USA PUB WorkshopTowards a community action plan for the hydrological sciences
Agenda as of September 24, 2006 | |
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Sunday | |
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6:00 - 7:00pm 7:00 - 9:00pm |
Registration, Hilton Garden Inn Welcome Reception OSU Room Hilton Garden Inn |
Monday | |
| 7:30am | Registration, LaSells Stewart Center |
| 8:30am |
Opening, LaSells Stewart Center, Construction and Engineering Room Welcome by OSU President, Ed Ray (tentative) Welcome by Director, OSU Inst. Water and Watersheds, Michael Campana Workshop Goals: Jeff McDonnell, OSU |
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Plenary Session: The PUB Movement Chaired by Michael Campana, OSU | |
| 8:45am |
The IAHS PUB movement: Past, present and future Jeff McDonnell, OSU |
| 9:15am |
CUAHSI and PUB: Towards a community science agenda for the USA Rick Hooper, CUAHSI |
| 9:45am |
PUB and vision for a new science of hydrology Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois |
| 10:15am | Coffee |
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Plenary Session: Watershed Classification Chaired by Chris Duffy, Penn State | |
| 10:45am |
Towards a typology of catchments Ross Woods, NIWA New Zealand |
| 11:15am |
The new USGS watershed classification system Dave Wolock, USGS Kansas |
| 11:45am |
Geology as destiny at the large watershed scale Gordon Grant, USFS Corvallis |
| 12:15pm | Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West) |
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Plenary Session: Conceptualization Of Process Heterogeneity Chaired by Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois | |
| 2:30pm |
Seeing through process heterogeneity in the subsurface: Coupled hydrolopedalogical systems Henry Lin, Penn State University |
| 3:00pm |
Thresholds as a characteristic form of nonlinearity in hydrogeomorphic systems Jonathan Phillips, University of Kentucky |
| 3:30pm |
From landscape heterogeneity to terrain-based scaling rules Peter Troch, University of Arizona |
| 4:00pm |
Beer (or coffee) and Poster Session Chaired by Jeff McDonnell Posters will remain "up" for the duration of the conference in the coffee area |
| 6:00pm | End of Sessions |
| 6:30pm |
PUB at the pub: Squirrels Tavern, 100 SW 2nd St, Corvallis (beer and food), Pub crawl back to OSU to follow……. |
Tuesday | |
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Plenary Session: Uncertainty Estimation and Model Diagnostics Chaired by Larry Band, UNC | |
| 8:30am |
Bayesian uncertainty estimation approaches Jim Freer, Lancaster University |
| 9:00am |
Towards an uncertainty framework Thorsten Wagener, Penn State University |
| 9:30am |
Scaling in hydro-geomorphology and its use in modelling and prediction Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of Minnesota |
| 10:00am | Coffee |
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Plenary Session: Development and Use of New Data Collection Approaches Chaired by Rick Hooper, CUAHSI | |
| 10:30am |
Field based mass spectrometers for real time water cycle tracing Carol Kendall, USGS |
| 11:00am |
On the need for new radar technologies Witold Krajewski, University of Iowa |
| 11:30am |
Fibre optic hydrology John Selker, OSU |
| Noon | Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West) |
| 1:30pm |
Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Where are the gaps? Goal of these breakout groups - Build on talks and posters to discuss, in a highly interdisciplinary way: What the current state of the art? What are the current gaps in the state of the art? |
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(1) Watershed classification Chair: Gordon Grant (2) Conceptualization of process heterogeneity Chair: Larry Band (3) Uncertainty estimation and model diagnostics Chair: Rick Hooper (4) New data collection approaches Chair: Ty Ferre (5) New hydrological theory and modelling Chair: Siva Sivapalan | |
| 3:30pm | Coffee |
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Plenary Session: New Hydrological Theory Chaired by Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois | |
| 4:00pm |
New theory derived from systems theory Hoshin Gupta, U. Arizona |
| 4:30pm |
Self-similarity and a new hydrology Chris Duffy, Penn State University |
| 5:00pm |
It's not that we need physically based models-it's what physics do we use in our models? Jim Kirchner, UC Berkeley |
| 5:30pm | End of Discussions |
| 6:30pm |
Conference Dinner, OSU Alumni Center Dinner music by John Bliss Xtet; Dinner Speaker: Robert Glennon, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona (book signing to follow) Tales of Bottled Water and French Fries: The Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping |
Wednesday | |
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Plenary Session: New Modelling Approaches Chaired by Chris Duffy, Penn State | |
| 8:30am |
TopDown modelling David Post, CSIRO Townsville |
| 9:00am |
Large scale models of ungauged basins Upmanu Lall, Columbia University |
| 9:30am |
Ecologically-based models Marc Stieglitz, Georgia Tech University |
| 10:00am | Coffee |
| 10:30am |
Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Filling in the gaps Goal of these breakout groups - Build on talks, posters and previous day's discussion to address: Where do we want to be in 10 yrs? What do we need to do to get there? What science can be done with today's infrastructure? What science cannot be done with today's infrastructure? |
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(1) Watershed classification Chair: Gordon Grant (2) Conceptualization of process heterogeneity Chair: Larry Band (3) Uncertainty estimation and model diagnostics Chair: Rick Hooper (4) New data collection approaches Chair: Ty Ferre (5) New hydrological theory and modelling Chair: Siva Sivapalan | |
| 12:30pm | Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West) |
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Plenary Session: PUB Implementation Chaired by Siva Sivapalan, U. Illinois | |
| 1:30pm |
International PUB Implementation Ian Littlewood, CEH Wallingford |
| 2:00pm |
CUAHSI HIS and PUB David Tarboton, Utah State U. |
| 2:30pm |
Remote sensing, Hydroclimatology modelling and PUB Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois |
| 3:00pm | Coffee |
| 3:30pm |
What type of facilities do we need? Larry Band, University of North Carolina |
| 4:00pm | Detailed Reports back to the group from break-out group chairs |
| 6:00pm | End of Sessions, Evening on your own |
Thursday | |
| 8:30am |
Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Recommendations Goal of these breakout groups - Build on previous breakout group discussions to address cross-cutting issues: What cannot be done in the current funding model? What do we want to recommend to NSF (for new rfp's, program solicitations, etc) |
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(1) Infomatics and Cyber-infrastructure Chair: Dave Tarboton (2) Field data and data collection (sensors, remote sensing and beyond) Chair: John Selker (3) Community facilities Chair: Larry Band (4) Barriers to including the human dimension Chair: Rick Hooper (5) Education and Outreach: How to engage beyond NSF funding Chair: Ian Littlewood | |
| Coffee break on a group-by-group basis as needed | |
| 11:30am | Reports back to the group by discussion chairs |
| Noon |
Plenary Discussion: Summary, Synthesis and Way Forward Jeff McDonnell, OSU |
| 12:30pm | End of Conference - Lunch |