[Geog_Jobs] Webinar on the new National Water Model and Summer Institute for grad students

[Sinha, Gaurav]

A free webinar on the National Water Model has been added to the UCGIS schedule for Wednesday March 9, 2016, at 3pm EST (noon PST).   David Maidment from UT Austin and Shaowen Wang from UIUC will be co-presenting. In addition to sharing details about their research efforts with the National Water Model and the associated Cyber-GIS supported activities, they will also be highlighting the opportunity for graduate students to apply for the 7-week-long CUAHSI 2016 Summer Institute<https://www.cuahsi.org/summerinstitute>.  The application deadline for the Summer Institute is Tuesday March 15.

Click HERE<https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1613773380170325250> to register for this (free for everyone) webinar. The webinar will be recorded and can be accessed later. Info on all other UCGIS Webinars is here<http://ucgis.org/webinars>.






A National Water Model of the United States will begin operations in June 2016 at a new National Water Center<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/nwc/> opened by the National Weather Service in Tuscaloosa, AL. Using this model the National Weather Service will continually forecast flow on about 2.7 million stream reaches of the NHDPlus geospatial dataset of stream hydrography covering the continental United States as a single stream and river network.
The academic community, coordinated through the Consortium of Universities for Hydrologic Science, Inc., (CUAHSI<https://www.cuahsi.org/>), is collaborating with the National Weather Service to conduct a seven-week Summer Institute at the National Water Center in June-July 2016 to allow graduate students to conduct research and carry out group projects advancing the application of the National Water Model. In particular, a national-scale experiment is being carried out at the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at the University of Illinois to analyze the land surface terrain around the stream network to characterize the 3D stream channel morphology thus enabling the conversion of flow forecasts into forecasts of water surface elevation and flood inundation at the continental scale.
UCGIS and CUAHSI are together supporting the engagement of their respective communities in this experiment and in the2016 Summer Institute<https://www.cuahsi.org/summerinstitute> for which the call for student applications is now open.  This webinar will provide background concerning the National Water Model, the 2016 Summer Institute, and the continental-scale stream channel morphology experiment enabled by cutting-edge cyberGIS capabilities and research.


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