Conference proceeding
Integrated Hydrologic Science and Environmental Engineering Observatory: CLEANERs Vision for the WATERS Network
Proceedings of the 2006 American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly
05/01/2006
Abstract
With increasing population and urban development, societies grow more and more concerned over balancing the need to maintain adequate water supplies with that of ensuring the quality of surface and groundwater resources. For example, multiple stressors such as overfishing, runoff of nutrients from agricultural fields and confined animal feeding lots, and pathogens in urban stormwater can often overwhelm a single water body. Mitigating just one of these problems often depends on understanding how it relates to others and how stressors can vary in temporal and spatial scales. 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. It is now possible for data streaming from sensor networks to be integrated by a rich cyberinfrastructure encompassing the innovative computing, visualization, and information archiving strategies needed to cope with the anticipated onslaught of data, and to turn that data around in the form of real-time water quantity and quality forecasting. Recognizing this potential, NSF awarded \2 million to a coalition of 12 institutions in July 2005 to establish the CLEANER Project Office (Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research; http://cleaner.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Over the next two years the project office, in coordination with CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.; http://www.cuahsi.org, will work together to develop a plan for a WATer and Environmental Research Systems Network (WATERS Network), which is envisioned to be a collaborative scientific exploration and engineering analysis network, using high performance tools and infrastructure, to transform our scientific understanding of how water quantity, quality, and related earth system processes are affected by natural and human-induced changes to the environment. This presentation will give an overview of the draft CLEANER program plans for the WATERS Network and next steps.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Integrated Hydrologic Science and Environmental Engineering Observatory: CLEANERs Vision for the WATERS Network
- Creators
- J L MontgomeryB S MinskerJ SchnoorC HaasJ BonnerC DriscollE EschenbachT FinholtJ GlassT HarmonJ JohnsonA KrupnikD ReibleA SandersonM SmallJ Van Briesen
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2006 American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9983997435302771
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