Allied for Water Science

The CUAHSI January e-Newsletter came out today! Be sure to read on for more details about announcements, upcoming events and opportunities!

The Monitor My Watershed Data Sharing Portal evolved from work by the CUAHSI community for managing environmental data with the Observations Data Model. Monitor My Watershed accepts real-time sensor data and other observation types and provides data visualization and connection with CUAHSI’s HIS. Adoption and use of Monitor My Watershed is growing rapidly partly due to the extensive training resources for DIY hardware

Arc Hydro’s Wetland Identification Model (WIM) is an automated framework for identifying wetlands using machine learning. Its baseline functionality infers wetland likelihood from geomorphologic indicators, but WIM can be configured and extended for your use case. WIM continues to be developed and improved as we gather feedback from users and collaborators in the wetland science community. Our goal is to build a tool that helps that community achieve its goal of better, faster, cheaper wetland mapping.

Collecting, managing and analyzing high temporal (sub-minute) resolution residential water use data is challenging due to lack of existing tools, yet doing so enables better understanding of water use behavior that can help improve urban water management and planning by allowing direct identification of water appliances characteristics. This month's entry to the Hydroinformatics Blog presents low-cost, open-source tools designed to facilitate collection and analysis of this type of data.

Models are an integral part of hydrologic research and investigation. Over the past few years, we have made efforts to develop and implement solutions that allow graduate students to use a research hydrological model as part of their coursework. This setup has allowed us to introduce graduate students to research hydrological models and to perform meaningful model experiments.

The latest NOAA National Water Model retrospective is a 42-year, >100 TB compendium of meteorological, land surface, and hydrologic states and fluxes across the Contiguous U.S. I've rounded up a handful of great example workflows for how to probe this rich data resource to help answer your looming scientific questions.