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Summary Report of the NSF/EPA WATERS Network Workshop
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GOODRICH, J. A. Summary Report of the NSF/EPA WATERS Network Workshop . NSF/EPA WATERS WORKSHOP , Cincinnati, OH, April 29 - May 01, 2008. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-08/073, 2008.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) and The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) organized a workshop to support The WATer and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network project. The WATERS Network is a new joint initiative of the environmental engineering and hydrologic sciences research communities with the support of NSF. The goal of the WATERS Network is to understand and predict the processes that couple water with earth and human systems through networked sensors, assimilation of high-frequency data, and interdisciplinary experimentation. Through real-time monitoring and modeling, water quality and quantity could be assessed at all times and at all places on a regional level. The WATERS Network would be a continental-scale research facility, possibly incorporating 10 to 12 tightly networked sites across the country. Eleven WATERS Test Bed projects are currently in operation. The EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) has a number of laboratory and field facilities that could potentially be integrated into the WATERS Network project. EPA/NRMRL and NSF are exploring the possibility of a partnership to produce projects that may serve as new WATERS Network Test Beds. The NSF/EPA WATERS Network Workshop was held April 30 through May 1, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Technical experts from across the country specializing in areas of water quality and quantity participated in the workshop. The objectives of the workshop were to make the EPA/NRMRL facilities and staff capabilities known to academic community participants of this workshop, and to receive feedback from workshop participants on the potential for academic community collaboration through the envisioned NSF/EPA partnership.