👋 Welcome to AquaScope Discussions! Introduce yourself and tell us what you study

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👋 Welcome to AquaScope Discussions!

This is the home for the AquaScope community — researchers, engineers, students, and practitioners working on water quality, hydrology, flood frequency, and agricultural water management.

If you've ever wrangled USGS / GEMStat / AQUASTAT / WaPOR data, fit a Bulletin 17C flood-frequency curve, or planned crop water requirements with FAO-56 — you're in the right place.

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🧭 What you can do here

Category	Use it for
📣 Announcements	Release notes, breaking changes, roadmap updates (maintainer-only)
❓ Q&A	How do I…? — install issues, API questions, methodology choices
💡 Ideas	Feature requests, new methodologies, new data sources
🙌 Show and tell	Share an analysis, dashboard, or paper you built with AquaScope
🌍 General	Anything water-data-adjacent: standards, datasets, papers worth reading

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👉 To get started — comment below with:

1. Who you are (researcher, student, engineer, agency, hobbyist — all welcome).
2. What water/hydrology/agriculture problem you're working on.
3. What region or data sources you care about most (Taiwan? USGS? FAO WaPOR? Something we don't have yet?).
4. One thing you wish a tool like AquaScope did better.

Your answer to #4 directly shapes the roadmap. Don't be shy.

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📚 Useful links

• 📖 README — features, quick start, citation
• 🧪 Theory guide — equations + DOI references for every method
• 🗺️ Roadmap
• 🐛 Bug report — issues, not Discussions, for reproducible bugs
• 🤝 Contributing guide

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🤝 Community guidelines

• Be kind. Treat every question as a good question — water data is messy and everyone is learning.
• Cite your sources. If you reference a method, paper, or dataset, link it.
• Stay on topic. Off-topic / promotional posts will be moved or removed.
• Bugs → Issues, questions → Q&A, wishes → Ideas, wins → Show and tell.

Looking forward to meeting you. Drop your intro below 👇