The MAGNET4WATER (M4W) cyberinfrastructure is owned and maintained by Hydrosimulatics INC., a small business spin-off from Michigan State University (MSU) that began operations in 2019.

The Hydrosimulatics team of engineers and innovators is relatively small, but collectively has significant cross-cutting experience and expertise – from hydrology and water management, to spatial data processing and analysis, numerical modeling and computational aspects, and IT and computer science. Representing the cumulative achievements over the past 25 years, Hydrosimulatics has developed a first-of-its-kind, cloud-powered, data-enabled, realtime interactive platform for exploratory statistical data analysis, geostatistics, stochastic modeling, and process-based modeling and visualization of various water systems (both natural and designed), including: groundwater, watersheds (runoff and infiltration), river and stream networks, urban catchments and storm-sewer networks, and drinking water distribution networks.

Real-World Experience & Consulting Services

Over the past two decades, members of our team have been involved in a number of water resource investigations and management projects – from contamination and cleanup, to long-term water use and environmental sustainability, and ecosystem protection and low impact construction (see our Case Studies page ).

A past emphasis has been placed on groundwater consulting, although our M4W technology and collective expertise of our team allows us to also tackle real-world problems relating to surface water or urban water systems – in a way that is significantly cheaper and more efficient for our clients.

Consulting Services in support of water resources / environmental management include:

• Groundwater Modeling
• Watershed Modeling
• River Networks and Floodplains Modeling
• Urban Water Systems Modeling
• Water Distribution Systems Modeling
• System Visualization and Conceptual Modeling (Data Visualization)

Databases and Data Service Development

The Hydrosimulatics team can help organizations and institutions create their own custom standardized databases for holistic water / environmental management. A set of web data services can be developed that allows team members to securely access (via password authentication) and visualize and model with their data via the internet, removing the need for individuals to download or move data from machine to machine. The processed data is formatted following international Open Geospatial Consortium standards, meaning they can work directly with the M4W visualization and simulation technologies (as well as other GIS based software).

Closed Platform Development

We can build confidential, geographically restricted (in terms of modeling area coverage, not user access) instances of the M4W platforms for organizations and institutions requiring specific linkages to their existing datastores and/or unique workflows and analyses to be built into the existing (general) M4W platforms. The custom, “closed” platforms benefit from the visualization and simulation capabilities of the general M4W platforms while also meeting the unique needs of the clients.

Education and Outreach

The Hydrosimulatics INC. team develops and provides access to a number of M4W-based student exercises, including: short reading / video assignments, homework problems, and capstone projects. At this time, most of the content is centered on groundwater science and engineering, but each platform has a set of growing curriculum materials.