HR: 1340h
AN: H13A-0955    [Abstracts]
TI: The WATERS Network Conceptual Design
AU: * Tarboton, D G
EM: david.tarboton@usu.edu
AF: Utah State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4110 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, United States
AU: Schnoor, J L
EM: jschnoor@engineering.uiowa.edu
AF: University of Iowa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 116 Engineering Research Facility, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
AU: Haas, C N
EM: haas@drexel.edu
AF: Drexel University, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
AU: Minsker, B
EM: minsker@uiuc.edu
AF: University of Illinois, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 205 N Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
AU: Bales, R C
EM: rbales@ucmerced.edu
AF: University of California, Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA 95343, United States
AU: Hooper, R P
EM: RHooper@cuahsi.org
AF: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009, United States
AB: The Water and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network is a collaboration between the water- related Earth science and environmental engineering communities around a series of grand-challenge and strategic research questions. The vision of WATERS Network is to transform our ability to predict the quality, quantity and use of our nation's waters. The real transformative power of the WATERS Network lies in its ability to put sustained, spatially extensive, high-frequency information in the hands of researchers, information that will resolve how natural and engineered systems respond to perturbations. This knowledge then improves process understanding, and provides better predictive capabilities. In order to do this, the WATERS Network will create a national network of observatories equipped with multimedia sensors located across a range of different climatic and geographic regions and linked together by a common cyberinfrastructure. The network will incorporate existing and new environmental and socioeconomic data at various spatial and temporal scales. Data will include physical, chemical, and biological information to characterize surface water, ground water, land, socioeconomic and behavioral information to better frame human influences. Real-time data resources will be assimilated into an information system (cyberinfrastructure) that supports analytical tools and models, networking tools, and education and outreach services. The WATERS Network is an Environmental Observatory initiative of the U.S. National Science Foundation, developed in response to community planning over the past 10 years. It is being developed for the foundation's Engineering and Geosciences Directorates to jointly propose for funding consideration through the foundation's Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) account. This presentation will summarize the current status of planning for the WATERS Network.
UR: http://www.watersnet.org/
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1847 Modeling
DE: 1848 Monitoring networks
DE: 1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting