CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium on Hydrologic Science and Engineering
July 14-16, 2008 | Boulder, Colorado [registration open]

This first CUAHSI Colloquium, Resilience & Vulnerability of Natural and Managed Hydrologic Systems, features an exciting line-up of sessions and workshops.

Contributed papers are currently being solicited for sessions. The abstract deadline is May 31, 2008. Abstracts may be submitted during the registration process. Note that students from CUAHSI member institutions who present papers will have their registration fee refunded at the meeting.

Session Topics
Theory of Hydrology Catchment Classification Cross-scale Perspectives on Nutrient Dynamics in River Networks Seasonal Snow Cover in Western Mountains Community Models for Hydrologic and Environmental Research Surface Processes, Sediments and Landscape	Predictability of Hydrological Systems Hydrosystem Evolution and the Human Role Biogeochemistry and Ecohydrology in Complex Terrain Hydrologic Processes Related to Weather and Climate Integrated Observations for GW Transport Studies
Workshops
• Hydrologic Information Systems (HIS) Workshop - Wednesday, July 16 - 9:30am to 5:00pm This workshop introduces you to CUAHSI's Hydrologic Information Systems (HIS) component. In this workshop, you will learn about: Scientific contributions of CUAHSI HIS CUAHSI software to support HIS How you can utilize HIS to publish and retrieve observations data Materials presented in this workshop are available online at the 2008 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference Workshop Web site.
• HMF Hands-on Workshop — Distributed Sensing: Taking it to the field - Wednesday, July 16 through Friday, July 18 The workshop will immediately follow the CUAHSI Biennial Science Meeting. It will be a hands-on workshop exploring the current state of the art of distributed sensing for environmental observation. The workshop will include field installations, current practitioners, manufacturers, and scientists interested in including these methods in their research programs. The spaces in the workshop will be limited to 60 participants, with representation balanced between each of the categories. [for more information & to register]

Join a CUAHSI Standing Committee

With activities now underway in all five major areas of CUAHSI projects (informatics, synthesis, observatories, instrumentation, and education), CUAHSI is seeking volunteers to serve on Standing Committees that oversee these activities. The charge to these committees is to review the projects in its domain to determine whether it is serving the community well, to comment on the priorities and resource allocation of the projects, and to assess the scientific and technological merit of the projects. The HIS Standing Committee will be the first of the Standing Committees to meet in the next few months.

For additional information, please visit the Committees Web page at www.cuahsi.org/standing.html.

CUAHSI Northeast Regional Meeting

The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum to exchange information between CUAHSI leaders and its members.

When: May 1, 2008 - hosted by Charles Vörösmarty and Jennifer Jacobs (University of New Hampshire)- 9:30am - 5:00pm
Where: Huddleston Ballroom - University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
Featured Speakers: Rick Hooper (CUAHSI), Chris Duffy (CZOs), Jennifer Jacobs (HMF), Charles Vörösmarty (Synthesis), David Kirschtel (HIS)
Afternoon: breakout sessions - posters - discussion
[more information]

You are responsible for securing your own hotel accommodations. A block of rooms has been reserved with the New England Center, located at 15 Strafford Avenue, Durham, NH; phone: (603) 862-2801.

Questions can be addressed to Mark Green via email (mark.green@unh.edu) or phone at (603) 862-1053.

CUAHSI Senior Advisory Council Formed

Efi Foufoula, chair of the CUAHSI Board of Directors, announced that Rick Anthes (UCAR), Rafael Bras (MIT), Wilf Brutsaert (Cornell), Bill Dietrich (UC Berkeley), Jeff Dozier (UC Santa Barbara), George Hornberger (UVa), and Soroosh Sorooshian (UC Irvine) have agreed to serve on the CUAHSI Senior Advisory Council. The Senior Advisory Council provides advice to the President and Board of CUAHSI on the overall direction and strategies that the Consortium should be taking to achieve its mission in research and education. The initial meeting of the Senior Advisory Council will be on July 13 in Boulder, Colorado, immediately preceding the CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium.

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