CUAHSI is still accepting applications from current graduate students who wish to travel to other field sites or work with other research groups as part of their graduate research program. Up to five travel grants, each with a maximum amount of $5000.00, will be awarded. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 31, 2009.

In announcing these fellowships, CUAHSI Executive Director Rick Hooper noted that graduate training in hydrologic science typically focuses on a single field site or single modeling approach. To assist graduate students in enriching their research program by moving beyond a "one site, one view" approach to research, CUAHSI is providing travel support for graduate students to make an extended visit (approximately 1-3 months) to conduct field research at an additional site or to collaborate with a research group using alternate modeling methods of those in a graduate student's current research program.

CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowships, as these awards are called, will be awarded each year for the next 5 years. For additional information, visit www.cuahsi.org/pathfinder/.

The following new Direcors were elected at CUAHSI's annual membership meeting on December 8, 2009:

• Robyn Hannigan — University of Massachusetts-Boston
• Carol A. Johnston — South Dakota State University
• Witold Krajewski — University of Iowa
• Larry Murdoch — Clemson University
• Aaron Packman — Northwestern University

Congratulations to the new Board members. And thanks to those who also participated in the elections and to those whose terms are ending. We appreciate all your time, effort, and support.

December 12, 2009—The workshop is meant to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of distributed temperature sensing using fiber optics to help people decide if it would be suitable for their needs. We will have lots of instruments, fiber, and the tools required to put the systems together in Berkeley, and you will have 4 hours to try your hand at every aspect of the process. [Learn about the DTS workshop || Fiber optics background paper].

Evening events on Tuesday of Fall AGU Meeting

• CUAHSI Reception at Fall AGU: Tuesday, December 15^th at the Grand Hyatt (from the lobby take 2 sets of escalators down to the Ballroom Level, the Ballroom East is straight ahead on the left)—meeting begins at 6:30pm; reception following until 9:00pm. Hors d'oeuvres & libations will be served.
• On Tuesday afternoon, December 15, in Moscone Center 102 a special Hydrology session on "Progress in Hydrologic Science since the Blue Book" is scheduled. Pete Eagleson will make a few opening remarks and we have a great line up of speakers. This session is in honor of Doug James who is retiring from NSF.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will launch a Hydrology Interoperability Experiment (HDWG_IE1) on December 8, 2009. The initiators of the experiment seek participation by other organizations interested in developing standard ways of discovering, sharing and interpreting groundwater data using OGC Web Services (OWS) interface and encoding standards [www.opengeospatial.org/standards].

This interoperability experiment will advance the development of WaterML 2.0 [his.cuahsi.org/wofws.html] and test its use with various OWS standards, including the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Catalog Service Web (CSW) Interface Standards. The experiment will also investigate the interaction of WaterML 2.0 with GroundwaterML (GWML) in scenarios involving the sharing of groundwater data between the USA and Canada.

Initiators of the experiment are: Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), US Geological Survey (USGS), and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Organizations participating in the experiment will include the Geology Survey of Canada (GSC), NRCan; USGS; CSIRO, the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) and others.

Applications for participation are due by December 8, 2009. For further details or to register as a participant visit the Groundwater Interoperability Experiment website.

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. The OGC's OpenGIS(r) standards Support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. These standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org.

A special session entitled "Stream network connections: quantifying hydrological, chemical and biological linkages" is planned for the 2010 Joint ASLO-NABS 2010 summer meeting to be held June 6-11 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The formal Call for Papers is expected later this month, with abstracts due by 12 February, 2010.

The symposium objectives are:

• Review and develop physical and biological concepts for understanding linkages within stream networks  from headwaters to estuaries
• Highlight innovative research approaches illustrating hydrological, chemical or biological connectivity within stream networks at watershed scales
• Develop and expand whole-network approaches for characterizing, modeling, and predicting stream network behavior.

Through case studies, applications of new technologies, and modeling approaches, this symposium will provide an opportunity to share and synthesize information on whole-network research. Participants will acquire new information that will encourage novel research approaches, and stimulate additional synthesis and tool development for quantifying hydrological, chemical and biological linkages within stream networks.

Questions may be directed to Joe Ebersole (ebersole.joe@epa.gov).