About CIROH @ UVM
The Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) is a national consortium of science and services
to provide actionable water resources intelligence to improve a national water model and flood forecasting.
CIROH works closely with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Water Center and the
U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility allowing for highly productive collaboration
between CIROH’s cooperative members and other federal agency scientists.
Headquartered at the University of Alabama Water Institute (AWI), CIROH consists of academic institutions, non-profit
organizations, and government and industry partners across the United States and Canada.
Research Themes
Research ThemesResearchers at UVM collaborate with other partners in the CIROH initiative to advance NOAA’s capabilities in the below four themes, particularly community water resources modelling and its application to social, economic, and behavioral sciences.
Water Resources Prediction Capabilities
The Water Resources Prediction team works on improving representation of floodplains and natural features for channel routing
in the National Water Model.
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Community Water Resources Modeling
The Modeling team works on
building advanced cyberinfrastructure resources necessary to fuse a diverse array of existing and new heterogeneous
data sources for supporting expanded evaluation data testbeds in the Northeast.
Additional work includes forcasting the incidence and duration of harmful algal blooms (HABs) at daily, weekly and seasonal scales.
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Hydroinformatics
The Hydroinformatics team works on
leveraging emerging sensing technology and machine learning to improve and expand hydrological forecasting to hyper-local scales
with National Water Model-coupled adaptive sensor networks.
Additional work includes:
Post-processing National Water Model output with spatially distributed turbidity sensing to forecast
turbidity loading and source for reservoir operation management
Coupling novel low cost spatially distributed nutrient sensors and National Water Model output to forecast nutrient
loading and inform state implementation of EPA mandated nutrient reduction targets.
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Application of Social, Economic, and Behavioral Science to Water Resources Prediction
The Social Science team works on enhancing forecast design through experimental gaming and social impact assessment of
connected river and floodplains.
Additional work includes
developing a CIROH forecast design center to explore the heterogeneity of risk perception and behavior, and decision heuristics
relative to water hazard mitigation that can be integrated into National Water Model products.
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Job Opportunities
Job OpportunitiesWould you like to work with the CIROH @ UVM team? The following positions are currently available and additional graduate opportunities will be posted soon. Interested applicants should contact the project investigators listed in each position.
Post Doctoral Scholar
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Post Doctoral Scholar
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Post Doctoral Scholar
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Post Doctoral Scholar
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Post Doctoral Scholar
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Post Doctoral Scholar
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Hydro informatics Research Analyst
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Research/Lab Technician
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Research Technician
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Ph.D. Student
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Supporting Publications
Supporting Data & Data Dashboards
Explore web-based dashboards with meteorological and water quality data from our environmental sensor network, download datasets from our environmental monitoring and modeling efforts.
Lake Carmi
Water Quality Data
Water quality and meterorological data from our buoy at Lake Carmi.
Updated at 08:30, 12:30 and 16:30 each day.
St. Albans and Missisquoi Bay Water Quality Data
Water quality and meterorological data from our buoys in St. Albans Bay and Missisquoi Bay.
Updated at 08:30, 12:30 and 16:30 each day.
Lake Champlain Inland Sea Weather Data
Meterorological data from our buoy in Lake Champlain's Inland Sea posted at the NOAA National Data Buoy Center.
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Streams Data
Water quality data collected by our high school education outreach program from streams across Vermont. Available data include macroinvertebrates, E. coli, phosphorus and nitrogen.
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