COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH TO OPERATIONS IN HYDROLOGY (CIROH)
Recipient
University of Alabama
1044-A Cyber Hall
Box 870206
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
ciroh@ua.edu
https://ciroh.ua.edu
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Director
Research Themes
- Water resources prediction capabilities – Research under this theme not only fosters improvements in service equity, coastal resilience research, ecosystem management, enhanced decision support services, but also promotes integration within NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS).
- Water resources modeling – To investigate water resources modeling advances with observing, analysis, and forecasting capabilities to improve forecasting of water resources from summit to sea, including coupling with coastal and ocean processes.
- Hydroinformatics – To support enhanced integration, access to, and understanding of increasingly complex water data through hydroinformatics. Hydroinformatics is the application of information and communication technologies to deliver the next generation of water resources services that span multiple sectors. The focus is to leverage geographic information systems and techniques such as remote sensing, data assimilation, computational science and high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence and machine learning to help organize, integrate, and optimally synthesize large volumes of complex data to better inform water resources decisions.
- Application of social, economic, and behavioral science to water resources prediction – Research under this theme is associated with water-related operations and outreach to improve the delivery and efficacy of decision support services based on the expressed needs and comprehension of the stakeholders NOAA serves. Such research would evaluate human dimensions in water resources which explore the full range of social sciences important for the valuation, public understanding, dissemination, management- and policy-related use of scientific information.
Consortium Members
- Brigham Young University – Provo, Utah
- Coastal Carolina University – Conway, South Carolina
- Colorado School of Mines – Golden, Colorado
- Baron Services – Huntsville, Alabama
- CUAHSI – Arlington, Massachusetts
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab – Dauphin Island, Alabama
- GCOOS – College Station, Texas
- Jupiter Intel – San Mateo, California
- New Mexico State University – Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Pennsylvania State University – University Park, Pennsylvania
- RTI International – Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- Stevens Institute of Technology – Hoboken, New Jersey
- Tuskegee University – Tuskegee, Alabama
- University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- University of Alabama at Huntsville – Huntsville, Alabama
- University of Arizona – Tucson, Arizona
- University of California San Diego / Scripps Institute – La Jolla, California
- University of California, Davis – Davis, California
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa – Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
- University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- University of Iowa – Iowa City, Iowa
- University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minnesota
- University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- University of South Carolina – Columbia, South Carolina
- University of Utah – Salt Lake City, Utah
- University of Vermont – Burlington, Vermont
- Utah State University – Logan, Utah
Award Details
| First 5-Year Award | |
| Award Number | NA22NWS4320003-T1-01 |
| Award Period | April 1, 2022 – May 31, 2027 |
| Award Amount | $320,000,000 |
| Research Performance Progress Reports | April 2022 – December 2022 |