HR: 16:00h
AN: H34D-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Observatories as a Community Platform for Integrative Science
AU: * Hooper, R P
EM: rhooper@cuahsi.org
AF: CUAHSI, 2000 Florida Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009
AU: Duncan, J M
EM: jduncan@cuahsi.org
AF: CUAHSI, 2000 Florida Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009
AB: CUAHSI and CLEANER are developing a joint science and infrastructure plan aimed at dramatically increasing our understanding of the nation's water resources. Critical to this understanding is exploring the physical and disciplinary interfaces of emerging areas such as hydropedology. Research spanning traditional disciplinary boundaries at larger spatial scales than is common today is an essential component of observatories. As currently envisioned, observatories will collect a multitude of data pertaining to fundamental properties such as fluxes, flowpaths, residence times, and storages. This approach facilitates the advancement of synergistic science by providing the integrative platform to target knowledge gaps. Soil-water interactions across scales are a first order determinant on a number of hydrological processes. For instance, understanding how different soil types are structured and formed on the landscape could improve our ability to predict flow and transport through the unsaturated zone.
UR: http://www.cuahsi.org
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1804 Catchment
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005