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CUAHSI's 2019 Conference on Hydroinformatics
Call for Abstracts
Join the CUAHSI community this summer on the campus of Brigham Young University for the 2019 CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics: Hydroinformatics for scientific knowledge, informed policy, and effective response. Community proposed sessions and workshops have been announced and abstract submission is currently open. Submit your presentation abstract by April 19 to be considered for an oral or poster session!
Submit your abstract here!
Please note that a limited amount of travel support is available to students who present talks or posters. More information can be found here.
Registration
Be sure to register early to make sure you don't miss out on this year's conference! Remember, CUAHSI now offers member discounts to all those affiliated with a university member.
Registration Deadlines:
Early Bird: June 15, 2019
Regular: July 15, 2019
Workshops
The CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics is uniquely focused on data science and technology for water resources and hydrology. This conference will include keynote speakers and oral, poster, and hands-on sessions. Start planning now to be a part of this important meeting! This year there are seven workshops being offered during the conference. You can see a complete list of those workshops below.
- Use GDAL, PKTOOLS and GRASS for massive raster operations in hydrology - Giuseppe Amatullli, Yale University
- Developing Open Source Water Resources Web Applications using Tethys Platform - Dan Ames, Brigham Young University
- Facilitating the development, adaptation and sharing of active-learning resources in hydrology education - Emad Habib, University of Louisiana; Melissa Gallagher, University of Louisiana; David Tarboton, Utah State University; Dan Ames, Brigham Young University
- HydroQuality: Upload and Download Quality Data - Chao Chen, Boise State University; Conner Scully-Alliso, University of Nevada Reno; Chase Carthen, University of Nevada Reno; Rui Wu, East Carolina University
- The Westerns States Water Council Data Exchange (WaDE) Workshop: Hands-on use cases for insights into water rights and use in the Western United States - Abel Abdallah and Sara Larsen, Western States Water Council
- Using NHDPlus Calue Added Attributes to Create Useful Analytical Tools- Alan Rea, U.S Geological Survey
- Using HydroShare web applications for working with data in the cloud- Anthony Castronova, CUAHSI
Detailed descriptions of workshops can be found here.
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CUAHSI's Training Workshops
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 13 - 16, 2019
Where: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona
Registration Deadlines: EXTENDED to April 30, 2019
More info can be found here.
Short Course: Integrated Simulation 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, CO
Registration Deadlines: EXTENDED to April 30, 2019
More info can be found here.
Open Source Urban Hydrology Sensor Bootcamp
In this workshop, we will take the lessons learned in studies of "pristine" and remote hydrologic systems and adapt them to studying urban watersheds. The workshop lessons will present an end-to-end solution, all the way from low-level sensing, to high-level cloud-hosted data services. Specifically, the workshop will cover: Sensing; Data Services; Mechanical Assembly; Real-world Deployment - stream/river stage, water quality, soil moisture and precipitation, and Flow Control.
When: August 7-9, 2019
Where: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Registration Deadlines: Early Bird: May 15, 2019 Regular: May 31, 2019
Register for this workshop today!
DIY Monitoring, Data Portals, and Watershed Modeling
This workshop will introduce participants to two internationally-utilized DIY programs in a low-cost, open source water science: EnviroDIY.org and the OPEnS Lab Project Loom. The objective of the workshop is to expose participants to a range of options in DIY hardware, software, and prototyping systems, thereby highlighting factors that users should consider when seeking a DIY program to their research.
Participants will build and deploy microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators and many commonly asked questions, troubleshooting steps, and diagnostic procedures will be covered in this hands-on curriculum. The sensor data collected by participants will be immediately available online, thereby enabling a hands-on tutorial on data portals and visualization. Finally, participants will be introduced to a variety of online data management software and hydrologic modeling programs.
When: September 10-12, 2019
Where: Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale PA
Registration Deadlines: Early Bird: June 15, 2019 Regular: June 30, 2019
Register now!
Snow Measurement Field School
Join us for a 4-day field school geared toward making and analyzing snow measurements!
This workshop is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, professionals and senior scientists, modelers and remote sensors that will make snow measurements as part of their research, or use snowpack data in their research.
When: January 6-9, 2020
Where: AMC Highland Center, Bretton Woods, NH
Application Deadline: September 15, 2019 by 5 p.m. EDT
More information here!
**Reminder**
Travel grants are available for all training workshops on a first come, first served basis!
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CUAHSI's 2019 Spring Cyberseminar Series
CUAHSI-H3S 2019 Spring Cyberseminar Series
Early Career scientists conquer new frontiers: an H3S conversation
For the month of April, H3S, AGU's Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee, will be taking over CUAHSI's Cyberseminar series.
There are only three seminars left: Rivers and Lakes Under Changing Climates, Water Resources and Management, and finally, Water Pollution and Quality.
All talks will take place on Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. ET
Dates, Speakers, and Topics:
- April 11, 2019: Rivers and Lakes Under a Changing Climate | Lauren Somers, McGill University; Claire Beveridge, University of Washington; Fatemeh Ghader, Technische Universität Berlin; Katherine Markovich, University of Arizona
- April 18, 2019: Water Resources and Management | Azad Heydari, Michigan Technological University; Harsh Beria, Université de Lausanne; Elmira Hassanzade, Polytechnique Montréal; Erfan Goharian, University of South Carolina
- April 25, 2019: Water Pollution and Quality | Chelsea Peters, Vanderbilt University; Charlie Rolsky, Arizona State University; Kimberly Van Meter, University of Illinois-Chicago; Hossein Tavakoli, Michigan Technological University
Registration is free! To register for this series, click here.
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CUAHSI 2019 Spring Cyberseminar Series: Recent Advances in Big Data Machine Learning in Hydrology
Hosted by Choapeng Shen of Pennsylvania State University, CUAHSI presents the 2019 Spring Cyberseminar Series, Recent Advances in Big Data Machine Learning in Hydrology!
Recently big data machine learning has led to substantial changes across many areas of study. In Hydrology, the introduction of big data and machine learning methods have substantially improved our ability to address existing challenges and encouraged novel perspectives and new applications. These advances present new opportunities methods that aid scientific discovery, data discovery, and predictive modeling.
This series covers new techniques and findings that have emerged in Hydrology during the previous year, with a focus on catchment and land surface hydrology.
All talks take place on Fridays at 1:00 p.m. ET
Dates, Speakers, and Topics:
- April 12, 2019: Use deep convolutional neural nets to learn patterns of mismatch between a land surface model and GRACE satellite | Alex Sun, University of Texas at Austin
- April 19, 2019: Long-term projections of soil moisture using deep learning and SMAP data with aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty estimates | Chaopeng Shen, Pennsylvania State University
- April 26, 2019: Exploring deep neural networks to retrieve rain and snow in high latitudes using multi-sensor and reanalysis data | Guoqiang Tang, Tsinghua University
- May 3, 2019: Process-guided deep learning: Improving water resource predictions with advanced hybrid models | Jordan S. Read, USGS and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
- May 10, 2019: Remote sensing precipitation using artificial neural networks and machine learning methods | Kuolin Hsu, University of California, Irvine
Registration is free! To register, click here.
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CUAHSI's Data Down-low
Analyze Air Temperature Using CUAHSI Web Services Using a HydroShare Jupyter Notebook!
Did you know that you can launch HydroShare resources into an online Python compute environment? Check out this resource which contains a Jupyter notebook for collecting temperature data from the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS). This notebook demonstrates how to collect, organize, and plot time series data using our pre-configured compute environment; perfect for teaching and demonstrating common data analysis steps. To get started, click the “Open with” button on the top right corner of the page and select the CUAHSI JupyterHub option.
Questions? Contact help@cuahsi.org
HydroShare News
HydroShare released the 1.21 version earlier this month, which improves page load times, fixes bugs, adds capability to the REST API, and more. For additional details, check out the new HydroShare Releases Page.
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Submit a Proposal for CUAHSI's Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant!
April 19, 2019 is the deadline to submit a proposal for the 2019 Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant! Submit a proposal to receive a travel grant of up to $1000!
Who is eligible? Graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members who are enrolled in or currently employed by a U.S. university.
For more information, and to submit a proposal, click here.
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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 Alice Hill. Alice is a 2016 Pathfinder Fellowship awardee. Alice is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
What are your research interests?
I am interested in mountain-sourced water resources like snow and ice, how their hydrologic patterns may change in a warming works, and what this means for the people, agriculture and industry that relies on the water downstream.
How has the Pathfinder Fellowship impacted your research?
Pathfinder gave me the opportunity to apply my research framework and approach in a completely new geographical area. Much of my meltwater supply work has been in Central Asia, a region that brings a lot of complexity to the hydrologic scene due to transboundary rivers, data scarcity, and the relics of the Soviet-era agricultural regime. Working in New Zealand through Pathfinder afforded me a much simpler socio-political setting, but a more complex environmental one. In this way it tested my experimental approach and forced me to think about this research in different ways.
Why should others get involved with CUAHSI?
CUAHSI is a central resource for hydrologic research, tool development and educational opportunities. It's a valuable place to seek advice and expertise, or travel funds to facilitate research.
What has been your proudest professional accomplishment to date?
I feel especially proud of the river conservation outreach and advocacy achieved through a science-adventure project (and short film) that I superheaded in 2015, The Maranon Project. The story of the headwater stem of the Amazon, the Rio Maranon, is told through the film, "Confluir" which is currently on tour with the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in the U.S. The impact that the film and our research has had on the local Peruvian conservation movement as well as increasing international awareness and interest in the development projects slated for the Maranon has been heart-filling.
What are some of your favorite hobbies outside of work?
I study water because the time I've spent paddling whitewater and climbing on glaciers gave me a personal connection to these places -- and these pastimes remain some of my favorite!
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