Letter of Commitment Instructions for HMF Affiliate Node Proposals

To receive a letter of commitment from CUAHSI for a proposal to acquire and make available instrumentation for the broader community, follow these instructions:

1. Inform CUAHSI about your proposal by providing the indicated information on the email form at exdir@cuahsi.org providing the following:
   1. YOUR NAME;
   2. YOUR INSTITUTION;
   3. The proposed EQUIPMENT;
   4. How you will arrange to share this equipment; and
   5. The proposal ID.

Letters of commitment may take as many as five business days to complete and will look as follows:

The CUAHSI Hydrologic Measurement Facility has received a notification from <NAME> indicating that they will make arrangements with the HMF to share <EQUIPMENT> if proposal <ID> is funded. CUAHSI supports the community sharing of resources and will provide a directory of equipment available for community use on its website. Beyond such a directory, CUAHSI does not commit any resources to deploy or to facilitate the sharing of this equipment. If the proposal is successful, CUAHSI will work with the PI to formalize a use plan. Any funds required to implement such a use plan are the responsibility of the proposer and not CUAHSI. The data use policy for this sharing arrangement will also be negotiated. In general, it is assumed that data will be made publically available after a period of time and that the site PI, rather than the instrumentation PI, has primary publication rights to data collected through this instrumentation sharing arrangement.

Please contact Rick Hooper (exdir@cuahsi.org or 202-777-7306) with any questions.