ADVANCE Fellows Award: Developing a Program in Hydrologic Education and Research at Rutgers University

在这个ADVANCE研究员项目中，建议在罗格斯大学制定一个水文科学教育和研究的综合计划。该计划的主要目标有三个：(1)为学校各种地球科学专业的学生提供基础广泛的水文科学教育，(2)发展水文科学的核心研究项目，可以汇集大学校园内的各种专业知识来解决广泛的与水有关的问题，(3)提高PI的学术地位，使其成为全职的，可持续的，独立的学术生涯。该计划的教育部分是加强PI目前教授的两门现有课程（水文地质学、地下水模拟），并开发两门新课程（水文学导论、水文研究）。这四门课程交替开设，将提供广泛的水文学入门和高级课程，并满足校园内不同地球科学学科和专业（如地质学、生态学和气象学）的需要。该计划的研究部分是继续和扩大PI目前的三个项目，并将它们构建成一个核心项目，将一个多学科研究团队聚集在一起。第一个项目是开发一个区域水文模型，将地表水和地下水过程结合起来，并将气候变化和资源管理情景转化为河流流量和地下水位。第二个项目侧重于对断裂沉积岩中地下水流动和运移的基本认识。第三个项目通过将地下水位和相关过程直接纳入区域气候模式，研究地下水位动态在大气-陆地耦合中的作用。这些研究项目试图回答基础科学问题，同时有助于建立最先进的研究和应用工具，以回答未来的问题。他们将帮助建立一个水文研究的重心，将整个大学校园内科学和政策方面的各种专业知识聚集在一起，以解决广泛的环境问题。

In this ADVANCE Fellows project, it is proposed to develop an integrated program of education and research in hydrologic sciences at Rutgers University. The broad objectives of the plan are threefold: (1) to provide a broad-based education in hydrologic sciences for students in various earth science programs across the university, (2) to develop a core research program in hydrologic sciences that may bring together various expertise across the university campus to address a wide range of water-related issues, and (3) to advance the PI's academic standing toward a full-time, sustainable, and independent academic career. The educational component of the plan is to enhance the two existing courses (Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modeling) that the PI currently teaches, and to develop two new courses (Introduction to Hydrology, Hydrologic Research). These four courses together, offered in alternate years, will provide a broad coverage of subjects in hydrology at both introductory and advanced levels, and meet the needs of different earth science disciplines and programs on campus (e.g., geology, ecology, and meteorology). The research component of the plan is to continue and expand three of the PI's current projects, and to build them into a core program that will bring together a multidisciplinary research team. The first project is to develop a regional hydrologic model that integrates surface and groundwater processes and translates climate variability and resource management scenarios into stream flow and groundwater levels. The second project focuses on the fundamental understanding of groundwater flow and transport in fractured sedimentary rocks. The third project examines the role of the water table dynamics in the atmosphere-land coupling by directly incorporating the water table and associated processes in a regional climate model. These research projects attempt to answer fundamental science questions and at the same time contribute toward building state-of-art research and application tools for answering future questions. They will help build a center of gravity in hydrologic research that may bring together various expertises in science and policy across the university campus to address a wide range of environmental issues.