Conference poster
WATERS Network: An Initiative of the U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering and Geosciences Directorates
Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting
01/01/2006
Abstract
Degradation of our nation's water resources is occurring at an unprecedented rate as a result of changes in the ways in which we interact with our environment. Unfortunately engineers, scientists, and policy makers have been hampered in their ability to respond to these rapid changes because we lack sufficient knowledge on the dynamics and spatial variability of environmental processes, and on how decadal and centennial environmental change influences these processes. However, with recent advances in information technology and environmental sensors, researchers are now in a position to answer questions about multiscale, spatiotemporally distributed hydrologic and environmental phenomena through the use of remote and embedded networked sensing technologies and supporting cyberinfrastructure. The {\bf WAT}er and {\bf E}nvironmental {\bf R}esearch {\bf S}ystems Network (WATERS Network), a joint collaboration between the CLEANER Project Office and CUAHSI, Inc and funded by the National Science Foundation Engineering and Geosciences Directorates, will be an integrated observing system that will transform our ability to predict the quality and quantity of the nation's waters in real time. The network will consist of: a. a national network of interacting nested field sites across a range of spatial scales, climate and land-use/cover conditions b. teams of investigators studying human-stressed landscapes, with an emphasis on water problems; c. specialized support personnel, facilities, and technology; and d. integrative cyberinfrastructure to provide a shared-use network as the framework for collaborative analysis With the construction of the WATERS Network, individual investigators will have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage data from laboratory investigations and single field sites with data collected nationwide and to collaborate with their colleagues in real-time on complex environmental research questions. Once completed, it will enable multi-scale, dynamic predictive modeling for water, sediment, and water quality including near-real- time assimilation of data, feedback for observatory design, and point- to national-scale predictions. This poster will give an overview of the draft WATERS Network vision and conceptual design, which will be available for online community comment in February and March 2007 at http://www.watersnet.org.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- WATERS Network: An Initiative of the U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering and Geosciences Directorates
- Creators
- J L MontgomeryB MinskerC N HaasJ SchnoorR HooperW GrahamK DresslerT HarmonD MaidmentD ReibleC WeltyJ L Wilson
- Resource Type
- Conference poster
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9983997985402771
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