CLEANER and NSF's Environmental Observatories (2006) / Chapter Skim
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In addition, society needs more effective ways to select among management strategies (e.g., promoting the use of alternative materials versus developing enhanced waste treatment options) to address complex environmental problems and develop short-term strategies that satisfy long-term needs.
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Other proposed networks include the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) , being developed within the Directorate for Biological Science; the Hydrologic Observatories initiative fostered by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Incorporated (CUAHSI)
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. The proposed observatories would provide researchers with access to linked sensing networks, data repositories, and characterization and computational tools for integrated assessment modeling, connected through high-performance computing and telecommunications networks.
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Goals CLEANER aims to create a network of observatories and an advanced cyberinfrastructure that will facilitate the collaboration of engineers, scientists, policy makers, and community groups working across disciplines, across temporal and spatial scales, and across different types of surface and subsurface environments in watersheds subjected to a range of climatic conditions. This collaborative work is to be focused on developing the ability to detect and respond effectively to rapid changes in system functioning, to implement near real-time decision-making supported by data collection that can be used to anticipate future problems, and to develop innovative and effective engineering solutions and management options.
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an analysis network with common modeling platforms and analysis protocols that will serve as the central organizational framework for collaborative investigations; · support collection of critical environmental data with advanced sensor array systems and in situ instrumentation; · facilitate data mining and aggregation and provide analytical tools for data visualization, exploratory data analysis, and predictive modeling of largescale dynamic environmental management strategies; · enable more effective adaptive management approaches for humandominated environmental systems based on enhanced observations, experimentation, modeling, engineering analysis, and design; · enable participation from a broad engineering and science community, including educators, students, practitioners, and public sector organizations and individuals, who will have access to CLEANER's equipment, data, models, and software; and · transform engineering education and outreach by engaging the academic community and the general public in large-scale and complex realworld environmental management problems. Status and Future Plans The NSF Directorate for Engineering awarded $1 million in planning grants in 2004 for 12 projects,2 involving principal investigators from 22 universities, to plan the system cyberinfrastructure and the nature of the field facilities that will constitute the network.
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An important task of the CLEANER Project Office will be developing a community consortium that has the capability to plan, design, construct, and operate the CLEANER network. As noted above, the NSF's Engineering and Geosciences Directorates are currently planning to combine CLEANER with the CUAHSI Hydrologic Observatories into what is now called the WATERS Network.
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Regarding the second issue, the WSTB will comment on the overall value to engineering and other potentially interested disciplines of networked environmental observatory facilities to improve our understanding of complicated, large-scale water quality and water resources problems and the development of cost-effective engineering approaches to their solution. The scope of issues to be considered by the WSTB will be limited to water quality and water resources; i.e., air will only be considered to the extent that it affects water.
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