Droughts and their hydrological consequences are a major threat to food security throughout the world. In arid and semiarid regions dependent on irrigated agriculture, prolonged droughts lead to significant and recurring economic and social losses. In this Feasibility Stage 1 project, the assembled research and...

The period immediately following an environmental disaster typically involves a rush by decision makers and scientists, to determine what data are relevant and to access these data for disaster mitigation and post-event analysis. The University of Alabama in Huntsville has prototyped and demonstrated Event-Driven Data...

Event-Driven Data Delivery (ED3) technology addresses the problem of data preparedness for disaster events. In the Stage 1-Feasibility study, the team created a flexible, loosely coupled ED3 Framework, and through reference implementations of the various components, successfully demonstrated how the technology can be applied to...

Objectives: We propose to develop a widely needed on-line portal that will streamline the co-registration of animal tracking data with a variety of weather and land surface data. The portal will also provide toolboxes for data visualization and analysis. To ensure relevance and effectiveness, the...

Climate change poses severe threats to biodiversity, and conservationists have to adapt their management decisions to a changing climate. The challenge is that the biological response to future climate change is uncertain. Climate change will entail a general warming, but even more importantly may increase...

The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) is responsible for the entire Colorado Basin (CRB) and the eastern Great Basin (GB). From a water management perspective, the commitment of water to various users most often occurs in the spring, and is almost entirely based on...

Hydro-meteorological extremes such as droughts severely impact crop yields, globally. Quantifying and managing the impact is critical for making informed decisions regarding crop management, commodity trading, and food security. This proposal aims to develop and implement an operational methodology, in partnership with a global company...

It is estimated that the annual value of water from the major watersheds being forecasted in California is ~$3.3 billion, and the corresponding value of hydropower is equal to ~$1.3 billion, with the specific value of the forecasting program estimated at $140-230 million. The proposed...

Many whale populations have been slow to increase in numbers following cessation of commercial whaling, and one of the reasons for this is human-induced mortality. There were 21 blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) strandings along the California coast during 1988 to 2007, of which 8 were...

We propose to design and implement an Observation System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) testbed for obtaining space-borne high resolution soil moisture data in support of the NRC?s 2007 Decadal Survey Missions. The OSSE testbed focuses on land surface studies which are related to 8 of the...