Water resources and aquatic ecosystems around the world face increasing challenges and risks from climate change, natural and anthropogenic disasters, harmful algal blooms, and changes in land use. Recent advances in sensors, robotics, genomics, and computational modeling generate an amount and variety of data related to water at all scales.
These data offer a tremendous opportunity for revolutionizing scientific understanding and management of water resources; however, the challenges associated with the volume, heterogeneity, and uncertainty of the data pose a significant barrier for translating science into action. The WaterCube program was designed to prepare a competent workforce for addressing future sustainability and socio-economic challenges in water. We believe that solving complex, real-world water problems takes synergistic advancement and integration of data science, water science, and social science.
WaterCube is a National Research Traineeship (NRT) program funded by the National Science Foundation