US-Mexico Workshop: Catalyzing International Collaborations to Develop a Platform for Ecohydrological Research - Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico, September 2012

在这次美墨研讨会上，来自美国和墨西哥的社会科学家和生态水文学家将齐聚一堂，讨论合作研究，探讨人类用水和维持水生生态系统所需的水之间的紧张关系。讲习班的目标是增进对墨西哥和美国面临的水资源挑战的了解，并发展一个新的网络级框架，在其中进行社会和生态水文研究。预期的项目在美国和墨西哥的不同区域生态系统中使用生物物理上相似的长期生态研究（LTER）站点对。通过与在类似生物物理环境中工作但在不同文化背景下工作的同事进行互动，以解决类似的水资源挑战以及对这些挑战的文化反应，将获得潜在的变革性新观点。研讨会将在墨西哥哈利斯科州的Chamela LTER场地举行。其中一项成果有望成为研究协调网络（RCN）的跨领域研究建议，重点是自然与人类系统耦合动力学（CNH）或可持续发展科学、工程和教育（SEES）。研讨会的广泛影响之一是在美国和墨西哥LTER站点的科学家之间发展新的合作伙伴关系，这将导致更容易获得国际生态水文和社会生态数据集，数据共享和知识转移。由此产生的研究平台将成为进一步教育和研究机会的基础，并将包括12个地点的生态水文、经济和社会数据目录。六个美国LTER站点的参与预计将对国家环境科学网络作出重大贡献。其他影响包括培训研究生，使他们接触国际合作和国际研究机会的经验，以及发展新的网络级国际合作。研究生和早期职业科学家将受益于参与这项研究的规划过程，并与国际合作伙伴一起撰写提案。青年研究人员参与国际合作活动是OISE的一个主要目标。

In this U.S.-Mexico workshop social scientists and ecohydrologists from the U.S. and Mexico will will gather together to discuss collaborative research exploring the tension between water abstraction for human use and water needed to sustain aquatic ecosystems. The goal of the workshop is an improved understanding of the water-resource challenges facing Mexico and the United States and the development of a new network-level framework in which to conduct social and ecohydrological research. The anticipated projects use pairs of biophysically similar Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites across regionally diverse ecosystems in the U.S. and Mexico. Potentially transformative new perspectives will be gained by interacting with colleagues working in a similar biophysical setting but in a different cultural context to address similar water resource challenges and the cultural response to these challenges. The workshop will be held at the Chamela LTER site in Jalisco state, Mexico. One of the outcomes is expected to be a cross-cutting research proposal for a Research Coordination Network (RCN) with emphasis appropriate to Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) or Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES).Among the broader impacts of the workshop is the development of new collaborative partnerships between scientists at US and Mexican LTER sites that will result in greater accessibility to international ecohydrological and socioecological datasets, data sharing, and knowledge transfer. The resulting research platform will be the basis for further education and research opportunities and will include a catalog of ecohydrological, economic and social data from the twelve sites. The involvement of six U.S. LTER sites is expected to be a significant contribution to national environmental science networking. Other impacts include training of graduate students, exposing them to experiences in international collaboration and international research opportunities, and the development of new, network-level international collaborations. Graduate students and early-career scientists will benefit from inclusion in the planning process for this research and in writing a proposal with international partners. Involvement of young researchers in collaborative international activities is a major goal of OISE.