Draft2:Worldwide Hydro-biogeochemical Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems
The Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemistry Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS) is a research consortium that aims to understand coupled hydrologic, biogeochemical, and microbial function within river corridors, with an emphasis on increasing accessibility of resources and knowledge throughout the research life cycle. WHONDRS seeks to galvanize a global community around understanding these coupled systems from local to global scales and ultimately to provide the scientific basis for improved management of dynamic river corridors throughout the world.
The partnership is run by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Funding
The original WHONDRS field site is along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington State, USA, and is coordinated by the DOE-funded Science Focus Area (SFA) project on Subsurface Biogeochemical Research (SBR) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
History
WHONDRS is a research consortium that aims to understand coupled hydrologic, biogeochemical, and microbial function within river corridors, with an emphasis on increasing accessibility of resources and knowledge throughout the research life cycle. WHONDRS seeks to galvanize a global community around understanding river corridors from local to global scales and ultimately to provide the scientific basis for improved prediction and management of dynamic river corridors throughout the world. The science of WHONDRS is often driven by collaborator and community interests/needs across all types of river corridors, spanning inland, urban, and coastal systems.
Through collaborations, WHONDRS implements river corridor field campaigns that embody integrated, coordinated, open, and networked (ICON) science principles. Field campaigns range from local-scale intensive sampling to multi-biome global-scale efforts. In all cases, campaigns use standardized sampling kits and are designed to generate FAIR data relevant to integrated hydro-biogeochemical models. Sampling supplies, shipping, analysis, and data management are provided by WHONDRS and through collaborations with BER user facilities, including EMSL and JGI. WHONDRS can also facilitate the design and implementation of collaborator-led highly distributed, community-enabled campaigns.
WHONDRS data for each campaign depend on collaborator needs and often include ultra-high resolution organic matter chemistry, small metabolite concentrations, microbial community potential and expressed functions, respiration rates, aqueous chemistry, sediment texture and mineralogy, surface water hydrology, water isotopes, and many others. Data are often complemented with collaborator-generated data and all are georeferenced such that they can be further augmented and contextualized with public geospatial data. High dimensionality and consistency of the collective data lends itself to the application of machine learning as well as integration with mechanistic numerical models to enable distributed modeling efforts.
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Social media
- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8d9IFF3qMRkJlo2SlWAz3Q
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/WHONDRS
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13567091
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