WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network

The goal of WaterNet, the NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network, is to improve and optimize the sustained ability of water cycle researchers, stakeholders, organizations and networks to interact, identify, harness, and extend NASA research results to augment decision support tools and meet national needs. This is done by establishing collaborations and interoperability with existing networks and nodes of research organizations, operational agencies, science communities, and private industry. The project created a number of Candidate Solution Reports. An overview of this project is shown in WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network (by P. Houser, D. Belvedere, W. Pozzi, B. Imam, R. A. Schiffer, C. Welty, A. Seck, R. Lawford, C. A. Schlosser, H. Gupta, G. Martinez,V. Lopez, C. Vörösmarty, B. Fekete, D. Matthews)

The WaterNet Team:

This project is a multi-institution collaborative effort. Participants include:

• J. Shukla, PI, IGES
• P. Houser, Atmos. Ocean and Earth Sciences, George Mason University
• D. Belvedere, R. Schiffer, UMBC/GEST
• B. Imam, UCal, Irvine
• C. A. Schlosser, MIT
• H. Gupta, V. Gomez, G. Martinez, UAriz
• C. Welty, UMBC
• R. Lawford, UMBC
• C. Vörösmarty, B. Fekete, CUNY
• D. Matthews, Hydromet-DSS

Several WaterNet demonstration projects have been established to illustrate this interaction. These demonstration projects are both national (Example: Salt River Project Water Supply Forecast Modernization) and international (Example: Slovenian Civil Engineering Department, University of Ljubljana project) in scope.

WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Demonstration Projects

The goal of WaterNet, the NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network, has already undertaken several projects to parlay the benefits of collaboration and interoperability among water decision makers and research organizations. Some of the demonstration projects of WaterNet include:

• Salt River Project Water Supply Forecast Modernization
• Chesapeake Bay Community Model Modernization
• Central Europe WaterNet Community of Practice
• European WaterNet Demonstration Project Summary (4.6M)
• WaterNet applied to the Danubian Regional Applications
• EU WaterNet Demo Project, Fall '09
• NOAA Integrated Coral Reef Observing Network

Additional Information:

WATERNET:A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE IN ACTION, June 2008 Waternet Overview (PDF of PowerPoint presentation from NASA Water Resources PI meeting, Sept 17-18, 2009 University of Maryland) Waternet's Role Original Waternet Proposal NASA Applied Science Mission

Last Updated: 23 March 2010