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Carol A. Johnston

Professor, Department of Biology and Microbiology — South Dakota State University

Ecosystem and landscape ecologists rely on hydrologic science to understand fluxes of water and waterborne materials that influence important environmental processes. As an ecologist and a soil scientist, I could offer a unique perspective to the CUAHSI Board of Directors. I have been a CUAHSI primary representative since 2004, and appreciate how CUAHSI's outreach through email, website, cyberseminars, and online annual meetings enables an isolated state like South Dakota to participate in an international organization at the cutting-edge of hydrologic science. As funding for travel to professional meetings tightens for CUAHSI members, such low-cost mechanisms of community building will become increasingly important. I would work to promote the interface between ecology and hydrology, as I did when I served on the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board (1994-2000) and as Program Director for the NSF Ecosystem Studies Program (2000-2002).

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Witold Krajewski

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering — University of Iowa

I would like to thank those who nominated me for their confidence and trust in my ability to effectively serve our community. The University of Iowa was a founding member of CUAHSI and I have been representing the university since then. Early on, I was involved in several CUAHSI projects, and more recently I have followed its progress with great interest. While CUAHSI has made good strides, we have a long way to go before hydrology wins the respect it deserves among the geosciences. As society begins to realize the importance of water resources for the future of humankind, hydrology needs to be better funded. Our research ought to provide the scientific underpinnings in national and international planning and policy debates concerning floods and droughts, groundwater use, ecology, and the role of the water cycle in shaping climate processes. If elected, I intend to work unselfishly, arm-in-arm with other Board members to provide our community with the necessary resources to best serve societal needs with our expertise and knowledge. Through my research projects such as Hydro-NEXRAD, our mobile network of X-band polarimetric radars, the development of sensor networks, and my service as editor of Advances in Water Resources, I believe I have demonstrated my ability and willingness to serve our community.

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Xu Liang

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering — University of Pittsburgh

I am honored to be nominated as a candidate to the CUAHSI Board of Directors. Over the years, CUAHSI has played and will, I believe, continue to play a unique role in the following important aspects: (1) integrating various voices and concerns of the hydrological community to form and reach consensus, (2) coordinating diverse interests and fundamental community research infrastructure developments among various sub-disciplines of hydrology and water resources, (3) initiating new and challenging frontiers and key research issues facing hydrological sciences and engineering, (4) promoting accessibilities of activities and facilities to students and researchers, and (5) bridging views between the hydrological community and the general public. My initial involvement with CUAHSI was through the Hydrologic Information System (HIS) committee in its early stage. I hope to continue making my contributions to CUAHSI with my expertise, vision, and knowledge, and to promote and advance CUAHSI's goals and its unique role. My research interests and experiences include land surface and hydrologic modeling, data assimilation, scaling, hydro-informatics, wireless sensors and sensor network for environmental monitoring, and hydrometeorology.

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Larry Murdoch

Professor, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences — Hydrogeology Program, Clemson University

I have had the privilege of serving on the CUAHSI Board of Directors for the past three years and I am running for another term because I believe I have more to contribute. I was active during my time on the Board, attending every Board meeting and contributing to a variety of workshops, conferences, and other meetings on CUAHSI's behalf. During this time, I collaborated with colleagues on the Board to develop a new CUAHSI initiative in community modeling. This initiative is appealing because it has the potential to help CUAHSI members, and others in the hydrology community, achieve important science objectives and advance their missions in teaching and learning (more info here: CHyMP; HydroHub). The initiative was organized and launched over the past two years and I want to serve on the Board for another three years to advance it far enough to start providing benefits to the community. I am also optimistic that the upcoming strategic planning process will sharpen the vision for CUAHSI and I think I can make meaningful contributions to the development and execution of this important plan.

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Aaron Packman

Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering — Northwestern University

I am greatly honored that the current CUAHSI leadership nominated me to serve on the Board of Directors, and if elected I will do my best to develop our community science agenda within the context of broader freshwater research efforts. I spearheaded Northwestern's involvement in CUAHSI, and have been the NU representative since its inception. Beyond my efforts with CUAHSI, I have been more broadly involved in a variety of technical committees and panels for professional societies, federal agencies, and international organizations, including AGU, ASCE, NSF, DOE, EPA, and UNESCO. My service has ranged from developing technical guidance documents to helping to establish federal research priorities to organizing technical sessions and conferences, including the AGU-NABS joint assembly in 2005, with the objective of supporting community science and interdisciplinary research interactions. I believe that we need a broad-based research program for freshwater sciences, encompassing a community-driven platform for integrated, holistic investigations of pressing scientific questions and societal needs related to water resources and aquatic ecosystems. I fully support establishment of enabling centers under the CUAHSI banner, especially those that make state-of-the-art methods available to the research community, including measurement methods, information systems, and community models. I believe that CUAHSI should also work with related scientific organizations to develop national, cross-cutting research programs that encompass all relevant disciplines within the freshwater sciences. My personal work involves a very broad base of interdisciplinary research, including environmental fluid mechanics, solute transport processes, stream biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, and waterborne disease transmission. As someone who primarily studies basic processes in the laboratory, but has a strong interest in up-scaling results using models in order to understand the dynamics of watersheds, I can serve an important role on CUAHSI's Board of Directors as an advocate of national research centers and field sites for community research.

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Enrique Vivoni

Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration — Arizona State University

I am honored to be nominated to serve on the CUAHSI Board of Directors. As a young scientist and engineer, my experience with CUAHSI has primarily been limited to attending workshops, participating in a few of the major initiatives (hydrologic synthesis and observatory planning) and being involved at the institutional level at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and at Arizona State University, where I was recently appointed CUAHSI representative. Despite a relatively low exposure to CUAHSI, I consider myself prepared to provide fresh perspectives on the current and future activities in the organization based upon my research, teaching and outreach experience. My research efforts attempt to integrate distributed field observations and modeling to address questions at the interface of hydrology with its allied disciplines of ecology, meteorology and geomorphology. I am most interested in motivating young members (students, post-doctoral researchers, assistant professors) to actively participate in CUAHSI. I would also welcome the opportunity to address how the various CUAHSI elements can best coordinate activities for the movement of the whole, rather than the individual parts. For example, designing hydrologic observatories that are fully integrated with the information systems and modeling components to test synthesis-related questions would be a major advance for the hydrologic community.

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