NSF released a multi-million dollar foundation-wide solicitation on Water Sustainability and Climate. A synopsis of the solicitation is available on the Water Sustainability and Climate web page. This solicitation supports projects up to $5M. Letters of intent are due March 15, 2010 and full proposals are due April 15, 2010.

"One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring an adequate supply and quality of water in light of both burgeoning human needs and climate variability and change. Despite its importance to life on Earth, there are major gaps in our basic understanding of water availability, quality and dynamics, and the impact of both a changing and variable climate, and human activity, on the water system. The goal of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) solicitation is to understand and predict the interactions between the water system and climate change, land use, the built environment, and ecosystem function and services through place-based research and integrative models." (quoted from the NSF)

The second CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium will be held on July 19-22, 2010 on the campus of NCAR in Boulder, CO. Registration will open in March. Highlights include keynote speaker Chris Milly (USGS), Wolman lecturer Gordon Grant (US Forest Service), and Eagleson lecturer Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton). Numerous workshops are planned on the day before and immediately following the Colloquium including instrumentation (near-surface geophysics, X-band radar, distributed temperature sensing), and data services (publishing and analyzing data using CUAHSI Water Data Services). A special program for graduate students is being planned.

Additional details regarding hotel accommodations and other logistical matters wil be forthcoming, either in future editions of the CUAHSI eNews Brief or on our web site.

CUAHSI Standing Committees are formiing for Instrumentation, Research Applications, Synthesis, and Observations to complement existing standing committees in Informatics and Education/Outreach. This will contribute to the Strategic Planning process that is now underway. Please contact the Board liaison for each committee (see list below) if you are interested in contributing to the standing committees' efforts.

Standing Committee	Liaison
Education/Outreach	David Freyberg - freyberg@stanford.edu
Informatics	Carol Johnston - Carol.Johnston@sdstate.edu
Instrumentation	Robyn Hannigan - robyn.hannigan@umb.edu
Observatories	Jim McNamara - jmcnamar@boisestate.edu
Research Applications	Ken Potter - kwpotter@facstaff.wisc.edu
Synthesis	Aaron Packman - a-packman@northwestern.edu

CUAHSI and AGU have compiled the papers submitted to the special section of Water Resources Research on hydrologic measurement methods. This collection contains 39 papers in eight different areas of hydrologic measurement. CDs of the collection are available at no charge on request to the CUAHSI offices (busmgr@cuahsi.org); a bound volume of the papers is available for USD 65. View the book's Table of Contents.

Please visit our online book purchase page to order your hard copy edition.

Larry Murdoch was elected Chair-Elect of the CUAHSI Board of Directors at the January CUAHSI Board meeting, held in Washington, DC. Larry Band becomes Board Chair, after serving last year as Chair-Elect, and Jay Famiglietti assumes the Past-Chair position.

Chair-Elect	Chair	Past-Chair
Larry Murdoch Clemson University	Larry Band University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Jay Famiglietti University of California, Irvine

To view the complete membership of the current CUAHSI Board, please visit the Board of Directors page on the CUAHSI website.

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).