Glaser Part of Team to Receive NSF Grant to Expand Water Sensors

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CEE Professor Steven Glaser is part of a research group that received a National Science Foundation grant to install more than 1,000 sensors in the American River Basin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The network will allow the researchers to measure snowfall, stream flow, water content in soil and use by vegetation; data which will be used in the management of the state’s water supply.

The research, part of the “Intelligent Water Infrastructures Initiative,” is supported by the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) at the University of California, Merced and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), a multi-discipline, industry-supported research program that spans four UC campuses- Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz. The team will receive $2 million of funding over four years.

The data collected will be made available through a public portal, and processed data will be provided annually, providing researchers with information about the ways in which water is utilized in nature and society.

See NSF awards $2 million to expand Sierra Nevada water sensors.
See Sierra Nevada Water Researchers Awarded $2M Grant.

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