ShaleNetwork Cyberseminar - Today!

A reminder: Today, at 3 PM Eastern, Dr. Sue Brantley (Pennsylvania State University, will be presenting in the first of our Spring HIS Cyberseminars. Dr. Brantley will be discussing the ShaleNetwork, which is a Research Coordination Network funded by the National Science Foundation:

Significant public controversy has developed in response to the use of hydrofracturing especially in the northeastern states underlain by the Marcellus shale where some citizens and scientists question whether shale gas recovery will contaminate local surface and ground waters. Researchers, government agencies, and citizen scientists in Pennsylvania are teaming up to run the ShaleNetwork (www.shalenetwork.org), an NSF-funded research collaboration network that is currently finding, collating, sharing, publishing, and exploring data related to water quality and quantity in areas that are exploiting shale gas. The effort, focused initially on Pennsylvania, is developing the ShaleNetwork database, which is hosted by CUAHSI and available for public download through the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System. 

To join the Cyberseminar, follow the link and dial into the conference line listed below:

http://cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/his/ 

Conference Line: (866) 244-8528

Participant Code: 391191

Once dialed into the conference line, you will be prompted for the participant code.

Data Publication Guide Added

A Data Publication Guide has been added to this site, which provides the steps needed to publish data in the CUAHSI HIS. This guide will be accessible from the link on the navigation bar towards the top of this page and includes two sections:

• Setting Up Your Database
• Creating and Registering Your Web Service

These two topics provide the basics for HIS time series data publication, but the guide does not yet include some additional, more advanced features such as configuring the HydroServer Website application or setting up the HydroServer Map application.

HIS Cyberseminar Series Schedule Announced

Beginning March 27th, join CUAHSI at 3:00pm ET on Wednesdays for the Spring HIS Cyberseminar Series. This series features five speakers who will discuss the latest in development and deployment of CUAHSI's data services.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013: Sue Brantley, Pennsylvania State University

Using CUAHSI HIS in the Shale Network to Assess Water Quality and Quantity Data in Regions of Hydraulic Fracturing

Wednesday, April 3, 2013: Dan Ames, Brigham Young University

What's New and What's Coming in HydroDesktop

Wednesday, April 10, 2013: Dan Ames¹, Matthew W. Over², Carlos A. M. Osorio¹, & Yoram Rubin² 

Brigham Young University¹;University California, Berkeley² 
Inverse Modeling with the MAD Model Inversion Framework

Wednesday, April 24, 2013: Alva Couch, CUAHSI

HIS & the CUAHSI Water Data Center*

Wednesday, May 1, 2013: Jeff Horsburgh, Utah State University

Using CUAHSI HIS to Support Large-Scale Collaborative Research in Utah

*Tentative title

To join a Cyberseminar, follow the link and dial into the conference line listed below:

http://cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/his/ 

Conference Line: (866) 244-8528

Participant Code: 391191

Once dialed into the conference line, you will be prompted for the participant code.

Spotlight On: Kansas State Daily Weather Data

The Kansas State Daily Weather Data web service has data from 14 meteorological stations throughout Kansas.

The K-State Research and Extension is a partnership between Kansas State University and federal, state, and county governments. The mission of K-State Research and Extension is to be "...dedicated to a safe, sustainable, competitive food and fiber system and to strong, healthy communities, families and youth through integrated research, analysis and education." One aspect of working towards this goal is to gather and monitor environmental data. An example of such data collection coordinated through K-State Research and Extension is a network of 14 meteorological stations throughout the state of Kansas that capture weather data. Historical data (1985-2012) from this network were published in the HIS Catalog last year and include measurements of:

• Precipitation
• Air Temperature
• Relative Humidity
• Wind Speed
• Net Radiation

This is a great data source for weather data in Kansas. In one HydroDesktop tutorial, I compared precipitation data from this service with discharge data from the USGS NWIS service to investigate the correlation between the two variables.