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... . This letter report summarizes the committee's assessment of whether the Science Plan "sets forth a vision of what could be accomplished with an observing network to transform water science and engineering research and education" and "whether the Science Plan makes a compelling case for establishing the WATERS Network with Major Research and Facilities Construction (MREFC)
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... The Science Plan envisions an integrated approach involving the natural, engineering, and social sciences with potential to help address these issues through a network of hydrologic observatories in the United States. The Plan outlines the opportunity to collect, analyze, and integrate hydrological, environmental science and engineering, and social science data at a level that has not been possible before.
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... One of the major strengths of the WATERS Network is that hydrologic sciences, engineering disciplines, and the social sciences are cooperatively developing the Network plan with the full support of the three NSF directorates. This would be the first MREFC project to span natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering, and, thus, WATERS would become a model for conducting interdisciplinary research within NSF and the MREFC program.
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... For example, the first major WATERS question is "how is fresh water availability changing and how can we understand and predict such changes? " The US Climate Change Science Program is carrying out work described as follows: "FY 2008 activities will focus on a few regional case studies in which both models and measurements will be used to develop closure in the terrestrial water cycle budget for those regions.
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... Network Attachment A: References Attachment B: Committee membership Attachment C: Statement of task Attachment D: Acknowledgement of reviewers cc: Paul Bishop, NSF, ENG Harold Clark, NSF, SBE Division Director Richard Cuenca, NSF, GEO Robert Detrick, NSF, GEO Division Director Cheryl Eavey, NSF, SBE Bruce Hamilton, NSF, ENG Doug James, NSF, GEO John McGrath, NSF, ENG Division Director Robert O'Connor, NSF, SBE
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