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Meet our new Hydrologist, Danielle Tijerina below!
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Dear colleagues,
Temperatures are rising, and CUAHSI is turning up the heat with this month's news!
Meet our new Hydrologist, Danielle Tijerina featured in this month's "Meet the CUAHSI Community."
 
As always, please contact commgr@cuahsi.org with any questions or comments.
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A Message from CUAHSI's Executive Director
Greetings Friends of Water Science:

This coming Sunday evening, more than 50 water scientists will converge on the National Water Center (NWC), in Tuscaloosa, AL for the 2018 CUAHSI Summer Institute (SI). The SI provides an opportunity for the academic community to make contributions to the National Weather Service’s National Water Modeling enterprise. Graduate students, university faculty, federal scientists and CUAHSI staff all work to create an intense learning environment leading to meaningful outcomes for water prediction.

The SI includes (1) Theme Leaders who are university faculty or senior scientists in other organizations; (2) student course coordinators who are graduates of the previous year’s SI; and (3) SI Fellows, who are graduate students at U.S. universities. Theme Leaders are residents at the SI during the first two weeks of the 7-week session, and most return for a portion of the final week. Student course coordinators and Fellows are residents on the campus of the University of Alabama throughout the event.

In 2018, after a broad call for proposals, we have Theme Leaders from six universities, the NWC, and USGS.  Scientists from two additional universities, NCAR, Corps of Engineers, and USGS will participate for a few days during the SI. Course coordinators are from the University of Florida, University of Iowa, and CUAHSI. Forty-five students applied for spots in the SI, and we were able to accommodate 26 students from 23 distinct universities across the country. All told, we have more than 30 universities and three federal agencies represented at the SI.
 
Four of CUAHSI’s staff will participate in a part or all of the first two weeks of the SI. We will conduct training on CUAHSI’s water data services, with an emphasis on HydroShare for collaboration and Jupyter notebooks for computations and modeling.

The SI will culminate in a Capstone event at the University of Alabama on July 26.  Most of the Theme Leaders will return for this event, and students’ advisors at their home institution have also been invited, and about half of them have indicated they will be present.

Funding for travel support for SI participants, including the full seven-week SI for students, is provided by the National Weather Service through CUAHSI. This event is career-changing for many of the students and is a tremendous example of a successful partnership between the federal and the academic science communities through which CUAHSI is meeting its mission of advancing water science by strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration in water community. The technical report from the 2017 SI can be found here.

All the best,
Jerad
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NEW: CUAHSI Hydroinformatics Innovation Fellowship!


 
CUAHSI is pleased to offer the Hydroinformatics Innovation Fellowship to support projects that will result in a hydroinformatics product to be disseminated to the CUAHSI community within one year of funding.

Eligibility: Graduate students, postdocs, early career faculty, and scientists enrolled in or currently employed by a U.S. university are eligible to receive a Hydroinformatics Innovations Fellowship.

Preference will be given to graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty. 

Awardees will receive up to $5000 to cover eligible expenses like travel costs, costs associated with acquiring new skills, site or reverse site visits, and much more!
Interesting in applying? Follow this link for more details!
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CUAHSI's Data Down-low


 
Shale Network Workshop
 
Learn about an educational exercise to investigate potential environmental issues related to shale gas development!
 
For the seventh consecutive year, CUAHSI supported the Shale Network Workshop which took place May 17th - 18th at Pennsylvania State University. The workshop provided an opportunity for non-scientists, researchers, government officials, and members of the gas and environmental industries to discuss the impacts of shale gas development on water resources throughout Pennsylvania and surrounding states. The theme this year was Integrating data about shale gas development: Toward a more collaborative future. In addition to presentations from experts and a field trip with a mock contamination spill, CUAHSI led a hands-on data exercise developed by Tao Wen, Susan Brantley, Jennifer Williams, and Liza Brazil which used HydroClientPennsylvania DEP Oil and Gas Mapping Tool, and the Geonet* to investigate environmental issues related to brine disposal from oil and gas development in Pennsylvania. The exercises used HydroClient to discover and analyze water quality collected around Pennsylvania. For more information about the exercise, the tools involved, or questions about developing your own data-driven exercise, contact help@cuahsi.org.

*The Geonet app utilizes existing surface water chemistry data to detect the signature of a spill event. The goal of the app is to detect statistically significant polluting spill events based on measured concentrations of different analytics upstream and downstream. The SHiny app was developed by Lingzhou Xue and Amal Agarwal at Pennsylvania State University 
 
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We are Continuously Improving HydroShare!
 
This past month we refined some existing functionality added in the 1.15 release, increased our search engine optimization and interoperability using schema.org metadata, advanced the API functionality, and improved our data recovery system.
 
Unfamiliar with HydroShare? HydroShare, a CUAHSI Water Data Service, is a collaborative environment for sharing data, models, and code. For feedback or questions on HydroShare, contact help@cuahsi.org.
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Register / Apply Now!
CUAHSI’s 2018 Training Workshops and Short Courses Application Deadlines
 
CTEMPs Workshops
Be sure to register by June 15th to reserve your spot! More information can be found here.

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Near Surface Geophysics for Hydrology Workshop
 
Deadlines to register are July 15, 2018 (early bird) and July 31, 2018 (regular). For more
information, including how to register, click here.

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Snow Measurement Field School
 
Deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. EDT on August 1, 2018. For more information, including how to apply, click here.

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CUAHSI 2018 Biennial Colloquium
Early bird registration ends on June 15th. Click here for more information!
 
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Meet the CUAHSI Community
This is the next installment of our series as we shine the spotlight on a member of the CUAHSI community.

[Know a CUAHSI member that deserves to be highlighted? Contact commgr@cuahsi.org with a nomination!]

Danielle Tijerina will be joining CUAHSI as our new Hydrologist June 11th!


 
What are your research interests? / What types of projects are you currently involved in?
I am working to finish up my master’s work at the Colorado School of Mines using integrated hydrology models that represent the subsurface, surface, and land surface processes over continental scales. In the future and working as a hydrologist at CUAHSI, I plan to use this holistic approach to the water cycle to better understand water quantity issues, especially impacts of climate change. I hope to work to make hydrologic data and information more accessible to researchers, water managers, and policymakers so that our decisions about water can be as informed as possible. Collaboration is key to scientific advancement and my ultimate goal is to connect people with diverse backgrounds to work together to solve crucial problems in water science.
 
How did you get involved with CUAHSI?
I became involved with CUAHSI as a student research fellow during the 2017 NOAA National Water Center Summer Institute. My group members and I worked on utilizing a process based, high-resolution model on a small catchment in Maryland to explore streamflow simulations. The Summer Institute was an unbelievable experience that expanded my network and better prepared me for a career in hydrology. 

What's the one word you would choose to describe CUAHSI, and why?
Collaborative. One of the aspects of CUAHSI I appreciate the most is their mission to connect people across many disciplines in the water science community. In order to understand and find solutions for issues of water quality and quantity across the globe, we must work together and learn from each other.  CUAHSI is facing this challenge head-on and creating a platform for interdisciplinary partnerships.

What has been your proudest professional accomplishment to date?
Before I made my career change to hydrologic science, I worked in youth development at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, running science and education programming. I was teaching a unit about earth science and climate change and was worried the students were not grasping some of the concepts. One day a group of them approached me and asked if they could hold an Environmental Fair with different activities about recycling, conservation, and climate change. The students worked very hard organizing the event and learned a lot! We had over 200 youth and 100 community members attend the fair. Moments like these made me realize my larger goals to further my education and promote science literacy.

Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give to graduate students who are embarking on careers in water science?
My advice is to try to experience as many new things as possible during your graduate studies. Attend networking events, apply for internships in your area of interest, and don’t be afraid to expose yourself to unfamiliar research topics. Sometimes putting yourself in new situations can be difficult but getting out of your comfort zone challenges, and inevitably grows you.  Also, meet as many people in your field—you never know what advice and opportunities may be presented to you.

What's a fun fact about yourself?
In my undergraduate, I completed my Senior Thesis research focusing on human-environmental interactions in central and eastern Tibet.  While there, I visited the Dalai Lama’s room at the Potala Palace in Lhasa, which he hasn’t been to since 1959. I also drank lots of yak butter tea!
 
 



 
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