“…. A first, scoping workshop was held in March, 2008 [Famiglietti et al, 2008[Famiglietti et al, , 2009, and identified the need for a substantive, university-led community modeling activity in hydrologic science. A second workshop, Blueprint for a Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform (CHyMP) Workshop, further developed the community vision of CHyMP.…”