Type: Presentations
Categories: Educational Materials
The objectives of this workshop are to provide participants increased understanding of water-related metadata and application of water metadata tools. This workshop will offer a short introduction to metadata and why metadata are important, followed by an in-depth conversation and hands-on exercises on water-related metadata. This workshop is a partnership among the Internet of Water (IoW), Water Data Exchange (WaDE) of the Western Water States Council, and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI).
Type: Presentations
Categories: Educational Materials
The objectives of this workshop are to provide participants increased understanding of water-related metadata and application of water metadata tools. This workshop will offer a short introduction to metadata and why metadata are important, followed by an in-depth conversation and hands-on exercises on water-related metadata. This workshop is a partnership among the Internet of Water (IoW), Water Data Exchange (WaDE) of the Western Water States Council, and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI).
Type: Presentations
Categories: Educational Materials
Interested to learn more about the IoW P2P Network? What is it? How can you get involved? And why it is important that you do!
The IoW Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Network is a community of practice designed to connect members from across the nation who are working on modernizing their agency’s water data infrastructure. Active employees of state, local, or tribal government agencies, along with employees of water utilities and river basin commissions are invited to participate!
Type: Presentations
Categories: Educational Materials
As we learn more about the potential of wastewater surveillance for early warning of COVID, many states are grappling with how to transform their current water data infrastructure to ensure effective and efficient data management around wastewater surveillance. In this webinar, participants will hear about the efforts of partners from California, New York, and Utah, their challenges, lessons learned, and successes. This is the first in what we hope to be a series of conversations about wastewater surveillance data management.
Type: Presentations
Categories: Educational Materials
In the aftermath of recent droughts in North Carolina, including the exceptional drought of 2007-08, decision makers across the state have articulated their needs for information and communications that enhance and improve upon existing resources. In this webinar, Rebecca Ward from the NC State Climate Office will share important information and lessons learned from Project Nighthawk.
Type: Documents
Categories: Educational Materials
This guidance document is intended to help pilots, hubs, and data producers evaluate their efforts to promote water data. The guidance is designed to create frameworks for evaluation and develop assessment metrics. The guidance targets different stages of effort (e.g., stakeholder outreach, pilot design, and output evaluation, among others).
Type: Documents
Categories: Educational Materials
The IoW team has developed the following guide to various types of agreements for use between federal and state agencies and data organizations. Ideally, emerging IoW hubs will be able to use this text as a guide for navigating the task of developing such agreements with partner agencies and organizations.
Type: Documents
Categories: Educational Materials
A table of different funding opportunities with their various specifications.
Type: Documents
Categories: Educational Materials
This action plan outline is designed to support integrated water data by building trust between
community science and governmental organizations. The goal of this action plan is to build examples
where both government agencies and community science organizations are highly engaged with one
another to create coordinated impact, leveraging their unique capacities.
Type: Blogs
Categories: Blog
We find ourselves – at a personal, organizational, and cultural level – asking ourselves how did we get here? And, where are we going? These are important, shaping questions that I hope we can all pause and ponder for ourselves.