Web-based decision support tools for managing surface and groundwater conjunctively

Foundry Spatial是一家加拿大环境科学和咨询公司。市场成功的一个关键领域是为水资源管理人员开发在线工具，但迄今为止，我们所有的工具都集中在地表水上。地下水和地表水传统上被作为单独的、不相互作用的资源进行研究和管理，但科学家、水管理人员和决策者已经认识到，地下水和地表水是水循环中相互作用的组成部分，应作为单一资源加以联合管理。不幸的是，水资源管理人员可用的工具往往仍然将地下水和地表水视为单独的实体，或以非常简单的方式表示它们的相互作用。在Foundry Spatial Ltd.，我们的客户越来越多地遇到需要集成地下水和地表水数据和工具的问题。通过与Tom Gleeson博士及其在UVic土木工程系的“地下水科学和可持续性”研究小组的新合作，我们的目标是进行研究，开发和测试下一代水工具，这些工具可以集成到我们的市场产品中。

Foundry Spatial is a Canadian environmental science and consulting firm. A key area of market success has been development of online tools for water resource managers but all our tools to date have focused on surface water. Groundwater and surface water have traditionally been studied and managed as separate, non-interacting resources but scientists, water managers and policy makers have recognized that groundwater and surface water are interacting components of the water cycle that should be conjunctively managed as a single resource. Unfortunately, the tools available for water managers often still consider groundwater and surface water as separate entities or represent their interactions in very simplistic ways. At Foundry Spatial Ltd. our clients increasingly have questions that require integration of both groundwater and surface water data and tools. Through this new partnership with Dr. Tom Gleeson and his 'Groundwater Science and Sustainability' research group in UVic's Department of Civil Engineering, we aim to do the research to develop and test the next generation of water tools that can be integrated into our market-ready products.