HR: 17:45h
AN: H24A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network
AU: * Houser, P R
EM: houser@iges.org
AF: Center for Research on Environment and Water, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705-3106, United States
AU: Belvedere, D R
EM: debbie@iges.org
AF: Center for Research on Environment and Water, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705-3106, United States
AU: Pozzi, W H
EM: wpozzi@iges.org
AF: Center for Research on Environment and Water, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705-3106, United States
AU: Imam, B
EM: bimam@uci.edu
AF: University of California, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Irvine, CA 92697-2175, United States
AU: Schiffer, R
EM: schiffer@umbc.edu
AF: Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
AU: Lawford, R
EM: lawford@umbc.edu
AF: Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
AU: Schlosser, C A
EM: casch@MIT.EDU
AF: MIT, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Boston, MA 02139, United States
AU: Gupta, H
EM: hoshin.gupta@hwr.arizona.edu
AF: University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Tucson, AZ 8572, United States
AU: Welty, C
EM: weltyc@umbc.edu
AF: Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
AU: Vorosmarty, C
EM: charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Complex Systems Research Center Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH 0382, United States
AU: Matthews, D
EM: hydrometdss@comcast.net
AF: Hydromet DSS, 456 Spring Beauty Dr. PO BOX 1848 LLC, Silverthorne, CO 80498-1848, United States
AB: Water is essential to life and directly impacts and constrains society's welfare, progress, and sustainable growth, and is continuously being transformed by climate change, erosion, pollution, and engineering practices. The water cycle is a critical resource for industry, agriculture, natural ecosystems, fisheries, aquaculture, hydroelectric power, recreation, and water supply, and is central to drought, flood, transportation-aviation, and disease hazards. It is therefore a national priority to use advancements in scientific observations and knowledge to develop solutions to the water challenges faced by society. NASA's unique role is to use its view from space to improve water and energy cycle monitoring and prediction. NASA has collected substantial water cycle information and knowledge that must be transitioned to develop solutions for all twelve National Priority Application (NPA) areas. NASA cannot achieve this goal alone –it must establish collaborations and interoperability with existing networks and nodes of research organizations, operational agencies, science communities, and private industry. Therefore, WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network goal is to improve and optimize the sustained ability of water cycle researchers, stakeholders, organizations and networks to interact, identify, harness, and extend NASA research results to augment decision support tools and meet national needs. WaterNet is a catalyst for discovery and sharing of creative solutions to water problems. It serves as a creative, discovery process that is the entry-path for a research–to-solutions systems engineering NASA framework, with the end result to ultimately improve decision support.
UR: http://www.crew.iges.org/research/waternet
DE: 1878 Water/energy interactions (0495)
DE: 6929 Ionospheric physics (1240, 2400)
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting