Biocomplexity - Incubation Activity: Transcending Boundaries of Scale and Discipline in Environmental Problem Solving

生物复杂性 - 孵化活动：超越环境问题解决的规模和纪律界限

• 批准号: 0083937
• 负责人: Lee Benda
• 金额: $ 6.96万
• 依托单位: Earth Systems Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biocomplexity; Incubation; Activity; Transcending; Boundaries

0083937BendaRecognizing and solving environmental problems are becoming major research priorities in the United States and across the world. Solving environmental problems involves understanding how human activities interact with complicated natural environments, including impacts dealing with climate, oceans, lakes and streams, and watersheds. Natural environments can be extremely dynamic over periods of years to centuries and such natural variability can complicate our understanding of environmental changes triggered by humans. The proposed research aims to develop a new scientific method for integrating across a range of scientific disciplines in the study of environmental problems dealing with streams and rivers. The research will develop quantitative tools that explicitly account for natural dynamics of environmental systems, and how human activities alter those dynamics in space and over time. The new approach will include the use of computer simulation models and new parameters that describe the full suite of watershed attributes and how those attributes change over time due to natural processes and human activities.

认识和解决环境问题正成为美国和全世界的主要研究重点。解决环境问题包括了解人类活动如何与复杂的自然环境相互作用，包括与气候、海洋、湖泊和溪流以及流域有关的影响。自然环境在几年到几个世纪的时间里可能是极其动态的，这种自然变化可能会使我们对人类引发的环境变化的理解复杂化。这项拟议的研究旨在开发一种新的科学方法，将一系列科学学科结合起来，研究与河流和河流有关的环境问题。这项研究将开发量化工具，明确说明环境系统的自然动态，以及人类活动如何在空间和时间上改变这些动态。新的方法将包括使用计算机模拟模型和新参数来描述一整套分水岭属性，以及这些属性如何随着时间的推移而因自然过程和人类活动而变化。