historical legacies, information and contemporary water science and management历史遗产和当代水科学和管理信息.pdfVIP

Water 2011, 3, 566-575; doi:10.3390/w3020566 OPEN ACCESS water ISSN 2073-4441 /journal/water Communication Historical Legacies, Information and Contemporary Water Science and Management Daniel J. Bain 1,*, Jennifer A. S. Arrigo 2, Mark B. Green 3,4, Brian A. Pellerin 5 3 and Charles J. Vörösmarty 1 Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, 200 SRCC, 4107 O‟Hara St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; 2 Department of Geography, East Carolina University, A-240 Brewster Bldg., Greenville, NC 27858, USA; E-Mail: arrigoj@ 3 CUNY Environmental Cross-Roads Initiative, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA; E-Mail: cvorosmarty@ 4 Center for the Environment, MSC 63, Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, Plymouth, NH 03264, USA; E-Mail: mbgreen@ 5 US Geological Survey, California Water Science Center Placer Hall 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95810, USA; E-Mail: bpeller@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: dbain@; Tel.: +1-412-624-8766; Fax: +1-412-624-3914. Received: 20 March 2011; in revised form: 30 March 2011 / Accepted: 27 April 2011 / Published: 12 May 2011 Abstract: Hydrologic science has largely built its understanding of the hydrologic cycle using contemporary data sources (i.e., last 100 years). However, as we try to meet water demand over the next 100 years at scales from local to global, we need to expand our scope and embrace other data that address human activities and the alteration of hydrologic systems.