r/Hydrology

Hello everyone, haven't been on reddit for a very long time so I just wanted to make clear that the amount of information available in the website is overwhelming. Im working as a technical consultant for vulnerable communities, especially those related to environmental impacts due to the industry (mainly mining). My job is somewhat complex so I don't have all the right words to describe it, but one of the things I must do is to collect field data, mainly hidrological and hidrogeological data (water sampling, physicochemical parameteres, water level measurements and flow rates measurements). All of this data is systematized by me on Power Bi, but I've seen some potential on Python environment that could help me automatize the vast majority of the databases I need to analize. If anyone has any guidance on how to learn to use Python so I can make better use of the databases I work with, would be amazing and appreciated. I'm posting a screenshot of the Power Bi dashboard I created to work with some of my database, which is totally interactive and I'm very proud of it, but I know It may need some tweaking. Have a great weekend everyone!

https://preview.redd.it/mnmbkhrl6cbh1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b1f155b6692f6808de53fc17a33d1d4a30d1c87

Hey all, I've been building AquaScope, an open-source Python toolkit for water data and hydrology. It bundles 15 unified data collectors (USGS, FAO, GEMStat, EU WFD, and more), Bulletin 17C flood frequency, FAO-56 ET₀, and an AI helper that recommends which analysis fits your data.

It's mostly been a solo project so far, and it's finally useful enough that I'd love a few more people from the field poking at it. One honest question: if you do hydrology data work, what's the one annoying thing you'd want a tool like this to just handle?

And if you feel like contributing, the most useful thing right now is helping map every country's water data. Loads of national agencies still aren't covered, and adding one is a pretty approachable first contribution (even just pointing me to the right API counts):

https://github.com/Rekin226/aquascope/issues/11

Repo: https://github.com/Rekin226/aquascope

Happy to talk through the design, the scope, or just water data in general. A star helps more people find it, but honestly I mostly want the feedback. 🙂

I’m looking for engineers working in water resources, hydrology, environmental who could give some insight on their careers. I’m nearing graduation in ME and am interested in working in that field. What is your experience overall, some pros and cons, and how has a PE affected your career?

Hello. I hope you are reading this in good health.

A cinder block fell into the acequia (irrigation ditch) which provides irrigation water for our place. The current thus diverted undercut the earth bank a little; it's not likely to collapse now, but I can imagine it will be prone to further erosion now.

I thought of creating an eddy just at the upstream end of the undercut to slow the water and cause it to drop sediment into the undercut.

Can one create an obstruction that creates an eddy that reliably deposits sediment?

How does one balance the interaction of angle to the current and rate of flow?

Is it possible to err and create an eddy that cause erosion rather than deposition?

Thank you.

I translated a debate from the first IUFRO congress (Mariabrunn, 1893) that I think anyone into interception or canopy water balance will enjoy. Two guys ...a grizzled Prussian forestry official (Ney) and a young meteorologist (Hoppe)... go back and forth about stemflow before the word "stemflow" even existed. Here is the preprint.

Hi all,

I'm conducting independent research into how site layout optioneering is carried out across the water industry.

This research is entirely independent and is not affiliated with my employer or any software vendor.

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Thank you!

So I've heard for ages that rivers don't split because they always take the path of least resistance, which leads to them cutting large single channels before meeting larger bodies of water, but deltas have a super broken up appearance with loads of splits where the sediment is deposited, so my question is why do thery form many chanels and splits instead of just turning where the sediment is depositd and making a winding single channel out into the slower moving body of water?

I am so sad over it lol. I did my undergrad and MS at the same school and I had already taken many of the hydrology classes. However, none were very technical, it was basic watershed science classes. Lots of reading, learning about methods without really doing much of methods.

So I was excited to do my MS in order to gain some technical skill and dive deeper into hydrology but I ended up being funded by a climate project. I ended up taking more GIS classes, tons of required seminars, and that was that. 0 hydrology coursework for me. They counted the ones I took in undergrad for the concentration.

Now I am struggling because I don’t have a degree in meteorology so I’m under qualified for the more climate science roles but I also feel lost with hydrology cause I haven’t worked with water data in over 4 years! But I basically have a freaking degree in hydrology!! I’m THE imposter. Can I pick up water modeling or ANYTHING of the sort on my own? I’m so upset this is how things turned out for me. I don’t even know where to start…