Community
CUAHSI’s multidisciplinary community consists of students, educators, researchers, volunteer scientists, outreach coordinators, environmental and watershed organizations, and corporate entities. Our goal is for all who are involved in water science, water-resources management or water-resources protection and enhancement to find a place in the CUAHSI community.
We facilitate the sharing of resources, information, and expertise across a diverse range of disciplines to collaboratively solve problems from different perspectives. Resources and programs of interest relevant to the broader water science community are compiled here. Please contact us at email hidden; JavaScript is required if you have a resource that you would like to make available to the community or if you are interested in partnering on a project. Please fill out this form if you have a job you'd like posted on the CUAHSI job board.
CZNet
The Critical Zone Collaborative Network
CUAHSI is the Coordinating Hub for the Critical Zone Collaborative Network (CZNet), the next phase of NSF’s Critical Zone research program. The CZNet is comprised of nine Thematic Clusters with a wide range of geological, climatic, and land use settings that provide an opportunity to better understand the critical zone. CUAHSI's CZ Hub activities enhance existing CUAHSI water data services, broaden the CUAHSI community, and build on CUAHSI's strengths of education and community support.
News
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.
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Upcoming Events
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Addressing social and ethical dilemmas in managing a citizen science project
CUAHSI Cyberseminar Series: Integrating Citizen Science with Water Resources Research Across the Globe
This webinar is taking place at 12:00pm ET. Please be mindful of time zones as daylight savings will occur at different times for different countries during the course of this series!
The series of eight interactive online webinars will include sessions on the logistics and organizational requirements to manage successful citizen science projects, methods-focused sessions to share best practices in water resources data collection and citizen science data use in decision-making, and sessions on integrating citizen science projects in educational settings.
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App, mobile phone, and sensor-based hydrological monitoring
CUAHSI Cyberseminar Series: Integrating Citizen Science with Water Resources Research Across the Globe
This webinar is taking place at 12:00pm ET. Please be mindful of time zones as daylight savings will occur at different times for different countries during the course of this series!
The series of eight interactive online webinars will include sessions on the logistics and organizational requirements to manage successful citizen science projects, methods-focused sessions to share best practices in water resources data collection and citizen science data use in decision-making, and sessions on integrating citizen science projects in educational settings.
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Lessons learned: Sustaining participation over decades and avoiding potential pitfalls
CUAHSI Cyberseminar Series: Integrating Citizen Science with Water Resources Research Across the Globe
This webinar is taking place at 12:00pm ET. Please be mindful of time zones as daylight savings will occur at different times for different countries during the course of this series!
The series of eight interactive online webinars will include sessions on the logistics and organizational requirements to manage successful citizen science projects, methods-focused sessions to share best practices in water resources data collection and citizen science data use in decision-making, and sessions on integrating citizen science projects in educational settings.
