In collaboration with 28 universities and institutions, the University of Vermont (UVM) is advancing its status as a preeminent institution in the field of hydrological research.

As outlined in a recent UVM article, this new initiative was made possible through the tireless efforts of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., with transformative support from the federal government of up to $25 million over the next five years. It establishes the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH). CIROH is a national consortium of science and services to provide actionable water resources intelligence to improve a national water model and flood forecasting. 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.

CIROH at UVM will work closely with two federal organizations—the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Water Center and the recently announced U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility—allowing for highly productive collaboration between CIROH’s cooperative members and other federal agency scientists in pursuit of supporting four broad themes:

• Water resources prediction capabilities.
• Community water resources modeling.
• Hydroinformatics.
• Application of social, economic, and behavioral science to water resources prediction.

Please advance the four slides at the top of this story to see input from the four CIROH@UVM teams.