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From: Claire Welty <weltyc@umbc.edu>
Subject: Meeting 5/4/04 to discuss a Mid-Atlantic Hydrologic Observatory
Cc: Andrew Miller <miller@umbc.edu>, weltyc@umbc.edu, Rick Hooper <rhooper@cuahsi.org>
Colleagues:
Andy Miller and I are pleased to announce that we will host a meeting on Tuesday,
May 4, 2004, from 10 AM - 3 PM in Room 206 of the Technology Research Center
at UMBC to discuss interest among hydrologic science colleagues in submitting
a "prospectus" to CUAHSI in August 2004 for a Mid-Atlantic Hydrologic
Observatory. Our previous e-mail on this subject is pasted in below.
A draft agenda and driving directions will follow shortly, but we wanted to get
the word out about a meeting date as soon as possible.
Please RSVP if you plan to come and also feel free to forward this to anyone
whom you think may be interested. We will be providing lunch, so
I will need a head count as soon as possible but NO LATER THAN FRIDAY 4/30.
We look forward to seeing those of you who can make it.
Sincerely,
Claire Welty and Andy Miller
UMBC
From: Claire Welty <weltyc@umbc.edu>
Subject: Proposal for a Mid-Atlantic Hydrologic Observatory
Cc: weltyc@umbc.edu, Andrew Miller <miller@umbc.edu>
Colleagues:
The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
(CUAHSI) has announced that NSF will be funding a national network of field-scale
hydrologic observatories. If you are not familiar with this effort, you can
learn more from CUAHSI's web site at: http://www.cuahsi.org.
Today at a Board of Directors meeting a plan of action for the next few years
was discussed, and based on this Andy Miller and I am writing to you to determine
the interest in the Mid-Atlantic region for submitting a proposal to the hydrologic
observatory funding competition.
We believe that proposing the Potomac River Basin plus the Baltimore-Washington
megalopolis as the study area may serve the interests of many researchers in
the region. We realize that this may sound rather large for an "observatory",
but this is the scale of what CUAHSI has in mind. The actual areas chosen to
be instrumented would depend on the science questions to be addressed.
A written prospectus from each interested group is due to CUAHSI in August
2004 and full proposals are due to National Science Foundation in April 2005.
We know of about ten other groups in the U.S. that are in the process of putting
together proposals.
UMBC would be happy to host a meeting to get together to discuss ideas (Potomac
or an alternative) if people want to move forward with this. Time is of the
essence, so a meeting will have to be held sooner rather than later. Of course
this is a difficult time of year for academics, with exams, thesis defenses,
and graduation closing in on us.
Please reply if you are interested in pursuing this, and please also forward
this e-mail to anyone whom you think may want to participate. CUAHSI is especially
interested in seeing applicants partner with existing field efforts (e.g.,
USDA, USGS, NSF-LTER, university field sites) and with state and federal agencies.
Sincerely,
Claire Welty and Andy Miller
UMBC
--
Claire Welty
Director, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
1000 Hilltop Circle
TRC 102
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: 410-455-1766
Fax: 410-455-1769
E-mail: weltyc@umbc.edu
Web: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~weltyc/
CUERE web site: http://www.umbc.edu/cuere