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Research Project:
INTEGRATION OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND FORECASTS INTO RISK-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION
Location: Great Plains Agroclimate and Natural Resources Research Unit
Title: Enhancing watershed research capacity: the role of data management
Authors
Submitted to: ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting Abstracts
Publication Type:
Abstract
Publication Acceptance Date: September 30, 2008
Publication Date: N/A
Interpretive Summary: Abstract Only.
Technical Abstract: Water resources are under growing pressure globally, and in the face of projected climate change, changes in precipitation frequency and intensity; evapotranspiration, runoff, and snowmelt pose severe societal challenges. Interdisciplinary environmental research across natural and social sciences to address challenges in water resource management will require complex and long-term data. The Agricultural Research Service supports a unique set of long-term research watersheds that can contribute to such analyses. To effectively retrieve embedded information/knowledge from watershed studies, and apply to national scale hydrological research, a web-based data system, STEWARDS, was developed, to overcome problems of fragmentation, inadequate documentation, and cumbersome manipulation. This paper will discuss the role of data management in enhancing watershed research capacity, the evolving information technologies that are available to improve watershed data management, and strategies and approaches taken in STEWARDS to compile, document and provide access to data from loosely coupled research watersheds across the ARS program.
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Last Modified: 11/04/2008
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