Water Sustainability in Snow-Fed Arid Land River System

该项目将创建一个框架，让不同的利益相关者社区就北方内华达州的特拉基-卡森河水系内的水资源进行互动。 该方法结合了基于系统的水文模型和基于代理的利益相关者模型，有可能为北方内华达州和美国西南部的水资源管理提供信息和改造。该项目将为部落、联邦、州和地方资源管理者和政策制定者提供新的模式和可操作的信息。两个得到联邦承认的美洲印第安部落（Pyramid Lake Paiute和Fallon Paiute-Shoshone）将参与提高印第安部落政府有效管理保留地自然资源和水资源的能力。 还将向部落间农业理事会、印第安土地保有权基金会董事会（每次会议有600-700名部落成员）和国际农业和推广教育协会作专题介绍。 与拉丁裔群体的参与将通过学生多样性办公室发生。 三名博士后和两名研究生将接受培训，以及两名UG学生将参加夏季研究REU。 本项目将开发一种基于系统的综合方法，（1）预测（a）特拉基-卡森河系统（TCRS）供水对未来水文气候条件的稳健性，（B）该系统对极端事件和土地使用和经济增长变化的适应能力，（2）评估利益相关者对旨在提高可持续性的替代水政策制度安排的接受程度。 一个供水模型将与气候预测和极端天气事件相联系，以及一个基于代理人的模型，以模拟水权所有者和用户沿着系统的行为。利益攸关方将参与整个项目，以加强对个人和政策机构如何应对未来水文气候条件的了解，评估当前水管理协定的适应能力，并在达到适应能力后，测试利益攸关方接受新政策和做法的意愿。

This project will create a framework to engage diverse stakeholder communities interacting with regard to water within the Truckee-Carson River System of northern Nevada. The approach, combining a systems-based hydrologic model and an agent-based stakeholder model, has the potential to inform and transform water management in Northern Nevada and the American Southwest. This project will produce new models and actionable information for Tribal, Federal, State, and local resource managers and policy makers. Two federally recognized American Indian tribes (Pyramid Lake Paiute and Fallon Paiute-Shoshone) will be engaged to increase the capacity of the Indian Tribal Governments to effectively steward natural and water resources on reservation lands. Presentations will also be made to the Intertribal Agriculture Council, the Board of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (600-700 tribal members per meeting) and the Association for International Agriculture and Extension Education. Engagement with Latino groups will occur through the student diversity office. Three post-docs and two graduate students will be trained as well as two UG students who will participate in the summer research REU. This project will develop an integrated systems-based approach (1) to predict (a) the robustness of the Truckee-Carson River System (TCRS) water supply to future hydroclimatic conditions, (b) the resilience of the system to extreme events and changes in land-use and economic growth, and (2) to assess stakeholder acceptance of alternative water policy institutional arrangements designed to enhance sustainability. A water supply model will be linked to both climate projections and extreme weather events, as well as an agent-based model to simulate the behavior of water rights holders and users along the system. Stakeholders will be engaged throughout the project to enhance understanding of how individuals and policy institutions might respond to future hydroclimatic conditions, assess the adaptive capacity of current water management agreements and, as adaptive capacity is reached, test the willingness of stakeholders to accept new policies and practices.