Information Infrastructure for Publishing and Integrating Water Resource Data from Pacific Rim Universities in Support of Hydrologic Modeling and Integrated Water Resource Management

Information Infrastructure for Publishing and Integrating Water Resource Data from Pacific Rim Universities in Support of Hydrologic Modeling and Integrated Water Resource Management Final Report The project has been conducted between Spring 2009 and early 2010. It's main goals have been building capacity of Pacific Rim University partners in publishing and analyzing local water data, configuring a Hydrologic Information Server installed at a local partner university, and developing information sharing capability and expertise in a way that is sensitive to local data sharing and publication practices and available resources. The goals of the project have been accomplished. Its main outcome has been an international workshop Hydrologic Data Management and Modeling in South East Asia , conducted at University of Malaya, July 20-24, 2009, and accompanying presentations, server configuration and installation and local data publication efforts. The activities under this project have been conducted as part of the Hydrologic Data Management and Modeling thrust of the Climate Mitigation and Adaptation (CMAS) project. The international workshop mentioned above was organized with seed funding from the UCSD SSI program (this project), and additional funds contributed by University of Malaya (covering local arrangements and the workshop server), and by the UNDP Cap-Net program (covering travel of SEA participants, and Dr. David Pierce, UCSD, an expert on global climate change). UCSD, University of Malaya and several other universities are partners in the CMAS project, which is conducted under the aegis of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). The workshop focused on three main topics: - Hydrologic data management and sharing, using CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (presentations and hands-on); - Introduction to hydrologic modeling with GeoHMS (presentations and hands-on); - Introduction to global climate change modeling (presentation). In addition, the workshop included presentations from each participating country on local water resource management challenges and climate change, and a day-long field trip to water management agencies in Kuala Lumpur. The workshop was presented to a group of 25 participants from all over South East Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Mekong River Commission – the list of participants is attached). The CUAHSI HIS part was an intense two-day training on hydrologic data management and sharing, with a combination of presentations and hands-on exercises. The two days of CUAHSI HIS were followed by a day-long field trip to several key water management agencies in Kuala Lumpur, and another two days which