Where does your water come from? Do you always have enough or is the supply limited where you live? What factors affect the flow of water in the area where you live?

The GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Project will enable students to investigate their own watershed in order to understand the flow of water through the watershed, how human activities within the watershed both depend on and impact its hydrology, and how land use changes can affect the plant and animal communities in the watershed.

This project will offer GLOBE students the opportunity to conduct science investigations on local and regional watersheds using real-time and historical scientific data from the dataset being constructed by the Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI).

CUASHI: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. is an organization representing more than one hundred United States universities. It develops infrastructure and services for the advancement of hydrologic science and education in the U.S.(Sponsored by NSF.)

Northwestern University, GLOBE Watershed Dynamics Project web site. Northwestern University and the GLOBE Program have partnered with scientists from The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) to create student investigations of watershed behavior for local, regional, and national scales.