2012 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Exploring Opportunities for Collaborative Water Research, Policy and Managemen

Eidson, Gene W

Esswein, Samuel T

Flite, Oscar P, III

Geist, Robert M, III

Goasguen, Sebastien

Hallstrom, Jason O

Jayakaran, Anand D

Post, Christopher J

Sharp, Julia

Tessendorf, Jerry

Wang, Kuang-Ching

White, David L

English

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Moving Forward: Refinement of the INTELLIGENT RIVER R©,A Basin-Scale Monitoring InstrumentGene W. Eidson1, Samuel T. Esswein2, Oscar P. Flite III3, Robert M. Geist III4, Sebastien Goasguen4,Jason O. Hallstrom1,4, Anand D. Jayakaran5, Christopher J. Post2, Julia Sharp6, Jerry Tessendorf4,Kuang-Ching Wang7, David L. White1AUTHORS: 1Institute of Applied Ecology, Clemson U., 2Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson U., 3SoutheasternNatural Sciences Academy, 4School of Computing, Clemson U., 5Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology, Clemson U.,6Mathematical Sciences, Clemson U., 7Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson U.EXTENDED ABSTRACT: 2012 South Carolina Water Resources Conference, held October 10–11, 2012 at theColumbia Metropolitan Convention CenterABSTRACT.Water is the planet’s most precious nat-ural resource, the sine qua non of human health and eco-nomic prosperity. This manifest fact has startling conse-quences in light of the growing incongruity between watersupplies and water demand. Population growth, industri-alization, and climate change are putting the nation’s wa-tersheds at risk. The impact can be catastrophic, disruptinglocal ecosystems, decimating native species, stifling energyproduction, damaging food crops, and compromising hu-man health. The nation’s watersheds are at risk.Safeguarding water resources in the face of shiftingsands requires a national investment in basin-scale environ-mental research programs. The extent of these programs isdictated by the plexus of relationships that link land use,energy production, climate change, and water. To discernmeaningful connections, the span of a given program mustencompass all of the major elements of the constituent wa-tersheds — from stormwater systems to riparian forests tohydroelectric impoundments, and all of the elements in-between. The challenge stems from the enormity of thesystems under study. The task calls for an observation in-strument with a broad lens, one which enables basin-scalevisibility from a single point of observation — an envi-ronmental macroscope. In late 2011, the Clemson Uni-versity INTELLIGENT RIVER R©team received a $3M awardfrom the National Science Foundation to build it (CNS-1126344).The INTELLIGENT RIVER R©is a basin-scale observa-tion instrument comprising a heterogeneous fabric of in situsensors that cover an expansive geographic area. The coreof the design is built on cyberinfrastructure that enablesend-users —researchers, educators, and policymakers— tocollect, share, and utilize a broad spectrum of hydrolog-ical and environmental data at ultra-dense temporal andspatial scales. The instrument architecture is illustrated inFigure 1; it consists of four tiers, each defining a technol-ogy research thrust at Clemson. The first tier implementsa wireless sensing fabric comprising multi-parameter riversondes (both stationary and profiling) and terrestrial plat-forms, the latter deployed at ultra-dense scales. The secondtier provides a transit and uplink system for relaying obser-vation data from the sensing fabric to Clemson’s high per-formance computing backbone. On the backbone, the thirdtier provides observation management middleware for au-tomating the validation and dissemination of observationdata from multiple data publishers to multiple data sub-scribers. Finally, the fourth tier provides repository andpresentation services for translating (and storing) observa-tion data to a range of formats and presenting that data to adiverse set of end-users.The instrument will be deployed along the 300-milereach of the Savannah River, running from the headwa-ters in the Blue Ridge mountains to the estuary of the At-lantic Ocean. The Savannah River provides drinking waterto municipalities in two states, sustains 130,000 acres ofirrigated land, and supports 350 industrial and municipalfacilities via 69 intakes and 600 points of discharge. Threemajor impoundments and a system of dams support floodcontrol and hydroelectric power generation. The Savan-nah is of tremendous value to the region and exhibits all ofthe key management and instrumentation challenges asso-ciated with major U.S. rivers. It is an ideal demonstrationsite for the instrument.Instrumentation Site......ultra-dense sensornetClemson Campus User Sitestransithubuplinkgatewaystat. / prof.sondeHPC clusterIPIP...virtualdioramawebportalapp....repository A repository B...other providersobservation mgmt. middlewarerepository ...Figure 1: INTELLIGENT RIVER R©Architectural OverviewPresenter Biography. Jason O. Hallstrom is an As-sociate Professor in the School of Computing at ClemsonUniversity and serves as Associate Director of the Insti-tute of Applied Ecology. He holds the B.S. and M.A. de-grees from Miami University in Systems Analysis and Eco-nomics, respectively. He also holds the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees from Ohio State University in Computer and Infor-mation Science and has approximately 10 years of industrydevelopment experience. His research is at the intersectionof embedded network design and software engineering.Specifically, he works to enable the reliable design, deploy-ment, and maintenance of long-lived embedded networkapplications at scale. He has published numerous jour-nal, conference, and workshop papers across these areas.He is currently supported by grants from the NSF (CNS-1126344, CNS-0745846, CNS-1116976, DUE-1022941)and was previously supported by the NASA Space GrantConsortium and Microsoft Research.

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