U.S.-Costa Rican Workshop: Interdisciplinary workgroup on water sustainability in the Tempisque Basin; Palo Verde NP, Costa Rica, April 2012

在这个国际合作项目中，来自美国和哥斯达黎加的研究人员将组建一个国际团队，解决中美洲太平洋地区的用水问题，特别是哥斯达黎加西北部的坦皮斯克盆地的用水问题。该项目采用将水文学与生态学和社会经济学相结合的跨学科方法，致力于促进对具有重要保护价值的严格管制的热带集水区湿地管理的了解。该团队将首先定义共同的目标和愿景，并确定要解决的关键研究问题，以便了解这个复杂的系统是如何工作的。然后，一个顶峰国际研讨会将召集研究人员和利益攸关方共同建立一个概念系统模型，该模型将支持为进一步的研究提案开发制定令人信服的假设。参与研究的研究人员将来自佛罗里达大学、亚利桑那州立大学、总部设在杜克的热带研究组织(OTS)、哥斯达黎加大学(UCR)和哥斯达黎加国立大学(UNA)。计划开展的活动包括：(1)对哥斯达黎加西北部的里约热内卢坦皮斯克/贝贝德罗盆地的水供需可持续性进行深入的量化分析；(2)通过经验数据和利益攸关方的综合投入和基于模型的情景分析，探索气候变化可能如何通过水的可获得性、土地利用和生物多样性的变化影响生态系统服务；(3)将该盆地作为太平洋中美洲的一个代表性地点，以调查可采取何种行动，从政策到实践，帮助维持或改善未来几年的水资源供应和生态系统服务。该项目的活动应有助于为更好地了解动态用水和可获得性以及流域可持续性的潜在政策解决办法奠定基础。拟议活动和任何较大规模后续活动的成果可在对经济增长、农业生产力和生物多样性保护至关重要的信息和理解方面促进当地和全球的社会效益。成果和成果将通过知识交流活动向科学界和更广泛的公众传播。容易编制的模型情景有可能极大地便利利益攸关方参与确定研究差距和规划问题的过程。美国和哥斯达黎加的学生和年轻研究人员将参与这项工作。初级研究人员参与合作的国际活动是欧洲国际教育与科学组织的一个主要目标。

In this international collaborative project researchers from the U.S. and Costa Rica will assemble an international team to address issues regarding water use in the Pacific Mesoamerican region, specifically in the Tempisque basin in northwestern Costa Rica. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates hydrology with ecology and socio-economics, this project strives to help advance knowledge of wetland management in a heavily regulated tropical catchment with important conservation interest. The team will first define common goals and vision and identify the key research questions to be addressed in order to understand how this complex system works. A capstone international workshop will then gather researchers and stakeholders to collectively build a conceptual system model that will support the framing of compelling hypotheses for further research proposal development. The researchers involved will come from the University of Florida, Arizona State University, the Duke-based Organization of Tropical Studies (OTS), Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) and Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA). Among the activities to be planned for are (1) an in-depth quantitative analysis of the sustainability of water supply and demand in the Rio Tempisque/Bebedero basin in NW Costa Rica; (2) an exploration of how climate change may affect ecosystem services through changes in water availability, land use and biodiversity through empirical data and stakeholder input integration and model-based scenarios analysis, and (3) use of the basin as a representative site of Pacific Mesoamerica to investigate what actions may be taken, from policy to practice, to help maintain or improve water availability and ecosystem services in future years. The activities of this project should help lay the foundation for a better understanding of dynamic water use and availability and potential policy solutions for watershed sustainability. Outcomes from the proposed activities and any larger subsequent activities can contribute to both local and global societal benefits in terms of information and understanding that are key to economic growth, agricultural productivity, and biodiversity conservation. Results and outcomes will be disseminated to the scientific community and to the wider public through knowledge exchange activities. Easily prepared model scenarios have the potential to greatly facilitate the involvement of stakeholders in the process of identifying research gaps and planning issues. US and Costa Rican students and young researchers will be included in this effort. Involvement of junior researchers in collaborative international activities is a major goal of OISE.