Education and training in hydroinformatics

Abstract

The practice of hydroinformatics calls for an education in a number of basic subjects and a further education and training in the ways in which knowledge and information arising from the corresponding subject areas can be integrated into hydroinformatics products and services. Even if only because of its multidisciplinary basis, hydroinformatics is not suited to a conventional undergraduate education, so that education must proceed at a postgraduate level and be augmented by practical training. A postgraduate course in hydroinformatics and its associated training programme are described and some if the more basic problems that have been experienced are introduced.