U.S.-Mexico Workshop on Paired and Shared Drylands

在美国-来自亚利桑那大学（UA）和墨西哥国立自治大学（UNAM）的墨西哥研讨会研究人员和学生将聚集在墨西哥城，以确定美国和墨西哥旱地面临的能源，水，生态系统服务和可持续性（SEES）的“重大挑战”，并清点相关资源以解决这些问题。 研讨会将吸引来自UA的10名研究人员和来自UNAM的15名研究人员，旨在为NSF的耦合自然和人类系统（CNH）计划和NSF在墨西哥的对应机构CONACyT制定研究协调网络（RCN）的补充建议。该建议涵盖了与会者将以创造性和有前途的方式解决的重要主题，将他们的工作与美国-墨西哥与更广泛的旱地环境接壤。 潜在的与会者构成了既定的和早期的职业科学家的组合，从这种互动产生的研究将导致更好的方法来管理和应对旱地系统的脆弱性，不仅在美国和墨西哥，而且在世界各地的类似环境。 讲习班应提供一个富有成果的环境，促进普遍获得服务与墨西哥自治大学之间今后的合作活动。 两名研究生和三名初级教师将参与讲习班和随后的活动。 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 researchers and students from the University of Arizona (UA) and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) will gather in Mexico City to identify the "grand challenges" in energy, water, ecosystem services and sustainability (SEES) confronting drylands of the U.S. and Mexico and to inventory the relevant resources to address them. The workshop will engage ten researchers from UA and 15 from UNAM with an eye towards developing complementary proposals for a research coordination network (RCN) to NSF's Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) Program and to CONACyT, NSF's counterpart agency in Mexico.This proposal covers an important topic that the attendees will address in a creative and promising way, relating their work on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to a broader set of dryland settings. The potential attendees constitute a mix of established and early-career scientists, and the research that would result from this interaction will lead to better approaches for managing and responding to vulnerabilities in dryland systems, not only in the U.S. and Mexico, but also in similar environments around the world. The workshop should provide a fruitful setting to stimulate future collaborative activity between UA and UNAM. Two graduate students and three junior faculty will be involved in the workshop and subsequent activities. Involvement of young researchers in collaborative international activities is a major goal of OISE.