About CIROH @ Mines

The Colorado School of Mines is a member of the new Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH), a national consortium of 28 academic institutions, non-profit organizations, one government lab, and industry affiliates. CIROH aims to advance the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) science and services capabilities to provide actionable water resources intelligence for the US, its territories and connected water resources basins. Mine’s institutional lead for CIROH is Terri Hogue, Dean of Earth and Society Programs and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering.

CIROH’s research supports four broad themes: (1) water resources prediction capabilities; (2) community water resources modeling; (3) hydroinformatics; and (4) application of social, economic and behavioral science to water resources prediction. The integrated research program contributes to the NWS’ mission-directed research and improved data service capabilities, and particularly those of the National Weather Service (NWS) National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Led by the University of Alabama, CIROH outcomes will inform hydrological process understanding, operational forecasting techniques and workflows, community engagement in water modeling, open-source software development, translation of forecasts to actionable products, and use of predictions in decision making. Mines personnel join more than 100 world-renowned scientists and researchers bring expertise in hydroinformatics, water prediction, operational forecasting, and decision science to deliver research-to-operations (R2O) in support of NOAA’s mission.