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Behind the Data: 5 Questions with the St. Albans Water Team
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How Jefferson County Builds Its Future-Ready Workforce
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4 Steps to Drive Adoption and Success with Your Aquatic Informatics Software
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Water Quality
How a Self-Proclaimed “Data Nerd” Manages over 100 Databases for Jacobs Solutions
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Water Quality
How Partnership Unlocked Pinellas County’s True Potential
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Hydrology
The Fracking Truth About Hydraulic Fracturing
Read about differing opinions about the hydraulic fracturing "fracking" technique used for shale gas extraction.
Hydrology
The Other Extreme : the Measurement of Water Flow
Most conversations about extreme measurements focus on flood flow. However, I recently had a conversation with Emily Huxter about her…
Hydrology
A Hydrologist’s Holiday
A 3-day hike in July on the Wapta Icefield in the Canadian Rockies with my son took us up the Bow Glacier, briefly onto the...
Hydrology
The Weaponization of Water Data
Every change in the expected pattern of variability of water supply and quality poses a threat to the security of the water, food and energy...
Hydrology
How to Get Better Flow Measurements Using the Rising Bubble Method
One objective of the Hydrology Corner is to provide a forum where hydrometric problems can be discussed and clever solutions to those problems can be...
Hydrology
Data Rounding and Why You Should Care
To understand why modern data management systems store data to double precision we must consider the distinction between storing and reporting of data.
Hydrology
Extreme Gauging – How to Extend Rating Curves With Confidence
Extreme flows are extremely hard to gauge, hence we get very few gaugings to accurately define the top-end of stage-discharge rating curves. This is a...
Hydrology
Drones – Providing a New Perspective on Hydrometry
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) also known as drones, can be used for Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry to provide cross-sectional hydrometry info.
Hydrology
Stage-Discharge Rating Curves – Geophysics or Religion?
Almost everything we know about our global freshwater resources is due to the humble stage-discharge rating curve. The vast majority of all flow data ever...
Hydrology
Messy Rivers are Healthy Rivers
Dr. Ellen Wohl provoked the audience to give thought to how we evaluate river health in her keynote address to the Riverflow 2016 Conference in...
Hydrology
USGS Goes Live With AQUARIUS Time-Series Software
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has replaced its custom, in-house developed, Automated Data Processing System (ADAPS) originally designed in 1985 with the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)...
Hydrology
Hydrometry & Hydrology – The Next Generation
At Aquatic Informatics, we are encouraged to take an active role in the community and so I was quick to agree when I was recently...
Hydrology
How Good Is Good Enough?
The New Zealand Hydrological Society hosted an ADCP flow regatta as part of the Technical Workshop in Dunedin from April 3-6. The field event followed...
Business
Reality by the Numbers – What the Spreadsheet Has Done to Us
There is a hidden cost behind the reliance on spreadsheets that is invisible to those who are dependent on them. Most people use spreadsheets for...
Hydrology
When Experience Matters: Stream Gauging at the Limits of Technology
The North American Stream Hydrographers (NASH) hosted a Q competition at the Alberta Irrigation Technology Center (AITC) in Lethbridge, Alberta on June 8th. However, this...
Water Quality
The Need for Better Monitoring to Protect Canada’s Freshwater Resources
Canada has an abundance of freshwater. Our belief in this abundance is deeply embedded in our culture, so much so, that a recent survey shows...
Business
The Differences of Backflow Prevention Protection in Warm and Cold Climates
Backflow devices are found throughout the United States to protect our drinking water from contamination. They’re found in sunny Florida…
Hydrology
The Quest for Alpha
Learn about the importance of the value of alpha, how it varies for your own sites, and how predictable it is.
Business
Why Does the Role of the Hydrographer in Rating Curve Development Even Need an Explanation?
I am very happy to announce that the paper: The Role of the Hydrographer in Rating Curve Development has now been published in Confluence: Journal...
Water Quality
Simple Steps For Mitigating Cybersecurity Risk
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Wastewater
3 Dispatching Challenges You Can Overcome with Cloud
Mistakes happen – between data errors, misplacements, and duplicates, there are many human discrepancies that can impact daily rounds and reporting—then trickling down to affect...
Wastewater
3 City’s Tips to Improving Water Quality & Saving Money
Dive into tips that reduce costs, save time & ensure compliance, featuring case studies from Boulder, CO; Columbia, SC; and Salem, OR
Wastewater
Facility Data Management with WIMS or Rio
Centralizing your data management to ensure compliance, streamline operations, and automate workflow with Rio and Hach WIMS software
Hydrology
Centralizing Data to Protect the Chesapeake Bay
Centralizing data, Scientists at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory use an online platform to manage, host and workup data.
Business
Aquatic Informatics Announced BC’s Top Employer for Third Year
Click here to learn why Aquatic Informatics, a mission-driven software company, is one of BC's Top Employers for the third year.
Hydrology
Predictive Analytics in Water Monitoring
Guest Blog: Program Manager Erin Lim explains the top benefits of leveraging predictive analytics in your water monitoring program
Wastewater
Overcoming Utility Workforce Challenges with Software
Learn more about how to overcome utility workforce challenges by leveraging modern compliance & operations software.
Water Quality
7 Ways to Quality Control Environmental Data
Learn about the 7 New Ways to Quality Control Environmental Data Such as Wind & Water in Real-Time
Wastewater
5 Ways Rio Software Has Improved Penn Yan Facility’s Operations
Learn about the 5 Ways Rio has Improved Penn Yan Facility's Operations & Compliance.
Hydrology
Best Practice Approach to Stage-Discharge Rating Curve Development
Discover best practices to developing stage-discharge rating curves.
Hydrology
Aquarius HydroCorrect FAQ: Answered by Aquarius Product Manager
Read our full blog for answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Aquarius HydroCorrect, answered by Aquarius Product Manager Symone Kumar.
Hydrology
How to Monitor and Manage Groundwater
Get the full interview between Nicole Nally and H2O Global discussing how Aquarius can help solve groundwater monitoring challenges.
Water Quality
WIMS Rio Frequent Questions:
WIMS Rio Frequently asked questions answered by Aquatic Informatics Technical Sales Engineer Tyrone Yan.
Hydrology
Introducing the Rating Review Tool:
Introducing the Rating Review Tool: a new step forward for raving curve reviews replacing RDT.
Wastewater
Hach WIMS Frequent Questions:
Hach WIMS Frequently asked questions answered by Aquatic Informatics Product Manager Kevin Koshko.
Water Quality
Hach WIMS Frequent Questions:
Hach WIMS Frequently asked questions answered by Aquatic Informatics Technical Sales Engineer Tyrone Yan.
Wastewater
Inframark’s Data Management Strategy: Optimizing Regional Data with Hach WIMS
Discover how Hach WIMS customer Inframark leverages the software to standardize and optimize their operations.
Wastewater
How Utilities Can Simplify Sample Management and Reporting with Hach WIMS Platform
Discover the tops benefits of implementing Rio Sample Manager, a Rio tool designed to help your team manage, schedule, and track samples with ease.