**Abstract Text**
The Water Survey of Canada (WSC) is the national agency responsible for the collection, interpretation and dissemination of standardized water resource data and information in Canada. WSC designed, developed and implemented an enhanced field connectivity workflow in 2022 which revolutionized data correction timeliness and station visit results dissemination. Leveraging the Microsoft365 environment, gauging station field visits including sensor calibrations, discharge measurements, photos, and data downloads are pipelined through a cloud-based platform with automated Quality Assurance Quality Control and notifications to dedicated staff. These staff process over ninety percent of field visits within one business day, with over sixty percent being processed on the same day during extreme events. Data confidence and quality are increased by analyzing results and applying corrections to the stage time-series, the rating model, and to the discharge time-series. Corrected data are updated and available to partners and external users within five minutes of the application of any corrections. Partner agencies (Canadian provinces and territories) have benefited greatly from the near real-time corrections to data available on the WSC website and associated data sources – particularly during record flooding events in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario in the Spring of 2022. The adoption of this platform required the training and ongoing support of over two hundred field staff working in twenty-four offices, visiting nearly three thousand gauging stations across Canada. This new system continues to evolve with lessons learned from over twelve thousand station visits processed in 2022, with increased sophistication, more efficiency and expanding opportunities for automation.



Field Connectivity for near Real-Time Data Correction (Room 322, Tuesday June 27th, 4:00pm-5:30pm)

Engineers, researchers, and climate scientists share developments and innovative practices in the water engineering industry. The Technical Committee for Hydraulics Measurements and Experimental Methods (TCHMEM) of EWRI has organized the HMEM conference six times since 1994, when the first HMEM conference was held in Buffalo, NY. Since then, successful conferences were held in Estes Park, Colorado (2002), Lake Placid, New York (2007), Snowbird, Utah (2012), and Durham, New Hampshire (2017).