The GWSC blog features the organization’s latest news and opinion writing on global water topics. Opinion pieces will be clearly marked as such.
A Visual Guide to the Qosh Tepa Canal
The Qosh Tepa Canal in Afghanistan has been getting a lot of attention since the Taliban took over and started building at a blistering pace.
Water for irrigation provided by the canal is a potential lifeline to many in the upper Amu Darya River Basin…
Innovative tools in development to aid in geospatial data wrangling
As an environmental data scientist, I often encounter complex and interesting problems as they pertain to properly processing large spatiotemporal datasets.
Making the Jump: From Academia to Research for Policy
During a PhD program, you aren’t presented with many career options outside of academia. There aren’t a lot of other models presented to you …
Why I Read Climate Fiction, and You Should Too
This opinion article was written by GWSC Environmental Data Scientist Dr. Kaitlin Kimmel-Hass. A book that starts with a flood that wipes out rural Nebraska
Interpretable Machine Learning in Climate and Environmental Sciences
In recent years, climate researchers have increasingly leveraged Machine Learning (ML) models to answer key research questions.
Talking Water at COP with Dr. Mónica Altamirano de Jong
If you care about policy, development, climate change, and water security, you probably already know about the COP conferences. But have you been giving it your full attention?
The State of Water Security
Recently, I had the privilege to attend the inaugural “Integrating Climate Change into Professional Military Education” conference in Stockholm …
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Weather Forecasting?
Scientific American published a story in early January on the use of AI in weather forecasting and, as one might imagine, it’s a topic of great interest to us.
Water Technical Summit Offers Interesting Tidbits on the State of Rural Water
Dr. Penelope Mitchell shares insights from the Water Technical Summit, held Jan. 9 at The University of Alabama.