Goals

Igniting Student Innovation

The Water Data Collaborative is a student-led effort. Students create and manage all activities of the Collaborative: working on research projects with real-world challenges, partnership and societal impact; organizing initiatives, hackathons and events enabling community outreach and knowledge exchange; and developing educational modules addressing a wide range of topics connected with water data science.

Building and Growing Partnerships

The Water Data Collaborative creates and facilitates contact between the diverse community of people and institutions involved in water data research, with a particular emphasis on enabling knowledge exchange between data and domain experts.

Pooling Water Data, Resources and Tools

Aggregating knowledge where it can be easily accessed is critical to enable a virtuous circle of continued development, where new projects can reference, build on, and extend previous efforts.

The Water Data Collaborative addresses this challenge from multiple directions:

• Gathering and curating projects, code and other resources after the conclusion of the initiatives connected with water data;
• Collecting and maintaining curated water-related datasets;
• Developing software tools to improve the quality, performance and reproducibility of common tasks and workflows in water data research