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Thirsty Earth: a multiplayer online game for water resources education and research

and March 7, 2024
Thirsty Earth: a multiplayer online game for water resources education and research
Image: Winter at Little Rann. Kutch, Dec’22, Credit: Kandukuru Nagarjun, License: CC BY 2.0 DEED License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en image url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parched_earth_(52554483693).jpg

The Rising Need for Interdisciplinary Literacy The sustainable management of water resources requires cooperative institutions whose development are rarely included in already overloaded engineering and earth sciences curricula. The resilience of such institutions in the context of climatic and demographic change is also poorly understood. Enter “Thirsty Earth,” an online open-access m ...[Read More]

Care to get your boots wet? The ‘Partial Surface Water Challenge’

October 26, 2023
Care to get your boots wet? The ‘Partial Surface Water Challenge’
The author plants a marker alongside a submerged temperature/inundation sensor in a 356 square kilometre wetland in south-eastern Oregon, USA. Photo credit: Anteneh Sarbanes (USGS)

Inland surface water is a critical resource when scarce and a potential hazard when floods occur. Because the extent of surface water affects habitat condition, weather, and biogeochemical cycles, our ability to accurately track variations in surface water extent is important for resource management, science, commerce, hazard mitigation, and policy making.  Openly distributed data derived from sat ...[Read More]