Welcome to our October newsletter: as always, we're excited to share with you the latest updates and developments from the world of integrated hydro..
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| Message from the President
We're thrilled to announce that HydroSphereAI has won the 2025 Water Canada New Tech Award! This award recognizes technologies that are redefining what’s possible in the Canadian water sector, and we’re incredibly proud to see HydroSphereAI recognized as a leader in machine learning AI-powered streamflow forecasting. |
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We also released the third HydroClimateSight Feature Highlight this month, focused on real-time soil moisture forecasting on demand. This innovation combines weather data, advanced modelling, and cloud automation to provide hyper-local soil moisture forecasts— helping farmers and planners make confident, data-driven decisions in the field.
Lastly, we've got two exciting webinars coming this December which you can sign up for down below.
Thank you for being a part of the Aquanty community and staying connected with us, we look forward to sharing more updates with you as we head into November.
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| At Aquanty, we're redefining how soil moisture forecasting for precision agriculture. Our latest innovation brings together real-time weather data, advanced hydrologic modelling, and cloud automation to deliver accurate, hyper-local soil moisture forecasts, on demand, at the click of a button. Built for farmers, consultants, researchers, and planners, this tool provides the insights needed to optimize irrigation, support crop health, and plan field operations with confidence. Check out the feature highlight on our blog. |
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| Model simplification to simulate groundwater recharge from a perched gravel-bed river This publication investigates model simplification strategies to simulate groundwater recharge from perched gravel-bed rivers. The study leverages HydroGeoSphere (HGS) as a fully integrated 3D surface–subsurface model, alongside 2D cross-sectional and 1D analytical models, to address long-standing challenges in representing river–aquifer interactions while reducing computational demands. Read More.
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Improving precision in regional scale numerical simulations of groundwater flow into underground openings This staff research highlight introduces a novel numerical framework to improve the accuracy of regional-scale groundwater flow simulations into underground openings, such as tunnels and deep geological repositories. Traditionally, simulating groundwater inflows into engineered underground structures has involved significant simplifications, often treating tunnels as drain features or imposing boundary conditions that fail to fully capture the physical behavior of fluid flow around these voids. This research addresses those limitations by introducing a new numerical boundary condition to HydroGeoSphere to simulate groundwater flow into underground openings more accurately. Read More.
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| Intro to HydroGeoSphereNext session: November 5, 2025
Every month Aquanty's technical sales lead Brayden McNeill delivers a FREE half-day training session. Our Introduction to HydroGeoSphere training sessions cover essential topics such as the basic HGS workflow, the essential components of a *.grok file and visualizing model results. |
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| Find our monthly HGS software update on our 'HGS Downloads' page, the October 2025 monthly software update is now available. This release delivers refinements to initialization commands, improvements to total dissolved solids (TDS) handling, and performance enhancements across grok and hgs2vtu— making model setup faster, more stable, and more flexible.
Key updates include:
1) New hgs2vtu command --time-series-only – Processes only time series files, saving time and resources
2) New locked in tds no mass balance command – Skips redundant mass balance computations in fixed-density systems
3) New initial head from saturation command – Computes initial head from a user-defined water saturation value
4) Fix for initialization from depth-saturation tables – Resolved a crash when processing tables with more than 100 rows
5) Refactored TDS handling – Optimized locked in tds to perform only one flow and transport solve per time step, reducing runtime
6) Updated initial head calculations – Uses a volume-weighted average for improved accuracy
As always, we are committed to the continued improvement to the user experience. Do you have suggestions for new commands or improvements to the user experience? Send your ideas to [email protected]!
Read the release notes to see recent improvements to HydroGeoSphere. |
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