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Research Themes
The “Cross-Cutting Science” themes listed here, are themes that SRBHOS collaborators have proposed. Some have evolved from CUAHSI “vision papers” and two partner workshops. In all cases they have been listed because they require the kind of observing system that the Susquehanna River Basin Hydrologic Observatory can and must offer. The topics and their titles are evolving and will change with time.
Proposed SRBHOS Research Themes
I. HUMAN DIMENSIONS & POLICY
A. Sustainable Water Resources: Climate-Human Change
B. Designing a SRBHOS Research Collaboratory
II. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
A. SRBHOS Computational Science
B. Hydroinformatics
III. SEMI-AUTONOMOUS PLATFORMS FOR OBSERVING
HYDROCLIMATIC AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL FLUXES
A. RTHNET: Real-Time Wired/Wireless Sensor Technologies
B. Stream Discharge and Sediment Flux Platforms: Doppler Radar & Emerging Technol.
C. In-Situ Nitrogen Sampling in Stream Reaches
D. Susquehanna River Basin Mesonet
IV. RIVER BASIN CHARATERIZATION, HYDROLOGIC CHANGE,
RECONSTRUCTION, AND PREDICTION PROJECT
A. Assimilation, Prediction, and Network Design
B. 4-D Hydro-Geophysical Characterization: Chemical-Hydraulic-Electrical-Tomography
C. Delineation of Groundwater Basins
D. The Soil Landscape & Hydropedology
E. Detecting Hydrologic Change: Man-Climate
F. Seasonal-to-Century Hydrologic Reconstruction: Climate, Vegetation, Hydrology
G. Urban Hydrodynamics: Climate, Man and Land
V. HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES AND SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS
A. Multi-scale Nutrient Fluxes in Complex Landscapes
B. Wetlands & Riparian Regions: Function & Process
C. Stream-Aquifer Dynamics in Complex Terrain
D. The Fluvial-Sediment System
E. Cold-Season Processes
F. Land Surface Atmosphere Interaction
G. Scale and Similarity in the Ecohydrologic Landscape
H. Climate variability and Groundwater Recharge
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