Research Starter Grant: An Urban Environmental Observatory

研究启动资助：城市环境观测站

• 批准号: 0906169
• 负责人: George Jenerette
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906169&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Starter; Grant; Urban; Environmental

Urban environments provide novel opportunities for increasing our understanding of ecological processes and identifying feedbacks between ecological and societal dynamics. To address scientific and management uncertainties associated with the linkages between carbon, water, and energy exchanges within a city, this project will begin developing a multiple-scale urban environmental observatory. The urban observatory approach will provide novel opportunities to describe current urban environmental conditions and develop short- and long-term forecasts of likely futures based on societal decisions and future climate predictions. By focusing on the water-carbon-energy nexus, the urban observatory will provide descriptions of how urban water use leads to changes in urban ecosystem functioning. It will also allow for testing of hypotheses regarding the response of urban ecosystem processes to weather, irrigation, and land-cover changes. The proposed urban observatory will have an immediate impact by identifying the sensitivity and resilience of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services associated with human health and prosperity in response to changes in land-use, management, and water availability for the city of Riverside, CA. This project will provide a longer-term impact by developing a framework for improving management of ecological processes to provide ongoing availability of ecosystem services to support human well-being within this region. The results will be disseminated in venues appropriate for scientists and local stakeholders in a format that can assist real-time management activities. In conjunction with the improved knowledge, this project will contribute to the training of underrepresented groups in science at undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.

城市环境提供了新的机会，增加我们对生态过程的理解，并确定生态和社会动态之间的反馈。为了解决与城市内碳、水和能源交换之间的联系有关的科学和管理不确定性，该项目将开始建立一个多尺度城市环境观测站。城市观测方法将提供新的机会，以描述当前的城市环境状况，并根据社会决策和未来气候预测，对可能的未来进行短期和长期预测。通过重点关注水-碳-能源之间的关系，城市观测站将描述城市用水如何导致城市生态系统功能的变化。它还将允许测试关于城市生态系统过程对天气、灌溉和土地覆盖变化的反应的假设。 拟议的城市观测站将通过确定与人类健康和繁荣相关的生态系统功能和生态系统服务的敏感性和弹性来产生直接影响，以应对加利福尼亚州滨江市土地利用、管理和水资源可用性的变化。该项目将通过制定一个改善生态过程管理的框架，提供持续的生态系统服务，以支持该区域内的人类福祉，从而产生长期影响。结果将在适合科学家和当地利益攸关方的场所以有助于实时管理活动的形式传播。在提高知识的同时，该项目将有助于在本科生，研究生和博士后水平上对科学领域代表性不足的群体进行培训。