Just two weeks remain for submitting applications for graduate student travel grants!

Graduate training in hydrologic science typically focuses on a single field site or single modeling approach. To assist graduate students in enriching their research program by moving beyond a "one site, one view" approach to research, CUAHSI is providing travel support for graduate students to make an extended visit (approximately 1-3 months) to conduct field research at an additional site or to collaborate with a research group using alternate modeling methods of those in a graduate student's current research program.

CUAHSI will provide funding for up to five graduate students, with a $5000.00 maximum award to each recipient, to cover travel costs associated with conducting field research at an additional field site or to collaborate with a research group using alternate modeling approaches.

Additional information and application details are available at www.cuahsi.org/pathfinder.html

Deadline for CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowship Applications is November 1.

A Pre-AGU Shortcourse: How to Succeed in an Academia Career. This is a one-day shortcourse for PhD Students and Post Docs taught by Jeff McDonnell, Oregon State University. Coordinates: Sunday December 12, 2010, 8:30am-4:00pm, Redwood Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, San Francisco, CA. The objective of the course is to demystify the academic enterprise for budding Assistant Professors. Topics will include: how to get an academic job and then thrive; how to write well-cited papers; how to write a successful NSF proposal. To learn more and to register by the November 1 deadline, see: www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fe/watershd/academia_career_success.php

The remaining Fall cyberseminar schedule is as follows:

November 5, 2010; 3:00pm ET

• Richard Vogel, Tufts University
  Title: Hydromorphology: The Shape of our Water Future

November 12, 2010; 3:00pm ET

• Thorsten Wagener, Pennsylvania State University
  Title: Hydrologic Similarity and the Search for a Catchment Classification Framework

Previous cyberseminars you might want to view again or, if you missed them, for the first time:

• John Pomeroy (University of Saskatchewan) on September 17^th entitled Advancing hydrological processes to better predict hydrology in cold regions is available at http://cuahsi.acrobat.com/p94957652/.
• Mark Green (Plymouth State University) on October 1^st entitled Extracting characteristic hydrologic patterns from many catchments: the case of stream water total nitrogen to total phosphorus ratios is available at http://cuahsi.acrobat.com/p87488634/.

Among the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring the adequate supply and quality of water, scientists say, especially in light of burgeoning human needs and climate variability and change.

Despite water's importance to life on Earth, major gaps exist in our understanding of water availability, quality and dynamics, and the impacts of a changing climate and human activity on Earth's water system.

To better understand how our planet's water cycle works, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 17 grants through its Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) solicitation.

The goal of these projects is to understand and predict the interactions of Earth's water system with climate change, land use, the built environment, and ecosystem function and services.

"We need to determine how our built water systems and our governance systems can be made more reliable, resilient, and sustainable," says Tim Killeen, NSF assistant director for Geosciences.

"They must meet diverse and often conflicting needs," says Killeen, "such as minimizing consumption of water for energy generation, industrial and agricultural production, and built environment requirements."

The awards are for studies of the water system using observations at specific sites, in combination with models that allow for spatial and temporal extrapolation to other regions, as well as integration across different Earth processes.

"The results will advance our understanding of Earth's water resources," says Killeen, "and with it, our predictive capability not only for the availability of water, but for the future of life on our planet."

More info and list of awardees is available at:
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117819&org=OLPA&from=news.