2017 Annual Report
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 13-38606. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. 150 Cambridgepark Drive, Suite 203 Cambridge, MA 02140 Telephone: (339) 221-5400 Cover: Unsplash All stock photos: 123rf and Unsplash Photos courtesy of Jennifer Adler, Sarah Cadieux, Jim Coll, Salli Dymond, Yufen Huang, Sierra Jech, Mike Johnson, Branko Kerkez, Alia Khan, Dan Scott, Xiaonan Tai, Molly Tedesche, Elizabeth Tran, MIT Water Club, and CUAHSI Content: Jerad Bales, Emily Clark, Jonathan Pollak, and Elizabeth Tran Layout and Editing: Emily Clark and Elizabeth Tran
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Letter from the President Dear Colleagues, With the help of a great staff, a welcoming community, an engaged Board of Directors, and the support of Director Emeritus Rick Hooper, this year of transition has been smooth and exciting. I am pleased to be part of the CUAHSI community. The Board of Directors has been productive this year in a number of areas. Through Board engagement, we increased the number of people subscribed to our newsletter by 46 percent since the beginning of the year. The Board and some of our staff participated in a facilitator-led two-day strategic planning exercise and we anticipate sharing that plan with you in 2018. Finally, the Board led a much-needed review of CUAHSI’s bylaws, bringing the bylaws into compliance with the latest legal requirements of the District of Columbia, where CUAHSI is incorporated, and updating portions of the bylaws that were unclear or simplified processes. We added five new Member organizations this year and increased the number of Member Representatives by 12. Our goal for 2018 is to have the full complement of Representatives for all our Member organizations, which is three for Full Members and one for non-profit and international Affiliate Members. In 2017, CUAHSI assumed operation of the HydroShare platform; development on HydroShare is continuing through a new four-year grant to Utah State University. Our primary activity in 2018 will be to merge all our water data services so that users will have a single point of entry for data discovery, downloads, publication, and app use. This will be a major effort that will benefit from the engagement of the community as we seek your input. Several of our key development staff will be participating in formal training on project planning and management as we endeavor to increase the professionalism of our staff and keep the complex software projects on schedule. We said good-bye to our Accounting Assistant, Melissa Gervais in 2017. We welcomed Phuong Doan as a DevOps Engineer, Nicole Farrell as our new Accounting Assistant, and Ainsley Brown as an Administrative Assistant. Phuong is providing outstanding user support and is instrumental in all our software development and deployment activities. Neal DeBuhr is an on-site, part-time contract Quality Assurance Engineer who is providing invaluable support in identifying and resolving software problems. We will continue our efforts to engage students as part-time employees. CUAHSI exists to serve the water community, and we value your input on our activities and products. I hope you have had a chance to visit our redesigned web site, where we think you will find improved access to CUAHSI information. Thank you for your support of our organization.
All the best,
Jerad D. Bales President
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Table of Contents About CUAHSI 5 Water Data Services
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Community Services 8 About the Consortium
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Become a Member
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Governance 19 Financial Overview 20 Thank You 21 Save the Date 22 Staff & Contact
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About CUAHSI
The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) was created out of the need for an organization that provides research-support infrastructure which transcends the boundaries and disciplines within which water is traditionally studied. CUAHSI is a 501(c)(3) research organization that (1) provides services to discover, retrieve, and publish water data and (2) supports the broad water community through education and community activities not provided by any other single institution. CUAHSI’s mission is to shape the future of water science by: • Strengthening collaboration • Developing and delivering data, models, instrumentation and technologies • Promoting education We do this through programs that are divided into two categories: Water Data Services and Community Services. Water Data Services provides infrastructure for sustainable archiving, sharing, analyzing, and modeling scientific data. Community Services are programs that build capacity in specialized topics, promote water science education, and help train the next generation of water scientists. CUAHSI’s membership consists of more than 130 academic institutions and affiliate members, including nongovernmental organizations, international institutions, and corporate entities. Key support for CUAHSI comes from: • • •
Department of Homeland Security Johnson Family Foundation National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Science Foundation William Penn Foundation
Continue reading to learn more about CUAHSI’s programs and activities in 2017.
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Water Data Services CUAHSI provides infrastructure for archiving, sharing, analyzing, and modeling scientific data and developing new products that are useful to the water science community. CUAHSI’s resources are making it easier for researchers and educators all over the world to publish, find, and analyze water data. Our infrastructure is reducing technical burdens for universities – like removing the need for software installation and maintenance – and accelerating the pace at which scientific discoveries in water sciences can be made, reproduced, and taught. During 2017, the organization made strides in extending CUAHSI’s capabilities for publishing and using different types of data and models by adopting the HydroShare technology. This has enabled our users to create and execute better data management plans, to quickly discover data, and to perform data visualization and analysis in their web browser. Helping scientists find the water data they need enables advancements across the Earth Sciences. There are many resources for water data, and CUAHSI is working to build a bridge between some of the largest data providers in the country. Instead of needing to go to two, three, or even more websites to find data, scientists and students can use CUAHSI tools to get data from the USGS, NOAA, CocoRaHs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network), watershed associations, university research projects, and more. Aggregating access to these data has been especially useful for educators wanting to teach scientific concepts using real-world data. During the past year, educators have worked with CUAHSI to use water data to demonstrate water-quality concepts, the relations between water resources and energy production, stochastic hydrology, and more. NOAA’s National Water Model (NWM), which is being developed at the National Weather Service’s (NWS) National Water Center, is now available to all researchers. Funded in part by the NWS, CUAHSI is supporting the application of the NWM and research to enhance model performance. Additionally, CUAHSI is providing access to reference data sets for forcing variables, parameterization, and validation and has begun the development of portable executables to further improve access to the NWM. Finally, CUAHSI is designing and developing data services to support users that wish to (1) use forecast data in their research, (2) execute the model at small watershed scales, and (3) extend the model by implementing new process representations. These efforts have been coordinated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the National Water Center, and the HydroShare project team.
Photo: Dan Scott
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Photos: Unsplash and MIT Water Club
In 2018, we anticipate that CUAHSI’s water data sources – from the university community and beyond – will be integrated and new publication, discovery, and analysis tools will continue to be developed. In the coming year, the staff is looking forward to engaging our members to hear how CUAHSI’s data services can make the most impact on your work.
New for Modeling
Developing code with multiple libraries and technologies has historically been a fragmented process. This process can become more seamless using a Jupyterhub server1. This technology enables the development, execution, and sharing of web-based scientific notebooks, or instances of code, that span technologies (i.e. in this case, Python and R) and code libraries. For example, it may take a researcher multiple weeks or months to setup and run an instance of the Regional Hydro-Ecological Simulation System (RHESSys)2 on their own. Now, using CUAHSI’s Jupyterhub, this model can be setup and run in minutes. One research group that has taken advantage of this CUAHSI service is the Landlab team. The Landlab team develops and maintains a toolkit for modeling earth surface processes3 to catalyze research by developing a framework for rapid prototyping of two dimensional models by (1) providing a set of tools and grid structures, (2) a suite of interoperable process components, and (3) a set of tools to input, output, and use data (Hobley et al., 2016). Team members on this project have used notebooks in CUAHSI’s Jupyterhub in both research analysis and educational settings.
Supporting Large, Interdisciplinary Research Projects
The core of CUAHSI’s mission is enabling interdisciplinary water science as in the case of iUTAH4. This project has brought together a diverse network of researchers, universities, governmental agencies, industry partners, and nonprofit organizations with the goal of strengthening science for Utah’s water future. The Gradients Along Mountain to Urban Transitions (GAMUT) environmental observatory has created more than 40 aquatic and terrestrial monitoring sites with more than 2,000 data sets consisting of over 200 million environmental observations. The iUTAH project uses CUAHSI software to organize and manage their sensor data (Jones et al., 2017). Individual iUTAH investigators are also using CUAHSI’s water data services for collaboration, as a digital repository for their data, and for modeling. Many of the researchers are formally publishing these resources with Digital Object Identifiers for easy citation in manuscripts. More than 160 digital resources have been shared through CUAHSI services by iUTAH researchers. All of these services provided by CUAHSI are important features of this project’s Data Management Plan as approved by NSF. Their experience has been captured by Flint et al. (2017).
Integrate Real Data and Modeling Tools into your Curriculum
Training the next generation of water scientists to become data literate and proficient in cutting-edge data analysis techniques is an important part of CUAHSI’s mission. This is why our staff has worked with educators across the country to integrate real data into classroom modules about water quality, resource extraction and energy generation, stochastic hydrology, and more. As always, if you are interested in working with our staff to integrate CUAHSI tools into your curriculum, please get in touch! 1 2 3 4
http://jupyter.org/ http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~rhessys/ http://landlab.github.io/#/ https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1208732
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Community Services CUAHSI provides programs that build capacity in specialized topics and transformative learning experiences. Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants (IDTGs) Learn a new instrumentation method.
CUAHSI received 36 IDTG proposals in 2017 and awarded six IDTGs in Spring 2017 and five more will be awarded by January 2018.
Photo: Salli Dymond
Interested in expanding your knowledge of a specific instrument? CUAHSI’s IDTGs enable graduate students and early career researchers to visit experts in hydrologic instrumentation to learn a new instrument or method. The grants are offered twice a year (in Spring and in Fall), so do not worry if you miss a deadline! You will have another chance to apply.
The Spring 2017 IDTG awardees are: • Sarah Cadieux (Sweet Briar College) • Trey Crouch (University of Florida) • Salli Dymond (University of Minnesota) • Yufeng Huang (University of Hawaii) • Aurora Kagawa-Viviani (University of Hawaii) • Jasmin McInerney (University of California, Davis)
Sarah Cadieux (Sweet Briar College) visited Colby College to better understand the deployment and maintenance of a lake water quality buoy. She plans to deploy a new buoy at her institution, Sweet Briar College.
Photo: Sarah Cadieux
Four of the Spring 2017 awardees have already completed their travels. Details on how they used the grant to further their instrumentation knowledge are provided below.
Salli Dymond (University of Minnesota) traveled to Coweeta Hydrologic Lab in Otto, NC to learn more about sap flux data to better understand water budgets. She will use what she learned to deploy her own network in Northern Minnesota. Yufen Huang (University of Hawaii) improved her laboratory skills in assessing water quality. Huang plans to use this knowledge in an assessment of Hawaii stream health through quantification of hydrologic fluxes and biogeochemical cycling.
If you, your student, or colleague are interested in applying for an IDTG, the next round of applications will be accepted in April 2018.
INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR AN INSTRUMENTATION DISCOVERY TRAVEL GRANT? The next application deadline is April 1, 2018.
Photo: Yufen Huang
Aurora Kagawa-Viviani (University of Hawaii) hosted a reverse site visit from an expert in stable isotope ecohydrology. The reverse site visit took the form of a workshop attended by 22 individuals from academia, government, and industry. The grant directly led to a new collaboration between Kagawa-Viviani and instrument manufacturer, Picarro. The collaboration focuses on using laser spectroscopy to understand plant chemistry and hydrologic effects of invasive tropical plants.
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Pathfinder Graduate Student Fellowships Add a new field site to existing research.
Since 2009, Pathfinder Fellowships have provided travel funds that enable graduate students to broaden their research and go beyond the one site, one perspective approach. They are able to perform comparative studies at other field sites. CUAHSI received 30 proposals in late 2016 for funding in 2017. From this pool, fourteen Pathfinder Fellowships were awarded. The 2016 Pathfinder Fellows are: • • • • • • •
Laura Belica (North Carolina State University) Host: Peter V. Caldwell (U.S. Forest Service) Michael Durham (University of Georgia) Host: Nour-Eddine Laftouhi (Faculty of Sciences Semlalia at Marrakech) Alice Hill (University of Colorado) Host: Inom Normatov (Tajik National University) Sierra Jech (Syracuse University) Host: Jeremy Shaw (State of Utah) Mary Lemon (Louisiana State University) Host: Georgianne Moore (Texas A&M University) Michael O’Connor (University of Texas) Host: Scott Painter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Morgan Okeson (Kansas University) Host: Steven Holbrook (University of Wyoming)
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Peter Regier (Florida International University) Host: Jeremy Jones (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) Garrett Rue (University of Colorado) Host: James Pope (CRL Energy) Siddharth Saksena (Purdue University) Host: Peter Singhofen (Streamline Technologies) Dan Scott (Colorado State University) Host: José Ortega (Autonomous University of Madrid) Tim Stephens (University of Georgia) Host: Thomas Meixner (University of Arizona) Xiaonan Tai (University at Buffalo) Host: Brent Ewers (University of Wyoming) Molly Tedesche (University of Alaska) Host: Jeffrey Rasic (National Park Service)
Khan, A. L., H. Dierssen, J. P. Schwarz, C. Schmitt, A. Chlus, M. Hermanson, T. H. Painter, and D. M. McKnight (2017), Impacts of coal dust from an active mine on the spectral reflectance of Arctic surface snow in Svalbard, Norway, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 1767–1778, doi:10.1002/2016JD025757. The 2017 Pathfinder Fellows will be announced in mid-December. The next Pathfinder Fellowship application period will open in Fall 2018.
INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR A PATHFINDER FELLOWSHIP? The next round of applications will be accepted in Fall 2018.
Photos: Molly Tedesche, Sierra Jech, Xiaonan Tai, and Alia Khan
2012 Pathfinder Fellow, Alia Khan (University of Colorado Boulder), recently published a paper which was a direct outcome of her Pathfinder Fellowship:
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Training Program
Immerse yourself in the field or classroom with experts in a new method or instrumentation technique. CUAHSI’s training program aims to increase access to a range of techniques and topics. The workshops and short courses are hosted throughout the U.S., are taught by experts in the field, and typically take place over three to five intensive days. CUAHSI provides some limited travel support for students to attend selected courses.
2017 Training Activities Course Title
Dates / Location
Lead Instructor(s)
NASA Remote Sensing Hydrology Workshop
April 4-6, 2017 CUAHSI Cambridge, MA
Training Workshop: The Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System
May 2-4, 2017 NCAR Boulder, CO
David Gochis (NCAR)
Master Class: Water Sustainability in a Global Economy
May 16-19, 2017 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ
Benjamin Ruddell (Northern Arizona University) Megan Konar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sensor Network Bootcamp in an Urban Environment
August 23-25, 2017 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Branko Kerkez (University of Michigan)
Training Workshop: The Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System
October 17-19, 2017 NCAR Boulder, CO
David Gochis (NCAR)
Using In-Situ Water Quality Sensors
November 7-9, 2017 University of Florida Gainseville, FL
Matthew Cohen (University of Florida) Michael Gooseff (University of Colorado Boulder)
Snow Measurement Field School
January 9-11, 2018 Fraser Experimental Forest Fraser, CO
Jessica Lundquist (University of Washington)
Photos: Elizabeth Tran
JT Reager (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
DID YOU KNOW CUAHSI OFFERS STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS TO ATTEND A WORKSHOP? Email Elizabeth Tran at
[email protected] for more information.
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The training program is one of CUAHSI’s most successful community services. Because of the popularity of the training program, CUAHSI was able to increase the number of training courses offered from five per year (in 2014 - 2016) to seven (in 2017).There is a consistently high demand for the training workshops that CUAHSI offers and attendees report having positive, impactful experiences that benefit their research. There are two workshops confirmed for 2018 - both of which have been offered previously: • Training Workshop: The Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System - A 3-day workshop on June 5-7, 2018 in Boulder, CO that will provide participants with formal instruction and application of the WRF-Hydro system, and offers hands-on experience in setting up and running the system for several different research and prediction applications. • Watershed Science Master Class - A week-long short course on January 13-18, 2019 that focuses on hydrologic watershed processes including theory, experimental design, and modeling. CUAHSI plans to finalize the 2018 training roster by the end of January 2018, and will include two new trainings for a total of seven workshops to be held next year. Photo: Jennifer Adler http://www.jenniferadlerphotography.com
We are always seeking instructors who are interested in teaching training workshops! You provide the expertise, enthusiasm, and equipment for your topic; an interesting science or technical question; connections with the community to arrange or suggest instructors; and a commitment to the planning and execution of a successful workshop. CUAHSI provides financial support; logistical and planning assistance; integration of CUAHSI’s water data services into course curriculum; on-site support; and advertising. Want to learn more? Contact Elizabeth Tran (
[email protected]) to discuss your training idea or visit the CUAHSI website.
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Photos: Jim Coll and Mike Johnson
National Water Center Innovators Program: Summer Institute (SI)
Design and collaborate on National Water Center projects that further the country’s ability to respond to water-related hazards. The National Water Center Innovators Program: Summer Institute (SI) was established in 2014 as a partnership between CUAHSI and the National Weather Service to engage the academic research community in the enhancement of the National Water Model. Students spend seven weeks at the University of Alabama and the National Water Center designing and collaborating on projects intended to further the ability to respond to water-related hazards using the National Water Model. The result is a truly immersive and transformational experience that prepares students not only with the technical skills needed to become outstanding water science professionals, but also with lasting professional relationships that they will build upon throughout their careers. In 2017, 32 students from 24 different universities participated in the SI. The SI was led by five theme coordinators: Fred Ogden (National Water Center and the University of Wyoming), Jim Nelson (Brigham Young University), Sagy Cohen and Sarah Praskievicz (University of Alabama), and David Maidment (University of Texas at Austin). Two Student Course Coordinators assisted with organization and execution of the projects: Jim Coll (University of Kansas) and Mike Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara). A Technical Report1 describing the nine student projects that were completed in 2017 has been published on the CUAHSI website. The projects documented in the report represent the culmination of seven weeks of research and teamwork, and can be grouped under the themes of hyper-resolution modeling, flood inundation mapping, and communicating National Water Model results. The 2018 SI will address Hyper Resolution Modeling, Groundwater Flow Modeling (with emphasis on Groundwater Surface Water Interactions), River Hydraulics, Computational Aspects of Hydrologic Modeling, and Data Assimilation. Three students from the 2017 SI will serve as Course Coordinators for 2018: Danielle Tijerina (Colorado School of Mines), Fernando Aristizabal (University of Florida), and Lauren Grimley (University of Iowa). 1
http://dx.doi.org/10.4211/technical.20171009 Photos: Jim Coll and Mike Johnson
PARTICIPATE IN THE 2018 SUMMER INSTITUTE
For more information, visit: https://www.cuahsi.org/education/summerinstitute/
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Let’s Talk About Water
Use film to promote water and earth science education on your campus and in your community. The Let’s Talk About Water (LTAW) program provides a formula for developing successful events for water science education. The events are unique because they use film to bridge discussion between scientists and the audience around critical water science issues. Films can be powerful education tools for the sciences because they use storytelling to engage audiences emotionally, thereby heightening audience interest, making meaningful connections between the viewer and science issues, and catalyzing discussion. CUAHSI’s Challenge Grant program helps support universities in the development of their own LTAW events. Six universities were awarded Challenge Grants to host an LTAW event in 2017.
2017 LTAW Challenge Grant Awardees University
Film
East Central University
The Unforeseen
Idaho State University
Upriver
Univeristy of California Santa Barbara
Chasing Water
University of Delaware
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change
University of Texas at El Paso
Last Call at the Oasis
University of Wyoming
Watershed
Since 2012, CUAHSI has supported over 25 LTAW events. Due to the success of the program, CUAHSI developed additional resources to assist event organizers in developing LTAW events. These resources include an “LTAW How-To” video and films guide to assist organizers with choosing the right film for their event. We expect that these resources will encourage others to use the LTAW formula to promote water science education at their institution and in their community.
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Cyberseminars
A platform for researchers to easily disseminate their work to the community.
Photos: 123rf
CUAHSI hosts cyberseminar series to provide a platform for researchers to easily disseminate their work to the community. Cyberseminars may be a single presentation or may consist of a series of talks occurring over several weeks that addresses a speclized topic in the water science. Cyberseminars are recorded and available at any time for use in classrooms or other settings. In 2017, CUAHSI hosted three cyberseminar series. Diogo Bolster (Notre Dame University) hosted the Spring 2017 series on Heterogeneity, Complexity and Anomalous Transport in Hydrology Systems. The series featured expert speakers from the subsurface and surface hydrology and geomorphology disciplines outlining transport processes in accessible ways to the broader hydrology community. As part of the ongoing collaboration between CUAHSI and the NCAR land model working group (funded by NSF-INSPIRE), Ying Fan Reinfelder (Rutgers University) hosted the HydroCLM series on Hillslope Hydrology in Earth System Models to further explore the themes that emerged from a January 2017 call for participation from the community. Reed Maxwell (Colorado School of Mines) hosted the Fall 2017 series on Towards a Global Integrated Hydrology Platform: Perspectives and Advances in Large-scale Modeling. The series highlighted recent research from four groups working to advance large-scale hydrologic modeling. The speakers discussed various success stories and challenges as the hydrology community advances an integrated perspective of Earth’s freshwater. All cyberseminars are recorded and archived on CUAHSI’s YouTube Channel. CUAHSI has regularly uploaded cyberseminars to YouTube since 2013, and there are over 200 videos on YouTube. Randy Dymond (Virginia Tech) will host a Winter 2018 series on Urban Modeling. Although dates have not yet been set, the targeted timeframe is January - February 2018. CUAHSI also plans on hosting its annual Spring and Fall Cyberseminar Series in 2018.
Did you know THAT CUAHSI has over 200 recorded webinars? You can search the cyberseminar archive on the CUAHSI website.
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CUAHSI Virtual University
Enhances the depth of graduate course offerings at universities across the nation.
Photo: 123rf
CUAHSI launched the pilot program of CUAHSI Virtual University in Fall 2017. The Virtual University consists of inter-university online courses to enhance the depth and breadth of graduate course offerings at universities across the nation, increase the rate of uptake of new research and facilitate networking among our hydrologic community. Students from the participating universities can enroll in the online course modules of their choosing and receive course credit at their home university, resulting in collaborations between instructors and students at different universities that may not happen otherwise. For Fall 2017, 45 students registered from across the six participating universities to participate in the Virtual University.
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Fall 2017 CUAHSI Virtual University Modules and Instructors University
Instructor
Module
Michigan State University
David Hyndman
Global Change, Crop Production, and Impacts on Hydrology
University at Buffalo
Christopher Lowry
Quantifying Groundwater and Stream Interactions
University of California Santa Barbara
Naomi Tague
Hydrologic Modeling for Hypothesis Generation and Scenario Development: Tools in R
University of Delaware
Holly Michael
Coastal Hydrogeology and Land-Sea Water Exchange
University of Nevada Reno
Scott Tyler
Advances in Drone-based Remote Sensing for Hydrologic Applications
University of Wisconsin Madison
Steven Loheide
Ecohydrology of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems
For more information on the Virtual University, visit the CUAHSI website.
learn more about the virtual University www.cuahsi.org
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Community Meetings
CUAHSI organizes and sponsors annual science meetings, the Biennial Colloquium and the Hydroinformatics Conference. The Biennial Colloquium on Water Science and Enginering is a general water science meeting, while the Hydroinformatics Conference focuses on advancing cyberinfrastructure for the water sciences. Over 100 people attended the 2017 CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics which took place July 25 - 27, 2017 in Tuscaloosa, AL. This year’s theme, Swimming in Data without Drowning in the Deluge, highlighted the advances in methods, software, and models that can help researchers make valuable insights from the tremendous amount of water data products. Attendees were also invited to tour the National Weather Service’s National Water Center and learn of the advances in the National Water Model from NOAA employees and CUAHSI Summer Institute participants. The conference featured five high-level keynote speakers: Christopher Dunn (U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers), Thomas Graziano (National Weather Service), Biju George (DC Water), Lauren Patterson (Duke University), Barbara Ryan (Group on Earth Observations), and Eva Zanserkia (National Science Foundation). A special edition of the Open Water Journal1 containing selected papers from the 2017 CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics has been published. Paper topics include using the National Water Model for hypothesis testing in research catchments, quantification and valuation of hydropower generation, and large-scale inundation mapping using TanDEM-X data. Save the date for CUAHSI’s 6th Biennial Colloquium on Hydrologic Science and Engineering, on July 29 - August 2, 2018 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV. The conference theme is Hydrologic Connections: Climate, Food, Energy, Environment, and Society with keynote speakers Kristen Averyt (Desert Research Institute), Larry Band (University of Virginia), and George Hornberger (Vanderbilt University). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/openwater/vol4/iss2/
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CUAHSI Biennial Science Colloquium Hydrologic Connections: Climate, Food, Energy, Environment, and Society July 29 - August 2, 2018 at NCTC in Shepherdstown, WV
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CUAHSI annual science meetings
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About the Consortium Member Universities Arizona State University Auburn University Brigham Young University Carnegie Mellon University City College New York Clemson University Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Drexel University Duke University Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia State University Harvard University Idaho State University Indiana University Iowa State University Johns Hopkins University Kansas State University Kent State University Louisiana State University Marquette University Michigan State University Michigan Technological University Mississippi State University Montana State University Murray State University New Mexico State University New Mexico Tech Northeastern University Northern Arizona University Northwestern University Ohio State University Oregon State University Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Purdue University Rutgers University (SUNJ) South Dakota State University Southern Illinois University Stanford University State University of New York Buffalo State University of New York - ESF Syracuse University Temple University Texas A&M University Tufts University University of Alabama University of Alabama - Huntsville University of Alaska - Fairbanks
University of Arizona University of Arkansas University of California - Davis University of California - Irvine University of California - Merced University of Central Florida University of Colorado - Boulder University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Florida University of Georgia University of Hawaii University of Idaho University of Illinois University of Iowa University of Kentucky University of Maryland - Baltimore County University of Maryland - College Park University of Massachusetts University of Memphis University of Miami University of Minnesota University of Montana University of Nebraska University of Nevada - Reno University of New Hampshire University of New Mexico University of North Carolina System University of North Dakota University of Notre Dame University of Oklahoma University of Pittsburgh University of South Carolina University of South Florida University of Tennessee University of Texas - Arlington University of Texas - Austin University of Texas - San Antonio University of Utah University of Vermont University of Washington University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee University of Wyoming Utah State University Virginia Tech University Washington State University West Virginia University Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Yale University
International Affiliates Centre for Ecology and Hydrology CIMA Research Foundation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia Dalhousie University Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur McMaster University Pacific Geographical Institute Queensland University of Technology Suez Canal University Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) UNESCO - IHE Institute for Water Education Universidad de las Américas Puebla University of British Columbia University of Calgary University of Copenhagen University of Ljubljana University of New Brunswick University of Padova University of Quebec University of Queensland University of Saskatchewan University of Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University of Trento, Italy University of Waterloo University of Zurich Yonsei University Nonprofit Affiliates Cleveland State University Desert Research Institute Eastern Illinois University Plymouth State University RTI International Smith College Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Stockton University Stroud Water Research Center
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Become a CUAHSI Member Photos: CUAHSI
Why Become a CUAHSI Member
CUAHSI’s membership includes over 130 U.S. universities, nonprofit organizations, and international affiliates who recognize the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative thinking to advance water science and solve society’s most pressing water issues. Students, early career faculty members, tenured academic professionals, and other water professionals all find a place within CUAHSI’s diverse community. Through CUAHSI membership, your organization can: • Support the growing national and international water science community; • Contribute to innovations in community modeling, data science, and education; • Represent your organization within the CUAHSI community and serve in various leadership capacities; • Participate in the annual CUAHSI Membership Meeting, helping to make important community decisions about CUAHSI’s future; and • Receive registration discounts on CUAHSI events and workshops. Anyone affiliated with a CUAHSI member organization is eligible for the member discount. Additionally, many CUAHSI member organizations have found that membership has helped improve communication and collaboration across their own disciplines and departments.
Membership Information
CUAHSI has four classes of membership: University Member, Nonprofit Affiliate Member, International Affiliate Member, and Corporate Affiliate Member. University Members include single or multiple campuses of multi-campus university systems, chartered in the United States with graduate degree programs in hydrologic sciences and a major commitment to research in that field.
Membership Requirements
General membership requirements include: • A letter to the CUAHSI Executive Director, signed by a dean or higher, requesting to become a CUAHSI member. An example letter can be provided. • One to three faculty members appointed as CUAHSI representatives (depending on membership type). • A one-time membership initiation fee. • Annual dues currently assessed at $200 (for University Members).
Ready to Become a Member?
Contact Emily Clark at
[email protected] to learn more!
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Governance
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2017 CUAHSI Board of Directors Elizabeth Boyer, Pennsylvania State University Matthew Cohen, University of Florida David Genereux, North Carolina State University Michael Gooseff, Colorado State University Gordon Grant, Oregon State University Erich Hester, Virginia Tech David Hyndman, Michigan State University Erkan Istanbulluoglu, University of Washington Steven Loheide, University of Wisconsin D. Scott Mackay, University at Buffalo (SUNY) Holly Michael, University of Delaware Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines Scott Tyler, University of Nevada at Reno Albert Valocchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jeanne Van Briesen, Carnegie Mellon University
2017 CUAHSI Officers President: Jerad Bales, CUAHSI Secretary: Adam Ward, Indiana University Treasurer: Audrey Sawyer, Ohio State University Chair: David Genereux, North Carolina State University Past Chair: David Hyndman, Michigan State University Chair-Elect: Gordon Grant, Oregon State University
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Financial Overview Key Support The National Science Foundation provides the core funding for CUAHSI services through a cooperative agreement. During the current project year for the cooperative agreement with NSF, a total of $3.48M was awarded and $3.32M was spent, with the balance of funds rolling forward to be expended in 2018. CUAHSI received additional funding from other sources, which include the Department of Homeland Security, Johnson Family Foundation and William Penn Foundation.
Membership Funds
CUAHSI collects initiation fees and annual dues from members to provide critically needed unrestricted funds. These funds are used for costs that cannot be charged to federal grants, such as the cost of elections, some CUAHSI community events, and maintaining membership rolls. It provides a buffer for cash flow and in case of interruption of federal funding. Since the initiation of annual dues for U.S.-based members in 2012, this buffer has steadily grown as shown in the line graph below. 2017 expenses are estimated to be $22,360.
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THANK YOU
for being a part of the CUAHSI community!
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Save the Date We hope to see you at CUAHSI’s 2018 Biennial Colloquium!
July 29 - August 2, 2018 National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV Hydrologic Connections: Climate, Food, Energy, Environment, and Society Keynote Speakers: Kristen Averyt (Desert Research Institute) Larry Band (University of Virginia) George Hornberger (Vanderbilt University)
C U A H S I S TA F F
Dr. Jerad Bales Executive Director and President Emily Clark Community Services Manager Jonathan Pollak Program Manager Elizabeth Tran Community Relations Specialist Jessica Annadale Controller Ainsley Brown Administrative Assistant Nicole Farrell Accounting Assistant
Martin Seul Technical Director Liza Brazil Community Support Specialist Dr. Anthony Castronova Hydrologic Scientist Brian Cummings Senior Software Engineer Phuong Doan DevOps Engineer Mark Henderson Senior Software Engineer Dr. Yaping Xiao Software Engineer
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