Where does your water come from? Do you always have enough or is the supply limited where you live? What factors affect the flow of water in the area where you live? The GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Project will enable students to investigate their own watershed in order to understand the flow of water through the watershed, how human activities within the watershed both depend on and impact its hydrology, and how land use changes can affect the plant and animal communities in the watershed.

This project will offer GLOBE students the opportunity to conduct science investigations on local and regional watersheds using real-time and historical scientific data from the dataset being constructed by the Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science ( CUAHSI).

For more information, please see the project summary.

Activities

The Watershed Dynamics project is currently piloting a second learning module in classrooms across the United States using My World GIS and online scientific databases to explore how landuse, surface permeability, stream discharge, and human impacts affect a watershed.  This module along with another module which examines precipitation, evaporation and surface runoff patterns are both expected to be ready for public distribution in 2010.

No further pilot teacher trainings are scheduled for this project.  Periodic trainings by GLOBE Partners will be posted as they become available.

GLOBE Partner Sponsored Workshops

none at this time

Prior Pilot Teacher Workshops

12-14 August 2008: Watershed Dynamics Summer 2008 Workshop for Teachers, Boulder Colorado. Explore how land cover and land use choices affect surface runoff and stream flow in a watershed.

7 - 9 August 2007: Watershed Dynamics Summer Workshop for Teachers, Boulder, Colorado
August 2007: The first training session took place at the 2007 Annual Conference

As additional information about these activities, and future Watershed Dynamics activities, becomes available, it will be added to this page.

For more information about the Watershed Dynamics project, please contact watershedinfo@globe.gov.