New Materials for STEM Education

I've created a new page for HIS laboratory exercises on the WDC website. At the moment, we have two substantial educational modules available that were developed using HydroDesktop Version 1.5. The first, which was developed at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research at Wilkes University, examines water quality and water quantity in the Susquehanna River Basin with HydroDesktop. The second, developed at Brigham Young University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, utilizes R scripts to perform analyses (like flood probability) on data downloaded from the WDC catalog. If you have used HIS in your classroom, and are willing to share your materials, please let us know!

New Workshop Materials Available

Last week, CUAHSI hosted the 2013 Conference on Hydroinformatics and Modeling where we held four workshops. The materials for these workshops are now available on the WDC website:

• HydroDesktop 1: Data Discovery - This workshop covers the basics in HydroDesktop; downloading, viewing, and exporting data.
• HydroDesktop 2: Data Discovery & Analysis - This session repeats some of the material from HydroDesktop 1, but adds a statistical analysis component using R.
• Data Publication with the WDC: Aside from asking CUAHSI to host your data, how can you publish data with the WDC? This exercise teaches participants how to configure SQL Server and load data into a SQL database, how to deploy WaterOneFlow Web Services, how to register your web service with the central catalog, and how to test your web service using both ODM Tools and HydroDesktop to view data. 
• Writing Custom Plugins for HydroDesktop: Want to learn how you can extend the capabilities of HydroDesktop? Learn how to develop an extension...

Thanks to everyone who made it to Logan! We will also have the slides from presentations available online soon as well.

Key for Box & Whisker Plot Added to HydroDesktop User Guide

The HydroDesktop development team has created a key for Box and Whisker plots (an option on the Graph Ribbon), which I have posted under the Working with Data section of the User Guide...it can also be viewed above.

Research Poster: How New Data Sharing & Access Can Transform the Way We Address Water Resources and Hazards

Last week, CUAHSI staff members Dr. Jennifer Arrigo and Kayla Berry attended the 2013 AGU Science Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. At the conference, Jennifer and Kayla presented a poster highlighting CUAHSI's Water Data Center, HIS technology, and how data sharing can transform the way decision-makers can address water resource issues. View the poster above!