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As we do every year, the CIROH team took on the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2025 by storm. The Amtrak shuttled us from famously frigid Tuscaloosa to balmy New Orleans, where we laissâmes les bons temps rouler a few months early. From December 15-19, our team shared presentations and posters (and beignets and Cajun food), demonstrating CIROH's commitment to advancing hydrologic science, open collaboration, and sharing technological advancements.

Where Science Connects Us​

All good event attendees embrace the theme, and we happen to be great event attendees. This year's AGU theme, "Where Science Connects Us," aligned with CIROH's mission to democratize water modeling and foster community engagement in hydrologic research. Our presentations highlighted how we use containerization, cloud infrastructure, and collaborative frameworks in the world of operational and research hydrology. We also loved connecting with the broader CIROH community through the CIROH Research Exchange (lovingly dubbed T-REX by our talented events team), our biggest exhibit hall booth to date, a very packed poster presentation caravan led by our fearless Steve Burian, Martyn Clark, and Katie van Werkhoven, and, in classic AGU fashion, running into colleagues randomly in the extremely long convention center hallways.

Featured Presentations & Posters by CIROH Science Team & Friends​

NextGen In A Box (NGIAB) Ecosystem​

1. Advancing Hydrological Modeling: CIROH’s NextGen In A Box (NGIAB) and Enhanced Tools for Community-Driven Research

   Presenter: Bhavya Duvvuri

   Session: Poster Presentation H41Q-1427

2. NextGen Research DataStream: Community Contributions Towards Improved Hydrologic Predictions

   Presenter: Zach Wills

   Session: Oral Presentation H31G-03

3. Assessing the use of Physics and AI-Driven Precipitation Forecasts for Streamflow Prediction Using the NextGen In A Box (NGIAB) National Water Model

   Presenter: Jorge Bravo

   Session: Poster Presentation H41Q-1410

4. NextGen In A Box (NGIAB) and DataStream Visualizer: A Containerized Web Application for Interactive Geospatial and Temporal Visualization and Analysis of Hydrologic Model Outputs

   Presenter: Gio Romero

   Session: Oral Presentation H31G-08

5. Streamlining Community Modeling through Automated Data Processing for the Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework

   Presenter: Sonam Lama

   Session: Poster Presentation IN33B-0380

Cyberinfrastructure​

1. Cloud infrastructure for NextGen Water Resources Modeling: CIROH’s R2OHC Cloud Platform

   Presenter: Harsha Vemula

   Session: Poster Presentation H41Q-1425

2. High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for NextGen Water Resources Modeling: CIROH's R2OHC HPC Platform

   Presenter: Trupesh Patel

   Session: Oral Presentation H33J-07

Data Sharing & Community Engagement​

1. CIROH DocuHub and Portal: Knowledge Management System for Collaborative Water Resources Research

   Presenter: Manjila Singh

   Session: Poster Presentation H41Q-1426

2. Demonstrating new tools and frameworks to facilitate continental-scale hydrologic data access and evaluation

   Presenter: Sam Lamont

   Session: Oral Presentation IN42A-04

3. Enabling Community Research with the Next Generation National Water Modeling Framework on through Streamlined Workflows

   Presenter: Ayman Nassar

   Session: Oral Presentation H31G-07

4. Modernizing HydroShare: Using a Cloud-Native Architecture to Accelerate Water Science Innovation

   Presenter: Tony Castronova

   Session: Oral Presentation IN42A-02

Reflections from AGU25​

AGU is a wild world. It’s incredible how you can pack the population of a small town into one convention center and still have room left to spare. It’s even more incredible that at seemingly every turn, we always recognized at least a few citizens of said small town. We had such a wonderful time getting to see old friends and make new ones and come away from each conversation with a new idea for how CIROH Science Team could collaborate with the community. Our team was so encouraged by the number of presentations and posters we saw that used our community resources like our NGIAB container and our high-performance computing cyberinfrastructure offerings like Pantarhei and Wukong. (Perhaps you were one of our 13,101 NGIAB Docker deployments?) Not mentioned in the brief list above are all the presentations we got to see about model developments for the NextGen Framework. We love supporting our member and partner institutions’ research-to-operations work with our cyberinfrastructure resource offerings and community resource repositories like the Data Preprocessor, TEEHR, and the Tethys Visualizer. We would also love to showcase that work in our NextGen Research Datastream, running every hour for all of CONUS on AWS. If you’ve got a model that you’d like included in NGIAB and/or NRDS, we are more than happy to chat about it (or read through your GitHub issues submitted through our model integration issue form). We’re excited to get to work this year and support you and all of your R2O dreams!

Community Resources​

All AGU25 presentation materials, including posters and slide decks, are available in our GitHub repository: CIROH-UA/Conferences/AGU25

Join the Community and Get Involved​

Did AGU leave you wanting more from CIROH? We might not be able to see all of you in person every day (we miss y’all already), but whether you're a hydrologist, software developer, data scientist, or agency partner, there are many ways to get involved.

• Try NGIAB: Download from DockerHub or access NGIAB 101 for more details.

• Contribute Models to NGIAB: Submit BMI-compliant models integration request through our model integration issue form under the “New issue” button.

• Calibrate Models: Use our calibration tools to calibrate models for your favorite watersheds (we all have those, don’t pretend like you don’t know what we’re talking about!).

• Share Feedback: Open GitHub issues to report bugs and suggest improvements, or join our Community Resources Working Group discussions.

• Slack Channel: Join our public slack channels for community discussions

• Working Groups: Participate in one (or more, for you overachievers) of CIROH’s working groups – Artificial Intellgience, Community Resources, Decision Support, Early Career, Flood Inundation Mapping, Hydroinformatics, Hydrologic Modeling, Model and Forecast Evaluation.

• Student Summer Education Programs: Are you/do you know any undergraduates interested in AI and operational hydrology who are looking for research experiences over the summer? We have an REU for exactly that. Applications are due March 1. (Side effects: students may leave as Alabama football fans. Roll Tide!!)

• DevCon: Attend yearly Developer Conference in May. DevCon 2026 is in Salt Lake City, UT from May 27-29.

Acknowledgments​

CIROH's work is supported by NOAA Cooperative Institute Program under award NA22NWS4320003. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions from our numerous academic and agency partners who make this collaborative research possible.

The AGU25 presentations represent the collective effort of researchers, developers, and operational forecasters working together to advance hydrologic science. They are a culmination of months and years of dedication and love for science and research. Thank you to everyone who said hi, visited our posters, attended our presentations, and engaged in discussions about the future of water modeling. We’ll see you next year in San Francisco!

Predicting water flow with precision across the vast U.S. landscape is a complex challenge. That's why Song et al. 2024 developed δHBV2.0, a cutting-edge hydrologic model. It’s built with high-resolution modeling of physics to deliver seamless, highly accurate streamflow simulations, even down to individual sub-basins. It's already proven to be a major improvement, performing better than older tools at about 4,000 measurement sites. We also provide a comprehensive 40-year water dataset for ~180,000 river reaches to support this.

Penn State research group pushed δHBV2.0 further, training it with even more detailed river data and integrating other trusted models, aiming to make it a key part of the NextGen national water modeling system (as a potential NWM3.0 successor). But here’s a common hurdle: making powerful scientific tools like this easy and reliable for everyone to use within a larger framework can be tough. Setup issues, runtime errors, and inconsistent results can frustrate users.

NGIAB stepped in to solve exactly this problem. Team has taken the complexity out of using the operations-ready models within NextGen by creating one unified, reliable package. Thanks to NGIAB, users don't have to worry about tricky setups or whether the model will run correctly. NGIAB ensures that our models are compatible everywhere and, most importantly, that they run exactly as designed, consistently and faithfully, every single time, no babysitting required. This means users get the full power of our advanced modeling, without the headaches.

Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers have been leveraging CIROH Cyberinfrastructure to tackle complex hydrological modeling challenges. This post highlights their innovative approach using the Wukong computing platform in conjunction with Amazon S3 bucket storage to efficiently process and analyze large-scale environmental datasets. 🚀

AGU24 brought together the world’s leading minds in Earth and space sciences. CIROH participated actively, showcasing advances in water prediction, modeling techniques and many more technologies.

Presentations and Posters 📊​

The conference provided an excellent platform for CIROH researchers to present their groundbreaking work. Our team delivered impactful presentations and poster sessions highlighting CIROH’s innovative work, including advancements in water prediction systems and community water modeling.

These sessions sparked thought-provoking discussions and fostered collaborations with other researchers. For those who missed it, posters and presentation slides are now available here. Feel free to explore these materials and share your thoughts. 📝

The Community NextGen framework has seen significant advancements in November 2024, with major updates across multiple components and exciting new resources for users. Let's dive into the key developments that are making hydrologic modeling more accessible and powerful than ever.

The 2024 CIROH Science Meeting was a huge success, bringing together researchers, federal partners, and consortium members both in person and virtually. We're excited to share the valuable resources from this year's meeting with the wider CIROH community.

Slides and pictures from the various sessions, keynotes, and the Federal Town Hall have all been uploaded to a shared drive for easy access. You can find links to these materials here: Access the Shared Drive with Presentation Slides

Image Source: https://github.com/BYU-Hydroinformatics/api-nwm-gcp

Several important historical and ongoing National Water Model (NWM) datasets are now available on Google Cloud BigQuery, which makes them queryable through SQL using Google Cloud console. Some of these data sets are also accessible through an API (e.g. using Python). These datasets and their current status are as follows:

This month, we are excited to showcase two case studies that utilized our cyberinfrastructure tools and services. These case studies demonstrate how CIROH's cyberinfrastructure is being utilized to support hydrological research and operational advancements.

1. ngen-datastream and NGIAB​

We're excited to share some recent developments and updates from CIROH's Research CyberInfrastructure team:

Cloud Infrastructure​

• CIROH's Google Cloud Account is now fully operational and managed by our team. You can find more information here.
• We're in the process of migrating our 2i2c JupyterHub to CIROH's Google Cloud account.
• We've successfully deployed the Google BigQuery API (developed by BYU and Google) for NWM data in our cloud. To access this API, please contact us at ciroh-it-admin@ua.edu. Please refer to NWM BigQuery API to learn more.

The CIROH team has been diligently accelerating research cyberinfrastructure capabilities this month. We're thrilled to share key milestones achieved in enhancing the Community NextGen project and our cloud/on-premises platforms.

Welcome to the February edition of the CIROH DocuHub blog, where we bring you the latest updates and news about the Community NextGen project and CIROH's Cloud and on-premise Infrastructure.

Our team has been hard at work enhancing CIROH's Infrastructure and Community NextGen tools. Here are some highlights from February 2024:

1. We successfully launched our new On-premises Infrastructure, which is now fully operational. You can find documentation for it here.

Welcome to the January edition of the CIROH DocuHub blog, where we share the latest updates and news about the Community NextGen project monthly. NextGen is a cutting-edge hydrologic modeling framework that aims to advance the science and practice of hydrology and water resources management. In this month's blog, we will highlight some of the recent achievements and developments of the Community NextGen team.

Happy New Year!!! We are back from SFO after attending AGU last month. We are excited to share the latest updates for NGIAB, NextGen, T-route, Hydrofabric, NextGen forcings, and Community Support from December 2023.

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We are excited to share the latest updates for NGIAB, NextGen, T-route, Hydrofabric, NextGen forcings and Community Support.

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