Collaborative Research: Strengthening the scientific basis for decision-making: Advancing sustainability science and knowledge-action capacities in coupled coastal systems

IIA-1330691，缅因州大学，Michael Eckardt链接：IIA-1330641，新罕布什尔大学，Jane A. Nisbet提案题目：合作研究：加强决策的科学基础；推进沿海耦合系统的可持续性科学和知识-行动能力缅因州（ME）和新罕布什尔州（NH）提议成立新英格兰可持续性联盟（NEST），利用其研究和开发能力之间的协同作用，推进可持续性科学的理论和实践，加强科学与决策之间的联系。可持续发展科学的重点是开发解决紧迫的社会问题，涉及改善人类福祉和保护地球的双重挑战。生命维持系统。巢?美国最初的重点是与沿海系统可持续管理有关的科学挑战。具体而言，ME和NH结合了互补的研究优势，以研究流域过程和人类活动之间的系统相互作用，这些相互作用导致沿海水域中大量致病菌，进而引发关闭经济上重要的海滩和贝类渔业的决定。目前在科学知识不足的情况下做出关闭决定，而长期趋势表明，沿海污染日益恶化，将需要更频繁地做出这种性质的决定。沿海封闭问题为发展NEST提供了一个有希望的模式系统。培养学生的调查能力，加强科学与决策之间的联系。NEST通过几个创新机制，将不同的能力结合起来，推进可持续发展科学：1)结合来自自然科学、社会科学和工程等十多个STEM学科的专业知识；2)整合不同研究方法（如细菌亚转录组学、行为经济学、流域传感器网络、制度分析、水文建模、环境传播）获得的见解；3)开展从微生物到流域的空间尺度研究，从细菌短期生长到土地利用和气候多年代际变化的时间尺度研究。NEST将使用创新的系统思维和最先进的研究工具，同时强调所研究的耦合流域-人类系统如何影响和响应个人和机构的决策。此外，研究将包括对NEST？S组织流程（如协作、沟通、跨司法管辖区综合教育和研究），为跨学科团队科学的全球科学和实践提供信息。更广泛的影响NEST追求的目标是通过一个广泛包括社会许多阶层的过程来推进决策的科学基础。大学生和教师研究人员与不同的利益相关者（如政府、贝类采集者、公民科学家）合作。该项目支持建设一个扩大的环境传感器网络，以加强非正规和正规的科学教育。拟议的工作建立了创新的、解决方案驱动的网络，将不同的大学和学院、各级政府、部落社区、非政府组织、公民和私营部门联系起来。

IIA-1330691, University of Maine, Michael Eckardt Linked to: IIA-1330641, University of New Hampshire, Jane A. Nisbet Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Strengthening the Scientific Basis for Decision-making: Advancing sustainability science and knowledge-action capacities in coupled coastal systemsThe states of Maine (ME) and New Hampshire (NH) propose the New England SusTainability Consortium (NEST) to capitalize on synergies between their research and development capacities that can advance the theory and practice of sustainability science to strengthen connections between science and decision making. Sustainability Science focuses on developing solutions to pressing societal problems involving the dual challenge of improving human well-being and protecting the planet?s life support systems. NEST?s initial focus is on scientific challenges related to the sustainable management of coastal systems. Specifically, ME and NH combine complementary research strengths to examine systems interactions between watershed processes and human activities that contribute to high populations of pathogenic bacteria in coastal waters, which in turn trigger decisions to close economically important beaches and shellfisheries. Closure decisions are currently made with inadequate scientific knowledge, and long-term trends suggest worsening coastal pollution that will require more frequent decisions of this nature.Intellectual MeritThe coastal closure problem provides a promising model system for growing NEST?s ability to investigate and strengthen the connection between science and decision-making. NEST unites diverse capabilities to advance sustainability science via several innovative mechanisms: 1) combining expertise drawn from over ten STEM disciplines representing natural science, social science, and engineering; 2) integrating insights gained from different research approaches (e.g. bacterial metatranscriptomics, behavioral economics, watershed sensor networks, institutional analysis, hydrologic modeling, environmental communication); 3) conducting research on spatial scales ranging from microbes to watersheds, and temporal scales spanning short-term bacterial growth to multi-decadal changes in land use and climate. NEST will use innovative systems thinking and state-of-the-art research tools while emphasizing how the coupled watershed-human systems under study influences, and responds to, decision-making by individuals and institutions. In addition, the research will include an examination of NEST?s organizational processes (e.g. collaboration, communication, integrative cross-jurisdictional education and research) to inform the global science and practice of interdisciplinary team science.Broader Impacts NEST pursues the goal of advancing the scientific basis of decision-making through a process that is broadly inclusive of many segments of society. University students and faculty researchers collaborate with diverse stakeholders (e.g. government, shellfish harvesters, citizen scientists). The project supports the construction of an expanded network of environmental sensors that will strengthen informal and formal science education. The proposed work creates innovative, solutions-driven networks that connect diverse universities and colleges, all levels of government, tribal communities, Non-Governmental Organizations, citizens, and the private sector.