2019 California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium
Open Water California: Innovating through Integrating and Expanding the Water Data Community
Date And Time:
Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
Location:
CalEPA Headquarters Building
Byron Sher Auditorium
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
The Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP), the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the California Water Boards Data Center, and the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) hosted the Fourth Annual California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium on July 1-2, 2019 in Sacramento, CA. This annual event aims to enhance how water quality monitoring generates meaningful data that informs water quality management decisions. This year’s Symposium focused on around the theme of Open Water California- Innovating Through Integrating and Expanding the Water Data Community
Please review the following Agenda Package. Follow this link for an accessible version of the Agenda Package.
Please go to YouTube to view recordings of the Symposium:
- Day 1 Video
- Day 2 Video
- Community Water Science Workshop Video
- Video Playlist of the Complete Symposium, chaptered by Topic/Section
- Video Playlist of the Community Water Science Workshop chaptered by Presentation
In addition to the presentations and expert panel discussions, there were two concurrent events at this year's Symposium:
- California Water Datathon - Focused on engaging emerging data scientists to help address water management issues including Trash Data, Consumer Confidence Reports, and Drinking Water Sources.
- Community Water Science Workshop - Provided training and information on a variety of topics that are important to community water science organizations, such as developing a monitoring and quality assurance plan, working with laboratories, and multiple sessions on working with data.
Who attended?
- Managers faced with policy decisions
- Staff and volunteers at community science organizations
- Professional and community scientists working on water quality or resource management questions
- Aspiring academics and data scientists exploring careers in water quality and resources areas
Contact
Staff is working on providing ADA accessible versions of the presentations given at this year’s Symposium. In the meantime for copies of specific presentations please contact Nick Martorano at SB1070Coordinator@waterboards.ca.gov
Past Symposiums
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June 29, 2016
The Water Board's Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) hosted the 1st Annual California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium this summer. This symposium followed the Water Board's Data Fair in March and Data Innovation Challenge in April, with the focus being on the use of data by other programs and Departments.
This is an annual event that aims to
- daylight surface water quality data, insights, and interests on California surface water quality topics
- better connect data, information and knowledge to water quality stakeholders and decision makers; and
- create a networking community to enhance better communication throughout the year.
View the 1st Annual California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium
PresentationsWe have limited space for some excellent posters or other visual displays this year. If you would like to submit a poster or display, please register as an Attendee and as a Poster in Eventbrite. There will be a 90 minute lunch break to allow for visiting posters and displays
- Advancing Water and Energy Analytics: Perspectives on Information Technology, Frank Loge, PhD, PE
- Integrating monitoring to better understand patterns and trends in contamination and toxicity in California watersheds, Brian Anderson
- DPR Surface water Monitoring Program, Robert Budd, PhD
- Bioaccumulation in California, Jay Davis
- Aggregating Municipal and State Open Data for Water Quality Investigations, Eric Bollens and Grant Sharp
- Bugs, Fish & Algae: An Overview of California's Bioassessment Program, Andrew Rehn
- Benthic Algae as a Tool for Bioassessment & Nutrient Monitoring in California, Betty Fetscher
- How are state and local agencies using bioassessment data?, Raphael Mazor
- Central Coast Ambient Monitoring Program Data Integration and Healthy Watershed Assessments, Karen Worcester
- Applications and Limitations of Bioassay Methods for Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Environmental Monitoring, Michael Denison, PhD
- Use of Satellites to Examine Cyanobacteria in California's Large Waterbodies, Randy Turner
People who are interested in helping to:
- facilitate the application of Water Quality data to California water policy and permit writing
- provide a forum for sharing recent science and practical applications relevant to watershed health
- foster the translation of water quality data and research into policy solutions
- expand support for water quality data with applications to California's environment, public health and economy
- facilitate collaboration across scientific research fields and public policy
- Greg Gearheart - Greg.Gearheart@waterboards.ca.gov
- Lori Webber - Lori.Webber@waterboards.ca.gov
- Beverley Anderson-Abbs - Bev.Anderson-Abbs@waterboards.ca.gov
June 29 - 30, 2017
The Water Board's Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) hosted the 2nd Annual California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium, with the focus being on the use of data by other programs and Departments.
This is an annual event that aims to:
- daylight new watershed and data science topics, tool, and insights, insights;
- better connect data, information and knowledge to water quality stakeholders and decision makers; and
- create a networking community to enhance better communication throughout the year.
Links to Powerpoint Presentations and videos can be found on the main Agenda and Special Session Agenda below
- Agenda
- Agenda, Videos, Powerpoints, Abstracts, and Bio's: Day 1
- Special Session - Emerging Tools for Water Quality Monitoring
- Agenda, Videos, Powerpoints, Abstracts, and Bio’s: Day 2
- Greg Gearheart - Greg.Gearheart@waterboards.ca.gov
- Lori Webber - Lori.Webber@waterboards.ca.gov
- Beverley Anderson-Abbs - Bev.Anderson-Abbs@waterboards.ca.gov
- Toni Marshall - Toni.Marshall@waterboards.ca.gov
June 20 - 21, 2018
The Water Board's Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) hosted the 3rd Annual California Water Board’s Water Data Science Symposium. This 2018 Symposium addressed the theme of Adapting in the Face of Disruptive Landscape Change. Presentations and posters describe how to collect, manage, and communicate monitoring information in anticipation of landscape change in response to long-term drivers such as climate change, population growth, and land use change, as well as rapid drivers such as fires, droughts, and floods.
The following subject areas were a focus of the 2018 symposium:
- Historical Ecology - What can history tell us about relationships between land use and water resources as urban, suburban, peri-urban and rural landscapes have changed over time in CA?
- Climate Change as a driver in water resource management.
- Fire as a driver in water resource management.
- Cannabis as a new driver in water resource management.
- Contaminants - The impacts on water resources of emerging contaminants, legacy contaminants, contaminants from fires, and contaminants from other sources; new methods for monitoring.
- Proactive Water Resource Monitoring - Are we collecting the right data and generating the right information to manage water resources in changing landscapes?
Beyond these broad themes, the following specific topics were prioritized for inclusion in the Symposium program:
- Landscape change
- Statewide monitoring programs
- Remote sensing
- Innovative monitoring tools
- eDNA
- Open data
- Data visualization
- Communication of findings to managers
- Civic engagement
Agenda and Presentation Documents
Presenters, PowerPoints, & Abstracts & Bios: Day 1
Agenda with Presenters, Videos, PowerPoints, & Abstracts & Bios: Day 2
This full Science Symposium program contains the agenda with active hyperlinks to the PowerPoint presentations.
2018 Data Science Symposium Program & Agenda with Presentations
- Day 1 - Unfortunately the Skype recording of Day 1 is missing audio. If you attended Day 1 of the Symposium and recorded the presentations please contact us.
- Day 2
Contacts
- Nick Martorano - Nicholas.Martorano@waterboards.ca.gov
- Greg Gearheart - Greg.Gearheart@waterboards.ca.gov
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