A University Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Science

水文科学促进大学联盟（CUAHSI）将在其现有的水数据中心（WDC）设施的基础上，为多学科水科学界提供一系列服务。具体来说，CUAHSI将提供仪器仪表方面的培训，并主办现场仪器仪表和水文信息学方面的专业会议。我校将继续举办过去的成功活动，包括探路者研究生旅行资助、研究网络研讨会、让我们谈谈水的外展活动和两年一次的水科学专题讨论会。一项新的倡议是开发社区治理过程和社区建模资源，旨在使水科学界能够更容易地将其关于大陆水过程的知识贡献给地球系统模型。这将是一项与NCAR的合作，旨在开发社区土地模型（CLM）的一个面向水的分支，该分支将得到水数据中心的支持，并使社区能够改善气候和地球系统模拟中大规模水储存和通量的模型现实性。战略规划活动被纳入到CUAHSI的核心治理中。由于水连接着地球系统的生物和非生物组成部分，是一种重要的经济和生态资源，因此CUAHSI服务影响多个学科并为整个社会服务。世界数据中心将促进新的综合研究，更好地分享和传播可用于应用研究和政策研究的研究数据和成果。水数据标准的进步确保了学术界、联邦机构和私营部门之间自由和更好的信息交流。CUAHSI水文信息系统正在被世界各地的多个政府（多米尼加共和国和意大利共和国）使用。WDC还将通过部落学院和部落政府向美洲原住民社区开展外展活动。水管理是许多保留地的一个主要问题，水科学为印第安人提供了一条有吸引力的职业道路，所有学位都有工作机会。培训和拓展活动将为研究生探索有意义和重要的跨学科问题提供重要的培训和研究机会。水科学的进步有赖于这些投资，部分原因是了解地球系统中的水需要许多传统学科。CUAHSI寻求通过支持跨学科科学来克服水科学研究的碎片化。我们选择这项计划的服务，是为了最大限度地造福社会，并作为推动科学发展的基础。

The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) will build on its existing Water Data Center (WDC) facility to provide a range of services to the multidisciplinary water science community. Specifically, CUAHSI will offer training in instrumentation and host specialty conferences in field instrumentation and hydroinformatics. CUAHSI will continue its successful activities from the past, including Pathfinder graduate student travel grants, Research Cyberseminars, Let's Talk about Water outreach events, and the Biennial Water Science Symposia. A new initiative is the development of a community governance process and community modeling resources designed to enable the water science community to more readily contribute its knowledge of continental water processes to Earth Systems models. This will be a collaborative effort with NCAR to develop a water-oriented branch of the Community Land Model (CLM), that would be supported by the Water Data Center, and empower the community toward improving the model realism in large-scale water storages and fluxes in climate and Earth system simulations. Strategic planning activities are incorporated into the core governance of CUAHSI. Because water connects the biotic and abiotic components of the Earth system and is a critical economic and ecological resource, CUAHSI services impact multiple disciplines and serve society at large. The WDC will enable new synthetic research, and better sharing and dissemination of research data and results that can be utilized in applied and policy research. The advancement of standards for water data ensures free and better exchange of information between academics, federal agencies and the private sector. CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System is being used by multiple governments around the world (the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Italy). The WDC will also target outreach activities to the Native American community through tribal colleges and tribal government. Water management is a major issue at many reservations and water science provides an attractive career path for Native Americans with jobs available at all degree levels. Training and outreach activities will provide important training and research opportunities for graduate students to explore meaningful and important interdisciplinary questions. Advancement of water science depends on such investments in part because of the many traditional disciplines that are required for an understanding of water in the Earth system. CUAHSI seeks to overcome fragmentation in water science research by supporting interdisciplinary science. The services included in this project have been selected to provide maximum benefit to the community as well as to serve as a foundation for the advancement of the science.