In the Fall 2025, I was in a cohort for completing the Digital Marketing Bootcamp through Jelly Academy. This was an opportunity made available through public funding for taking courses and boosting skills in Digital Marketing. I started this course with some knowledge through some basic social media management, managing a YouTube channel (outside of…
Have you ever started a project, or stumbled upon a gauge while investigating an area, and had to spend hours finding the flow data? Ever wished you could understand the approximate flood frequency peaks in just a few seconds? If so, check out our new dashboard for flood frequency analysis (FFA) on Water Survey of…
Did you know that you can process rasters in R in multiple ways? By raster processing, we mean reading a raster file into R and performing some calculations with it. This can be as simple as finding the minimum value in the raster or as complex as using multiple rasters in a conditional function to…
Blackbird and Heron were featured in a University of Waterloo News Bulletin item on the future of climate resiliency. This article discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies, such as Blackbird, may hold the key to climate resiliency. The article features Heron Hydrologic co-founder and Blackbird developer Dr. Robert Chlumsky, as well as University…
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The long-awaited Ontario Lake and River Routing Product (OLRRP) v2.0 is now available! This product covers the Province of Ontario with a set of discretized basins that are directly useful in hydrologic modelling and other related applications, including complete lake and reservoir information within the Province (a non-trivial benefit). The product can be further simplified…
Yesterday was a big day for the Blackbird project at the Velocity Pitch Competition Finals! The Blackbird project, pitched by co-founder Robert Chlumsky, was selected as one of the four winners of the pitch competition and award $5K in funding from Velocity. The competition format included a three minute pitch followed by three minutes of…
New Advanced Raven course offering – save the date! We will be offering an Advanced Raven Training course virtually, from Feb 21-23 2024. The course will cover topics for more advanced users, including: – Rapid Raven model development– BasinMaker for delineation inputs– Gridded data and NetCDF handling– Latest reservoir management schemes– and much more! More…
Founder Robert Chlumsky was recently featured in the Report on Giving from the University of Waterloo, which was included in today’s Daily Bulletin! In this interview, Rob discusses receiving the Jain Family Award for Entrepreneurship, what it means to him, and why working on Blackbird for flood mapping is so exciting. Read the post and…
