Nooksack River Basin Observatory

The Nooksack River Basin HydroShare Observatory is designed to be used by individual researchers or research or classroom groups collaborating on hydrologic research in the transboundary Nooksack River Basin, State of Washington, USA and Province of British Columbia, Canada. The goal is to increase data and model discovery, computing, and publication functions provided by HydroShare. All resources available in this Collection are publicly available, and contributed by individual authors using HydroShare. The intent of this observatory is to play a cumulative role in maximizing the scientific return on individual investments of contributors conducting research in the Nooksack.

Observatories depend on collections of data and groups of people. In HydroShare, the Nooksack Observatory is a resource type called a 'Collection', and we anticipate the addition of 'Groups' when that specific software functionality is completed (expected for 2016). In short, a collection is an organization of HydroShare data, while a group is an organization of HydroShare users . Collections and Groups are designed to provide efficiency in research by enhancing individual capabilities to progress their research by sharing and using information with the group, and may be organized by geography, discipline, or research topic. If successful, this Observatory will help researchers avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ and progressing individual and collaborative research studies using shared resources.

诺克斯克河盆地水文共享观测站旨在服务于单个研究人员或研究及课堂小组，这些小组正协作于美国华盛顿州和加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省跨国界的诺克斯克河盆地进行水文研究。其目标在于提升HydroShare提供的数据、模型发现、计算和发布功能。本集合中所有资源均向公众开放，并由使用HydroShare的个人作者贡献。该观测站之旨在发挥累积作用，最大化诺克斯克河盆地研究人员个体投资的科学回报。观测站依赖于数据集合与人群团体。在HydroShare中，诺克斯克观测站是一种称为‘集合’的资源类型，我们预计在特定软件功能完成时（预计为2016年）将增加‘团体’功能。简而言之，集合是HydroShare数据的组织形式，而团体是HydroShare用户的组织形式。集合与团体旨在通过增强个人在团队中共享和使用信息的能力，以提高研究效率，并可能按地理位置、学科或研究主题组织。若此观测站成功，将有助于研究人员避免‘重复发明轮子’，并利用共享资源推进个体及合作研究。