Last Week to Register Online for the 2013 CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics and Modeling!

Online registration closes for the 2013 CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics and Modeling this Sunday, June 30. If you have not done so, and are planning to attend, register today!

The conference will be held at Utah State University in Logan, Utah from July 17-19.

Confirmed Keynote and Invited Speakers Include:

• Dr. Alva Couch, Interim Director of the CUAHSI Water Data Center (Opening Keynote)
• Dr. Stan Ahalt, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) - PI of the Water Science Software Institute Conceptualization Project (Keynote)
• Dr. Anthony Aufdenkampe, Stroud Water Research Institute and Principal Investigator on the CZO Data Project
• Dr. Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) - Semantics & Ontology, Examples from neuroscience
• Dr. Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana - SEAD Project
• Dr. David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin - Leader of the CUAHSI HIS Project, 2008-2012 (Closing Keynote)
• Dr. Emilio Mayorga, University of Washington - Addressing the intersection of biogeochemistry and (geo)informatics (Keynote)
• Dr. Ramakrishna Nemani, NASA - NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
• Dr. Silvano Pecora, Italy Institute for Environmental Protection & Research - Discussing deployment of HIS technology in Italy
• Dr. Jordan Read, US Geological Survey - USGS partnerships and innovations in modern hydroinformatics
• Dr. David Tarboton, Utah State University, Extending HIS through the new HydroShare Project
• Dr. Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois, Creator of CyberGIS

In addition to the very accomplished presenters listed above, there will additional presenters, research posters, and a number of HIS related workshops. I will be leading:

• HydroDesktop 1
• HydroDesktop 2 
• Publishing Data with the WDC

Dr. Daniel Ames, who is the lead developer of HydroDesktop, will also be leading a workshop on writing plugin tools for HydroDesktop.

Questions? Email me (jpollak@cuahsi.org) or CUAHSI's Communications and Outreach Specialist, Kayla Berry (kberry@cuahsi.org).

Hope to see you there! 

Data Sources Registered in the HIS Central Catalog

This week, I am working on updating metrics and visualizations for the HIS Catalog. Above, you can see one of these visualizations, which represents the total number of data sources registered in our central catalog. We are up to 104 data sources, which is almost four times the number we started with in 2008! The visualization above was created with IBM Many Eyes, which is a great, easy (and free!) tool to visualize data with.

Data Center Announcments

Today, we have a couple of announcements related to the Water Data Center. First, the new Data Center website is up and running at http://wdc.cuahsi.org. The website located at http://his.cuahsi.org will now become an archive of the HIS Research project, which was led by David Maidment (University of Texas at Austin) and concluded in 2011.

Additionally, in establishing the Data Center, we are in need of policies that will guide the vision and its operation. Drafts of these policies have been posted to this blog, and are available for comment until July 17. Please review these documents and post your comments today!

Shale Network Featured on NPR's State Impact

The Shale Network project was recently featured in a piece on NPR's State Impact with footage coming from the workshop that was held at PSU a couple weeks ago. The video, embedded below, has Dr. Sue Brantley (PI of the Shale Network) discussing their approach in creating an online database to enable research regarding the potential impacts of natural gas extraction on water in the Marcellus Shale region. I also got a few seconds on camera to do a quick plug for HIS!