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Good news in 2016! iUTAH researchers have been busy generating datasets, and the iUTAH data repository is growing. To publish your dataset (and even have it featured here), deposit it in the repository, and contact the iUTAH Data Manager Amber Jones.

And, don’t forget that datasets are reportable items in ER-Core (aka Drupal). We encourage you to publish and report your datasets to get credit for your work and results. Some of the latest submissions are listed below:

Water Manager Interviews and Survey

Andrea Armstrong conducted surveys and interviews with water managers from a variety of municipalities, irrigation companies, and the private sector. She has published the following datasets representing research conducted during her three years as an iUTAH graduate research assistant.

• Final Report: Armstrong 2013 Exploratory Interviews of Water Managers (2015)
  Final Report summarizing exploratory interviews of local water managers in the Wasatch Regional Metropolitan Area, specifically Cache Valley, Heber Valley, and the Red Butte Watershed of Salt Lake City, UT. 
• Armstrong 2014 Final Report Stormwater Manager Interviews (2015)
  This report summarizes interviews of stormwater managers throughout Utah and includes preliminary analyses.
• Survey of Stormwater Managers in Utah (2015)
  An effort in partnership with the Utah Storm Water Advisory Committee surveyed stormwater managers throughout Utah regarding attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors surrounding stormwater management. This dataset contains the anonymized survey results as well as a summary report.
• Utah Municipalities Stormwater Annual Reports (2015)
  This dataset includes a compliation of stormwater organizations’ annual reports and tables used to code these reports to track longitudinal changes in stormwater programs.

Aspens in central Utah, 2007 
Photo credit: Philkon Phil Konstantin

Dataset: Sapflux in GAMUT Watersheds. Allison Chan and Dave Bowling have collected and published sapflux data for aspen and fir from sites in the Logan River and Red Butte Creek watersheds. The datasets contain raw and processed sapflux data as well as meteorological and soil temperature and moisture measurements. Learn more at:

 

• T.W. Daniels Sapflux Subalpine Fir (24 March 2014 - 12 July 2015)
• T.W. Daniels Sapflux Aspen (13 May 2014 - 12 July 2015)
• Knowlton Fork Sapflux (through 5 July 2015)