Advance Cyberinfrastructure Quickly transforms water science, but the community of users of water sciences and university programs have not followed this transformation.
To fill this gap, researcher at the University of Clemson Vidya Samadi Collaborate with researchers from the United States to launch Watersofthack, a free two-week virtual program for researchers and students.
“This initiative aims to cultivate a workforce that creates, uses and supports cyberinfrastructure and advanced tools to activate and potentially transform fundamental education and research into water sciences,” said Samadi, principal researcher of the project. “Our vision is to give access to Advanced cyberinfrastructure Cyber-training approaches and equipment for the Community of Water Sciences. »»
Watersofthack 2025 takes place from July 28 to August 8. The program aims to promote a collaborative academic environment encouraging exploration and innovation while increasing the competence and confidence of participants in the prototyping of cyberinfrastructure and the development of workflow.
Registration is open until March 31 for more information, visit Watersofthack 2025. A subsidy of National Sciences Foundation finances the program.
The subjects discussed the first week include data pre -treatment, self -regressive models and automatic learning. Practical workshops will allow participants to apply what they learned.
During the second week, participants will finish self -guided Capstone projects and will present their work on the last day of the program.
Samadi said that the program will increase the collaboration of water and engineering sciences and will create advanced educational tools and programs. This will also allow researchers and students to move from consumption to the creation of cyberinfrastructure technology.
Program Advantage to Students
Watersofthack was launched in 2024 with more than 160 participants, including 15 programaries from the program. He will continue until 2026.
Ethiopia Zeleke, candidate for the doctorate of sciences in the Florida systems department, was part of the inaugural class. His research focuses on the impact of water and climatic extremes on drought management and optimization of the drought signal tracing process between systems and sectors.
“Water professionals are currently facing massive amounts of data – more than we have ever had before, covering larger areas and longer periods,” said Zeleke. “Although it is incredible, it can also be overwhelming. This is where the skills taught in this program become precious. Instead of buried in data processing, we have learned to create rationalized workflows that prevent us from collecting data to create significant visualizations.
“The Watersofthack training gave us advanced skills and showed us how to tackle the complex problems of water in a way that is both structured and reproducible.”
Collaboration promotes innovation
In addition to the Samadi, other researchers involved in this project include the professor of Clemson Engineering and Science Education Matthew BoyerClemson Krishna Panthi graduate student, professors at the University of Iowa Ibrahim Demir and Bijaya Adhikari, a graduate student from the University of Iowa Carlos Ramirez, and universities consortium for the advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (Cuahsi) Senior research hydrologist Anthony Castronova.
Demir and Adhikari declared that this collaboration improves the learning experiences of participants by providing different expertise and perspectives in hydroinformatics and artificial intelligence.
“This inter-institutional synergy provides access to a wider range of resources and interdisciplinary experience, encouraging exploration and innovation in research on water sciences and engineering,” said Demir . “Working with Project Leadya Samadi provides expert advice and university leadership on the initiative, ensuring high -quality training and impactful research results.”
Participants in the program develop essential skills adapted to research in water sciences.
“Participants improve their innovation capacities and their career prospects while contributing to sustainable aquatic practices,” said Adhikari. “This program offers a networking and community engagement platform, connecting participants to peers and professionals and promoting a community of practice focused on advanced cyberinfrastructure in water science.”
Last year’s inaugural class training videos are available on YouTube.
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