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!

Slides from Brussels...

Today, Dr. Couch spoke at the 2nd OpenWater Symposium in Brussels. This symposium "aims at sharing experiences, tools, training materials and model codes applicable in the water domain." Dr. Couch represented the WDC with his invited talk entitled Toward a Global Water Data Infrastructure: Lessons Learned and Future of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System. 

Click the link above to view Dr. Couch's slides, and if you'd like to see more presentations from the WDC Community visit the Presentations page on the WDC site.

Now Accepting Applications for 2013 Pathfinder Fellowships

Last week, the application period for the 2013 CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowships opened. The Pathfinder Fellowship program is an avenue for CUAHSI to support graduate students in conducting field research. It enables students to travel to an additional field site to conduct comparative research, to collaborate with a research group using alternate approaches or modeling methods, or to work with researchers on adding an interdisciplinary dimension to a water science research project.

Want to know more about the research being enabled? Click here to check out the research that was done by the 2012 Pathfinder Fellows.

Want to apply? Visit the CUAHSI website to download the application materials.

Important Pathfinder Dates

• Application period opens: August 28, 2013
• Application due: October 18, 2013
• Notification of recipients will be made by November 29, 2013
• Travel funds will be available starting February 1, 2014
• Travel must be completed by January 31, 2015