CUAHSI: PROMOTING DISCOVERY IN WATER SCIENCE THROUGH DATA, MODELING, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

水文科学促进大学联盟（CUAHSI）是一个由100多所美国大学和国际水科学相关组织组成的研究机构。CUAHSI为跨学科的水科学界提供水数据服务和基础设施。CUAHSI服务旨在使水资源研究人员能够更容易地相互分享数据和知识。最终，CUAHSI提供的资源可以增强对地球上水过程的理解。CUAHSI提供仪器仪表方面的培训，并主办与现场仪器仪表和大型复杂水数据使用有关的专业会议。CUAHSI通过研究生旅行补助金、面对面和在线研究研讨会以及公众讨论，为研究生、水科学界和公众提供支持和外展服务。水文科学促进大学联盟（CUAHSI）正在利用其现有的能力，为跨学科的水文科学界提供关键的基础设施和服务。CUAHSI的三项新举措包括：(1)将CUAHSI的两个数据服务平台HIS和HydroShare集成到一个具有直观用户体验的系统中；(2)通过获取一套新的、独特的数据服务，支持水文发现和群落建模；(3)降低进入复杂大尺度水文模拟的门槛。CUAHSI通过简化的用户界面扩展了社区对水文数据的访问，这不仅对丰富水文研究很重要，而且对支持大陆尺度建模也很重要，大陆尺度建模将越来越多地用于解决水质和地下水问题。培训和拓展活动为研究生探索有意义和重要的跨学科问题提供了重要的培训和研究机会。CUAHSI举办关于水预测和集成建模科学的社区会议。过去的其他成功活动，如探路者和仪器发现学生旅行资助、水文信息学资助、研究网络研讨会、Let's Talk about Water外展活动和两年一次的研讨会，将在该奖项下继续进行。这项计划所包括的服务，是为社会提供最大的利益，并作为发展水文学及相关科学的基础。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) is a research organization representing more than 100 U.S. universities and international water science-related organizations. CUAHSI provides water data services and infrastructure to the interdisciplinary water science community. CUAHSI services are designed to enable water researchers to more easily share data and knowledge with each other. Ultimately, the resources provided by CUAHSI can enhance the understanding of water processes on Earth. CUAHSI provides training in instrumentation and hosts specialty conferences relating to field instrumentation and the use of large and complex water data. CUAHSI provides support and outreach to graduate students, the water science community and the public via graduate student travel grants, in-person and online research seminars, and public discussions. The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) is building on its existing capabilities to provide critical infrastructure and services to the interdisciplinary hydrologic sciences community. Three new CUAHSI initiatives include: (1) integrating of CUAHSI's two data services platforms, HIS and HydroShare, into a single system with an intuitive user experience; (2) supporting hydrologic discovery and community modeling through access to a new and unique set of data services; and (3) lowering the bar for entry to complex large-scale hydrologic modeling. CUAHSI's expansion of the community's access to hydrologic data through a simplified user interface is important both for enriching hydrologic research, but also to support continental scale modeling, which will increasingly be used to address water-quality and groundwater issues. Training and outreach activities provide important training and research opportunities for graduate students to explore meaningful and important interdisciplinary questions. CUAHSI hosts community meetings on the science of water prediction and ensemble modeling. Other successful activities from the past, such as Pathfinder and Instrumentation Discovery student travel grants, Hydoinformatics grants, Research Cyberseminars, Let's Talk about Water outreach events, and Biennial Colloquium, are continued under this award. The services included in this project are selected to provide maximum benefit to the community as well as to serve as a foundation for the advancement of hydrologic and related sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.