Proposal for NSF Graduate Research Traineeships Hydrologic Sciences

9355029 Soroshian亚利桑那大学水文与水资源系将把研究和教学努力扩展到水文学的目标关键领域，以扩大当前的领域，包括(图1)：o水文气候学/水文气象学o环境水文学o水资源工程加速学位课程，包括学士到博士学位和硕士论文替代方案，将支持新的研究计划，并对现有专业人员进行再培训，以使他们进入劳动力大军。多学科研究将在水文气候学、调查全球气候变化对区域水资源的影响以及随后的政治和社会变化方面，以及在水文气象学方面，培训一批更加多样化的新科学家，以一种新的、更综合的方式处理地表-大气相互作用。环境水文学将整合地表水和地下水研究，以更好地了解这些相互作用，以及污染物迁移现象和水化学过程。在这方面，加速选项将为目前无法为以环境为重点的世界做出贡献的学位专业人员提供出色的再培训计划，这些专业人员包括石油工程师、勘探地质学家和其他资源科学家。水资源工程学将通过使用更复杂的技术，为重建国家水资源基础设施、提高供水可靠性和补救活动的非结构性方面的学生做好准备。***

9355029 Sorooshian The University of Arizona's Department of Hydrology and Water Resources will expand its research and teaching efforts to the target key area of hydrology to augment current areas to include (Figure 1): o hydroclimatology/hydrometeorology o environmental hydrology o water resources engineering Accelerated degree programs, including Bachelor-to-Doctorate and Master's thesis-alternative options, will support new research initiatives, as well as retrain current professionals to bring them into the work force. Multidisciplinary research will train a more diverse group of new scientists in hydroclimatology, to investigate global climate change, its effect on regional water resources, and ensuing political and social alterations, and in hydrometeorology, to deal with surface-atmosphere interaction in a new and more integrated manner. Environmental hydrology will integrate surface- and subsurface-water study for better understanding of these interactions, as well as contaminant transport phenomena and water chemistry processes. In this respect, an accelerated option will provide an excellent retraining program for degreed professionals currently unable to contribute to an environmentally-focused world: petroleum engineers, exploration geologists, and other resource scientists. Water resources engineering will prepare students for nonstructural aspects of rebuilding the national water resources infrastructure and improvement of water supply reliability and remediation activities through use of more sophisticated technologies. ***