New Shale Network Webinar

A HydroDesktop screenshot of sites in the Shale Network database.

Last week, Dr. Sue Brantley gave a presentation about the Shale Network as a part of the Penn State Water Resources Extension Webinar Series.

To view a recording of the presentation, or view the presentation slides as a .pdf, visit this page:

Water Resource Impacts during Unconventional Shale-Gas Development: Using Publicly Available Data to Understand the Pennsylvania Experience

More Slides from the Open Water Symposium...

Last week, I posted Dr. Couch's slides from the Open Water Symposium in Brussels, but he was not the only member of the CUAHSI community presenting at the meeting. Dr. Daniel Ames, who leads HydroDesktop development, also gave an invited talk. Dr. Ames sent along the slides from his talk last week, entitled Open Source Tools for Hydrologic Data Management Sharing and Discovery: Introducing HydroDesktop and the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS)...Swimming in Data Without Drowning in the Deluge, which I have also posted on the WDC Presentations page.  

Want to Publish Data in the WDC Catalog....on Linux?

Tux is down with HIS...are you?

The CUAHSI staff have received multiple inquiries lately regarding the use of HIS software on Linux. While the majority of our applications have been developed in and for a Windows environment, these are not the only tools in our toolbox! Our primary data access tool (HydroDesktop) is still dependent on Windows, but if you are looking to publish data in the WDC Catalog from a Linux machine, HydroServer Lite is available and waiting for you!

HydroServer Lite is a lightweight version of HydroServer written in PHP. It can be deployed on any web hosting service that supports PHP and MySQL and is fully compatible with all of the other components of HIS. An existing example of HydroServer Lite being put to use in the WDC Catalog is out of Brigham Young University's Gil Ecosystem and Global Change Ecology Lab. The details of this data source can be seen here on the HIS Central website.

As always, if you have any questions or would like assistance in publishing your data, please email me!