Project and Water News

Want to “see” water levels? CI-WATER has added the Water Level Mapper to our website. The app displays statewide maps of the depth to groundwater for the state of Texas for the years of 1980 to 2012. The maps can be animated to see how depth to water changes over time. Additionally, users can click on any location in the state to generate a time series plot of the depth to groundwater for that location.

On Wednesday, September 11^th, and Thursday, September 13^th, CI-WATER partner Wyoming EPSCoR, hosted the National Science Foundation’s workshop “Science: Becoming the Messenger.” The workshop was a great success, with participants gaining new information on social media, interviews, and more. 

Elizabeth Traver, Fred Ogden and Steve Holbrook perfecting their presentations.

CI-WATER partner, Wyoming EPSCoR, is hosting the National Science Foundation’s workshop “Science: Becoming the Messenger” on September 11th and 12th.

The purpose of this workshop is to help scientists connect to audiences and communicate complicated research effectively.

Sometimes, one positive experience is all it takes to decide on a future career path. For several high school and college students, the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the University of Wyoming (UWY) was that experience.

The CI-WATER event, which ran through July and August, has UWY student Noll Roberts contemplating a change of major. “I’m switching to Mathematics,” he says.

Jingyu Li, a Laramie High School senior, says “I’m not entirely sure what I want to do yet, but probably computer science and math.”

This year’s REU focused on computer modeling, coding and hydrology.  For a month, Jingyu and Troy Axthelm, a University of Wyoming senior, collaborated on modeling the shading for a particular plot of land.

Like other program participants, they didn’t stop just because the summer is over.

“We’re going to keep working on it so that it can work with the high performance computer and be efficient,” says Troy.