Mark Person (Univ. of MN), Bill Guttowski (Iowa State), John Nieber (Univ. of MN), Don Rosenberry (USGS-Denver) and Tom Winter (USGS-Denver) have received funding to do a three-year study to couple a mesoscale climate model with a ground-water flow model in order to look at aquifer-atmosphere interactions on decadal to century timescales. The principal watershed studied will be the Crow Wing River watershed, and data from the IRI site will be used to calibrate the model.