Project and Water News
RM URISA Scholarship 2012
The Rocky Mountain chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (RM-URISA) is sponsoring a financial award for students using GIS in their studies. Any undergraduate or graduate student attending school in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah or Wyoming is eligible to apply. Deadline September 7, 2012
More Information...August 13, 2012
Watch "Green River: Divided Waters"
Aug 14, 2012 - Whitewater adventure, environmental cause, or relief for the thirsty West? Watch "Green River:Divided Waters" 7:00 PM Aug 14, 2012 on Wyoming PBS.
More Information...July 27, 2012
New Hydroinformatics Course for Fall 2012
This course is being offered Tuesday & Thursday 3:00 – 4:15 PM at USU with the possibility of being offered simulatiously at the other CI-WATER partner campuses: U of U, BYU and the UWYO. Hydroinformatics is the study, design, development, and deployment of hardware and software systems for hydrologic data collection, distribution, interpretation, and analysis to aid in the understanding and management of water in the natural and built environment. This class will introduce students to fundamental and advanced hydroinformatics concepts and procedures including automated data collection networks, relational databases and data management software, metadata and semantics, data storage file formats and standards, data transformations and automation of data manipulation tasks to support modeling and analysis, web based data distribution and access using web services, and integrated networks of hydro-climate data.
More Information...July 25, 2012
NSF Workshop - "Science: Becoming the Messenger"
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be holding a workshop, "Science: Becoming the Messenger" on August 22, 2012, at the Salt Lake City Marriott City Center, 220 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. We are extending an invitation to principal investigators (PI), early career researchers and engineers, graduate students and postdocs from institutions and universities in Utah who would like to learn to communicate effectively to a broad audience.
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