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Over 160 researchers from Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico gathered on the shores of Lake Tahoe in Incline Village NV, from April 6-8, 2010 for the second annual meeting of the NSF EPSCoR Tri-State Consortium. The Consortium was formed in 2008 to advance the understanding of climate change and its impact on the Western U.S. by leveraging an NSF EPSCoR-funded project ("Track 1"). The Consortium expanded its efforts in 2009 with the receipt of a new collaborative award from NSF EPSCoR ("Track 2") that focuses on cyberinfrastructure development in the Tri-state region. The meeting included presentations from keynote speakers and sessions on cyberinfrastructure, diversity, climate change science and education, collaborative and interdisciplinary science, and a half-day workshop on Hydrologic Information Systems. A highlight of the meeting was a competitive, student poster session, where 33 students presented research posters to judges and meeting participants. |