iNAIADS: iNtegration, Artificial Intelligence Analytical Data Services for Rivers and Watersheds

This project uses a novel data synthesis,

synthesis

The process of combining a number of things into a coherent whole to form a theory or system.

Source: National Library of Medicine Source

analysis, and machine learning

machine learning (ML)

Machine Learning (ML) refers to the field and practice of using algorithms that are able to “learn” by extracting patterns from a large body of data.

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framework to determine how climate-driven disturbances like floods, droughts and heat waves will change water quality over time. We are studying impacted locations across river corridors

river corridor

The land area adjacent to a river that is required to accommodate the dimensions, slope, planform, and buffer of the naturally stable channel and that is necessary for the natural maintenance or natural restoration of a dynamic equilibrium condition.

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and basins of the United States, including the Colorado, Pacific Northwest and mid-Atlantic basins. Our objective is to determine whether and how watersheds

watershed

An area of land that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually flows to the lowest point in a basin.

Source: USGS Source

with different characteristics are resistant and resilient to these disturbances, resulting in better predictions of water quality in future changing climates.