Cyberseminars Spring 2009 Schedule

March 27, 2009; 3:00pm ET

• Peter Troch, University of Arizona
  Title: The hills are alive: Interdisciplinary Earth Science at Biosphere 2
  

April 10, 2009; 3:00pm ET

• Thanos Papanicolaou, University of Iowa
  Title: The Effects of Agriculture Management Practices on Hydrologic Forcing at the Watershed Scale Under Various Hydrologic Conditions
  

April 17, 2009; 3:00pm ET

• Harmut Holländer, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus
  Title: Hydrological aspects of the artificial catchment Chicken Creek [more information]
  

Visit the CUAHSI Cyberseminar page for more information.

2009 Synthesis Summer Institute Announced

The Northeast Consortium for Hydrologic Synthesis is pleased to announce their 2009 Synthesis Summer Institute being hosted at the City College of New York from June 15 to July 26, 2009. This year's Institute will address regional-scale changes to human-water interactions arising during the 19th century in the Northeast U.S. Major themes will include the national westward expansion and the Industrial Revolution.

Graduate students and exceptional undergraduate students from the hydrologic and affiliated sciences are encouraged to apply by March 31, 2009. Students chosen to participate in the Institute will be provided a $3500 stipend and housing in the Upper West Side of New York City. Full instructions for applying can be found at their website: hydrosynthesis.ccny.cuny.edu/2009.html.

Workshop on Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform (CHyMP): Blueprint for a CHyMP

CUAHSI is still accepting registrations for the 2nd Workshop on a Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform (CHyMP) at the University of Memphis on March 31 and April 1, 2009. CUAHSI has reserved a block of 80 rooms at the Doubletree Memphis Hotel. The room block will close after March 21, 2009. The room rate is guaranteed at $114.00 until March 21, 2009. The second workshop follows the Scoping Workshop held in Washington, D.C. in March, 2008. The goals of the first workshop were to scope the needs and requirements of a community modeling activity in hydrology from a small group with diverse modeling expertise. The idea was very well received.

Featured speakers at the CHyMP workshop include:

• Cecilia DeLuca, The Earth System Modeling Framework
• David Gochis, Regional Modeling of Hydrology and Climate
• George Leavesley, Experiences with the USGS Modular Modeling System
• David Maidment, Model/Data Integration: Linking the CHyMP with CUAHSI Data Services
• Christa Peters-Lidard, The NASA Land Information System

A prelimnary agenda as well as other logistical information is available at www.cuahsi.org/chymp-20090331.html.

For additional background information, refer to the Community Modeling in Hydrologic Science article in Eos, Vol. 89, No. 32, 5 August 2008.

Additional NSF "Dear Colleague" Letters Released

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