Project and Water News

Through January 31, abstracts for papers to be presented at the 82^nd Annual Western Snow Conference can be submitted online. The Western Snow Conference will be held in Durango, Colorado April 14–17.

The organization aims to advance snow and hydrologic science while providing a forum for sharing scientific, management and socio-political information on snow and runoff.

iUTAH, a Utah EPSCoR project focusing on water sustainability in Utah, is accepting applications for its summer research program, iFellows. Undergraduates in any Utah higher education program are eligible to apply for the opportunity to work with researchers on the innovative Urban Transitions and Aridregion Hydro-sustainability (iUTAH) project.

Applications are due February 3, 2014.

For Bob Steinke and the rest of the CI-WATER researchers working on ADHydro, their hard work and dedication has paid off with the completion of the model.

“We have the code running, with groundwater, surface water infiltration and channels, rivers, and lakes,” says Bob Steinke, a software engineer at the University of Wyoming. “It’s running, it’s not crashing, and we get results out.”

ADHydro is a new hydrology model that will allow researchers in the field to better understand water processes, including how fast water soaks through the soil, how fast water flows over land and more. Now that ADHydro is running, researchers will continue to work on the model and build on it, making it faster and more powerful.

“The next step is really performance improvement,” says Bob.  “We get results out, but now we have to make sure those results are right.”

For the whole team working on ADHydro, getting it up and running is a huge success.

“We’re happy with our progress,” Bob says. 

With Christmas just around the corner, here’s a list of fun, water science gifts for every age group on your shopping list!

For kids ages 5 and up, check out Stepping Into Science. With 22 different experiments, kids will learn all kinds of science!

Children 8 and up will love these Green Science Kits. The Clean Water Science kit would be perfect for a future hydrologist!

Jr. High and High School students would enjoy this 300 piece Hydrodynamic Deluxe Set! Kids can engineer structures, build scale models of water treatment plants and so much more.

And for the adult water scientist on your list, how about Thirst by Steven Mithen or Drinking Water by James Salzman? Both books are about human’s relationship with water and would make great Christmas break reading!

Happy Holidays from CI-WATER!