Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| 项目编号 | 1840464 |
| Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for One Water | |
| William Walker | |
| 主持机构 | University of Texas at El Paso |
| 开始日期 | 2018-09-01 |
| 结束日期 | 2021-08-31 |
| 资助经费 | 99971(USD) |
| 项目类别 | Standard Grant |
| 资助机构 | US-NSF（美国国家科学基金会） |
| 项目所属计划 | ERC-Eng Research Centers |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 英文简介 | The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research. Arid and semi-arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and the world are threatened by dwindling usable water supplies, driven by drought, growing and competing demands, and increasing salinity. Many of the U.S./Mexico border States, and especially the Colorado and Rio Grande river basins, face a future water crisis that includes increasingly frequent and severe periods of drought and growing demands for water in the urban, agricultural, and environmental sectors. The ?siloed?, piecemeal water management approach of the past 100 years is unable to sustain our cities and farms in the future, while meeting environmental and social concerns, as well. We need a ?One Water? management approach, one that is holistic, comprehensive and integrated to meet the challenges of the 21st century. We propose here a novel, innovative, and convergent planning process to develop a team of engineers, scientists, and stakeholders with a unified understanding of water sectors, problems, and solutions and a shared vision for the One Water Engineering Research Center that will generate new technical discoveries with broad societal impact. We will meet the water challenges of our water scarce region while training the water resource professionals of the future. Our goal is to formulate and implement a planning process that is informed by recent NSF-funded basic research on team science and convergent learning across disciplines and perspectives. This process will provide a model for how to effectively lead convergent research teams during their early, formative stage. With a strategic series of stakeholder focus group meetings, researcher summit meetings, and researcher working meetings, we will generate a shared vision among researchers and stakeholders of a new kind of ERC ? one that catalyzes transformative innovations through the synergies created by deeply integrating diverse perspectives. The product will be a proposal for a One Water approach to the management of water on a landscape scale, one that integrates the needs of all sectors of water users with social and environmental needs. The convergent product of this planning grant will be an integrated team with a dynamic system understanding that will serve as the roadmap for future water management. Our vision for the One Water Center is that it will provide the strong underpinning of water research, engineering, management, education, and outreach needed to develop this roadmap, one that is based on innovation and cutting-edge science and technology, to solve the seemingly intractable problems of meeting the water needs of all major use sectors in the coming decades. Our testbed for this One Water Approach will be the Paso del Norte region of the U.S./Mexico border, a particularly challenged arid region threatened by water scarcity, climate, competing demands for water, high rates of poverty, and a complex water governance system including an international border and multiple state and local jurisdictions. The results will be widely applicable to other arid and semi-arid regions of the world where water scarcity is a source of local and even global conflict. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria. |
| 来源学科分类 | Engineering |
| URL | https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840464 |
| 资源类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/341949 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | William Walker.Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for One Water.2018. |
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