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Integrated Water Science in the
Great Salt Lake Basin
David Tarboton
Utah State University Water Initiative
http://water.usu.edu/
The availability of water to sustain life is
perhaps the most recurrent constraint in
human history and will remain so in the
foreseeable future.
From http://www.doi.gov/water2025/index.html
The Great Salt Lake Basin
Bear
Strawberry
Weber
Jordan/Provo
West Desert
A microcosm for many Western Water Issues
A microcosm for many "western"
water issues
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Climate Gradients (Snow fed, Alpine to semi-arid), variability
and vulnerability
Topographic and Land Use Gradients
Mountain Front / Valley groundwater dynamics and
interactions
Geologic Diversity (Granite to Karst)
Closed basin for water and constituent balance closure
Development issues (local growth, SLC metropolitan area
demands)
Policy Issues (3 states)
Agricultural issues (water supply, environmental compliance)
Environmental Issues (water quality, watershed management
practices)
Ecological issues (Stream ecosystems, Bird refuge, GSL
ecosystem)
• Addressing the water issues of the
future requires working across
disciplines
– and a workforce that is capable of
working across disciplines
– and universities that educate the
workforce ready to work across
disciplines
Interdisciplinary Integration of Water Resources Disciplines
Basic Sciences
• Mathematics
• Economics
• Statistics
• Law
• Fluid Mechanics • Physics
• Sociology
• Chemistry
• Hydraulic
• Political
• Biology
Engineering
Science
Water
Geosciences
• Meteorology
• Engineering
Resources
• Geology
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Hydrologic
Hydrology
Science
• Soil Science
• Agriculture
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• Atmospheric
• Forestry
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Science
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• Ocean Science
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• Glaciology
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• Geochemistry
Adapted from: National Research Council Committee on Opportunities in the Hydrologic
Sciences (COHS), (1991), Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences, Editor, P. S. Eagleson,
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
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Interdisciplinary work is now
emphasized nationally
$14.5 million
http://water.usu.edu
Spring Runoff Conference and Seminar Series—USU's Water
Initiative works to facilitate collaborative research and to foster a
collegial interdisciplinary community of water scholars. As part of this,
we are again sponsoring our Spring Runoff Conference and a series
of seminars on an assortment of water related topics. We invite you to
join us.
Community
Building Activities
See what we have scheduled this semester:
Monday, 1/22/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Jon Cole, Cornell University
Title: Cargo Cults and Allochthonous Input: An Examination of the Consequences of Terrestrial
Carbon Inputs to Aquatic Ecosystems
Monday, 1/29/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Brian Bledsoe, Colorado State University
Title: Considering Vegetative Influences in Stream Restoration Design
Monday, 2/5/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Amilcare Porporato, Duke University
Title: Stochastic Soil Moisture Dynamics and Ecosystem Response
Monday, 2/12/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Fred Ogden, University of Wyoming
Title: Unusual Annual Runoff Hydrograph Characteristics in the Seasonal Tropics of Panama
Tuesday, 2/20/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Bob Wissmar, University of Washington
Title: How effective are created spawning channels in river floodplains?
Thursday, 2/22/2007 at Noon in ENGR 302
Speaker: Gabriel Montes-Llamas, Inter American Development Bank
Title: International Irrigation Projects developed by the Inter American Development Bank
Monday, 2/26/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Dara Entekhabi, MIT
Title: Data Assimilation in a Coupled Land-Boundary Layer System
Monday, 3/5/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Krissy Wilson, Native Aquatic Species Program Coordinator, Utah Division Wildlife
Resources
Title: Utah Division Wildlife Resources Native Aquatic Species Programs: Moving Forward to
Recovery for T&E Species and Keeping Species off the List
Monday, 3/19/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Barbara Minsker, University of Illinois
Title: The WATERS Network: The National Vision and Testbed Research in Corpus Christi Bay
Monday, 3/26/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Wayne Wurtsbaugh, USU-Watershed Sciences
Title: Landscape Limnology in Mountain Watersheds
Monday, 4/2/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Susan Solarz, Wilderness Society
Title: Fish Barriers on Idaho Streams: Meeting a New Management Imperative for Inland Migratory
Fish Species.
Thursday, 4/5/07 to Friday 4/6/07 at the Eccles Conference Center
Spring Runoff Conference: Water - Past, Present and Future
See http://water.usu.edu/conference.
Monday, 4/16/07 at 4:00 pm in ENGR 101
Speaker: Warren Coyler, Trout Unlimited
Title: Fish Out of Water: Collaborative Approaches to Native Fish Restoration in the Bear River
Watershed
Details are available on our web site at http://water.usu.edu, or you
can call or email Kim Schreuders at 797-2941 or kimas@cc.usu.edu.
Rev 2/9/07
• Seminars (archived
and webcast)
• Spring Runoff
Conference
• Website
(http://water.usu.edu)
Monday’s Seminar
A common
playground
The Great Salt Lake
Basin Critical Zone
Observatory
(Proposal submitted to NSF)
Snowfall
Sublimn
Particulate
Transport
Signal
Urban
ET
Lake
Evapn
Grassland
Steppe ET
Agriculture
ET
Runoff
Forest
ET
Snowmelt
Infiltration
&
Chemistry
Response
Hyporheic
Zone
Urban
Chemistry
Hyporheic
Zone
Groundwater
Flow
Lake
Chemistry
Basin Fill
Mountain Block
Particulate Feedback
Exposed Lake
Bed Area
Particulate
Generation
Particulate
Transport
Ag/Urban
Discharge
Lake
Area
Urban/Ag
Ag/Urban
Runoff
Lake
Salinity
Snowfall
Ag/Urban
ET
Particulate
Deposition
Ag/Urban
GW Recharge
Lake
Evaporation
Lake
Volume
Ag/Urban
Hydrology
Design
Reactive
oxygen
Snowpack
species
Sublimation
Ag/Urban
Diversion
Population
Snowmelt
Lake
Vegetation
Snow/Veg
Runoff
Precipitation
GW
Discharge
Hyporheic
Storage
ET
Soil
Storage
Residence
Time
GW
Storage
Mountain Block
GW Recharge
ET = Evapotranspiration
GW = Groundwater
A community data system
http://www.bearriverinfo.org
CUAHSI Hydrologic Data Access System
User Interaction
through Web
Browser
SQL Queries
passed from
Time Series
Viewer to the
server database
Observations
Database (ODM)
Software tools to
facilitate analysis
http://water.usu.edu/analyst/
Query results can
be exported to a
browser window
or directly to
Microsoft Excel
Concluding thoughts on stimulating
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Communication
• Enabling Technology
– Putting data in the system should make an individual
researchers job easier
– Enhance sharing by enabling analysis otherwise not available
• Maps and Geographic Information Systems are
important for synthesis
• Advancement of water science is critically dependent on
integration of water information