Welcome to the Synthesis Project Website
Welcome to the Web home for the NSF-funded research project “Water Cycle Dynamics in a Changing Environment: Advancing Hydrologic Science through Synthesis,” based within the Center for Water as a Complex Environmental System and the Institute for Sustainability of Intensively Managed Landscapes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This page is designed to inform the scientific community, and society-at-large about the purpose, objectives and impacts for this project, as well as the people and research centers involved.
In 2009 and 2010, the project hosted summer institutes at the University of British Columbia. A diverse selection of graduate students and rotating mentors spent six weeks carving new paths for "hydrologic synthesis" using a patterns-based approach to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a novel, unified and robust predictive framework for hydrologic variability. This work culminated with special sections in major journals.
- Water Resources Research - Approaches to Synthesis: Watersheds as Dynamic, Cascading, Hierarchical, Nonlinear Space-Time Filters
- Journal of Geophysical Research (Joint with Biogeosciences & Earth Surface) - Linking Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes in Watersheds from the Cellular and Grain Scales to the Landscape Scale
Purpose
The aim of this project is to conduct a range of synthesis activities that will produce transformational outcomes in the critical research area of “improving predictability of water cycle dynamics in a changing environment,” which will serve as an effective model of synthesis within the hydrological community.
Site Navigation
- About - Information about the project, its purpose, organization and partners.
- Activities - Meeting summaries, activity group presentations and project calendar
- Reports - Annual project reports and recommendations of review committee
- Contact - How to connect with project PIs and key participants
Website updated: May 23, 2011
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