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

在这次美墨研讨会上，来自亚利桑那大学（UA）和墨西哥国立自治大学（UNAM）的研究人员和学生将聚集在墨西哥城，确定美国和墨西哥干旱地区在能源、水、生态系统服务和可持续性（SEES）方面面临的“重大挑战”，并盘点相关资源以应对这些挑战。该研讨会将邀请来自UA的10名研究人员和来自UNAM的15名研究人员，着眼于为NSF的自然与人类耦合系统（CNH）计划和NSF在墨西哥的对应机构CONACyT制定一个研究协调网络（RCN）的补充建议。该提案涵盖了一个重要的主题，与会者将以一种创造性和有希望的方式讨论，将他们在美墨边境的工作与更广泛的旱地环境联系起来。潜在的与会者包括成熟的和早期的职业科学家，这种互动将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，而且在世界各地类似的环境中。讲习班应提供一个富有成果的环境，以促进联合国大学和联合国管理大学之间未来的合作活动。两名研究生和三名初级教师将参与研讨会和随后的活动。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.