US-Egypt Workshop: Broadening the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Water Resources Management: Coping with the Challenges of Large River Basins, Cairo, December, 2008

0827148 MusteThis项目是一个研讨会题为？美国-埃及研讨会：扩大网络基础设施在水资源管理中的作用，应对大河流域的挑战？将于2008年12月29日至2009年1月2日在埃及开罗举行。 美国组织者是爱荷华州爱荷华州爱荷华州大学爱荷华州水利研究所的玛丽安·马斯特博士。 埃及的共同组织者是开罗大学的Tarek Salaheldin博士和埃及Shoubra El-Kheima国家水研究中心的Rasha El-Kholy博士。 几十年来，水资源决策者已经表明，需要一个新的管理模式，以健全的科学无缝集成跨学科的数据和模拟模型的复杂流域过程及其相互作用。最近科学和工程方面的快速进展与信息和通信技术方面的进展相配合，有望将所需的范例变为现实。拟议的研讨会是一个极好的和及时的机会，汇集来自IIHR-水文科学工程（IIHR），爱荷华州爱荷华州和埃及国家水研究中心（NWRC）的研究人员分享，集思广益，并规划共同挑战的联合工作：建立基于网络基础设施的平台和网络，为超越管辖范围的大型河流流域的水资源决策提供科学依据。该项目将支持来自IIHR的7名研究人员、2名年轻研究人员和4名博士生，通过科学讨论和合作规划，让他们参与为期一周的互动。 智力优势：拟议的能力建设和合作研讨会将使美国和埃及的研究人员和教育工作者之间进行直接的第一手互动，开创基于网络基础设施的环境观测站和大型河流流域网络的开发和实施。研讨会将是变革性的，在尽可能大的规模上解决流域问题，允许在理解任何较小规模的封闭过程中的水-人类动态方面进行推理和进步。 拟议的讲习班的直接好处包括：a）提供独特的第一手经验，并在来自美国和埃及的30名研究人员和学生之间进行直接互动，这些研究人员和学生对为流域规模的环境观测站开发网络基础设施感兴趣; B）为今后提交联合提案准备具体的合作项目，并为水科学网络基础设施方面的首次国际合作奠定基础c）通过讲习班出版物和专门网站，综合和传播在跨越州和国界的大河流域实施基于网络基础设施的平台的现状和未来发展需求。更广泛的影响：研讨会促进的科学和教育交流将有助于美国水文科学促进大学联盟（CUAHSI）和水与环境研究系统（沃茨）网络在超越行政和政治边界的大型流域开发和实施环境和水文网络基础设施的努力。通过美国科学家和学生与外国同行之间的直接对话，将获得有助于实现这些努力目标的实用信息，特别是在增加利益攸关方（特别是妇女）参与决策过程方面。接触领导小组进行网络基础设施的丰富经验将推动参与者？他们的专业知识和专长，并将产生他们的研究领域的全球视野，以及通过国际合作提供专业成长和网络的机会。

0827148MusteThis project is for a workshop titled ?US-Egypt Workshop on Broadening the Role of Cydberinfrastructure in Water Resources Management Coping with the Challenges of Large river Basins? to be held in Cairo, Egypt, December 29, 2008 to January 2, 2009. The U.S organizer is Dr. Marian Muste, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. The Egyptian co-organizers are Dr. Tarek Salaheldin, Cairo University, and Dr. Rasha El-Kholy, National Water Research Center, Shoubra El-Kheima, Egypt. For several decades, water resources decision-makers have indicated the need for a new management paradigm based on sound science seamlessly integrating cross-disciplinary data and simulation models for complex watershed processes and their interaction. Recent fast-paced scientific and engineering advancements in concert with those in information and communication technologies promise to bring the needed paradigm to reality. The proposed workshop is an excellent and timely opportunity to bring together researchers from IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (IIHR), The University of Iowa and the National Water Research Center (NWRC) in Egypt for sharing, brainstorming, and planning joint work on a common challenge: building cyberinfrastructure-based platforms and networks for providing the scientific basis for decision-making about water resources in large river basins transcending jurisdiction boundaries. The project would support 7 researchers, 2 young investigators and 4 PhD students from IIHR, engaging them in a week-long interaction through scientific discussions and collaborative planning. Intellectual Merit: The proposed capacity building and collaboration workshop will enable a direct, first-hand interaction between U.S. and Egyptian researchers and educators pioneering the development and implementation of cyberinfrastructure-based environmental observatories and networks for large river basins. The workshop will be transformative, addressing watershed problems at their largest possible scale, allowing inferences and advances in understanding the water-human dynamics at any of the smaller-scale enclosed processes. Among the direct benefits of the proposed workshop are to: a) provide a unique first-hand experience and direct interactions between 30 researchers and students from U.S. and Egypt interested in developing cyberinfrastructure for watershed-scale environmental observatories; b) prepare specific collaborative items for future submission of joint proposals and establish the foundation for the first international collaboration in cyberinfrastructure for water science and engineering in large river basins; c) synthesize and disseminate the current status and future developmental needs for the implementation of cyberinfrastructure-based platforms in large river basins transcending state and national boundaries through a Workshop publication and a dedicated website. Broader Impact: The scientific and educational exchange facilitated by the workshop will contribute to U.S. efforts by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences Inc, (CUAHSI) and the Water and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network for the development and implementation of environmental and hydrologic cyberinfrastructure in large-scale basins transcending administrative and political boundaries. Through direct dialogue between U.S. scientists and students and their foreign counterparts, practicable information will be obtained that will support the goals of these efforts, especially in the areas of increasing the stakeholder participation (particularly women) in the decision making process. Exposure to the extensive experience of the leading groups conducting cyberinfrastructure will advance the participants? knowledge and expertise, and will engender a global perspective of their area of study, as well as provide opportunities for professional growth and networking through international collaboration.