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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Nos. 07-53521, 12-48152, and 13-38606.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

Cover Photo: Alaska, U.S., courtesy of Aaron Packman, Northwestern University.

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. 196 Boston Ave, Suite 3000 Medford, MA 02155, USA Tel: 339.221.5400 CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 3 Letter from the President

Dear Members,

On behalf of the Board of Directors of CUAHSI, I am pleased to send you the annual report of our activities during 2015. As you review this report, evaluate how our services are helping you, or could help you, in your research and teaching.

After more than a decade of working with the CUAHSI community, I have announced that I will step down as Executive Director of CUAHSI in February, 2017. A Search Committee has been formed and is currently seeking my successor. During this final year of my tenure, we will be working to document and to formalize our operations so that this transition can be handled smoothly.

One aspect of this has been a modification in our mission statement to more concisely capsulize the role of CUAHSI in supporting our community. The three pillars of CUAHSI’s mission, which this annual report is organized around are: • Strengthening multidisciplinary collaboration • Developing and operating research infrastructure • Promoting water education and training

Our biggest effort is in providing data services. Key accomplishments during 2015 include: • Release of a web application to access the data catalog (http://data.cuahsi.org). The next release, due before the Fall AGU meeting, will include a visualization feature to plot time series. • Release of the WaterML R-Library in the CRAN Repository for searching the catalog and downloading data directly into the R analysis environment by Jiri Kadlec and Dan Ames (Brigham Young University). • Establishment of a website developed by Venkatash Merwade (Purdue) and Ben Ruddell (Arizona State) and operated by Science Education Resource Center (SERC) (http://serc.carleton.edu/hydromodules/index.html) for data-based problem sets. We are soliciting contributions to that website and hope that you will find useful resources there.

CUAHSI also offered a number of training classes during 2015, both in-person and online, the highlight of which in 2015 was the first Summer Institute at the National Water Center, the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE). During a seven week period, students capitalized on new nationwide flood forecasting products to attempt to solve real world problems facing our nation today. In addition to taking a look at this opportunity and other classes planned for 2016, please reach out and propose to teach a class! CUAHSI will help you with all the course logistics and can offer limited support to subsidize the class, while you can focus on course content.

Thank you for the opportunity to work with you all over the past several years. As always, we need your feedback on the how are services are helping you and how they can be improved. Please contact me or any CUAHSI staff members with suggestions. We look forward to hearing from you!

Regards,

Our Mission is to shape the future of hydrologic science by: • Strengthening multidisciplinary collaboration • Developing and operating research infrastructure • Promoting water education and training Richard P. Hooper, President 4 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Table of Contents

Strengthening Multidisciplinary Collaboration Page 5 - 7

Developing and Operating Research infrastructure Page 8

Promoting Water Education and Training Page 9 - 15

About the Consortium Page 16

Governance Page 17

Board of Directors Page 18

Financial Overivew Page 19-20

Thank You Page 21

Staff & Contact Page 22 CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 5

Strengthening Multidisciplinary Collaboration

One of CUAHSI’s primary missions is to bring researchers from different disciplines together around the study of water. We do this through modeling efforts in addition to hosting regional membership meetings to continue building our community and open science meetings.

Community Modeling

CUAHSI is participating in two efforts that are exploring what “community models” mean for water science. Other scientific communities have used joint modeling activities effectively to advance science. Examples include the Weather Resources and Forecasting model in meteorology and the Community Climate Model (CCM) in climate science. Although the broad range of objectives for hydrologic models—from describing water movement for biogeochemical cycling to flash floods to design of structures—complicates what a community model means, the advantages to be gained by coordinating model development, model evaluation, and data provisioning for models justify addressing these challenges.

The first activity, led by Ying Fan Reinfelder (Rutgers) and Martyn Clark (NCAR), is developing a branch of the Community Land Model (CLM) that elaborates the terrestrial hydrologic component of that model. A workshop, held in October at NCAR, brought together hydrologists working at hillslope to regional scales and global Earth System Model (ESM) land model developers to address two central questions: (1) What are the hydrologic stores and fluxes that are known to be essential to predicting large-scale water, energy, and biogeochemical fluxes but not yet adequately accounted for in Earth System Models (ESMs)? (2) How can we evaluate model performance meaningfully and transparently?

Focusing on the Community Land Model (CLM), it was agreed that an immediate task is to capture the spatial hetero- geneity and lateral connectivity within a CLM grid (0.5-1.0 degree latitude-longitude) and that hydrologic observations differentiating and connecting uplands and lowlands, such as acquired from the Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) and other research watersheds, must be utilized for testing model advances in a multi-scale/multi-variate framework. The HydroCLM project will (1) implement multiple columns within a CLM grid to capture the spatial variability and lateral convergence arising from the topographic structure, and (2) use data from CZOs and other research watersheds to evaluate the ability of the new multi-column CLM in representing sub-grid hydrologic behavior and consequences to grid-mean water, energy and carbon fluxes. The workshop also recognized the necessity for 2-way data and knowledge exchanges between the catchment science and the ESM communities. 6 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

The second effort has focused on developing continental-scale hydrologic models for flood forecasting in coopera- tion with the National Water Center (NWC) of the National Weather Service (NWS). This work has involved a large number of scientists including David Maidment (University of Texas, Austin), Dave Gochis (NCAR), Dave Tarboton (Utah State), Ray Idaszak (RENCI, UNC), and Andy Ernest (University of Alabama), among others. The major activity under this effort was the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE), a summer institute for graduate students that supported approximately 50 graduate students to participate at the NWC. Beyond the technical achievement of predicting streamflow at 2.3 million stream reaches (compared with the current flood forecasting system that makes predictions at less than 10,000 points), this effort supports new modes of research, the of now that focuses on forecasts. This work is continuing with the release of new streamflow prediction products by the National Weather Service planned for 2016.

Upcoming Opportunities in Community Modeling

• CUAHSI is currently soliciting theme leaders and course coordinators for the 2016 Summer Institute (https://www.cuahsi.org/summerinstitute/theme-leader-and-course-coordinator-applications) due December 28. Applications for students will be solicited in January 2016.

• A Community Modeling Workshop will be held during the CUAHSI Biennial Symposium in July 2016 to solicit community input on both of these projects.

Regional Meetings

Because CUAHSI does not hold in-person business meetings, we have held regional meetings across 8 regions over the past 3 years. The purpose of these meetings is to engage the community in CUAHSI activities, both to inform them of the services offered and to get feedback from attendees on how to improve services and what additional services should be offered. Regional meetings were held for the Midwest (Illini Center of University of Illinois, Chicago; April 20th), Mid-Atlantic (Drexel University, Philadelphia; September 18th), and High Plains (Colorado School of Mines, Golden; October 12th). CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 7

Science Meetings

This past summer, the 3rd CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics took place on the campus of the University of Alabama. At this meeting, researchers presented their current work in building cyberinfrastructure for water science including advances in data access, interoperability standards, data publication, model-coupling frameworks and workflow support. Additionally, this event served as a capstone for students that participated in the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE), which is mentioned above. Student participation is described in Section IV, Promoting Water Education and Training..

Jiri Kadlec (right) accepts the Community Service Award from Richard Hooper (left) at the 2015 Hydroinformatics Conference. Photo: Dan Ames

Additionally, CUAHSI’s 2016 Biennial Colloquium will be held July 25-27, 2016 at the National Conservation and Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, . The theme of the meeting is “Finding Your Place in Big Data: Using Observations to Understand Hydrologic Processes for Predicting a Changing World,” and will focus on enabling the use of big data within the hydrologic sciences toward integrated understanding of complex processes, sustainability of water resources, and assessment of change across the global hydrosphere. Additional information is available at www.cuahsi. org/biennial Registration will open in the spring of 2016. We hope you will join us! 8 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Developing and Operating Research Infrastracture CUAHSI’s efforts in maintaining research infrastructure have thus far focused most upon our largest program, the Water Data Center. In addition to the WDC, which is funded by NSF’s Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities program, CUAHSI is also beginning to develop a synthesis initiative aimed at demonstrating the need for in- creased investment in the instrumentation of watersheds. Water Data Center

CUAHSI’s largest program by resource allocation is the this package, you can now combine the data holdings Water Data Center (WDC), which provides services for data of the CUAHSI WDC’s catalog with the powerful analysis publication and data reuse. Throughout 2015, the CUAHSI and visualization capabilities of R! staff have worked to engineer new web tools that require no software installation to publish or discover and download data. In addition to developing these tools, we’ve also Check out CUAHSI data tools at http://data. integrated new data sources into our catalog that include cuahsi.org for your research and teaching needs. re-engineering our catalog’s broker to the USGS National Send comments and questions to help@cuahsi. Water Information System that improves upon our legacy org. We can assist you in publishing data and brokering system by adding more complete metadata and preparing your data management plan. using the USGS’s newest web services. We’ve also been in touch with many of you in the CUAHSI community to discuss data management plans and have provided support Instrumentation for publishing and archiving your data with CUAHSI. Dave Hyndman (Michigan State) and Scott Tyler The most significant gains for the WDC program in 2015 (University of Nevada, Reno) are leading an instru- have been the development of new data discovery and mentation initiative for presentation to the National analysis tools. HydroClient is CUAHSI’s newest tool for data Science Foundation. Its overarching scientific goal is discovery and download, which was released in the summer to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic changes on of 2015. This web application, available for you to use at mid-scale (i.e., drainage area on the order of 10,000 km2) data.cuahsi.org, provides a map interface that delineates watersheds by having sufficient data to apply state-of- an area for searching for data, keywords for selecting the the art integrated models to these basins. An initial property being observed, and a time filter to limit queries pilot effort would examine a few highly instrumented temporally. The second version of this application, which research watersheds in contrasting settings to assess will be released in mid-December 2015 will expand the how well existing data allows for application of these capabilities of this application by providing functionality models and the incremental value of additional data. for add-on tool development that will expand HydroClient’s This synthesis study will lead to a defensible basis for capabilities by providing visualization, statistical analysis, increased investment in instrumentation that can be and more. Another significant accomplishment that was generalized for application to other watersheds. not developed by CUAHSI staff, but community contributed, is the WaterML R Package that is now available for use in the CRAN library. Developed and maintained by Jiri Kadlec Interested in participating in developing community and Dan Ames (Brigham Young University), this R package tools? Email [email protected] enables you to access and analyze data being published with CUAHSI’s HydroServer software natively in R. With CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 9 Promoting Water Education and Training In a continued effort to support the community’s educational programs and provide access to specialized training, this year CUAHSI launched exciting new initiatives such as the National Flood Interoperability Experiment, (the largest new initiative of 2015) and a new virtual short course format, in addition to continuing to offer Graduate Student Pathfinder Fellowships, hosting cyberseminars, and hands on trainings. National Flood Interoperability Experiment

The National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) was CUAHSI’s largest new initiative for 2015. A supple- mental grant provided by the National Weather Service enabled the development of a 7 week intensive training opportunity for graduate students that allowed participants to participate in developing and modifying a proto- type flow modeling and data testbed that was created based on the NHDPlus geospatial dataset describing the nation’s river network. Forty-five students from 19 universities participated in the NFIE program last summer, and planning is already underway for the 2016 National Water Center Summer Institute which will allows partici- pants to utilize the new NWC high-resolution, continental-scale, multi-time scale model of flooding, discussed in Section II of this report, to demonstrate applications of these new data products. CUAHSI is currently accepting applications for NWC Summer Institute Theme Leaders and Course Coordinators. Student applications will be accepted beginning in January of 2016.

Participants in front of the National Water Center as part of the 2015 National Flood Interoperability Experiment (Tuscaloosa, AL) Photo: Emily Clark, CUAHSI 10 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Data Driven Education

Another new education and training initiative is an increased focused on data-driven education. With the advent of CUAHSI’s web application for data discovery and download, HydroClient, we are working with a small number of CUAHSI community members to integrate CUAHSI tools into classrooms all over the country. We hope many more of you will contact us and allow us to support you in integrating real learning with real data. In addition to developing activities that utilize CUAHSI tools, CUAHSI’s Standing Committee on Education and Outreach is working on adopt- ing a process for vetting problem sets that will be made available on Carleton College’s Science Education Resource Center (SERC). This initiative will create a curated and moderated community resource for data driven education that will be available to any educator. Finally, in an effort to hear from you, CUAHSI hosted a virtual workshop on data driven education led by Venkatesh Merwade (Purdue University). During this multi-week event, we heard about the approaches and tools that are being used to integrate real data into the classroom. Thank you to all who participated in this event!

Visit https://data.cuahsi.org to discover data. Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants

The last new initiative in education and training of 2015 is Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants. This new granting program offers early career researchers travel support to visit colleagues that can offer insights on new instrumenta- tion techniques. CUAHSI funded four grants this year. We have requested funds from NSF to continue this program next year, so expect an announcement in early 2016 regarding the ongoing availability of this opportunity!

2015 Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant Awardees

Awardee Home Institution Position

Austin Carey University of Wyoming Graduate Research Assistant

Jackson Crews Desert Research Institute Post-Doctoral Scholar

Tess Thompson Virginia Tech University Assistant Professor

Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon University of New Mexico Assistant Professor CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 11

Specialized Training

One of the best ways to master a new method or instrumentation technique is immersion in the field with experts in the technology. CUAHSI offers hands-on trainings and short courses to provide interdisciplinary perspectives and training on specific technologies or theories that may not be available through any one institution. CUAHSI provides access to this type of specialized training by partnering with experts in the field to hold short courses aimed at providing technical expertise of value to further research applications over a few intensive days of training.

CUAHSI offered six major training opportunities during 2015, four of which were traditional hands on workshops while two are brand new to our community. The hands on workshops, their locations, and their instructors can be seen below.

Training Classes Offered in 2015

Course Title Date / Location Lead Instructor

January 12-16, 2015 Hands-On Workshop: Near Surface University of Arizona Steven Holbrook, for Hydrology Tucson, AZ WyCEHG

Hands-On Workshop on the Community May 5-7, 2015 WRF-Hydro Modeling System NCAR Boulder, CO David Gochis, NCAR

Virtual Workshop on Data Driven Hydrology Tuesdays in September Venkatesh Merwade, Education Hosted virtually Purdue University

Hands-on Workshop: Direct Push Methods September 28-October 1, 2015 Jim Butler, for High-Resolution Characterization of Kansas Geological Survey Kansas Geological Subsurface Properties Lawrence, KS Survey

October 20-21 Hands-on Workshop: The Role of Runoff Purdue University Thanos Papanicolaou, and Erosion on Soil Carbon Stocks: From West Lafayette, IN University of Tennessee Soilscapes to Landscapes

Students set up equipment during the Near Surface Geophysics for Hydrology Workshop. Photo: Emily Clark, CUAHSI 12 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

In addition to these in-person workshops, CUAHSI hosted two new types of training opportunities. The first new train- ing opportunity was the Summer Institute at the National Water Center. Branded as the National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) in 2015, this seven week intensive course was enabled by a supplemental grant to CUAHSI from the National Water Service that allowed participants to stay on campus at the University of Alabama while they applied new continental scale modeling techniques to research questions. The event culminated with the 3rd CUAHSI Conference on Hydroinformatics where participants presented their results. We are excited to announce that the Summer Institute will continue in 2016. CUAHSI is currently soliciting applications for Summer Institute Theme Leaders and Course Coordinators.

This year, CUAHSI piloted a Virtual Short Course that took place entirely online. Ciaran Harman (Johns Hopkins Univer- sity) led the course titled, “Time Variable Transit Techniques in Hydrologic Systems.” Participants came from a variety of institutions both in the US and internationally. Due to the positive response to this course, CUAHSI will continue to explore the virtual short course format, as it may be a be a good alternative to in-person trainings as they have low opera- tion costs, require no costs to participants, and are more accessible than in-person meetings.

Currently, we have five training opportunities planned for 2016 (see below).If you are interested in proposing a training, CUAHSI can provide funds to seed workshop and training development, and assist in organizing, advertising, and executing short courses or workshops. Hosting a training is a great way to meet Broader Impact requirements. Contact eclark@cuahsi. org for more information!

Upcoming Training Classes in 2016

Course Title Date / Location Lead Instructor

2016 Watershed Science Master January 17-22, 2016 Peter Troch, University of Class Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ Arizona

NASA/CUAHSI Remote Sensing March 29-31, 2016 JT Reager, NASA Jet Hydrology Workshop Biospher 2, Oracle, AZ Propulsion Laboratory

The Communicy WRF-Hydro May 3-5, 2016 Modeling System NCAR, Boulder, CO Dave Gochis, NCAR

June-July, 2016 Summer Institute at the National National Water Center, David Maidment, Water Center Tuscaloosa, AL University of Texas Austin

August 8-12, 2016 Kamini Singha, Colorado Techniques for Stream- Rocky Mountain Biological School of Mines Investigations Laboratory, Mike Gooseff, University of Crested Butter, CO Colorado

August 15-19, 2016 Near Surface Geophysics for University of Wyoming, Steve Holbrook, University Hydrology Laramie, WY of Wyoming CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 13

Pathfinder Fellowship

Every fall, CUAHSI accepts applications from graduate students for the purpose of broadening their research beyond the “one site, one view” approach. CUAHSI’s Pathfinder Graduate Student Fellowship program encourages multisite or multidisciplinary water science research by providing travel funds to graduate students to travel to another field site to conduct comparative research, collaborate with a research group, or work with researchers on adding an inter-disciplinary dimension to a water science project. Seven Pathfinder Fellows were awarded in 2014 (see below), each originating from a different home institution. The 2015 Pathfinder applica- tion period has closed and awards will be announced mid-December 2015.

This year, CUAHSI performed the first longitudinal evaluation of the Pathfinder Fellowship in order to better understand the impact of the program. In sum, it is clear that the demand for the grant has grown, the award has met or exceeded the expectations of participants, the opportunities enabled by the grant have offered thesis material, and Jordan Beamer (pictured) visited Prince William Sound many participants reported an appreciable impact on their career. Alaska as part of his 2013 Pathfinder Fellowship. Photo: Jordan Beamer

2014 Pathfinder Graduate Student Fellowship

2014 Pathfinder Fellow Home Institution; Research Topic Host Institution

Louisiana State; Clemson Controls over Evapotranspiration in Forested Scott Allen University Wetlands

University of Colorado; Theodore Barnhart University of California Santa Snowmelt Partitioning Dynamics in Response to Barbara Climate Change

Tulane University; Columbia Validating optically simulated luminescence Elizabeth Chamberlain University dating of fine grained fluviodeltaic quartz

Expanding our understanding of sediment University of Wyoming; and bedform dynamics in rivers from two- Robert Mahon Imperial College London dimensions to three-dimension using wide-flume experiments at Imperial College London

University of Colorado; Brett A Poulin United States Geological Mercury cycling in sulfer limited ecosystems Survey (Boulder, CO)

Modeling the effects of precipitation variability Caitlin Rushlow Idaho State University; The on the coevolving thermal regime and hydrology Ohio State University of an Arctic hillslope

Towards Improving Global Earth Systems University of Nevada, Modeling: Evaluation Methods for Groundwater John Volk Reno; National Center for Hydrology and Importance for Sub-grid Lateral Atmospheric Research Flow Routing 14 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Let’s Talk About Water

The Let’s Talk About Water (LTAW) program inspires community discussion about water related issues by using film as a catalyst to promote discussion. This year, CUAHSI awarded eight LTAW Challenge Grants to universities all over the country to host LTAW events on their own campuses. The LTAW Challenge Grants were awarded in two cohorts this year; one in January and one in July. Awards for the 2016 round of Challenge Grant funding will be announced in mid-December.

2015 LTAW Challange Grants

University Film Event Date

Duke University Last Call at the Oasis January 17, 2015

North Carolina State University Shored Up February 20, 2015

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Cowspiracy April 10, 2015

Oregon State University Who Owns Water April 27, 2015

Butler University Water Under the City September 24, 2015

Saint Leo University Flow: For the Love of Water October 17, 2015

University of Nevada Reno Last Call at the Oasis November 18, 2015

University of Florida Last Call at the Oasis February 16, 2016

Linda Lilienfeld introduces the film at a Let’s Talk About Water event at Oregon State University. Photo: Jennifer Cohen CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 15

Cyberseminars

CUAHSI continued the tradition of hosting a cyberseminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters in addition to adding a new series organized by the Columbia Water Center. The Spring 2015 CUAHSI Cyberseminar Series was focused upon the theme of Evapotranspiration while the Fall 2015 theme was Drought Monitoring. Finally, the series co-hosted by CUAHSI and the Columbia Water Center was organized around the State of America’s Water: Past and Present.

2015 Spring and Fall Cyberseminars

Speaker Institution Topic

Long term records provide insights on the relative U.S. Forest Service influence of climate and forest community Peter Caldwell Southern Research structure on water yield in the southern Station Appalachians

Wide-Area Estimates of Evapotranspiration by Red USGS Southwest Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) and Associated Pamela Nagler Biological Science Center Vegetation in the Murray-Darling River Basin, Australia

Water vapor fluxes from snow covered landscapes: Adrian Harpold University of Nevada- the importance of biotic and abiotic-mediated Reno processes

Evapotranspiration measurements from eddy Paul Stoy Montana State University covariance: network-level insights, energy balance closure, and emerging imperatives

Recent developments in drought monitoring and Steven Quiring Texas A&M University drought prediction using in situ soil moisture

Using GRACE Satellite data and Ground-based Bridget Scanlon University of Texas- Monitoring and Modeling to Assess Drought Austin Impacts on Water Resources in the Western U.S.

Drought Monitoring Through Cloud Computing Justin Huntington Desert Research Institute and Visualization of Remote Sensing and Meteorological Datasets

National Drought Mitigation Center, US Drought Monitor process: integrating various Brian Fuchs University of Nebraska- data sources within a GIS to produce the weekly Licoln map

NASA’s Jet Propulstion Current Status of the SMAP mission and its Narendra Das Laboratory application to agriculture

To view archived cyberseminars, please visit: https://www.cuahsi.org/cyberseminars 16 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 About the Consortium

Member Universities Arizona State University Texas State University - San Marcos University of Washington Auburn University Tufts University University of Wisconsin Boise State University UNESCO - IHE Institute for Water Education University of Wyoming Brigham Young University University of Alabama Utah State University Carnegie Mellon University University of Alabama - Huntsville Virginia Tech University Centre for Ecology and Hydrology University of Alaska - Fairbanks Washington State University City College New York University of Arizona Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Clemson University University of Arkansas Yale University Colorado School of Mines University of California - Berkeley Colorado State University University of California - Davis US Affiliates Columbia University University of California - Irvine Cleveland State University University of California - Merced Desert Research Institute Dartmouth College University of Central Florida Eastern Illinois University Drexel University University of Colorado - Boulder Plymouth State University Duke University University of RTI International George Mason University University of Delaware Smith College Georgia Institute of Technology University of Florida Smithsonian Environmental Research Harvard University University of Georgia Center Idaho State University University of Idaho Stockton University Indiana University University of Illinois Stroud Water Research Center Iowa State University University of Iowa Johns Hopkins University University of Kentucky International Affiliates Kansas State University University of Maryland - Baltimore County CIMA Research Foundation Kent State University University of Maryland - College Park Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Louisiana State University University of Massachusetts Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia Michigan State University University of Massachusetts - Boston Dalhousie University Michigan Technological University University of Memphis Queensland University of Technology Mississippi State University University of Miami McMaster University Montana State University University of Minnesota Pacific Geographical Institute Murray State University University of Montana Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) New Mexico State University University of Nebraska Universidad de las Américas Puebla New Mexico Tech University of Nevada - Las Vegas University of British Columbia Northern Arizona University University of Nevada - Reno University of Calgary Northwestern University University of New Hampshire University of Copenhagen Ohio State University University of New Mexico University of Ljubljana Oregon State University University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill University of New Brunswick Pennsylvania State University University of North Carolina - NCSU University of Padova Portland State University University of North Dakota University of Quebec Princeton University University of Notre Dame University of Queensland Purdue University University of Oklahoma University of Saskatchewan Rutgers University (SUNJ) University of Pittsburgh University of Trento, Italy South Dakota State University University of South Carolina University of Waterloo Southern Illinois University University of South Florida University of Zurich University of Tennessee Yonsei University State University of New York - Buffalo University of Texas - Arlington State University of New York - ESF University of Texas - Austin Corporate Affiliates Syracuse University University of Texas - San Antonio Open Geospatial Consortium Temple University University of Utah Kisters North America Texas A&M University University of Vermont CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 17 Governance

CUAHSI is managed by a board of fifteen directors elected from U.S. University members to three year terms. The Board of Directors oversees and manages the operations, long-term planning, and finances of the non-profit corporation. The Board is responsible for setting the direction of how CUAHSI can serve the water science community, which is encapsulated every few years in a Science Plan. All CUAHSI members are eligible to vote for the Board of Directors during the annual membership meeting in December.

The Board of Directors convenes monthly to monitor the strategic direction and amend the organization’s bylaws as necessary. A five person Executive Committee convenes weekly to direct ongoing operations. Additionally, the Board is currently advised by three standing committees that consider Instrumentation, Informatics, and Education and Outreach, respectively.

CUAHSI Vision We envision a diverse and dynamic scientific community, enabled by shared infrastructure, developing an integrative understanding of interactions among water, earth, ecosystems, and society and the science necessary to achieve the sustainable management of water. 18 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

2015 CUAHSI Board of Directors Anne Carey, Ohio State University Michael Gooseff, Colorado State University Robyn Hannigan, University of Massachusetts – Boston David Hyndman, Michigan State University Erkan Istanbulluoglu, University of Washington Carol Johnston, South Dakota State University Witold Krajewski, University of Iowa D. Scott Mackay, University at Buffalo (SUNY) Brian McGlynn, Duke University Holly Michael, University of Delaware Todd Rasmussen, University of Georgia Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Reno Albert Valocchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Brian Waldron, University of Memphis

2015 CUAHSI Officers

President: Richard Hooper

Secretary: Adam Ward

Treasurer: Rina Schumer

Chair: Albert Valocchi

Past Chair: Scott Tyler

Chair-Elect: David Hyndman CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 19

Financial Overview

National Science Foundation Awards The National Science Foundation provides virtually all of the funding for CUAHSI services, with the exception of $25,000 received from the Johnson Family Foundation for the Let’s Talk About Water events. During the current project year for our two major cooperative agreements with NSF, a total of $2.89M was awarded and $2.38M expended, with the balance of funds rolling forward to be expended in the succeeding year. This imbalance occurs because our approved overhead rate is much higher than our actual overhead rate and will be corrected when a new overhead rate is assigned next year. The distribution of expenditures among CUAHSI services is shown below. 20 | CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Membership Funds CUAHSI collects initiation fees and annual dues from members to provide critically needed unrestricted funds. These funds are used for costs that cannot be charged to federal grants, such as the cost of elections and maintaining membership rolls and provides a buffer for cash flow and in case of interruption of federal funding. Since the initiation of annual dues for U.S.-based members in 2012, this buffer has steadily grown as shown below. Expenditures in 2015 are estimated to $12,439, distributed as shown in the following figure. CUAHSI ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 21 Thank you... Thank you for for being a part of CUAHSI! We strive to provide resources to support and galvanize the water science commu- nity. We want to hear from you to know how we can continue to achieve our mission so please be sure to stay in touch to find out about the latest opportunities, give us feedback about our current programs, and learn how you can partici- pate more directly! We hope to see you at CUAHSI’s 2016 Biennial!

July 25 - 27, 2016 The National Conservation Training Center Shepherdstown, WV Finding Your Place in Big Data: Using Observations to Understand Hydrologic Processes for Predicting a Changing World Featured Speakers: Dara Entekhabi, MIT (Eagleson Lecture) Praveen Kumar, UIUC (Wolman Lecture) Lucy Nowell, DoE (Keynote Lecture) www.cuahsi.org/biennial Dr. Richard Hooper Dr. Alva Couch Executive Director Water Data Center Senior Architect Elizabeth Tran Brian Cummings Communications and Events Coordinator Water Data Center Software Engineer Emily Clark Liza Brazil Communications and Outreach Manager Water Data Center Community Support Jessica Annadale Specialist Controller Martin Seul Jon Pollak Acting Water Data Center Director Program Manager Yaping Xiao Melissa Gervais Water Data Center Software Engineer CUAHSI STAFF CUAHSI Accounting Assistant

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