P2C2: Mechanisms of Regional Climate Change and Impacts on Water Availability in Texas from the Last Glacial Maximum to Present-Day

P2C2：末次盛冰期至今德克萨斯州区域气候变化机制及其对可用水量的影响

• 批准号: 0823665
• 负责人: Jay Banner
• 金额: $ 42.12万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: P2C2; Mechanisms; Regional; Climate; Change

Funding is provided to support three key areas of scientific inquiry: 1) developing a framework for evaluating speleothem proxy applicability that can be used in multiple geographic regions; 2) understanding climate and hydrology mechanistic links in semi-arid environments; and 3) integrating high-resolution climate records with climate models for the central Texas region over a period of significant environmental change so as to ground-truth climate models that forecast future change for the region.The broader impacts involve supporting a graduate student and enhanced educational linkages with another project awarded to the researcher and funded by the NSF for GK-12 Program that partners science graduate students with K-12 classes and a lecture series with integrated webcasts that brings university science to K-12 educators and the public. The science results from the project will aid further understanding of climate and will specifically aid Texas water resource managers.

提供资金支持三个关键领域的科学调查：1）制定一个框架，以评估洞穴沉积物替代适用性，可用于多个地理区域; 2）了解气候和水文机制的联系，在半干旱环境;以及3）将高分辨率气候记录与德克萨斯州中部地区在重大环境变化时期的气候模型相结合，以便将更广泛的影响包括支持一名研究生，并加强与另一个项目的教育联系，该项目授予研究人员并由NSF资助，用于GK-12计划，该计划将科学研究生与K-12课程和一系列讲座结合起来，将大学科学带给K-12教育工作者和公众。该项目的科学成果将有助于进一步了解气候，并将专门帮助德克萨斯州的水资源管理人员。