Jerad Bales
CUAHSI | Executive Director
| Subject Areas: | Hydrology, hydrologic modeling, data analysis |
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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) Texas Advanced Computing Center’s (TACC) Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC) STEM Evaluation Services was funded by NSF to design and conduct an external evaluation and technical review of HydroShare’s user experience. Beginning in March 2021, EPIC used a mixed methods approach to assess users’ perceptions of and experience with HydroShare’s core services and features, the system’s effectiveness and resulting outcomes and impact, challenges and technical issues experienced, and recommendations for strengthening the system and its accessibility.
The primary questions addressed through the HydroShare user experience evaluation are as follows:
1. Who is using HydroShare? For what research or work are they using HydroShare?
2. What are users’ perceptions of and experience with HydroShare services and features?
3. What outcomes and impact has HydroShare had on users’ research and the broader community?
4. What challenges and/or technical issues do users experience when using HydroShare?
5. How accessible is the system for individuals with special needs?
6. What are recommendations to strengthen the accessibility and effectiveness of HydroShare
services, features, resources, and supports?
This report summarizes findings and recommendations from the technical review and external evaluation of HydroShare’s user experience using data collected from April-November 2021, including
usage data, user surveys, user interviews, stakeholder interviews, and user micro-surveys.
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This resource contains training material for a September 20, 2021 session offered to participants from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and UNESCO. The following skills were taught:
1. Create a CUAHSI HydroShare account at https://www.hydroshare.org/home/.
2. Find the Mozambique and Zimbabwe HydroShare Groups.
3. Add resources to the group.
4. Properly annotate the resource.
5. Set sharing permissions.
In addition, the BuPuSa Community, which contains the two groups, was demonstrated. Training materials were provided to participants.
ABSTRACT:
This document intends to provide context on norms within the hydrologic science community to provide a framework for understanding what research products and processes are valued by the academic hydrologic sciences community. This will better inform those charged with review and assessment of hydrologic scientists, enabling consideration of traditional as well as new types of contributions to advancing the field of hydrologic sciences. This document does not include other areas of academic contributions including teaching, service, and outreach. The document should be of use to those applying to academic positions, promotions, and tenure; external evaluators and reviewers; review committees and senior faculty; academic and professional leaders; and funding agencies.
This statement was primarily authored by Alejandro Flores, Anne Jefferson, Steve Loheide, Jeanne VanBriesen, and Adam Ward and was approved by a vote of the CUAHSI Board of Directors on April 19, 2021, with all directors, officers, and the CUAHSI executive director concurring.
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This is a presentation given on November 17, 2020 at the virtual workshop "That's so meta" co-hosted by IoW, CUAHSI, and WaDE. The presentation describes CUAHSI Water Data Services, including metada and compute. Class exercises also are provided, as well as links to various CUAHSI resources.
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This resource contains presentations given by CUASHI staff at a variety of venues in 2020 and 2021.
1. Bales, J.D. 2020. CUAHSI Membership Meeting, December 1, 2020.
2. Bales, J.D. 2020. 2020-05 CUAHSI Online Education Resources: This presentation was given to the UNESCO IHP on CUAHSI's resources that can help facilitate and enable online education.
3. Bales, J.D. 2020. 2020-05 ESIP Technology Webinar-Bales, Horsburgh, and Castronova: CUAHSI Community and Water Data Services: This presentation was given at an ESIP (Earth Science Information Program) with an emphasis on CUAHSI's Hydrologic Informatrion System, HydroShare, and CUAHSI Compute Resources.
4. Bales, J.D. 2020. What can you do with CUAHSI HydroShare? Presentation to UNESCO International Hydrological Programme meeting on southern Africa water issues. June 5, 2020.
5. Bales, J.D. 2020. CUAHSI Community and Water Data Services. Presentation to Soil Moisture Working Group. September 22, 2020.
6. Bales, J.D. 2020. The Critical Zone Collaborative Network Hub: Enabling, Supporting, and Communicating CZ Science. Early Career Critical Zone Working Group webinar, October 30, 2020.
7. Bales, J.D. 2020. CUAHSI Services for the Water-Education Community. NAGT – CUAHSI Webinar, November 5, 2020.
8. Bales, J.D. 2020. Agency Update: Supporting Federal Water Programs. Interagency Conference on Research in the Watershed, November 17, 2020.
9. Bales, J.D. 2021. CUAHSI: Reproducible Science, Education, Community. NASA SWOT Early Adopters Workshop, March 8, 2021. This presentation describes some of CUAHSI's capabilities for data archival and reproducible science. The presentation links to a SWOT app hosted by HydroShare for creation of synthetic SWOT discharges.
10. Bales, J.D. 2021. Global Water Futures’ Core Modelling and Forecasting Team Webinar--Collaborative and Reproducible Hydrologic Modeling.
11. Bales, J.D. 2022. Global Water Futures 2022 Annual Open Science Meeting: The Value of Open and Reproducible Data and Workflows in Water Prediction.
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ABSTRACT:
This Resource contains material for the CUAHSI portion of the November 3, 2019 CUAHSI - IoW - WaDE workshop held in conjunction with the AWRA National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT.
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This resource includes documents, data, and guidance for HydroShare and used in the 2019 Mekong River Research Conference and contains the following files:
1. CUAHSI time-series uploading guide (for data.cuahsi.org, but also can be used for HydroShare)
2. CUAHSI time-series formatting guide (for data.cuahsi.org, but also can be used for HydroShare)
3. Help for describing data and models in HydroShare
4. Workshop presentation.
5. Advanced time-series metadata template (for data.cuahsi.org, but also can be used for HydroShare)
6. Standard time-series metadata template (for data.cuahsi.org, but also can be used for HydroShare)
7. Steps for discovering Hurricane Harvey collection in hydroshare.org
8. Example data management plan.
ABSTRACT:
This resource contains presentations given by CUASHI staff at a variety of venues in 2020 and 2021.
1. Bales, J.D. 2020. CUAHSI Membership Meeting, December 1, 2020.
2. Bales, J.D. 2020. 2020-05 CUAHSI Online Education Resources: This presentation was given to the UNESCO IHP on CUAHSI's resources that can help facilitate and enable online education.
3. Bales, J.D. 2020. 2020-05 ESIP Technology Webinar-Bales, Horsburgh, and Castronova: CUAHSI Community and Water Data Services: This presentation was given at an ESIP (Earth Science Information Program) with an emphasis on CUAHSI's Hydrologic Informatrion System, HydroShare, and CUAHSI Compute Resources.
4. Bales, J.D. 2020. What can you do with CUAHSI HydroShare? Presentation to UNESCO International Hydrological Programme meeting on southern Africa water issues. June 5, 2020.
5. Bales, J.D. 2020. CUAHSI Community and Water Data Services. Presentation to Soil Moisture Working Group. September 22, 2020.
6. Bales, J.D. 2020. The Critical Zone Collaborative Network Hub: Enabling, Supporting, and Communicating CZ Science. Early Career Critical Zone Working Group webinar, October 30, 2020.
7. Bales, J.D. 2020. CUAHSI Services for the Water-Education Community. NAGT – CUAHSI Webinar, November 5, 2020.
8. Bales, J.D. 2020. Agency Update: Supporting Federal Water Programs. Interagency Conference on Research in the Watershed, November 17, 2020.
9. Bales, J.D. 2021. CUAHSI: Reproducible Science, Education, Community. NASA SWOT Early Adopters Workshop, March 8, 2021. This presentation describes some of CUAHSI's capabilities for data archival and reproducible science. The presentation links to a SWOT app hosted by HydroShare for creation of synthetic SWOT discharges.
10. Bales, J.D. 2021. Global Water Futures’ Core Modelling and Forecasting Team Webinar--Collaborative and Reproducible Hydrologic Modeling.
11. Bales, J.D. 2022. Global Water Futures 2022 Annual Open Science Meeting: The Value of Open and Reproducible Data and Workflows in Water Prediction.
Created: Nov. 15, 2020, 4:22 p.m.
Authors: Bales, Jerad
ABSTRACT:
This is a presentation given on November 17, 2020 at the virtual workshop "That's so meta" co-hosted by IoW, CUAHSI, and WaDE. The presentation describes CUAHSI Water Data Services, including metada and compute. Class exercises also are provided, as well as links to various CUAHSI resources.
Created: May 4, 2021, 4:13 p.m.
Authors: Bales, Jerad
ABSTRACT:
This document intends to provide context on norms within the hydrologic science community to provide a framework for understanding what research products and processes are valued by the academic hydrologic sciences community. This will better inform those charged with review and assessment of hydrologic scientists, enabling consideration of traditional as well as new types of contributions to advancing the field of hydrologic sciences. This document does not include other areas of academic contributions including teaching, service, and outreach. The document should be of use to those applying to academic positions, promotions, and tenure; external evaluators and reviewers; review committees and senior faculty; academic and professional leaders; and funding agencies.
This statement was primarily authored by Alejandro Flores, Anne Jefferson, Steve Loheide, Jeanne VanBriesen, and Adam Ward and was approved by a vote of the CUAHSI Board of Directors on April 19, 2021, with all directors, officers, and the CUAHSI executive director concurring.
ABSTRACT:
This resource contains training material for a September 20, 2021 session offered to participants from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and UNESCO. The following skills were taught:
1. Create a CUAHSI HydroShare account at https://www.hydroshare.org/home/.
2. Find the Mozambique and Zimbabwe HydroShare Groups.
3. Add resources to the group.
4. Properly annotate the resource.
5. Set sharing permissions.
In addition, the BuPuSa Community, which contains the two groups, was demonstrated. Training materials were provided to participants.
ABSTRACT:
The University of Texas at Austin (UT) Texas Advanced Computing Center’s (TACC) Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC) STEM Evaluation Services was funded by NSF to design and conduct an external evaluation and technical review of HydroShare’s user experience. Beginning in March 2021, EPIC used a mixed methods approach to assess users’ perceptions of and experience with HydroShare’s core services and features, the system’s effectiveness and resulting outcomes and impact, challenges and technical issues experienced, and recommendations for strengthening the system and its accessibility.
The primary questions addressed through the HydroShare user experience evaluation are as follows:
1. Who is using HydroShare? For what research or work are they using HydroShare?
2. What are users’ perceptions of and experience with HydroShare services and features?
3. What outcomes and impact has HydroShare had on users’ research and the broader community?
4. What challenges and/or technical issues do users experience when using HydroShare?
5. How accessible is the system for individuals with special needs?
6. What are recommendations to strengthen the accessibility and effectiveness of HydroShare
services, features, resources, and supports?
This report summarizes findings and recommendations from the technical review and external evaluation of HydroShare’s user experience using data collected from April-November 2021, including
usage data, user surveys, user interviews, stakeholder interviews, and user micro-surveys.