Don Cowan receives funding from CANARIE to advance iEnvironment  platform

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Don Cowan
CANARIE announced today the selection of 13 successful projects from its latest Research Software funding call. One of the selected projects is led by Water Institute member Don Cowan, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science.

This funding will enable research teams to adapt their existing research platforms for re-use by other research teams, including those working in different disciplines. As a result, new research teams from across Canada will be able to re-use previously funded and developed software to accelerate their discoveries.

This funding is part of the Government of Canada’s $137 million investment supporting CANARIE’s 2020-24 mandate.

iEnvironment | Led by Dr. Donald D. Cowan, University of Waterloo

First funded by CANARIE in 2017, iEnvironment is a platform that supports environmental science and engineering research on surface water by providing researchers with the ability to easily access and share environmental data.

Software Evolution: To support new teams of surface water researchers across multiple disciplines, iEnvironment will add new features that enable data and application reuse and monitoring, adaptation management, and advanced data visualization and processing.