Convener: Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Water resource data is now available from a broad array of government, local, and private entities. Ideally this data would be readily selectable and usable in modeling environments. However, managing and integrating these diverse datasets into a usable format and naming schema is typically a time consuming and tedious task. There are many efforts currently under way aimed at improving the usability of data in a water resource modeling environment.  For this session, we solicit presentations on new and recent research into ecoinformatics techniques to enable dramatic improvements in the ease of finding, assessing, and linking hydrologic data to water resource models. In particular, we encourage submissions that address information modeling and organization of hydrologic databases and languages for exchanging water data to support water resources data and model interoperability.