as
MikeShe. Others (Carroll et al. 2005) have found that
a simpler model could simulate general trends in the
system. However, my experience is that a threedimensional
model is required to appropriately
simulate integrated surface and groundwater characteristics
using land use, topography, hydrological and
ecological data for model calibration.