Cyberseminars
CUAHSI’s Cyberseminar program enables researchers to circulate their work to the community by providing an inexpensive and convenient alternative to in-person meetings. Each cyberseminar series features presentations from experts on a new or timely topic, and all cyberseminars are free and open to the public. Every presentation is recorded and archived for later viewing.
Upcoming Cyberseminars
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Navigating Academic Waters: Reframing research language for impactful and relevant Broader Impact statements
This seminar will focus on supporting early career researchers such as graduate students, postdocs, and early stage faculty, as they navigate NSF proposal writing (postdoctoral fellowships, GRFP, CAREER). The panel will include professionals such as NSF program managers, university deans, mid-career professors with experience shifting language, and mid- to late-career government researchers who have experience with administration turnover.
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Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding Emerging Contaminants
The September forum will convene subject matter experts to explore efforts to measure, assess impact, and address emerging contaminants such as microplastics and PFAS. In a facilitated discussion, the panelists will examine specific challenges, innovative methods, and new areas of study as researchers and practitioners work to address this complex water quality issue.
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Navigating Academic Waters: Highlighting Skill Sets for Careers Outside of Academia
Many essential skills that graduate students develop during their studies can be valuable in non-academic careers. Join us for a discussion with professionals from industry, state/local government, and nonprofits as they share their insights and tips for early-career researchers, scientists, and professionals looking to succeed in careers outside of academia. This seminar will focus on how to identify key skill sets and develop new ones necessary for a successful career outside of academia. Topics will include guidance on finding non-academic jobs, resume building, interview preparation, and expanding your professional network.
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National Water Availability Assessment: Understanding the Science
This webinar will highlight the key findings from the National Water Availability Assessment, including those related to water supply, water quality, water use, future water resources, and integrated water availability.
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Navigating Academic Waters: Expanding Funding Landscape: Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
Securing funding remains a critical challenge in academia. As traditional federal sources become increasingly competitive or constrained, diversifying funding streams is becoming more important in hydrology and environmental science. This seminar will focus on identifying and navigating non-federal funding opportunities from a broad range of funding bodies, including nonprofit organizations, state, and local agencies. Through expert presentations and interactive discussion, participants will explore strategies for finding relevant grant opportunities, developing competitive proposals, and aligning our project goals with funder missions.
Recent & Ongoing Cyberseminar Series
2025 Navigating (beyond) Academic Waters
The 2025 Navigating Academic Waters webinar series will help early career hydrologists identify skill sets for non-academic careers, locate and secure project funding, and explore new data science tools for hydrology.
USGS National Water Availability Assessment
This three-part webinar series will walk audience members through the key findings of the National Water Availability Assessment, ways to access the data through the Data Companion, and how we used data science and visualizations to communicate the findings to various audiences.
Changes Coming to USGS Water Data APIs
Many in the CUAHSI community rely on USGS Water Services APIs for daily research workflows—pulling streamflow, water-quality, and site information into models, dashboards, and classrooms. USGS is now modernizing those services. Join this free webinar to learn more.
Water Data Forum
Water Data Forum is an interactive web series convened by the Cleveland Water Alliance, the Water Environment Federation, and CUAHSI to engage a broad professional audience on timely and important challenges faced in the water data field. Topics in this free, virtual forum range from specific industry technologies to general research techniques, exploring the full breadth of the world of water data.
Proactive Data Management for Post-Field Season Data Success
Prepping for the field season can be challenging and overwhelming! It can be easy to put off thinking about data storage, organization, and publication until the field season is over. However, waiting until the field season is done and the data have been collected can make taking that next step towards sharing data feel daunting.
Synthesis Workshop Series: Perceptual Models of Dominant Hydrologic Processes Across North America
Join us as we work towards defining perceptual models of hydrologic behaviors across large geographic domains!
This unique webinar series will feature a morning and an afternoon session, each about 3 hours long. The morning will feature 3 - 4 invited speakers who will present keynotes on perceptual models of hydrologic processes in their region of expertise, followed by a Q&A. Following a 1 hour break, in the afternoon session, we invite interested attendees to participate in a synthesis discussion to delineate sub-regions and representative perceptual models.
2024 Navigating (beyond) Academic Waters: Expectations, Collaborations & Service
Join this series of webinars to hear more on the specific needs of early career hydrologists as they embark on their careers. Focus on identifying missing skills, finding a group of collaborators, and balancing service in their new careers.
2023 Navigating Academic Waters Series with AGU H3S: Finding your Niche
Professional development activities targeting early career hydrologists effectively highlight career opportunities within and beyond academia; however, these conversations often overlook how early career hydrologists can “find their niche” within the large variety of career opportunities. This series of webinars and co-working meetings is aimed to help early career hydrologists develop essential skills that allow them to more effectively create the hydrologic niche that best aligns with their values and desired career goals.
Integrating Citizen Science with Water Resources Research Across the Globe
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 data use in decision-making, and sessions on integrating citizen science projects in educational settings.
The Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Using Hydroviz to Support Undergraduate Student Learning
This two-hour workshop aims to introduce undergraduate instructors to a course module and resources developed to engage undergraduate students in visualization of data grounded in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus (FEW-Nexus). Course instructors will guide participants on ways to develop diverse local and regionally specific scenarios for teaching and learning that would involve decision-making about socio-hydrological issues.
Making Waves in Water Science - Open Source Tools
CUAHSI’s community support hydrologist Clara Cogswell has convened this webinar series in order to foster discussion within the water science community around open source tools; and celebrate scientists who lower the barrier to entry for water research by making their tools open source. CUAHSI hopes that through this series, speakers and participants will discuss different approaches to open source development, find new intersections for collaboration, be inspired by novel use cases as well as new developments on older works.
2022 Navigating Academic Waters Panels with AGU H3S - Postdoctoral Grant Writing
Join us for a discussion on Postdoctoral Grant Writing as a part of our Navigating Academic Waters Series with AGU H3S.
2022 Navigating Academic Waters Panels with AGU H3S - Navigating Non-academic Waters
This virtual event will be relevant for many career stages, whether you are a student seeking job opportunity information or a professional interested in switching to a non-academic job related to water.
2022 Navigating Academic Waters Panels with AGU H3S - Succeeding as a Postdoc
This webinar will help all early career researchers better understand where and how to apply for a postdoc as a graduate student and how to excel in the position once you have it.
Hydrologic Science and Indigenous Voices
In this series, indigenous leaders in water knowledge and hydrologic science explore how hydrological sciences are defined and who is included in that definition. Throughout the series, we explore how Native American people relate to water, what water issues are important for us to reflect on, how we can increase inclusivity in the hydrologic sciences community, and what challenges and opportunities we face as scientists and community members when finding resilient solutions to climate change.
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