Objective 1

The first primary objective is to organize and employ synthesis activities to produce transformational outcomes that will be utilized to improve the predictability of water cycle dynamics in a changing Earth environment.

This objective will be accomplished through the following activities:

1. Establish collaborative relationships between individual scientists, research centers, and agencies to combine each other’s capabilities to develop substantive hydrologic synthesis
2. Assemble a targeted Synthesis Team and Synthesis Activity Groups to aid in collapsing barriers between disciplines and research techniques to address critical problems in improving the predictability of water cycle dynamics
3. Execute focused research activities through the assembled Synthesis Team and Synthesis Activity Groups to produce outcomes that will become national prototypes of the power of synthesis for investigating and solving the complex hydrologic problems of today

The establishment of collaborative relationships will allow this project to benefit from the expertise, resources, skill, and experience of well-established partner institutions involved in the latest multidisciplinary research, which are making important contributions to the discipline of hydrology. However, membership in the synthesis team and activity groups will also be open to the wider scientific community, allowing the synthesis projects to be true community efforts.