Now

Right now and at the top of my mind…

From here onward, you’re pretty deep into the weeds of my personal notes. Expect to find a lot more unintelligible, poorly formatted, or otherwise broken thoughts and links. Following in the footsteps of many of my references and inspirations, I’m exposing the nodes of my nonlinear manifesto and uncatagorized output here in the hopes that it makes my life easier, and presents a slightly more stimulating digital footprint for you to explore :) You might also go rummage though the junk drawer.

  1. [[20220630144912]] 02 Now and [[20220227202414]] 03 What I’m is pondering these days.
  2. This system is a rebellion against my unruly digital footprint as I attempt to coherently tackle my wicked problem with water.
  3. Explainable hydrology and how to better communicate and execute.
  4. I want to ‘gamify’ water forecasting. To accomplish that, I need to be smarter and have better systems.
    • My ideal game allows players to seamlessly scale from bed (mattress) to bed (Bald Eagle Domain).
    • Is a visually striking (representations of real world processes, exportable outputs) game (frictionless interactions).
    • Should help facilitate multi-model depth enabled ensemble likelihood flood mapping capabilities usable for the entire country.1
  5. How the founding values and constitution cross the digital divide.

The Grill

My preferred (FOSS) flavor of slidedecks, revealjs, has intuitive but none the less unconventional PowerPoint presentation controls:

  • Slides dynamically resize to use the entirety of the browser window, but you can still fullscreen with F
  • I try and call out my slide layout mode in each presentation but I use vertical slides too often; press space or the down arrow key, not the right arrow, for most viewing situations
    • You can press R or add /scroll-view/ to the end of the url to make revealjs presentations more amenable to doom-scrolling motions, and is usually denoted with the phone icon under a presentation
    • Press N or space for the next slide, P goes to the previous slide
  • Press M to open to the menu
  • Press O for the slide deck overview
  • You can use the chalkboard to freemouse/touchpad draw
  • Press B to black out the presentation screen
  • Press S for a speaker view
  • Press Alt/Opt + + to increase text size
  • Press Alt/Opt + - to decrease text size
  • Press Alt/Opt + 0 to reset the text size
  • Press Alt/Opt + click on the slide to zoom in
  • Press C to declare victory and head home
  • Printing is never recommended, particularly if there are interactive elements in a deck; but if you really need to, follow these instructions:
    • Add ?print-mode to the url > Slides will load and look strange, that’s fine
    • Print(CTRL + P) and make sure you select the save to pdf option, not print with Microsoft Word
    • Set margin to none
    • Print!
Icon helpers

I use for slides, is scroll view
For videos, For publications
For maps, For interactive maps
For data downloads, or For attachments


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This presentation deck is my revolving door of hot-off-the-grill results that I use for informal updates or impromptu meetings. Don’t expect what you find here to remain for very long, or to not change for 2 years because nothing is ever done…

A chronological heap

The idea of keeping a “Blog” makes me shudder for some reason. However, it’s nice to keep a public and living record of what I’m up to and thinking about and this is as handy a place to start as any. When I can’t accrete my thoughts into a more meaningful form, or if I’m making a one-off presentation, a guest writeup, or self-trumpeted cross-post I’ll throw it on the top of the heap here:

My dissertation slides

Lets see how quickly this becomes irrelevant…

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CIROH DevCon 2025

At the CIROH Developers Conference, Mike Johnson and the hydrofabric team gave a followup presentation on the advances made over the last year on the Hydrofabric data, processing tools, and the future iterations of the hydrofabric data model. Find that presentation here.

AGU 2024

Cross-sectional representations of rivers are a critical form of data needed to understand and predict the behavior of the system, particularly for hydraulic and geomorphic applications. However, the collection and curation of these data are non-trivial; and the way they are stored, found, and interacted with are not well described, particularly at continental scale. This work describes the data sources, tools, and techniques used in developing a national scale cross section database. By constructing a foundation of geometric transects augmented with machine learned synthetic bathymetric geometries and a pathway to blend data from HEC-RAS 1D models and parameterizations off eHydro and terrain where feasible, we present an iteration of a 3D channel geometry database. The resulting data provides a standardized and scaled pattern and architecture which applications, which range from hydraulic routing and flood inundation mapping to river morphologic and environmental health and habitat indicators can be seeded. That representation is easily discovered and extracted for a given domain following well established hydrofabric access patterns, and provides a consistent and scaled baseline for the Next Generation Water Resource Modeling Framework and associated applications.

RIMORPHIS Workshop 2024

A presentation on CONUS scale bathy toolings.

CIROH DevCon 2024

At the CIROH Developers Conference, Mike Johnson and the hydrofabric team gave a followup presentation on the advances made over the last year on the Hydrofabric data and processing tools, including an explicit refactoring and aggregation over the reference fabric and the tie into learned cross section data for channel routing as preparation for NextGen simulation runs. Find that tutorial here.

AGU 2023

The evolution of computational sciences leads to new data and more efficient formats and processing architectures to store, distribute, consume, and archive the data that are critical to model execution. These advances often lead to new use cases for those data, which have a rich legacy and can be costly to collect, collate, and archive; but the form of that initial deployment sometimes makes integrating those original data into newer use case workflows difficult. Those conflicting values create a need to make those model data more interoperable and reusable, and a need to increase their findability and accessibility, a manifestation of the FAIR data principles. This presentation will demonstrate how legacy HEC-RAS one-dimensional model datasets are transformed and made more FAIR for uses in work streams across the NOAA flood inundation mapping efforts and in the development of a nationwide 3D hydrofabric dataset that provides channel geometry between deep channel and its floodplain. After attending, participants should leave with a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and tools available to manipulate and integrate these data into frameworks that extend far beyond their initial spatial scale; with a heavy emphasis on the details needed to integrate cross section representations and their reuse in HEC-RAS adjacent applications. This also provides the opportunity to contribute and grow FAIR data transformation toolings and the communities that facilitate a bottom-up approach to scaling local hydraulic data to continental-scale efforts.

Alongside David Weiss, presented an intercomparison between two geospatial means of constructing a Flood library (FLDPLN and HAND).

Building for a moving target (ESIP 2023)

Last week at ESIP’s 25th Annual Summer meeting in Burlington, VT , Lynker’s Mike Johnson, Jim Coll, Angus Watters, Justin Singh, and Rachel Bash presented on results from efforts funded through an ESIP Lab grant to improve the pathways and toolings around open data access representing their abstract “Building a Federated Data Catalog with Client Implementations, Meeting Data Where it Lives”. By demonstrating an operational implementation of an automatically updating access point with multi-language support, we lower the barriers to scientific inquiry and open the doors to and between the larger open science community. ESIP (Earth Science Information Partners) Meetings are collaborative, community-driven events that bring together federal partners and the most innovative thinkers & leaders around earth science data. Learn more about the Federated catalog at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23710017.v1, ESIP at their website here: https://www.esipfed.org/, and Lynker here: https://lynker.com/ (Johnson et al. 2023)

ESIP January Meeting

AGU 2022

Field mapping with drones (KU Geology Department and Field Station)

A link to an older presentation I gave as part of the centennial field camp.

KU Field Station Science on Tap (Drones)

You can find a copy of that powerpoint here (as soon as I find it).

AGU - 2019

Kansas Governers Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas - November 2021

https://youtu.be/uapIeizWz2s?si=Dbj_kYleNiv22-DY&t=1005

GSA 2014

References

Johnson, Mike, Jim Coll, Angus Watters, Justin Singh, and Rachel Bash. 2023. “Building a Federated Data Catalog with Client Implementations - Meeting Data Where It Is.” ESIP. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.23710017.V1.

Footnotes

  1. credit to Derek via Tom for the mission↩︎