| NSF Org: |
EAR Division Of Earth Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | March 26, 2013 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | April 22, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1248152 |
| Award Instrument: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Program Manager: |
Russell Kelz
EAR Division Of Earth Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | April 1, 2013 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2017 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $2,478,142.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $2,685,070.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2014 = $949,887.00 FY 2015 = $949,608.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1167 MASSACHUSETTS AVE STE 410 ARLINGTON MA US 02476-4346 (339)226-7445 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
196 Boston Avenue, Suite 2100 Medford MA US 02155-4236 |
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Performance Congressional District: |
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| NSF Program(s): |
Hydrologic Sciences, Instrumentation & Facilities |
| Primary Program Source: |
01001314DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01001415DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
1248152
Hooper
This Cooperative agreement supports the Consortium for the Advancement of the Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI) to construct and maintain a web-accessible water-data center (WDC) that builds off the prototype Hydrologic Information System (HIS) developed at the University of Texas. Over the next three years , WDC development will offer new access to water data holdings, discovery tools, archival and sharing/publishing capabilities and will build a consistent set of data format standards definitions, data format translators, analysis software tools, mobile platform applications and provide for user training and support. WDC will provide access to a range of water data now held in a multitude of data formats and across numerous platforms with vastly different access tools. Data to be ingested in WDC will include the data holdings of the USGS National Water Information Service, EPA and NOAAs National Climate Data Center (NCDC), other federal and state agency data holdings, and academic and private foundation water data holdings. WDC will integrate the use of cloud computing and data services to facilitate data discovery and use and include tools for real time state-of-health monitoring of operational sensor networks. The WDC concept directly addresses NSF data policies and will be integrated into in a growing network of geoscience information system services (e.g., Unidata, OpenTopography, EarthChem through participation in GEOs EarthCube initiative). WDC PIs will continue international efforts for developing and adopting consistent data standards for hydrologic observation web-base publication through participation in international standards-setting bodies (e.g., the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)). The PIs also plan a set of outreach activates focused on Native Americans (in collaboration with tribal college and governmental partners) for building and development of water management data tools in support of the tribal resources management needs.
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This project funded the creation of a new facility--the CUAHSI Water Data Center (WDC)--to serve the hydrologic and the broader earth and environmental science community with data access and data publication services. This facility supports the re-use of data, funded by the National Science Foundation and other government agencies, for scientific discovery. Data about water is needed by many disciplines in the natural sciences, in engineering, and social sciences.
The intellecutal innovations in the WDC is the use of a 'services-oriented architecture' by which the WDC hosts a catalog describing data holdings but does not have to store the data themselves, hence vastly reducing the amount of data storage hardware that must be supported. A user need only open a web browser to access a data discovery interface that allows the user to select data based upon location, time span, and properties measured. The catalog has grown to incorporate data from approximately 100 different services including federal government agencies (such as USGS, NASA, and NOAA) as well as from universities and non-governmental organizations such as citizen watershed groups.
An example of the use of these data services outside of academic research is provided by the experience of the Shale Network, organized by Penn State Universtiy.The Shale Network used the WDC to host data from dozens of watershed monitoring groups in WV and PA impacted by natural gas development thorugh fracking. The WDC enabled groups to see one another's data as well as to put their data into context of data collected by the USGS and the Commonwelath of Pennsylvania. This data access enabled a more constructive dialog between the companies operating the gas wells and the citizen's groups because all parties were looking a the same data.
A second example of the impact of this technology has been the development of the National Water Model, which uses the data standards that were developed as part of this project, to do high-resolution flood forecasting for the conterminous US. These forecasts are publically available and are being used by the academic research community to in mulitple ways, including determining how to improve the accuracy of the forecasts.
Thus, the WDC enables scientists to access with vast quantities of data and to publish data that they collect so that others can use them. These technologies enable research to be conducted in a different way than in the past. Scientists can work at much larger spatial scales more easlly but also locate areas with the apprpriate climatic, geologic, or land cover setting, to test their hypotheses.
Operation of the WDC is being continued under the CUAHSI Community Cooperative Agreement, EAR-1338606
Last Modified: 05/30/2017
Modified by: Richard P Hooper
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