CAREER: An Education and Research Program to Support and Evaluate Watershed Restoration

9985194 BOL成功的流域恢复需要了解气候、土地利用、水文、水质、生态以及生活在环境中并与环境相互作用的人的行为和经济考虑之间的复杂相互作用。在个别流域，土地所有者、市政当局、州和联邦机构正在寻找信息和工具，以评估改善水质努力的有效性。在研究层面上，正在开发工具和模型，以更准确地反映一个区域的水和污染物输送过程，但在具有重大影响的情况下的应用有限。这笔赠款的目的是为了更好地教育未来的水文和水质专家以及需要改善水质的个人，并更好地了解太平洋西北部西北麦田地区(NWRR)流域的水和污染物运输。这笔赠款的目的如下：1.启动和发展一项程序，为本科生和研究生建立水文学和水质学科；2.建立一个教育和研究分水岭；3.研究目标：(A)为流域恢复活动的模型开发和评估开发一个实地数据收集方案；(B)开发一系列基于地理信息系统的分布式水和污染物传输模型，适用于西北水资源研究中心；(C)利用模型预测中的不确定性分析，确定评估流域恢复活动所需的复杂程度；4.教育目标：(A)通过与天堂溪流域的数据收集工作相结合，改进和扩大水文学和水质课程；(B)与地方组织、州和联邦机构以及大学推广机构合作，加强对土地所有者和当地居民关于天堂溪流域环境方面的教育；教育和研究目标将与Palouse-Clearwater环境研究所合作实现，并得到拉塔赫水土保持区、自然资源保护局和爱达荷州大学推广系统的援助和支持。***

9985194 Boll Successful watershed restoration requires an understanding of the complex interaction between climate, land use, hydrology, water quality, ecology and the human behavioral and economic considerations of those living in and interacting with the environment. In individual watersheds, landowners, municipalities, state and federal agencies are seeking information and tools to evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to improve water quality. At the research level, tools and models are being developed to represent more accurately a region's water and pollutant transport processes, but applications to situations having a significant impact are limited. The purpose of this grant is to better educate future hydrology and water quality experts and those individuals needing to improve water quality, and to gain a better understanding of water and pollutant transport in the watersheds of the Northwest Wheat and Range Region (NWRR) in the Pacific Northwest. This grant has the following purposes:1. To initiate and develop a process to develop a Discipline in Hydrology and Water Quality for studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels; 2. To establish an Education and Research Watershed;3. Research objectives: (a) To develop a field data collection program for model development and evaluation of watershed restoration activities; (b) to develop a family of GIS-based distributed water and contaminant transport models applicable to the NWRR; and (c) to determine the level of complexity required to evaluate watershed restoration activities using uncertainty analysis in model predictions; 4. Education objectives: (a) To improve and expand courses in Hydrology and Water Quality through integration with data collection efforts in Paradise Creek Watershed; (b) To collaborate with local organizations, state and federal agencies and university extension agents to enhance education of land owners and local residents with respect to environmental aspects of Paradise Creek watershed; and (c) To involve land owners and local residents in the collection of climate data in Paradise Creek watershed.The education and research objectives will be achieved in collaboration with the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute, and assistance and support from the Latah Soil and Water Conservation District, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the University of Idaho Extension System. ***