CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (CUAHSI-HIS)

The CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (CUAHSI-HIS) provides web services, tools, standards and procedures that enhance access to more and better data for hydrologic analysis. Click on the links below to access the various tools directly, or follow the side menu to learn about the CUAHSI-HIS system in more detail, as well as the research being conducted to advance Hydrologic Information Science and serve the community interested in sharing hydrologic data.

Data and Tools

Data Discovery	Data Access	Data Publication
HydroSeek • HIS Central DASH CUAHSI Water Data Services	WaterML Web Services • HydroExcel HydroGET • HydroLink FetchWaterML • HydroObjects	HIS Server ODM Databases • ODM Tools Data Loader • Streaming Data Loader Master CV Registry • HydroTagger CUAHSI Water Data Services

What's New

	Give HydroDesktop a Workout A testing version of HydroDesktop, CUAHSI HIS' new map-based client application for discovery, access and analysis of hydrologic data is ready for your input. We are looking for members of the community to help us review it and provide feedback. We encourage you to go to the HydroDesktop website, download the software and give it a workout. Let us know your thoughts about it using our feedback page. For more information, see the HydroDesktop page on this site.

	CUAHSI HIS 2009 Status Report Released The CUAHSI HIS Team has produced a 2009 Status Report that details the expansions and updates to the HIS System that have occured since the Version 1.1 Overview Report was released on July 12, 2008. Let us know your thoughts about it using our feedback page.

	We Need your Comments on Draft WaterML Documents These are draft documents that are currently in the review process and we invite the water community to help us review them and provide commentary. You can submit your comments using our feedback page. WaterML 1.0 — These draft documents are for the existing, published, version of WaterML. WaterML 1.0 Part 1: Overview WaterML 1.0 Printable Schema Documentation (Word 2007) (PDF) WaterML 1.1 — These draft documents are for a new, as yet unpublished, version of WaterML that is still evolving. WaterML 1.1 Part 1: Overview WaterML 1.1 Part 2: Change List WaterML 1.1 Printable Schema Documentation (Word 2007) (PDF)

	HydroExcel 1.1.2 for Office 2007 Released This latest version of HydroExcel features right-click menus and additional buttons to improve the workflow, the ability to save raw WaterML files to disk as XML files, and the display of some additional items available in WaterML such as variable speciation. [To Download]

	Hands-on Training! We had some great HIS Workshops Recent workshops include: May 27, 2009 - Texas HIS Workshop, held on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin June 4-5, 2009 - HIS Workshop, held on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont. View the flier, see the workshop web page, or contact the Vermont EPSCoR office at (802) 540-1044 or Kristen.Hallock@uvm.edu for more info.

	Free Cyberseminar: State and Regional Hydrologic Information Systems - Friday, May 15, 2009 Presented by: David R. Maidment, Director, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin David Tarboton, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University If you missed the cyberseminar or just want see it again, here is a recording of the cyberseminar and the presentation slides: Recorded Presentation (WRF file requires plug-in) Presentation Slides (5.5MB, 55 pages; PDF) More Info

	HIS in California - March 14, 2009 At the invitation of Mark Lubell, a professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, David Maidment spent today at UC Davis discussing CUASHI HIS and the potential for using the CUAHSI approach to build a water data services infrastructure for California. [More].

	Kansas HIS Workshop Held March 24th & 25th Dr. Tim Whiteaker of the HIS team presented a workshop to key personnel in state agencies and universities of Kansas, including faculty, research staff, students, technical experts, and geo/hydro data specialists... [More Info]

	Got Water Data? Come join the CUAHSI Water Data Federation! Publish your data with a CUAHSI-HIS Server and register it with the CUAHSI-HIS Central Web Service Registry. It will then be available in federated search engines just like NWIS and STORET... [More Info]

	Hope you saw HIS 1.1 at AGU We had demos and more at the CUAHSI booth at the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2008, in San Francisco, CA.

	HIS 1.1 Released HIS 1.1 was released at the CUAHSI Biennial Science and Engineering Meeting in Boulder on July 14-16... [More Info]