Significant data resources exist at a few experimental watersheds in the inland northwest (e.g. distributed snowpack properties, hydromet data, LiDAR topography data, remote sensing data, stream gauges, networks of wells and piezometers, eddy flux towers, SNOTEL sites, snowmelt lysimeters, and forest manipulation experiments, etc.), but no mechanism currently exists to coordinate information gathering, synthesis, and comparison.  Therefore, development of regional synthesis network of experimental watersheds is critical in the snowpack dependent inland northwest.  Our network seeks to leverage ongoing research and infrastructure to address regional needs to improve understanding of snowmelt-streamflow relationships and watershed carbon cycle dynamics. 

Researchers from eight universities are currently organizing existing efforts in several sites. Although not a complete list, the initial experimental sites in this region that comprise the ICEWATER Network include:

Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest (MT)

USFS site:  http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/ecology/demo/tenderfoot/

TCEF Carbon Research – Montana State

TCEF Watershed Hydrology – Montana State

Flathead River Basin WATERS Network Test Bed (MT)

http://www.watersnet.org/wtbs/wtbs02/index.html

Mica Creek (ID):

http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/micacreek/

Paradise Creek and larger Palouse Basin (ID)

http://www.agls.uidaho.edu/bollresearch/Paradise%20Creek2/welcome.htm

Priest River Experimental Forest (ID)

http://www.fs.fed.us/rmrs/experimental-forests/priest-river-experimental-forest

Nyack Instrumented Flood Plain and River System (MT)

http://www.umt.edu/flbs/Research/Biocomplexity.htm

Great Salt Lake Basin

Bear River Basin

Little Bear River WATERS Network Test Bed (UT)

http://www.watersnet.org/wtbs/wtbs03/index.html

TW Daniels Experimental Forest (UT)

http://www.cnr.usu.edu/htm/facstaff/daniel-forest/

Weber River Basin

Deseret Ranch Study Area with paired Bear Creek and Frost Creek (UT)

http://www.cnr.usu.edu/wats/htm/directory-plugin/deseret-ranch-paired-watershed-study

Dry Creek (ID)

http://earth.boisestate.edu/boisefront/drycreek/

Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site (ID)

http://cgiss.boisestate.edu/~billc/BHRS/bhrs.html

Reynolds Creek (ID)

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8281

Kuparuk River (AK)

http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/NorthSlope/currentconditions.html

Caribou-Poker Creek (AK)

        http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/cpcrw/metdata/cpcrwmetsitemap.htm