US-Chile Planning Visit: Interdisciplinary Study of Water Management in an Arid Basin

这项美国-智利计划访问计划将在康奈尔大学的特里·乔丹博士的指导下，支持来自美国的五名高级研究人员和三名研究生计划访问智利。该项目汇集了来自智利和美国的地球科学家、经济学家和工程师组成的跨学科团队。美国调查人员将与智利Católica大学、Desarollo大学和智利Católica del Norte大学的同事们密切合作。研究人员将制定一项计划，在不断变化的自然环境和人类抽水带来的越来越大的压力下，研究水的可持续性。该小组将访问智利北部的卡拉马纳盆地，以制定概念，量化不确定性和影响，并建立水资源管理选择的模型。这项研究还将提供适用于美国西南部等其他半干旱地区的系统分析。此次访问将有五名美国高级研究人员参与，其中两名是女性，三名是研究生。它有可能促进美国和智利研究人员在可持续发展科学领域的长期跨学科合作，并进一步加深我们对水资源管理选择的理解。

This U.S - Chile Planning Visit proposal will support five senior researchers and three graduate students from the U.S., under the direction of Dr. Terry Jordan of Cornell University, on a planning visit to Chile. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team of geoscientists, economists, and engineers from Chile and the U.S. The U.S. investigators will collaborate intensively with colleagues from Pontificia Universidad Católica, Universidad del Desarollo, and Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile. Researchers will develop a plan to investigate water sustainability in a changing natural environment and under increased pressure from human withdrawals. The team will visit the Calamana Basin in Northern Chile to develop concepts, quantify uncertainties and impacts, and model water management choices. This research would also provide a systems analysis that would be applicable for other semi-arid to arid regions such as southwest U.S. The visit will involve five senior U.S. researchers, two who are female, and three graduate students. It has the potential to generate long-term interdisciplinary collaborations in sustainability science between U.S. and Chilean researchers and further our understanding of water management choices.