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Good data lead to good outcomes! Buenos datos conducen a buenos resultados!

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Hydrological Monitoring, hydrological data, hydrological methods, hydrology, hydrology blog, hydrology corner, water data, Monitoring

Is heli-gauging a game changer?

Environmental

World Water Day 2013 - Hydrological Monitoring, hydrological data, hydrological methods, hydrology, hydrology blog, hydrology corner, water data, Monitoring

World Water Day 2013 – Part 2: What is your water footprint?

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World Water Day 2013 - Hydrological Monitoring, hydrological data, hydrological methods, hydrology, hydrology blog, hydrology corner, water data, Monitoring

World Water Day 2013: What is your water footprint?

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Bomb Proofing our Stream Gauges – Vandalism & Hydrological Monitoring

By Stu Hamilton  |  November 8th, 2012  |  Environmental,  Featured Posts  |  2

Wow. What next? Northwest Cable News reports that a homemade bomb was used to completely obliterate a USGS gauge on the White River. The gauge is so critical for flood protection that USGS technicians replaced it within a matter of hours. I had thought I had seen the ultimate in gauge vandalism when I was in El Paso, where a cableway across the Rio Grande River was missing the right bank A-Frame because it had been stolen by vandals. Even the orifice lines needed to be imbedded in concrete to prevent damage by vandals at this location. I used to … Read More

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Mitigating Risk for Risk Mitigation: What L’Aquila Means for Water Monitoring

By Stu Hamilton  |  October 25th, 2012  |  Environmental,  Featured Posts  |  0

On October 22, 2012, six Italian scientists and a government official were sentenced to 6 years in jail, given lifetime bans on holding public office, and ordered to pay compensation of €7.8m in connection with the

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Meta-monitoring – Exploiting the Increasing Self-Awareness of Smart Sensors

By Stu Hamilton  |  October 1st, 2012  |  Environmental,  Featured Posts  |  0

Dave Gunderson, a frequent contributor to this blog, has been active in designing his monitoring program to be highly self-aware. Achieving this requires quite a high level of customization and programming of the field hardware and a fairly high bandwidth of communication. This is in stark contrast to many monitoring programs where highly sophisticated hardware and software has replaced a simple float and pulley system connected to a clock-driven chart recorder with no net change in the information collected, communicated and processed. We used to be limited by our technology to a single value per time-stamp from our sensing device. … Read More

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A Rising Tide Floats All Boats – USGS ADAPS Replacement

By Stu Hamilton  |  September 27th, 2012  |  Environmental,  Featured Posts  |  0

After a very lengthy and rigorous process the USGS has selected AQUARIUS as the platform for replacement of its aging Automated Data Processing System (ADAPS). Obviously, this is very good news for Aquatic Informatics, but I would like to speak to why I believe the decision of the USGS to choose a commercial solution, rather than re-build in-house, is very good news for global hydrometry. It should be no surprise to readers of this blog that I am a big fan of the USGS. There is no comparable agency in the world in terms of developing and sharing the best … Read More

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The USGS Selects Aquatic Informatics – Stay Tuned for More Innovation

By Ed Quilty  |  September 26th, 2012  |  Business,  Featured Posts  |  0

Ed Quilty, President & CEO – Aquatic Informatics and Robert Mason, Acting Chief – US Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Surface Water at the USGS National Data Conference in Portland, Oregon I’m writing this blog from the USGS National Data Conference in Portland, Oregon, where yesterday the USGS announced that AQUARIUS has been selected as the commercial replacement for the existing Automated Data Processing System (ADAPS),  the core software within the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) used to process, compute, validate, correct, display and otherwise store time series data. To say we are deeply honored to have this great responsibility bestowed upon … Read More

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