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Join us next week for CUAHSI’s Spring Virtual Open House on June 24, 2026

Join us to connect with CUAHSI staff, hear updates on upcoming plans, and learn where there's room to get more involved or share your perspectives.

When: June 24 | 12 - 2:00 pm ET
Where: Virtual. Register to attend!

Why Attend:
The Virtual Open House is one way we’re creating a dedicated space for conversation, helping us make sure CUAHSI continues to meet the community's evolving needs. We'll share plans that are in motion, as well as topics that are still taking shape with room for community input to help guide direction.

The full agenda, link to register, and most up to date information can be viewed on our website -
https://www.cuahsi.org/events/cuahsi-virtual-open-house-2

2026 Near-Surface Geophysics Community Input Workshop.

August 25, 8:30AM - August 26, 12:00PM MDT
Albuquerque, NM (in-person only)

Apply to attend here by Monday June 22, 2026

CUAHSI is collaborating on a two-day workshop that will bring together a broad cross-section of the near-surface geophysics community to strengthen relationships, assess gaps and coordination opportunities across the field, and produce a community-informed Workshop Report to guide future capabilities, investments, and activities in research and education.

This event is sponsored by the NSF National Geophysical Facility (NSF NGF, operated by EarthScope) and planning is being done jointly by multiple organizations involved in near-surface geophysics (NSF NGF, CTEMPs, CUAHSI, NHERI, OpenTopography, and AGU Near-surface Geophysics Section). The workshop will build on previous efforts.

Attendees & Travel Support
Workshop attendance will be determined by application. Attendees must be US citizens, US residents, or at a US-based institution. The target audience is college/university faculty and other professionals involved in Earth and environmental science and engineering. Late-stage PhD students will also be considered.

All accepted attendees are eligible for travel support in the form of hotel accommodations and a domestic plane flight.

For full details and to apply, visit the workshop registration page. Questions? Contact [email protected].
https://events.ringcentral.com/events/near-surface-geophysics-community-input-workshop/registration

A new open hydrology textbook is in the works and CUAHSI is helping make it last.

Backed by a VIVA Open Education grant, a team led by co-editors JP Gannon (Virginia Tech), Dom Ciruzzi (William & Mary), and Christa Kelleher (Lafayette College) is writing a purpose-built, openly licensed textbook for introductory college hydrology courses. Ten chapter authors from across the country, a librarian project manager, and an instructional designer round out the team, and ten institutions have already committed to adopting the book.

The project targets a gap the editors identified in a study of 43 introductory hydrology syllabi, recently published in Water Resources Research. Syllabi from this study will inform the chapters and topics addressed in the book. Specifically, authors are excited to include material on modern topics like human impacts on the water cycle, climate change, and watershed modeling, in addition to more classic hydrology topics.

CUAHSI will host an interactive HTML version of the book and its source code at no charge, ensuring free, durable access alongside the Pressbooks, PDF, EPUB, and print editions distributed through VIVA Publishing and/or Virginia Tech Press.

Writing begins at a Virginia Tech workshop in summer 2026, with classroom piloting in spring 2027 and publication targeted for fall 2027. The team is hopeful this will be a useful resource for the community that will save students money.

Stay in the loop or pitch in: sign up for updates and/or tell us about hydrology data, images, or real-world examples you'd share for the book by filling out this short form.

Hosting of this textbook is supported through CUAHSI’s Open Learning initiatives. Learn more about our Open Learning Initiatives during our Virtual Open House on June 24th!

Introductory Hydrology Textbook Interest Form Thank you for your interest in our upcoming Introductory Hydrology textbook! Please fill out this form to stay updated and explore potential collaboration opportunities.

Join us for CUAHSI’s Spring Virtual Open House on June 24, 2026

Join us to connect with CUAHSI staff, hear updates on upcoming plans, and learn where there's room to get more involved or share your perspectives.

When: June 24 | 12 - 2:00 pm ET
Where: Virtual. Register to attend!

Why Attend:
The Virtual Open House is one way we’re creating a dedicated space for conversation, helping us make sure CUAHSI continues to meet the community's evolving needs. We'll share plans that are in motion, as well as topics that are still taking shape with room for community input to help guide direction.

The full agenda, link to register, and most up to date information can be viewed on our website -
https://www.cuahsi.org/events/cuahsi-virtual-open-house-2

CUAHSI is now accepting nominations for two awards: the Education and Engagement Award and the Community Service Award. These awards recognize individuals who have made meaningful contributions to hydrologic science education or to the CUAHSI community.

Nominations are welcome from across the water science community at any career stage, and self-nominations are accepted for both awards. Nominees for the Community Service Award must be affiliated with at least one CUAHSI member institution.

Nominations are due by August 31, 2026.
Visit the website for more details and nomination instructions.
https://www.cuahsi.org/community-awards

Summer is just around the corner, but there's no shortage of news in the water science community! The CUAHSI June e-Newsletter is out! Here's some of what's inside: CUAHSI welcomes new staff, take a look at our founding institutions, attend our Spring Virtual Open House, nominate someone for a CUAHSI community award, register for the Geophysics Community Input workshop, and much more!
https://www.cuahsi.org/community/news/cuahsi-e-newsletter-june-2026

The Universities Council on Water Resources / The National Institute for Water Resources 2026 Water Resources Conference starts today! CUAHSI will be exhibiting, CEO Jordan Read will be presenting today at 4:05 CT, and Jordan and Kimberlee Wong, Environmental Data Science Fellow, will be running a workshop on Wednesday starting at 9:40am CT. Be sure to say hello if you are attending!
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Next week is the Universities Council on Water Resources / The National Institute for Water Resources 2026 Water Resources Conference! CUAHSI will be exhibiting, running a workshop and presenting. Be sure to say hello if you are attending!
https://web.cvent.com/event/40bb0bcf-3abf-4256-aa48-6dbfe32776cf/summary

CUAHSI's Lead of Research Anthony Castronova co-presented at the Plenary session titled, Progress Toward a National Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric at the American Water Resources Association 2026 Geospatial Water Technology Conference this week in Niagara Falls, NY. Tony's talk was on Enabling Community-Driven Hydrofabric Innovation for NOAA's NextGen Framework, a new project he is leading.

CUAHSI CEO Jordan Read recently visited University of Iowa's IIHR Engineering Services (Iowa Institute of Hydrologic Research) and presented, CUAHSI's Vision for Community-Focused Infrastructure for Advancing Water Research and Education, covering the current landscape of water science, CUAHSI's three core capabilities, and the organization's forward-looking priorities as it enters its 25th year. The visit also included small research group and department meetings, and wrapped up with a tour of IIHR's remarkable physical facilities: flumes, wave-generation tanks, scale physical models, computational fluid dynamics setups, and an impressive drop shaft model for combined sewage/wastewater overflow systems used by major cities.