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UI CYBERENVIRONET GROUP MEETING
May 5, 2005
Agenda
1. Discussion of the NSF CI-TEAM Proposal (T. Papanicolaou)
2. Clear Creek CI pilot testbed (M. Muste)
3. CyberEnviroNet group perspective on CUAHSI- CLEANER joint action (M. Muste)
Clear Creek, a tributary of the Iowa River, drains a watershed of approximately 270 km2 subjected to considerable anthropogenic influence. Since Iowa was first settled, Iowa has lost more than 95% of its wetlands, ranking it third in the U.S. behind California and Ohio for percent of wetlands lost per state. Clear Creek’s sinuosity has decreased over time, as wetlands have been drained, water has been canalized, and stream flow regimes have been altered (Rayburn et al., 2004). The significance of this watershed consists in its inclusion of wetlands, agricultural and urbanized catchments that allow inference on the different effects of human intervention on the natural landscape. The small size of the watershed makes it ideal for successively redeploying the instruments in various catchments. Currently the watershed is a focal Iowa observational watershed where intensive measurements are planned to understand and promote positive land use practices. The joint efforts include those by the USGS, IDNR, IIHR, along with sundry informal watershed-coalition groups.
PROPOSED LINES OF ACTIONS 1. Design and deployment of a mobile multi-process observational node.
Gathering information on facilities and expertise on data collection, data-quality control, data management using relational databases, automatic plotting and presentation of results on websites, and the use web servers to make databases accessible to users (for further study, education or water-resource management).
- Both 1 and 2 are ongoing activities for the NSF CI-TEAM proposal. - Additional information to be submitted to: melhakee@engineering.uiowa.edu no later than May 15. The assembled CI components will be incorporated in the NSF CI-TEAM Proposal.
CyberEnviroNet group perspective on CUAHSI- CLEANER joint action
NSF STATUS ON CYBER
1. NSF’s Margaret Leinen (GEO) and John Brighton (ENG) want to see clear evidence of integration of the Engineering and Hydrology disciplines that can result only from the review of a concrete Science and Implementation Plan by the interested communities.
2. It is critical to move beyond disciplinary definitions (largely resulting from NSF Directorates) to the watershed community of scientists--hydrologists, geomorphologists, environmental engineers, biogeochemists, ecologists, etc.). Pat Brezonik (ENG) and Doug James (EAR) are committed to integrating the CLEANER and CUAHSI efforts to the greatest extent possible. NEON is on a rigid schedule, but the outlines of what their science plan and even their detailed "project execution plan" are should be clear by the end of 2005.
CUAHSI ACTIONS (excerpts from Rick Hooper emails)
It is vital that NSF senior management hear your opinion of environmental observatories and how your research would benefit from them. Your opinion on all the planning efforts--NEON, CLEANER, CUAHSI, Weathering Systems Science, Carbon Cycle Research and Limnology--and your opinions on how or whether to combine them are also important.
1. Strategy Planning Session (Chicago, IL June 16). CUAHSI will pay the travel costs for one member of each of the HO teams that have submitted a prospectus to attend a planning session on next steps for implementation of HOs. – HO Illinois will be there.
INTERIM FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
CyberEnviroNet website needs to be refreshed:
Review and update by May 30: WORKGROUP PROJECTS / PRESENTATIONS / MEETINGS PARTNERSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES SYNERGISTIC INFORMATION
Info send to marian-muste@uiowa.edu |
