EAPSI: A comparison of lake monitoring and modeling approaches - protecting freshwater resources in Lake Tahoe and Lake Taupo, and globally

该项目将比较太浩湖（美国加利福尼亚州/内华达州）的水质数据和建模研究与新西兰一个水质相似的湖泊的研究，该湖泊也有一个建模程序，陶波湖。新西兰怀卡托大学（University of Waikato）的大卫·汉密尔顿（David Hamilton）博士在陶波湖（Lake Taupo）有着丰富的经验，是将3d模型与实时传感器数据相结合的领导者。π吗?目前的研究重点是监测和模拟太浩湖近岸的水质。在与汉密尔顿博士及其研究生的合作中，PI将获得来自陶波湖的数据和模型，这些数据和模型独特地适用于他对生态可比较的太浩湖的研究；PI将改进他的近岸建模方法，将从新西兰湖泊收集参考数据，并将建立研究联系，最终在新西兰湖泊和全球范围内验证他的美国西部模型。一个强大的和全球可转移的近岸水质模型将有助于更好地了解和保护人类最直接依赖的湖泊和水库地区。湖泊边缘既是人类重要的生态栖息地，也是人类主要的休闲和功利利用点。由于自然和人为输入，这些近岸地区的水质变化很大。人类发展和不断变化的气候模式继续迫使这些投入发生变化。要了解这些变化将如何影响近岸水质，需要了解近岸地区对外部负荷、气象和湖泊几何性质的时空响应。π吗?目前的研究重点是在太浩湖开发这种反应的模型。通过与汉密尔顿博士的合作，PI将深入了解如何将他的模型推广到全球应用；他将学习新的建模方法，收集参考数据，建立长期的研究联系，不断改进和应用他的模型来保护全球淡水资源。该EAPSI奖是与新西兰皇家学会合作资助的。

This project will compare water quality data and modeling research from Lake Tahoe (CA/NV, U.S.A.) to research on a New Zealand lake with similar water quality and which also has a modeling program, Lake Taupo. Dr. David Hamilton at the University of Waikato in New Zealand has considerable experience at Lake Taupo and is a leader in combining 3-D models with real-time sensor data. The PI?s current research focuses on monitoring and modeling water quality in the near-shore of Lake Tahoe. In collaborating with Dr. Hamilton and his graduate students, the PI will have access to data and models from Lake Taupo that are uniquely applicable to the his research on ecologically comparable Lake Tahoe; the PI will improve his approach to nearshore modeling, will collect reference data from New Zealand lakes, and will establish research links to eventually validate his western U.S. model on New Zealand lakes and globally. A robust and globally transferable nearshore water quality model will serve to better understand and protect the area of lakes and reservoirs on which human populations most directly depend.The margins of lakes are both an important ecological habitat and the primary recreational and utilitarian usage point for humans. These near-shore areas are subject to high variability in water quality due to natural and anthropogenic inputs. Human development and changing climate patterns continue to force changes to these inputs. Understanding how these variations will affect near-shore water quality requires an understanding of the spatiotemporal response of near-shore areas to external loading, meteorology, and the geometric nature of a lake. The PI?s current research focuses on developing models of this response in Lake Tahoe. In collaborating with Dr. Hamilton, the PI will gain insight into generalizing his model for global application; he will learn new modeling approaches, collect reference data, and establish long-term research links to continually improve and apply his model to protect global freshwater reserves. This EAPSI award is funded in collaboration with the Royal Society of New Zealand.