HR: 1340h
AN: H13A-0958    [Abstracts]
TI: CUAHSI Hydrologic Measurement Facility's Multiscale Evapotranspiration Node for the Hydrologic Sciences Community
AU: * Jacobs, J M
EM: jennifer.jacobs@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Department of Civil Engineering, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Loescher, H W
EM: hank.loescher@oregonstate.edu
AF: Oregon State University, Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, OR 97311,
AU: Hooper, R
EM: rhooper@cuahsi.org
AF: Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009, United States
AU: Duncan, J
EM: jduncan@cuahsi.org
AF: Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009, United States
AU: Selker, J
EM: selkerj@engr.orst.edu
AF: Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR 97311, United States
AB: The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences Inc. (CUAHSI) established the Hydrologic Measurement Facility (HMF) to transform watershed-scale hydrologic research by facilitating access to advanced instrumentation and expertise that would not otherwise be available to individual investigators. Through community input, a robust and flexible framework was established to identify, obtain, provide and disseminate the first suite of instrumentation that intends to form the basis of a new measurement facility for hydrologic research. CUAHSI HMF proposed to acquire, for community use, a suite of evapotranspiration (ET) and vadose zone instruments that includes new and emerging technology applicable for a range of scales and science questions: 2 Eddy Covariance System, an Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy system (for 18O in air and water), a Large Aperture Scintillometer, and a wireless soil water sensor network. In addition to instrumentation or "beam time", expert technical assistance in deployment and operation of the instrumentation, and data reduction, quality control, and post-processing support will be fully supported by a team of scientists and technicians. Upon a successful review, the ET suite will be rapidly available to support individual PIs to pursue their specific science questions through a competitive process. Additional opportunities for graduate student and undergraduate research and inquiry-based education as well as K-12 education are a cornerstone of this project.
UR: http://www.cuahsi.org/hmf.html
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1818 Evapotranspiration
DE: 1839 Hydrologic scaling
DE: 1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting