Our Cyberinfrastructure (CI) plan leverages existing statewide and NSF-funded resources and includes strategic investments in CI tools, technologies, and systems vital for meaningful collaborations and scientific discovery. Instruction and training for CI users will be a key element of each activity. Recent improvements in network connectivity at Idaho's universities will facilitate and support a new level of cyber-enabled activities.

Three areas for CI emphasis are: (1) collaboration and communication through an Idaho RII collaboratory; (2) storage, exchange, management, and analysis of time series and point observation data; and (3) management, exchange, exploration and analysis of geospatial and remote sensing data in support of science initiatives.

Output and simulations from modeling, downscaled climate scenarios, hydrologic data, field data, and LiDAR datasets will be organized and managed for efficient use and dissemination to researchers and stakeholders. A CI working group will provide guidance and leadership in refining and implementing CI strategies that will contribute to emerging, science-driven needs of the RII science components and also of other related statewide S&T activities. In the process, development of a statewide CI plan will help guide and coordinate long-term utilization and sustainability of CI critical to the support of water resource and climate research in Idaho.