Hydrology Research Resources

💧 Hydrology

🌊 General

CUAHSIConsortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science
About Hydrology Email ListEmail list all about hydrology
AGU H3SHydrology Section Student Subcommittee
Young Hydrologic SocietyInitiatives by early career scientists. Useful blogs, interviews, and materials by big names!
Earth Science Women’s NetworkEmpowering women in STEM fields
EosEarth Science news by AGU
EGU BlogsEarth Science news by EGU
VT HydrologyExtensive links to free online resources of hydrology by Virginia Tech
About Hydrology BlogA hydrology blog by Dr. Riccardo Rigon
Circle of BluePodcast of water-related news
Hidden hydrologyStories about hydrology in modern metropolis
California Water BlogStories about hydrology in California
Maven’s NotebookBlogs about current water policies in California

👩‍🏫Teaching

See my another blog post: Geoscience Teaching Resources

👩‍💻 Coding

Earth LabFree online courses, tutorials, and tools for Earth Science in R & Python managed by CU Boulder
reachhydro.comLinks to long-term data records for land surface runoff etc. by Dr. Ming Pan et al.
Open Source Python Packages in Hydrologyby Raoul Collenteur
Open Source Python Packages in Hydrologyby me
NeuralHydrologyCodes, datasets, and papers using Neural network in Hydrology research by Dr. Frederik Kratzert, Dr. Daniel Klotz, Dr. Martin Gauch, and Dr. Grey Nearing

🎉 Events & summer school

CUAHSI Summer Institute7-week project-based summer camp at the National Water Center
Gordon Research Conference on Catchment HydrologyBiannual conference focused on catchment hydrology
Hydro-MLMachine Learning and Deep Learning for advancement in Hydrology
Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: Previous WorkshopsAnnual workshop by GSA
Graduate Climate ConferenceInterdisciplinary climate conference run by graduate students for graduate students
Yale Environmental Fellows Program12-week summer conservation leadership program
CV4Ecology2 week project-driven workshop of Computer Vision for Ecology by CalTech

🏢 Science & Policy

AAAS CASE workshop4-days science policy workshop at D.C. AGU is one of the sponsor organization through which you can apply.
AMS Summer Policy Colloquium6-days science policy training in D.C.
AGU Voices-for-scienceA 12-months training on science communications and outreaches. They have the policy or communications tracks.
The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship ProgramA 12-weeks program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in D.C.

🔭 Career

AGU H3S Hydrology job boardsA blog post that summarizes hydrologic job boards
About HydrologyGoogle group where people around the world disseminate job opportunities of hydrology research position
Es_jobs_netJob posts maintained by UCAR

🌱 Soil Moisture

International Soil Moisture NetworkA data platform of the in-situ soil moisture network around the world by TU Wien.
Soil sensorGlossary for soil moisture sensors by Campbell Scientific
METER group webinarsWebinars on sensing soil and vegetation moistures by METER group

🗺️ Spatio-Temporal Data

AppEEARSPoint-sample NASA DAAC dataset
Hydrology Data RodsPoint-sample NASA GES DISC datasets
STACSpatio Temporal Asset Catalogs: a new standard for geospatial data
NASA CMR STAC gallerlySTAC browser by Radiant Earth Foundation
MS Planetary Computer STAC-based data catalog and API by Microsoft
Publishing in HydroShareComprehensive guideline to publish hydrologic data by CUAHSI
bbox finderTo manually find bounding box

📶 Basic Statistics

EBPT用語集 (in Japanese)簡潔にまとまっている統計用語集。日本理学療法士学会編。

🕵️‍♀️General Research Tips

💭 Conducting research

Good Data Analysis An article by Google on practices when analysing data
Research tips (in Japanese)By Dr. Naota Hanasaki
Hypothesis testing in hydrologyMcNight (2017)
Setting up an Organized Folder Structure for Research ProjectsAn article by Dr. Nikola Vukovic
Personal Rules of Productive ResearchAn article by Dr. Eugene Vinitsky
Expectation setting (for graduate students)An article by Dr. Eugene Vinitsky

✍️ Writing / Presentation / Posters​

Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of EnglishVery helpful!
How to take smart notesTips on literature review
Oxford Collocation dictionaryShows collocation of a word with verbs, prepositions, adjectives etc.
Advice to Applicants of the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship ProgramUseful guidelines to write proposal with examples by Dr. Mallory P. Ladd
Poster tipsby Scientifica
Poster tipsby MIT
Review guideby Wiley

👀 Data visualization

Color BrewerWeb tool for choosing color schemes based on the research of Dr. Cynthia Brewer maintained by Axis Maps.
Color Blender Web tool for creating color gradation
color-hexTo look for the shades and tints of colors
bbox finderWeb tool for finding a bounding box
from-Data-to-VizCollection of a beautiful plots with a description tree based on input data format. Python, R scripts are provided.
Coloring for ColorblindnessBy David Nichols
Colorblind Safe Color SchemesNCEAS Science Communication Resource Corner
Colorblind Palette InformationDiscrete color palette on Duke Immunobiology website, documented by Paul Tol

🛠️ My Favorite Productivity Tools

PaperpileReference manager that can be integrated with many Google apps. Much better than other free softwares! ($3/mo)
Framework LaptopModuler laptop that respects your right to repair
ThunderbirdEmail manager

✈️ Studying Abroad Resources

🌎 General

numbeoLiving cost comparisons of major cities around the world. Weirdly accurate.
Work Visa USAStatistics on work visa (H1B, GC etc.). You can search by institution or enterprise name