The PUB --- Prediction in Unguaged Basins --- meeting was just held in Corvallis at Oregon State University during the past four days. The meeting was organized by Jeff McDonnell in the Forestry Department at OSU to introduce the American Hydrology Community to the work and methods of PUB. More about PUB can be found at their Web Site:

http://pub.iwmi.org/

Some of the major outcomes of the meeting was a renewed interest and focus on `networks', perhaps captured by directed graph models, to capture the heterogeneity in hydrological systems. There was also much discussion on how to better connect measurements and modeling in the direct testing, validation, and falsification of hydrologic models and their (implicit or explicit) scientific hypothesises. Some of the major topics of the workshop will be captured and communicated in an EOS article.

Here is the Meeting Agenda:

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	USA PUB Workshop Towards a community action plan for the hydrological sciences Agenda as of September 24, 2006 [download PDF version] Sunday 15 October 6:00 - 7:00pm 7:00 - 9:00pm Registration, Hilton Garden Inn Welcome Reception OSU Room Hilton Garden Inn Monday 16 October 7:30am Registration, LaSells Stewart Center 8:30am Opening, LaSells Stewart Center, Construction and Engineering Room Welcome by OSU President, Ed Ray (tentative) Welcome by Director, OSU Inst. Water and Watersheds, Michael Campana Workshop Goals: Jeff McDonnell, OSU Plenary Session: The PUB Movement Chaired by Michael Campana, OSU 8:45am The IAHS PUB movement: Past, present and future Jeff McDonnell, OSU 9:15am CUAHSI and PUB: Towards a community science agenda for the USA Rick Hooper, CUAHSI 9:45am PUB and vision for a new science of hydrology Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois 10:15am Coffee Plenary Session: Watershed Classification Chaired by Chris Duffy, Penn State 10:45am Towards a typology of catchments Ross Woods, NIWA New Zealand 11:15am The new USGS watershed classification system Dave Wolock, USGS Kansas 11:45am Geology as destiny at the large watershed scale Gordon Grant, USFS Corvallis 12:15pm Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West) Plenary Session: Conceptualization Of Process Heterogeneity Chaired by Siva Sivapalan, University of Illinois 2:30pm Seeing through process heterogeneity in the subsurface: Coupled hydrolopedalogical systems Henry Lin, Penn State University 3:00pm Thresholds as a characteristic form of nonlinearity in hydrogeomorphic systems Jonathan Phillips, University of Kentucky 3:30pm From landscape heterogeneity to terrain-based scaling rules Peter Troch, University of Arizona 4:00pm Beer (or coffee) and Poster Session Chaired by Jeff McDonnell Posters will remain "up" for the duration of the conference in the coffee area 6:00pm End of Sessions 6:30pm PUB at the pub: Squirrels Tavern, 100 SW 2nd St, Corvallis (beer and food), Pub crawl back to OSU to follow……. Tuesday 17 October Plenary Session: Uncertainty Estimation and Model Diagnostics Chaired by Larry Band, UNC 8:30am Bayesian uncertainty estimation approaches Jim Freer, Lancaster University 9:00am Towards an uncertainty framework Thorsten Wagener, Penn State University 9:30am Scaling in hydro-geomorphology and its use in modelling and prediction Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of Minnesota 10:00am Coffee Plenary Session: Development and Use of New Data Collection Approaches Chaired by Rick Hooper, CUAHSI 10:30am Field based mass spectrometers for real time water cycle tracing Carol Kendall, USGS 11:00am On the need for new radar technologies Witold Krajewski, University of Iowa 11:30am Fibre optic hydrology John Selker, OSU Noon Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West) 1:30pm Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Where are the gaps? Goal of these breakout groups - Build on talks and posters to discuss, in a highly interdisciplinary way: What the current state of the art? What are the current gaps in the state of the art? (1) Watershed classification Chair: Gordon Grant (2) Conceptualization of process heterogeneity Chair: Larry Band (3) Uncertainty estimation and model diagnostics Chair: Rick Hooper (4) New data collection approaches Chair: Ty Ferre (5) New hydrological theory and modelling Chair: Siva Sivapalan 3:30pm Coffee Plenary Session: New Hydrological Theory Chaired by Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois 4:00pm New theory derived from systems theory Hoshin Gupta, U. Arizona 4:30pm Self-similarity and a new hydrology Chris Duffy, Penn State University 5:00pm It's not that we need physically based models-it's what physics do we use in our models? Jim Kirchner, UC Berkeley 5:30pm End of Discussions 6:30pm Conference Dinner, OSU Alumni Center Dinner music by John Bliss Xtet; Dinner Speaker: Robert Glennon, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona (book signing to follow) Tales of Bottled Water and French Fries: The Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping Wednesday 18 October Plenary Session: New Modelling Approaches Chaired by Chris Duffy, Penn State 8:30am TopDown modelling David Post, CSIRO Townsville 9:00am Large scale models of ungauged basins Upmanu Lall, Columbia University 9:30am Ecologically-based models Marc Stieglitz, Georgia Tech University 10:00am Coffee 10:30am Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Filling in the gaps Goal of these breakout groups - Build on talks, posters and previous day's discussion to address: Where do we want to be in 10 yrs? What do we need to do to get there? What science can be done with today's infrastructure? What science cannot be done with today's infrastructure? (1) Watershed classification Chair: Gordon Grant (2) Conceptualization of process heterogeneity Chair: Larry Band (3) Uncertainty estimation and model diagnostics Chair: Rick Hooper (4) New data collection approaches Chair: Ty Ferre (5) New hydrological theory and modelling Chair: Siva Sivapalan 12:30pm Lunch (Memorial Union and Marketplace West) Plenary Session: PUB Implementation Chaired by Siva Sivapalan, U. Illinois 1:30pm International PUB Implementation Ian Littlewood, CEH Wallingford 2:00pm CUAHSI HIS and PUB David Tarboton, Utah State U. 2:30pm Remote sensing, Hydroclimatology modelling and PUB Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois 3:00pm Coffee 3:30pm What type of facilities do we need? Larry Band, University of North Carolina 4:00pm Detailed Reports back to the group from break-out group chairs 6:00pm End of Sessions, Evening on your own Thursday 19 October 8:30am Breakout Session: Towards USA community science questions: Recommendations Goal of these breakout groups - Build on previous breakout group discussions to address cross-cutting issues: What cannot be done in the current funding model? What do we want to recommend to NSF (for new rfp's, program solicitations, etc) (1) Infomatics and Cyber-infrastructure Chair: Dave Tarboton (2) Field data and data collection (sensors, remote sensing and beyond) Chair: John Selker (3) Community facilities Chair: Larry Band (4) Barriers to including the human dimension Chair: Rick Hooper (5) Education and Outreach: How to engage beyond NSF funding Chair: Ian Littlewood Coffee break on a group-by-group basis as needed 11:30am Reports back to the group by discussion chairs Noon Plenary Discussion: Summary, Synthesis and Way Forward Jeff McDonnell, OSU 12:30pm End of Conference - Lunch Workshop Home | About | Agenda | Registration | Directions | Lodging | Contact