An integrated cyberinfrastructure system for water quality resources in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

The Upper Mississippi Information System (UMIS) is a cyberinfrastructure framework designed to support large-scale real-time water-quality data integration, analysis, and visualization for the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). UMIS is intended to directly address three of the Grand Challenges fo...

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Published in:Journal of hydroinformatics 2024-08, Vol.26 (8), p.1970-1988
Main Authors: Mount, Jerry, Sermet, Yusuf, Jones, Christopher S., Schilling, Keith E., Gassman, Philip W., Weber, Larry J., Krajewski, Witold F., Demir, Ibrahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data integration
Drinking water
Information systems
Nitrogen cycle
Public policy
Real time
River basins
Rivers
Sensors
Water quality
Watershed management
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Summary:The Upper Mississippi Information System (UMIS) is a cyberinfrastructure framework designed to support large-scale real-time water-quality data integration, analysis, and visualization for the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). UMIS is intended to directly address three of the Grand Challenges for Engineering including (1) understanding access to clean drinking water, (2) management of the nitrogen cycle, and (3) engineering the tools of scientific discovery. The UMIS is designed to provide significant immediate and long-term impacts including a central platform for data access, integration, discovery, and adoption of cyberinfrastructure tools and services. The UMIS demonstrates that public data aggregators and central repositories can provide important services to anyone interested in water-quality research or education. In addition, working across multiple scales (e.g., state, region, county, or watershed) allows researchers to understand broad and narrow effects of water-quality strategies. Exploration of data across these scales encourages the development of problem-based research questions that can eventually provide feedback to public policies.
ISSN:1464-7141
1465-1734
DOI:10.2166/hydro.2024.079