CLEANER: A Large-Scale Environmental Research and Analysis Network of the Upper Mississippi River Basin for Hydrology, Sediments, Nutrients, and Emerging Chemical Contaminants

[0414274]本提案的具体目标是将主要研究人员和机构聚集在一起，规划一个大规模的环境分析网络，以分析并（最终）改善密西西比河上游流域（UMRB）的水质、经济活动和可持续实践。这项规划拨款将资助一个在UMRB拥有实地设施的专家研究小组，以：1)报告UMRB环境网络基础设施（CI）网络的最佳想法，以供将来实施；2)赞助一个关于开发一个独特的流域尺度网络的讲习班，该网络将作为一个利用可访问的传感器和数据库的国家实时、遥感、连续建模的河流流域网络（CLEANER的一部分）的原型，并将结果输入一个以共同平台和开放架构运行的国家数据库。

0414274 Schnoor The specific objective of this proposal is to bring together key researchers and agencies to plan a large-scale environmental analysis network to analyze and (ultimately) improve water quality, economic activity, and sustainable practices in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). This planning grant will fund an expert group of researchers with field facilities in the UMRB to: 1) report the best ideas for a UMRB Environmental Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Network for future implementation; and 2) sponsor a Workshop on developing a unique basin-scale network that will serve as a prototype for a national network of real-time, remotely sensed, continuously-modeled river basins (part of CLEANER) which utilizes accessible sensors and data bases, and enters results into a national data base operating with common platforms and open architecture.