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

University Of Iowa, Iowa City IA

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Abstract

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.