Welcome to CUAHSI!
Soumya Pourhit, Science Gateways Community Institute Summer Intern
CUAHSI is pleased to welcome our Science Gateways Community Institute summer intern, Soumya Pourhit. Soumya is a M.S. student at the University of Missouri, Rolla. Soumya, who received her undergraduate degree in Information Technology from Banasthali University, has experience with Python, Jupyterhub, and Docker, and currently is working on Blockchain for Threat Intelligence Sharing. She will help us expand CUAHSI's Compute and Modeling activities and will work closely with Tony Castronova beginning June 1, continuing through August 14. Soumya interned with At&T in Summer 2019. We are excited to welcome Soumya and are hopeful that circumstances allow us to actually meet her in person later this summer.
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Join CUAHSI's Community Slack Channel!
Join us on Slack to help us build our community!
CUAHSI's Community Slack Channel is a one stop place to find information on upcoming CUAHSI Community events and opportunities!
Why join the CUAHSI Community Slack channel?
- Network
- Make connections
- Ask questions
- Share opportunities with the CUAHSI community
- and more!
We ask that you do your part to maintain a professional and respectful space to connect and collaborate!
Request to join us here.
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CUAHSI's Data Down Low
HydroShare Updates
We recently released several updates to HydroShare in the last few weeks. The most notable changes are:
- Completed migration of distinct resource types to composite resources with aggregated files. All data is now stored as one resource type that can contain different file types.
- Improved layout and loading speed for the Groups landing page.
- Updated and corrected Quota calculation.
- Added capability to a owner of a resource to edit and delete comments.
- Infrastructure improvements to improve reliability and removed data inconsistencies.
More details can be found here.
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CyberGIS-Jupyter for Water Quarterly Release Announcement
Dear HydroShare Users,
We are pleased to announce a new quarterly release of CyberGIS-Jupyter for Water (CJW) platform at https://go.illinois.edu/cybergis-jupyter-water. This release includes new capabilities and improvements as follows:
- Geoanalytics suite of GRASS for model pre/post-processingl
- PostGIS database for GIS data management and query;
- Support Landlab earth surface modelling toolkit;
- Several enhancements to job submission middleware, system security as well as service infrastructure.
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Hydrologic Information System (HIS) Updates
- A new HIS Data service from the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) LTER Program is now available in HydroClient. Please take a look here.
- An updated version of the Water-ML R library available from the cran repository here. This library enables easy access to the timeseries data in HIS through R. Check it out!
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Join us!
Part 4 of the Virtual Forum: Transitioning to Online Education
Join CUAHSI and a panel of graduate students for Part 4 of the Virtual Forum: Transitioning to Online Education!
When:
May 15, 2020 @ 12 p.m. EDT
About:
Hear about the transition to the online classroom from the graduate student perspective by joining us on 5/15 at 12 p.m. EDT for a Virtual Forum: Transitioning to Online Education. In Part 4 of this series, we will hear from a panel of graduate students who will share their experiences and thoughts about the transition to online learning. After the panel, there will be a community discussion and Q&A related to online hydrology learning resources.
How to join:
Register for free here!
Questions? Please contact Julia Masterman at jmasterman@cuahsi.org.
Turn your Abstract into a 2 Minute Film!
Let's Talk About Water Film Prize
Turn your abstract into a 2 minute film by submitting a film to the Let's Talk About Water Film Prize competition! Check out this video for more information.
"Share your story about water science for a chance to win $10,000 and have it featured at our film festival in June 2020!" Visit letstalkaboutwater.ca to learn more.
Theme:
To Much, Too Little, Too Dirty
Prizes:
Grand Prize: $10,000
First Prize: $5,000
Second Prizes (4 total): $1,000 each
Audience Choice: $1,000
Deadline:
May 29, 2020
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Let's Talk About Water Challenge Grant
About:
Let's Talk About Water (LTAW) promotes water and earth science education by using the film and panel discussions to engage audiences and encourage critical thinking. The Challenge Grant program helps support universities in the development of their own Let's Talk About Water science outreach events by awarding universities up to $3,000 to support the development and execution of their own Let's Talk About Water Events.
Learn more and submit a Challenge Grant proposal here!
Deadline:
September 13, 2020
Questions? Please contact Jon Pollak at jpollak@cuahsi.org.
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