Clear Creek Environmental Hydrologic Observatory: From Vision Toward Reality

0607262 JustThis项目将开发软件“胶水”，将爱荷华州大学现有的传感器、计算机硬件、软件和模型连接在一起，以实现一个名为“清溪环境水文观测站”（CCEHO）的原型环境观测站的集成系统。使用该系统，由环境工程师、水文学家、水生科学家和计算机专家组成的跨学科团队随后将运营CCEHO并评估是否真的有可能整合各种技术（例如，无线传感器、关系数据库、现有仪器、模型和基于Web的协作工具），在一个端到端的系统中，进一步促进环境科学的科学调查。CCEHO将用于确定和提高对影响爱荷华州农业环境中山坡尺度的水、沉积物和磷运输的过程的理解，爱荷华州是全国土壤侵蚀率最高的地区。PI将把一系列推广和教育活动与其科学计划相结合。该项目是为美国国家科学基金会的分布式环境观测倡议-水沃茨网络-开发使能技术的一套试验台项目之一。

0607262JustThis project will develop the software "glue" to link together existing sensors, computer hardware, software, and models at the University of Iowa to achieve an integrated system for a prototype environmental observatory called the "Clear Creek Environmental Hydrologic Observatory" (CCEHO). Using this system, an interdisciplinary team of environmental engineers, hydrologists, aquatic scientists, and computer specialists subsequently will operate CCEHO and evaluate whether it really is possible to integrate the various technologies (e.g., wireless sensors, relational databases, existing instruments, models, and Web-based tools for collaboration) in an end-to-end system that furthers scientific investigation in environmental science. The CCEHO will be used to identify and improve understanding of processes influencing water, sediment, and phosphorus transport at the hillslope scale in the agricultural setting of Iowa, which has some of the highest soil erosion rates in the nation. The PIs will integrate an array of outreach and education activities with their science plan. This project is one of the suite of test-bed projects to develop enabling technologies for the WATERS Network, a distributed environmental observatory initiative of NSF.