Untitled DocumentArizona Hydrologic Information System
Macro Theme Area:
Knowledge Transfer [Project ID: K41]
PI:
Kathy Jacobs
CO-PI(s):
N/A
Basin focus:
N/A
Specific area in
basin /
field sites:
State of Arizona
Summary/Goals: This project aims to develop the information infrastructure of the Arizona Water Institute and to provide web-based access to data relevant to water-related research, technology, planning, education, and outreach from multiple sources within the Southwest.
Activities and outcomes during past year:
2007: Several "Proof of Concept" applications have been developed, including arizonawells, arizonawater.org, etc
Cyberinfrastructure is being developed at all 3 Arizona universities. Metadata collection and management has been initiated.
2008: The AHIS portal web site was established in 2008, and the operation of several existing components were refined (the metadata catalogue manager, web services to SRP data, and the metadata search & download tool). New products included the Daily Arizona Water News service and the Googlebased Map Interface. Apart from these tangible results, the project work of this past year was a valuable experience in collaborative product development. We became a highly efficient team, working well within the development team and between different locations, including academic institutions and state agencies.
We continued our active dialogue with state agencies and other stakeholders at various levels, especially after the project manager was hired. This dialogue culminated in a portal demonstration symposium that was held on 14 January 2009 at the offices of the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) in Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 50 people were in attendance representing all three universities in the state, the Arizona DEQ and DWR, the Central Arizona Project, the Cities of Phoenix and Tucson, several private engineering and consulting firms, the National Weather Service, and SAHRA, CLIMAS, and the WRRC at the University of Arizona. The attendees provided valuable feedback throughout the demonstration, and we obtained additional feedback through questionnaires that were provided during the session. All of this feedback provides valuable guidance for the direction of our ongoing and future work.
Plans for the upcoming year:
Ongoing and future work on AHIS will need to concentrate both on the breadth and depth of information service. More individual and comprehensive datasets need to be integrated and made available to the public. At the same time, a broad array of value-added services that help process, visualize, correlate and integrate the available dataset will need to be created for more effective service to decision-makers and the public.
