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    C U A H S I A N N U A L R E P O R T

    Universities Allied for Water Research

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    Consortium of Universities for the

    Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.

    196 Boston Ave, Suite 3000

    Medford, MA 02155, USA

    Tel: 339.221.5400

    This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

    under Grant Nos. 07-53521, 12-48152, and 13-38606.

    Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material

    are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

    http://www.cuahsi.org/
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    Dear Colleagues,

    During the past year, we have expanded the training opportunities offered by CUAHSI to include short courses forgraduate studentssuch as the Master Class on Watershed Science, held in January 2014and two virtual workshopswhich combined a webinar series with a virtual poster session. Emily Clark, our Training Coordinator, is working toexpand our offerings in 2015 with a broader program of hands-on workshops for instrumentation training and shortcourses to introduce graduate students to new disciplinary perspectives. A major new initiative is the National FloodInteroperability Experiment, a summer institute at the National Weather Services National Water Center in Tuscaloosa,Alabama planned for 2015. This institute will introduce a range of new data services from federal data providers to

    enable a new generation of flood forecasting models to be developed. The National Water Center provides a newmeans for the National Weather Service and other federal agencies, such as the US Geological Survey and the ArmyCorps of Engineers, to engage and to support the academic water science community.

    The Water Data Center is now in its second year of operation. We have made significant progress in moving servicesto the cloud to simplify data publication; a web-based client will be released shortly to enable data access fromany platform (including tablets and smart phones) without the need to install a program. At the same time, we aregathering examples for educational use and will be releasing a manual for place-based education to assist you inusing the new client in your classes.

    The Water Data Center will also assist you in meeting the data publication requirements for your NSF grant and inpreparing the Data Management Plan for your proposals. We have expanded our offerings to include publication ofGIS coverages in addition to time series data.

    Other programssuch as Pathfinder Fellowships and Lets Talk about Water Challenge grantshave received recordnumber of applications this year. Services from CUAHSI are expanding, thanks to support from youthe community.

    Your feedback on all of our services is vital. CUAHSI has unveiled a new web site with interactive capabilities.One-question surveys will be featured on our home page and there will be opportunities to comment on services.We encourage you to log into the site and to tell us what you think!

    On behalf of all the CUAHSI Staff, I want to thank you for your continued support of CUAHSI and we lookforward to serving you in 2015.

    Rick Hooper,President

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    Member Universit ies Arizona State University Auburn UniversityBoise State UniversityBrigham Young UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCity College New YorkClemson UniversityColorado School of MinesColorado State UniversityColumbia UniversityCornell University

    Dartmouth CollegeDrexel UniversityDuke UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyHarvard UniversityIndiana UniversityIowa State University

    Johns Hopkins UniversityKansas State UniversityLouisiana State UniversityMichigan State UniversityMichigan Technological UniversityMississippi State UniversityMontana State UniversityMurray State UniversityNew Mexico State UniversityNew Mexico TechNorthern Arizona UniversityNorthwestern UniversityOhio State UniversityOregon State UniversityPennsylvania State UniversityPortland State UniversityPrinceton University

    Purdue UniversityRutgers University (SUNJ)South Dakota State UniversitySouthern Illinois UniversityStanford UniversityState University of New York BuffaloState University of New York ESFSyracuse UniversityTemple UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTufts UniversityUniversity of AlabamaUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks

    University of ArizonaUniversity of ArkansasUniversity of California BerkeleyUniversity of California DavisUniversity of California IrvineUniversity of California MercedUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of Colorado - Boulder University of ConnecticutUniversity of DelawareUniversity of Florida

    University of GeorgiaUniversity of IdahoUniversity of IllinoisUniversity of IowaUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of Maryland - Baltimore CountyUniversity of MassachusettsUniversity of Massachusetts BostonUniversity of MemphisUniversity of MiamiUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of MontanaUniversity of NebraskaUniversity of Nevada - Las VegasUniversity of Nevada RenoUniversity of New HampshireUniversity of New MexicoUniversity of North CarolinaUniversity of North DakotaUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of South CarolinaUniversity of South FloridaUniversity of Tennessee

    University of Texas ArlingtonUniversity of Texas AustinUniversity of Texas - San AntonioUniversity of UtahUniversity of VermontUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of WisconsinUniversity of WyomingUtah State UniversityVirginia Tech UniversityWashington State UniversityWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    US AffiliatesCleveland State UniversityDesert Research Institute (DRI)Eastern Illinois UniversityPlymouth State UniversityRTI InternationalSmith CollegeSmithsonian Environmental ResearchCenter Stroud Water Research Center

    International Affiliates Australian Bureau of MeteorologyCentre for Ecology and HydrologyCIMA Research FoundationCommonwealth Scientic and Industria

    Research Organisation (CSIRO)Dalhousie UniversityPacic Geographical InstituteQueensland University of TechnologySwedish Hydrological Council (SHRUNESCO-IHE Institute for Water EducatUniversidad de las Amricas PueblaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of CopenhagenUniversity of LjubljanaUniversity of New BrunswickUniversity of PadovaUniversity of QuebecUniversity of QueenslandUniversity of SaskatchewanUniversity of Trento, ItalyUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of Zurich

    Yonsei University

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    Water Data CenterPage 6 - 7

    Community Hydrologic Modeling ResourcesPage 8

    Biennial Symposium on Water Science and EngineeringPage 9

    Education and OutreachPage 10 - 11

    Virtual WorkshopsPage 12

    Hands-on CoursesPage 13

    Financial OverivewPage 14

    GovernancePage 15

    Coming in 2015Page 16

    Mission Statement

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    Board of DirectorsPage 18

    Staff & ContactPage 19

    Table of Contents

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    Cloud-Based Data PublicationFor the rst time, researchers can now open a webbrowser and upload data directly to the Water DataCenter. The Cloud HydroServer currently consists ofa database to store data, a web service that is usedto share the data, and an application that enablesvalidation and upload of the data. Eliminating theneed to install software, improved user feedback, andenhanced reliability are all reasons why this tool willbecome a staple in data management for the waterscience community.

    Data Management Guidance

    WDC staff have been working closely with NSF todevelop tools and guidance for water researchersneeding to fulll Data Management Plan require-ments. In addition to developing the Cloud Hydro-Server, we have updated our Data Management Planguidance in collaboration with the NSF HydrologicSciences Program. Features have been added to theHIS Central Catalog so that data publishers can citethe sources of their funding and granting agenciescan retrieve a summary of published data, by grant.For time series data published with the WDC, theNational Science Foundation will soon require youto include a URL in the nal project report that

    points to the catalog summary of your data.

    The Water Data Center (WDC) continued to make strides in improving services for

    data access and publication available to water scientists during 2014. Throughout

    the year we have focused on moving our services from local computing infrastructure

    to the cloud for improved performance and reliability.

    At the conclusion of the second grant year, the WDC has nearly concluded the migrationprocess for the entirety of the Hydrologic Information System; moving the software

    stack for use on local infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. This shift away from

    local computing towards distributed infrastructure enables more reliability and makes

    it possible to scale resources efficiently and based upon demand.

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    Catalog Curation

    What goes into creating and maintaining adependable catalog of dozens of water datasources distributed throughout the worldon different computers and maintained bydifferent organizations? This is a question thatthe WDC staff wrestles with on a day to daybasis. The result has been a thorough testingof the data sources registered in the catalogas well as the development of a suite of toolsthat automate the testing process to ensurethe integrity of our catalog the biggest oneof its kind in the world!

    New Tools for Data AccessComing Soon

    The WDC looks forward to releasing a newtool for web-based access that will comple-ment our current data access software,HydroDesktop. This new application willenable you to simply open a web browser tosearch for and download data in our catalog,using a Google Maps interface. The rst fullrelease is scheduled for early 2015. With thesesimplied tools, the WDC is also working tocreate educational modules and a teachingmanual around place-based water scienceeducation using WDC services.

    The Water Data Center staff is composed ofDr. Alva Couch as Acting Director, softwareengineers Marie Martin, Martin Seul, andYaping Xiao, and User Support SpecialistJon Pollak. D. Scott Mackay of SUNY atBuffalo is the Chair of the InformaticsStanding Committee.

    CUAHSI can help you

    with your NSF grants

    Data Management

    Plan , components

    of which are shownin the graphic to the

    right. If your project

    is generating time

    series data then

    you can ful l NSFs

    requirements by

    publishing your data

    with us. We can also

    archive your GIS data

    with a Digital Object

    Identi er (DOI) and

    advise on how to

    archive and publishother data types.

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    EarthCube

    CUAHSI has assisted our community in engagingwith EarthCubethe cyberinfrastructure initiativeof the Geosciences Directorate of NSFby helpingwith many end-user workshops that explore whatcyberinfrastructure support is needed by ourscientists. As EarthCube enters a new phase ofdevelopment, CUAHSI continues to participate inEarthCube projects by connecting these projectswith users groups. The CUAHSI Water Data Centeralso uses the results of EarthCube projects as itpertains to plans for new services. One prominentexample is research to make the time series servedby the WDC interoperable with dynamic grids, such asthose used by the weather and climate community.The objective of this effort is to improve access toboth water and climate data.

    HydroShareCUAHSI continues to assist the HydroShare project,led by Dave Tarboton at Utah State and Ray Idaszakat RENCI (Univ. of North Carolina), in the design ofa collaboration system to allow scientists to sharedata and models. A prototype system has beendeveloped and will be rolled out to the community inthe coming year. HydroShare builds on the existing

    data services provided by the WDC to expand thetypes of data that can be discovered and sharedas well as adding modeling resources.

    Your feedback and engagement in these commu-nity modeling activities is required. Please sendany comments or questions to Rick Hooper

    HydroCLM (Community Land Model)

    The Community Land Model (CLM) is the terrestrialcomponent of Community Earth System Model(CESM) which is used by the climate community forthe quadrennial Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) reports. CUAHSI, in collaboration withNCAR, is working to enable the hydrology commu-nity to improve the representation of hydrologicprocesses in CLM. The hydrologic processes inCLM are quite simplified (and unrealistic) becausethe current model performance metrics are notsensitive to these processes. A committee, led byYing Fan Reinfelder of Rutgers University, is workingwith the CLM leadership team to define appropriatemetrics and to develop hydrologic test suites ofdata to be used as part of CLM diagnostics. Thesemetrics will be developed in the coming monthsand distributed for community comment.

    This effort to engage a large community modelingprocess is important at many levels. First, as waterscientists, we need to ensure our best understandingof terrestrial hydrology is contained in Earth Systemmodels. We need to define the performance metricsand to provide the data needed to test new versionsof CLM. This engagement needs to be done at

    the community level, rather than as individuals, toinfluence the evolution of CLM. Second, we canlearn from the climate science community how theyhave developed community models that serve asa reference model used as a benchmark to gageimprovements. Is it useful to collaborate on sucha reference model for other purposes, such as forwatershed processes, that could have broaderapplications to the interdisciplinary Earth Scienceresearch community.

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    I really enjoyed the mix of formal, thoughtful presentations and informal

    time to meet, reconnect, and engage in conversations with colleagues.

    Every two year, CUAHSI organizes a broad and high-level symposium on water science

    and engineering, so called the Biennial. This event brings together an array of water

    scientists of all levels, from undergraduate students to some of the most respected

    scientists in hydrology.

    CUAHSI welcomed nearly 200 attendees to the fourth iteration of this event held July 28 to 30, 2014 at the NationalConservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia with the theme: Water across the Critical Zone:Scaling from Local to Global Hydrology. Under the guidance of event chair Brian McGlynn (Duke University),this inspiring and productive meeting was the best Biennial yet. We were honored to have three outstandingplenary speeches from Jay Famiglietti (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Charles Vrsmarty (CUNY), and Ying FanReinfelder (Rutgers) as well as a variety of science session presentaions, discussions, and workshops.

    The eight concurrent science sessions included:Critical zone evolution: legacy influences on contemporary processesInstrumentation enabled science: advances and frontiersWater sustainability, climate, and human dimensionsEcohydrologyHydroclimatologyScaling in HydrologyDeep and shallow flow system interactionsAdvances in Community Modeling

    Furthermore, as a meeting focused on communityengagement, it was a pleasure to have the REU/RET groups from Stroud Water Research Center andPenn State in attendance with their capstone researchposters. Additionally, the Board of Directors was proud

    to announce the CUAHSI Community Service Awards toboth Anthony Aufdenkampe (Stroud) and David Freyberg(Stanford University) for thier outstanding contributions tothe water science community. As an added value to theregular science sessions, space and time was providedfor community-led workshops, Pathfinder Fellow pop-uptalks, and science communications events, including anevening `screening of Chasing Ice.

    Biennial SymposiumWater across the Critical Zone: Scalingfrom Local to Global Hydrology

    Anthony Aufdenkampe accepts the Community Service award from Brian McGlynnPhoto: Tara Muenz

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    CUAHSI education and outreach efforts in 2014 were geared toward promoting activitiesaround the new Water Data Center, initiating new online sharing ideas into our ongoing

    cyberseminar series, continuing our work with the Lets Talk about Water film educa-

    tion program, and providing ongoing support of graduate student research through the

    Pathfinder fellowship. CUAHSI aims to be a conduit for community information and a

    source of outreach support for water science opportunities around the world.

    CyberseminarsOur semesterly cyberseminar series are ever-growing inpopularity. More than 100 of these cyberseminars arenow archived online for viewing at any time or for inclu-sion into your curricula, including the 2014 series: SnowHydrologyhosted by Dr. Jessica Lundquist, University ofWashington, and Dr. Chris Hiemstra, Cold Regions Researchand Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and SustainableUrban Streams - Science to Support Evolving ManagementObjectiveshosted by Seth Wegner, University of Georgia.The CUAHSI Cyberseminars are held every Friday at 3pmeastern time for 4 - 6 sessions each semester.

    Additionally, CUAHSI hosted a special cyberseminar seriesbased upon an editorial section of Water Resources Researchtitled Debates - The future of hydrological sciences: a(common) path forward? Speakers included Upmanu Lallof Columbia University and Jeffrey McDonnell, Universityof Saskatchewan, and Keith Beven, Lancaster University.

    Lets Talk About WaterWith Linda Lilienfeld, an independent lm researcher,CUAHSI supports the Lets Talk About Water (LTAW)programa unique lm symposium that combines the power

    and inspiration of lm with the knowledge of an expertpanel. During LTAW events, the audience views a waterdocumentary (such as Chasing Ice, Flow, Gasland,or the based-on-true-events A Civil Action) followed bya moderated discussion with guests and panelists in aneffort to address complex water issues facing their localcommunities and society at large.

    Another signature CUAHSI program is the LTAW ChallengeGrant awards. CUAHSI awarded three grants for events in2014 to the University of New Hampshire, Michigan TechUniversity, and University of Kentucky. The 1-to-1 fundmatching LTAW Challenge Grant program is supported by

    the Johnson Family Foundation.

    Website and Social Media As a community organization, CUAHSI plays a valuablerole in disseminating information to the wider commu-nity through a variety of channels, including a websiteplatform that was redesigned in 2014. The new websiteplatform allows greater user interactivity, includingcommenting, social sharing, and advanced search. Asa service to the community, CUAHSI posts job listings,events, training, and other opportunities to our websiteand social media channels.

    Connect with us on Twitter @CUAHSI

    Linda Lilienfeld speaks at an LTAW event atUniversity of KentuckyPhoto: Emily Clark, CUAHSI

    http://www.twitter.com/CUAHSIhttp://www.twitter.com/CUAHSI
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    Pathfinder Fellow Kevin Roche worked withcolleagues at the WasserCluster in Lunz, Austria.

    Photo: Kevin Roche

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    Pathfinder FellowshipsEvery Fall, CUAHSI accepts applications from graduatestudents for the purpose of broadening their research beyondthe one site, one view approach. Up to $5000 in travelfunds are awarded to each fellow to conduct comparativeresearch, to collaborate with a research group using alter-nate approaches and modeling methods, or to work withresearchers on adding an interdisciplinary dimension to awater science research project. This program has beenongoing for ve years and Fellows remain engaged withCUAHSI; several attended the Biennial and participated ina highly-regarded Pathnder Pop-up Talk session.

    Emily Geosling leads CUAHSIs efforts on Educationand Outreach. Dr. Benjamin Ruddell of Arizona StateUniversity is the Chair of the Education & Outreach

    Standing committee.

    Pathnder Fellow Home University; Host Research Topic

    Jordan Beamer Oregon State University; Anthony

    Arendy, University of Alaska-Fairbanks

    Improved Glacier Runoff Simulations in anOperational Hydrological Model: Prince William

    Sound

    Jessica Ebert Univeristy of Colorado; WellingtonMasamba, University of Botswana

    Fate and transport of dissolved organic matterthrough aquatic systems: Application in the Okavango

    Delta, Botswana

    Minseok Kim Johns Hopkins Univer isty; PeterTroch, University of ArizonaNew ways to observe and model the relationship

    between ow and transport at hillslope scales

    Dongyue Li Ohio State University; Roger Bales,UC-Merced

    Improving the estimate of snow microwaveradiance for a better characterization of snow waterequivalent via a comparative study of maritime snow

    and continental snow

    Kevin Roche Northwestern University; Tom Battin,Universitt Wien Osterrich

    The response of benthic (river bottom) and hyporheicbiolms to varying hydrodynamic conditions at

    Northwestern University

    Dominik Schneider University of Colorado - Boulder; James McPhee, Universidad de Chile

    Establishing transferable sub-pixel relationships forestimating snow depth from remotely-sensed snow

    covered area and a DEM

    Bijan Seyednasrollah Duke University; Timothy Link,University of IdahoRole of vegetation density and pattern on net snow

    cover radiation at the forest oor

    Kristen Welsh-Unwala University of Idaho; David Williams,University of Wyoming

    Water balance components within an agriculturalmicrowatershed in Costa Rica to examine water owand contaminant pathways under different climate

    scenarios

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    This year, CUAHSI piloted two series of virtual workshops that took place entirely online. The

    virtual workshop concept consisted of several online cyberseminar sessions with advanced

    users of the technology or methodology culminating in a virtual poster session where poster

    presenters were able to remotely display and discuss their workwithout leaving the office.

    Due to the cost-effectiveness and convenience of this format, the virtual workshop has proven

    a successful supplement to in-person meetings, allowing more opportunities for scientificdiscussion and interaction. The technology is accessible internationally via web browser,

    which offers low barriers to entry and ease of access. Furthermore, all cyberseminars and

    posters are archived on the CUAHSI website for asynchronous viewing.

    Laser Specs for Biogeochemistry, January - February 2014CUAHSI and USGS co-hosted a workshop open to the wider community with the goal to exchange technicalinformation on robust application of laser spectrometry, both in eld deployment and for analyzing eldsamples in the lab, with a half-day manufacturers forum including presentations from Picarro Inc. and LosGatos Research as well as research perspectives from Ty Coplen of the USGS and Leonard Wassenaar of theIAEA, user seminars on research applications, and a virtual poster session with students and professors.

    Field Data Managment Solutions, September - October 2014The virtual workshop on Field Data Management Solutions was jointly sponsored by the LTER Network Office,the Critical Zone Observatory National Office, and the CUAHSI Water Data Center. Six cyber seminars werepresented; speakers were asked to share tools, techniques, and tricks for handling the increasing volumesof data that observatories and other eld sites are generating, and focus on solutions for data managementso that others could utilize the methods in their own research. The series culminated in a virtual postersession as well as vendor demonstrations from KISTERS and myObservatory.

    Instrumentation programs support advancing the use of instrumentation by the water science communthrough training, improved access, and encouraging the development of new technologies. CUAHSI orga

    trainings on cutting edge instrumentation and measurement techniques in conjunction with universresearchers, works with instrument providers such as the Center for Transformative Environmental Monito

    Programs (CTEMPS) to ensure community access and awareness, and collaborates with the US Geological Sthrough a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to support instrumentation development, acc

    to USGS services for our member universities, and other outreach opportun

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    Training Coordinator Emily Clark workswith course instructors to plan andexecute CUAHSIs hands-on training

    and virtual workshop programs. ErichHester of Virginia Tech is chair of theInstrumentation Standing Committee.

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    A tutorial during Hands-on Workshop, August 2014

    Photo: Eric Arvai, UC Berkeley

    Hands-on Training

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    National Science Foundation AwardsMost of the funding for CUAHSIs activities comes from a 5-year cooperative agreement with the NationalScience Foundation. This award funds most of the ongoing programs for education and outreach, instru-mentation training, community engagement, and support for data services. The award amount from thiscooperative agreement in 2014, the rst year of the renewed agreement, was $ 1,144,233. The Water DataCenter is also funded by NSF through a separate facilities agreement with some support directed from thecooperative agreement to this endeavor. The award amount for the WDC in 2014 was $ 1,029,887.

    External FundingCUAHSI also works with external foundations for additional programmatic funding and received a grantof $25,000 from the Johnson Family Foundation for the Lets Talk About Water program, allowing 1-to-1matching Challenge Grants for these events.

    MembershipMembership fees are a vital source of external funds for an organization that is almost fully dependenton federal grants. These funds allow some exibility in spending priorities and chiey serve towardthe creation of a six month reserve buffer in the case of an interruption of federal funding. Our currentmembership fund balance is $151,301.

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    Cooperative Expenditures 2014

    WDC

    Community modeling

    Training

    Ed Support Services

    Biennial

    Community Outreach

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    CUAHSI Vision

    We envision a diverse and dynamic scientifc community,enabled by shared infrastructure, developing an integrative

    understanding of interactions among water, earth,

    ecosystems, and society and the science necessary to

    achieve the sustainable management of water

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    CUAHSI is managed by a 15-person Board of Directors elected from the active

    US university membership to 3-year terms; this Board oversees and manages

    the operations, long-term planning, and finances of the non-profit corporation.

    All CUAHSI members are eligible to vote for the Board of Directors during the

    annual membership meeting in December. The Board of Directors is responsible

    for setting the direction of CUAHSI as an organization serving the water sciencecommunity. These ideas are compiled in a science plan which is written and

    published every few years; the next release is due mid-2015.

    The Board of Directors convenes monthly to oversee strategic direction and

    amend the organizational bylaws as necessary, while a 5-person Executive

    Committee convenes weekly to direct ongoing operations. The Board is advised

    by standing committees comprised of members of the academic community.Currently active standing committees include: Instrumentation, Informatics,

    and Education & Outreach.

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    ACTIVITIES IN 2015

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    2014 CUAHSI Board of Directors

    Diogo Bolster, University of Notre Dame

    Anne Carey, Ohio State University

    Michael Gooseff, Colorado State UniversityRobyn Hannigan, University of Massachusetts-Boston

    David Hyndman, Michigan State University

    Carol Johnston, South Dakota State University

    Witold Krajewski, University of Iowa

    Brian McGlynn, Duke University

    Holly Michael, University of DelawareTodd Rasmussen, University of Georgia

    Peter Troch, University of Arizona

    Scott Tyler, University of Nevada-Reno

    Al Valocchi, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

    Brian Waldron, University of Memphis

    David White, Murray State Universityity

    2014 CUAHSI Officers

    President: Rick Hooper

    Secretary: Adam Ward

    Treasurer: Rina Schumer

    Chair: Scott Tyler

    Past Chair: Robyn Hannigan

    Chair-Elect: Al Valocchi

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    Dr. Richard Hooper Executive Director Emily Geosling Communications Manager Emily Clark Training Coordinator Jessica Annadale Controller Helen Casey Accounting Assistant

    Dr. Alva Couch Water Data Center Interim DirectorJon Pollak User Support Specialist Marie Martin Water Data Center EngineerMartin Seul Water Data Center EngineerYaping Xiao Water Data Center Engineer C

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    Contact UsConsortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.

    Phone: (339) 221-5400Fax: (781) 219-4029

    Email: [email protected]: @CUAHSI

    Website: www.cuahsi.org

    Cover: Copyright rolffimages / 123RF Stock Photos

    All stock photos: 123RF

    Photos courtesy of Emily Clark, Kevin Roche, Jon Pollak, Tara Muenz, Eric Arvai

    Layout and Editing: Emily Geosling

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