All Past Events
September 11, 2015
Science Unwrapped: "Leave it to Beavers: Lessons from Nature's Engineers"USU watershed scientist Joe Wheaton discusses innovative river restoration research at Science UnWrapped on September 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Emert Auditorium (Room 130) of the Eccles Science Learning Center on the USU campus.
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September 10, 2015
Utah Water Research Laboratory Public Open HouseThe Utah Water Research Lab at Utah State University will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a public open house on Thursday, Sept. 10, 5-8 pm. The open house will feature laboratory tours and research demonstrations. The lab is located at the mouth of Logan Canyon at 1600 Canyon Road.
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August 11, 2015
Workshop: Snowpack monitoring for streamflow forecasting and drought planningPlease join the University of Colorado Western Water Assessment (WWA), the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC), and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Utah Snow Survey for a one-day workshop focused on improving the usability of snowpack monitoring information for runoff forecasting, drought early warning and planning, and other applications. Water managers, agricultural producers, recreation providers, researchers, and others who rely on snow-monitoring products and/or runoff forecasts are encouraged to attend. The workshop will be held August 11, 2015, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm in West Jordan UT.
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July 17, 2015
iUTAH Annual Symposium and All-hand MeetingThe iUTAH Annual Symposium and All-hand Meeting being held July 17, 2015 at Homestead Resort, 700 North Homestead, Midway UT.
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July 17, 2015
High Performance Computing in Hydrology: ADHydro Model WorkshopIn conjunction with the 3rd CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics, the joint Utah/Wyoming NSF-EPSCoR funded CI-WATER project is holding a 1-day workshop aimed at establishing a user community for the new quasi-3D large watershed simulator ADHydro. The ADHydro model was developed from the beginning for operations on massively parallel computing hardware to efficiently simulate large managed watersheds. The model uses an unstructured mesh to allow high resolution where needed, and course resolution where not needed. The ADHydro workshop will cover the following topics:
- ADHydro features and formulation
- Input requirements
- Workflow and model setup
- Source code compilation and running ADHydro
- Input/output visualization using QGIS and Paraview
- Coupling and forcing with WRF output
Because of the 1-day duration of this workshop, some prerequisites are required:
Workshop participants must be experienced Linux users and will need a Linux laptop on which they will install ADHydro and several supporting packages for ADHydro.
- Experience with GIS tools is required, experience with QGIS is preferred.
- Experience with Paraview is preferred.
- Experience with the Charm++ HPC run time environment is preferred.
- Some experience with programming in either C, C++, or python is required.
User's will complete this one-day workshop with enough knowledge to install, set-up, and run ADHydro on a computing cluster.
Interested persons should contact Prof. Fred L. Ogden (fogden@uwyo.edu) with statement of interest. Please state your level of experience with the required and optional skills listed above. In addition to skill level, preference will be given to, in order of preference: (1) other members of the CI-WATER collaborative and water managers from Utah and Wyoming, (2) participants from EPSCoR jurisdictions, (3) staff of the National Water Center, and (4) other universities. Participants will receive instructions on pre-loading required software on their laptops before the meeting. Support will be available for this function through the Center for Computational Hydrology and Hydrosciences at the University of Wyoming.
Seating is limited to 12. No travel support is available. Attendance is free of charge.
ADHydro development is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, EPSCoR program through cooperative agreement 1135483 Collaborative Research: CI-WATER, Cyberinfrastructure to Advance High Performance Water Resource Modeling.