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Dear Friends of Water Science,
I want to thank and congratulate several members of our community this month.
First, we congratulate Greg Characklis, Alejandro (Lejo) Flores, and Gretchen Miller on their election to the CUAHSI Board of Directors. Each of these new Directors will bring fresh ideas and new perspectives to the Board, and we are excited to begin working with them in January. We also congratulate Gordon Grant, Steve Loheide, and Jeanne VanBriesen on their re-election to the Board. Gordon, Steve, and Jeanne each bring a deep understanding of CUAHSI and a commitment to CUAHSI’s mission to the Board. Jeanne will serve as the Board Chair in 2019.
Erich Hester, David Genereux, and Matt Cohen all will be leaving the Board at the end of the year. Erich has provided strong leadership on instrumentation issues, Dave served as an effective Chair in 2017, and Matt has supported the community by teaching training courses and engaging in other ways. We are grateful for their service on the Board but look forward to their continued engagement in other venues.
We congratulate all of the 2018 AGU Fellows who have made exceptional contributions and gained prominence in their respective field, but I want to offer a special congratulation to David Tarboton, who has provided CUAHSI with leadership, vision, and technical support over the years. David cites his involvement with CUAHSI in his response letter, which you can read here, beginning on p. 28. Finally, we congratulate current CUAHSI Board Member Beth Boyer for her selection as the 2018 AGU Paul Witherspoon Lecture Award, which is a mid-career award for outstanding achievements in hydrology. You can read Beth’s comments here on p. 48. As we reported in the September newsletter, CUAHSI Director Emeritus Rick Hooper was recognized with the Edward Flinn Award. Congratulations to all!
Best wishes for a peaceful holiday season,
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CUAHSI 2018 Annual Report
We are thrilled to announce that the CUAHSI 2018 Annual Report is now available for you to view and distribute. It highlights some of CUAHSI’s accomplishments for 2018, including Community Services program awardees and updates in Water Data Services. If you would like to receive a free print copy of the latest annual report, please contact commgr@cuahsi.org with your mailing address.
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2019 Winter Cyberseminar Series:
The U.S Food Energy and Water System at the Mesoscale.
Join us for the 2019 Winter Cyberseminar Series: The U.S. Food Energy and Water System at the Mesoscale, hosted by Benjamin Ruddell of Northern Arizona University!
This cyberseminar series presents the current work on the mesoscale FEW system in the U.S., including studies of its network structure, its embedded resources and footprints, its boundaries, its stakeholders, its vulnerability and resilience dynamics, and emerging data products and best practices.
Dates, Speakers, and Topics:
- February 6, 2019: Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity in U.S. Agriculture | Chris Lant, Utah State University
- February 13, 2019: Food flows between counties in the United States | Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- February 20, 2019: Water Footprint Benchmarks for the United States | Landon Marston, Kansas State University
- February 27, 2019: The water sources of the United States | Tara Troy, Lehigh University
- March 6, 2019: Multiplex analysis of U.S. water footprints | Alfonso Mejia, Pennsylvania State University
- March 13, 2019: Resilience and Vulnerability analysis of the U.S. economy using commodity flows | Richard Rushforth, Northern Arizona University
*All talks talks take place on Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. ET
Registration for this Cyberseminar is free! To register, click here.
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Workshop: The Role of Runoff and Erosion on Soil Carbon Stocks: From Soilscapes to Landscapes
What: CUAHSI and the University of Tennessee Knoxville are offering a hands-on workshop, " The Role of Runoff and Erosion on Soil Carbon Stocks: From Soilscapes to Landscapes." Graduate students, post-docs, and professionals working in hydropedology, soil erosion, soil biogeochemistry, ecology, field methods, modeling, sensor technology, and/or analytical methods are invited to participate.
When: April 8 - 10, 2019
Where: Knoxville, Tennessee - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Details: Early bird registration deadline: February 1, 2019
Regular registration: February 15, 2019.
Register here!
More details and information on workshop fees can be found here.
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Master Class: Food Energy and Water Systems in a Global Economy
What: Master Class: Food Energy and Water Systems in a Global Economy This CUAHSI Master Class is intended for graduate students in Hydrology and Water Resources science and engineering programs requiring focused training on modern research methods in water footprinting and environmental impact accounting in a regional and global network-economy context.
When: May 16 - 19, 2019
Where: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Details:
Early Bird Registration Deadline: March 15, 2019
Regular Registration Deadline: March 31, 2019
Register here!
Course Topics:
- FEW system scales, boundaries, components, problems, and leaders
- Water systems (Water sustainability in a global economy)
- Food systems (Food sustainability in a global economy)
- Energy systems (Energy sustainability in a global economy)
- Data sources: global, federal, scientific, remote sensing, census, FEWSION project
- Analysis tools; economics, network theory, shocks and buffers, resilience, vulnerability, exposure, footprints
- Examples, exercises, and best practices for FEW research
- FEW educational resources
Please note that this is a research-oriented class, and students must be enrolled in research degrees and intend to use this course to supplement their research.
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Short Course: Integrated Simulation of Watershed Systems Using Parflow
What: CUAHSI and the Colorado School of Mines are offering a 3-day short course on Integrated Simulations of Watershed Systems Using Parflow. This class trains students in aspects of integrated hydrologic modeling using ParFlow. The course is problem based, focusing all modules and exercises on simulation of a single well-studied, research watershed. Students will gain familiarity in the processes simulated with this platform, gain understanding the disparate input and output datasets and gain understanding and familiarity of Linux commands, high performance computing, visualization and hydrologic analysis.
When: May 29 -31, 2019
Where: Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Details: Graduate students, post-docs, and professional working in hydrology are invited to partcipate! Prior hydrologic and/or atmospheric modeling experience is advised. Unix/Linux command line operation is recommended.
Early Bird Registration Deadline: March 15, 2019
Regular registration Deadline: March 31, 2019
Register here.
A limited number of travel grants are available on a first come, first served basis. Please contact Elizabeth Tran for more information.
Are you a CUAHSI University Member, or affiliated with a University Member? If so, you are eligible for discounted registration rates!
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CUAHSI's Data Down-low
Hurricane Harvey Data Is Officially Published with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) on HydroShare!
Hurricane Harvey Data Is Officially Published with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) on HydroShare!
If you haven’t checked out this unique collection of Hurricane Harvey data, create an account at HydroShare, and get started here.
Now that this collection has been properly published, it can be cited and reused in further research!
Contact help@cuahsi.org if you need any guidance.
For more information on the Hurricane Harvey project, visit CUAHSI's Projects webpage.
HydroShare News and Updates
We are rolling out several upgrades to the HydroShare infrastructure in the next few weeks that will require downtime. HydroShare users will be notified via email and on the HydroShare homepage several days in advance of any downtime.
Data Services User Experience Evaluations
Did you miss CUAHSI at AGU? If you are still interested in participating in our User Experience Evaluations and Surveys to help improve CUAHSI’s Water Data Services, send an email to Help@cuahsi.org to participate remotely.
For questions, contact help@cuahsi.org
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What's Going On at CUAHSI?
Announcements, Events, and Deadlines
- Hydroinfomatics Conference
- Where: Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah
- When: July 29 - 31, 2019
- Details: We invite researchers, educators, and practitioners in the water sciences, data and computational sciences, as well as information technology sciences interested in advancing hydroinformatics to participate in this interdisciplinary conference.
- MOXXI 2019 Topical Conference - Call for Abstracts
- Where: New York University, Kimmel Center
- When: March 11 - 13, 2019
- Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 10th, 2019
- Details: The conference aims to bring together researchers, users, and instrumentation developers to discuss how to overcome the barriers to the advancement of hydrological observations and to the operationalization of innovative hydrometric technologies and monitoring approaches.
- Reminder! 2019 CUAHSI Membership Dues
- When: Membership Dues for 2019 are due January 1, 2019. Membership payments are considered past due after June 30th, 2019.
- Details: To make a payment online, please visit here or call Ainsley Brown at 339-226-7437.
- 2019 Summer Institute
- When: June 9 - July 25, 2019
- Where: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
- Details: Student Summer Institute Applications are due by January 15, 2019! Apply here now.
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Let’s Talk About Water is a format for hosting successful film events for water science education through bringing attention to water and environmental issues by using film and panel discussions to engage audiences and encourage critical thinking.
Lauren E. L. Lowman, Pd. D., Wake Forest University
Kaitlin Perkins, University of Montana
Water Exhibit and Programming. Highlighting women and water in West Virginia during women's history month.
Martina Caretta, West Virginia University
An Evening Exploring the Hidden Rivers of the Southeast
Mr. Duncan Elkins, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Who Owns Water? Film Showing
Rachel Collier, University of Georgia
Beyond the Brink
Michelle E. Gilmore, University of California, Merced
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The Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant program program enables scientists to learn the details of hydrologic instrument installation, operation, maintenance, and data processing by visiting experts or scheduling reverse site visits.
In-situ sensors for dissolved organic matter quality
Peter Regier, Florida International University
Hands-on experience using Terrestrial LiDAR Scanners (TLS) to advance snow hydrology research
Dr. Eric A. Sproles, Montanta State University
Improving the Quality of Alpine Precipitation Measurements
John Bryan Curtis, B.S.c, University of Colorado at Boulder
Implementing Electrical Resistivity Superstring 8
Briana K. Whitehead, Montana State University
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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!]
This month’s Meet the CUAHSI Community introduces you to Peter Regier, a 2016 Pathfinder Fellowship recipient! Peter is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering department at the University of New Mexico.
What are your research interests?
My research interests focus on the intersection of hydrology and biogeochemistry (specifically dissolved organic matter). I'm currently working on questions that relate the spatial and temporal dynamics of water quality to watershed processes and anthropogenic influences, like urbanization and agriculture. In particular, I am interested in using the power of high-frequency in-situ water quality sensors to better understand linkages between rapid spatiotemporal dynamics and longer-term/broader-scale patterns in currently available datasets.
How did the CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowship impact your research?
Receiving the Pathfinder fellowship towards the end of my dissertation research was vital in setting me up for my current research position. The Pathfinder provided me with an opportunity to take the skills and tools I had been developing in the Everglades, and adapt these abilities to an entirely new type of ecosystem. Through this experience, I have learned to better contextualize my research questions within a broader context, both in terms of geographic scale and interdisciplinary scope. In my current appointment, I rely on experiences and tools gained during my Pathfinder every day. My collaborators and I are currently working on data collected in 2017 during my Pathfinder, and formulating a manuscript comparing and contrasting the dynamics and drivers of organic carbon and nitrate patterns between low and high permafrost catchments.
Why should others get involved with CUAHSI?
I strongly encourage researchers, especially students, to get involved with CUAHSI. The Pathfinder provided funding to conduct research in a different environment, which is essential for those interested in pursuing careers in earth sciences, where an interdisciplinary approach and broad experience are increasingly important and valued by employers. Without the Pathfinder, I could not have gained this valuable experience. I also appreciate the comprehensive approach CUAHSI takes to supporting our research community. Through attending master classes, webinars, and conferences hosted by CUAHSI, I can continue growing my knowledge, and have access a network of excellent scientists working on the same questions I am. This network has also helped me develop new collaborations (including a new project funded by a 2018 IDTG).
What has been your proudest professional accomplishment to date?
My proudest moment so far in my career would be securing postdoctoral funding. Developing a mostly successful turbidity correction for FDOM sensors in the violently turbid waters of Rio Grande is close second.
What are some of y our favorite hobbies outside of work?
Free time is for exploring mountains! In the winter, I’m skiing. In the summer, I’m hiking, camping, or exploring the West. I’ve also started fly-fishing, which really starts to blur the line between work and play when you’re collecting samples in the morning and fishing the same stream in the afternoon.
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