^ Iguazu Falls, taken from Argentina side.
Water news/education
- Maven's Notebook (aggregates selective water news by Chris Austin, she's awesome!)
- Aquafornia (similar to Maven's Notebook and previously maintained by Chris, now by Water Education Foundation)
- WaterWired (water research blog from Prof. Campena and portal site for additional links)
- Western US Weather Blog (good explanations for connecting atmospheric drivers with weather, by Daniel Swain)
- ModelMyWatershed (snappy web interface for watershed loading of nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediments; requires login)
Data sources (western USA focus)
- Sierra Nevada San Joaquin Hydrologic Observatory (data repository; UCM SNRI maintained)
- California Data Exchange Center (multiple agencies; DWR maintained)
- California Irrigation Management Information System (DWR maintained)
- National Water Information System (USGS)
- California Ground Water Quality (multiple agencies; SWRCB maintained)
- Weather Data- Mesowest (multiple institutions; University of Utah maintained)
- Global observed climate data (NOAA)
- National water quality data portal (multiple agencies)
Software
Software wish list
- R (stats, data processing, plotting, simple modeling; free)
- Python (hardware, general; free)
- Matlab (computation; proprietary)
- Maxima (solver; free)
- Zotero (referencing; free)
- Resilio Sync (+ Raspberry Pi, model B + external HD for personal file cloud synching/backup)
- Ninite (website for multi-installation of freeware programs)
- ImageJ (nifty image processing program; free)
- Agisoft Photoscan (structure from motion software; proprietary)
- MissionPlanner (UAS flight plan software; open source)
- Universal Ground Control Software (UAS flight plan software; proprietary)
- HEC-RAS (river hydraulics modeling; free)
- SMS (multi-dimensional surface water and constituent modeling system providing GUI interface for multiple models; proprietary)
- CE-QUAL-W2 (laterally-averaged, 2D-surface water and constituent modeling system; free)
- iRIC (river modeling software w/ GUI interface for multiple codes; free)
- Hydrus-1D (unsaturated groundwater flow and constituent modeling; free)
- PHREEQC (geochemistry modeling; free)
- ArcGIS (spatial processing software; proprietary)
Software wish list
- SWAT (watershed modeling w/ constituent modeling; common-use requires ArcGIS)
- Geotrellis (faster web-mapping integration & rendering)
Sensors (w/ experience)
Sensors wish list
- Nitrate (h2o): Satlantic ISUS, s::can Spectro::lyser
- Dissolved oxygen (h2o): PME MiniDot, YSI handheld optical probe
- Multiparameter sondes (h2o): Hydrolab MS5/DS5
- Water velocity: Sontek ADV/ADP
- Bathymetry (h2o): Valeport MIDAS echosounder
- Pressure/Level loggers (h2o): Hobo, Solinst
- Soil moisture & conductivity: Decagon TE line
- Temperature: Maxim/Thermochron iButtons, DTS systems (Sensornet Oryx, Silixa XT)
- Temperature/Light: Hobo Pendants
- CO2 (atm): CO2 Meter K-30
- Weather station (atm): Vaisala WXT 5xx, Davis
- Visible imagery: Sony A5100, MapIR
- Multispectral: Micasense RedEdge
- Hyperspectral: ASD FieldSpec
- Thermal imagery: ICI 8640P
Sensors wish list
- Wind speed (acoustic, 2D): Decagon DS2, LCJ Capteurs
- In-Situ multiparameter sondes (less drift in nitrate ISE measurements?!)
Software packages used
DIY boards, loggers, and PC building
- Arduino (low power microcontroller good for sensor data collection prototyping)
- Raspberry Pi (low power mini-PC capable of running Linux)
- Gumstix (more CPU power than Raspberry Pi, smaller community)
- Adafruit shop & blog (trove of supplies & info for projects)
- PC part picker (aggregates prices and part compatibility)
- EnviroDIY (budget Arduino-based logger and advice on environmental sensing)
- Blogs: Desert Home, The Cave Pearl Project, bunnie Huang
- Other interesting projects: Safecast (citizen science done well), Littlebits (educational), Chibitronics (educational)
- Campbell Scientific loggers (industry standard; reliable but pricey)
- Onset Hobo loggers (commercial, little cheaper)
- Nexsens (w/ telemetry and interfacing software; commercial & pricey)
Other links
- Postdoc advisors: Professors Scott Tyler and Sudeep Chandra
- PhD advisor's group (Professor Thomas C. Harmon)
- Previous labmate (Professor Sandra Villamizar)
- GitHub (testing for publication data reproduction and some multi-script projects)
- Labdoo (computer recycle, redistribute, & educational reuse, awesome idea and great implementation!)
