PROFESSOR BARTON FORMAN (CO-I) WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CODE ENHANCEMENTS IN NASA LIS AS RELATED TO GRACE ASSIMILATION (AND OTHER REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS) WITH PARTICULAR RELEVANCE TO TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE. CO-I FORMAN WILL CONDUCT OPEN-LOOP AND DATA ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS AS OUTLINED IN THE PROJECT NARRATIVE. IN ADDITION CO-I FORMAN WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH RESEARCHERS AT THE NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) IN THE PRODUCTION OF REANALYSIS EXPERIMENTS INCLUDING RESULTS ANALYSIS AND CODE DEVELOPMENT. CO-I FORMAN WILL ALSO MAINTAIN AND EXPAND THE DATA MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT DATA PROCESSING PROGRAMS. THE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE WILL UTILIZE THE DEEPTHOUGHT2 COMPUTING CLUSTER A 10 000+ CPU PARALLEL COMPUTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WHICH IS ADMINISTERED BY THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. PROFESSOR FORMAN WILL ADVISE AND COLLABORATE WITH ONE GRADUATE STUDENT UNDER HIS DIRECT SUPERVISION IN ORDER TO PERFORM THESE MAJOR TASKS.