FEW: Workshop: Developing Intelligent Food, Energy,and Water Systems (DIFEWS)

波茨干旱正在将加州相互交织的食物、能源和水系统推向崩溃的边缘。水库处于历史低点，油田休耕，能源系统在高需求的日子里挣扎。除了目前的干旱，加州的食品，能源和水系统进一步强调传统的基础设施，以前的土地使用决定，以及人口向5000万。作为美国最大的农业生产国，加州面临着粮食、能源和水系统的挑战，其影响远远超出了其边界，进入国内和国际市场。加州464亿美元的农产品中有近46%出口到国际市场;与这些食品沿着出口的是生产过程中使用的水和能源资源。全球农业市场的互联性确保了加州的食品、能源和水系统挑战在乳制品、水果、蔬菜和坚果市场可能特别严重。就区域而言，与许多西部州一样，加州的能源和农业系统依赖于大规模的、受雪影响的水文系统，这些水文系统受到高度气候变化的影响，并拥有受污染的土壤和地下水。在地方范围内，不断增长的城市人口经历了不断上涨的食品价格和用水限制，而农村社区则在持续的水资源短缺面前挣扎着保持活力。为了从地方到国家范围内创造更安全，更安全，更高效，更有弹性的食品，能源和水系统，加州大学伯克利分校寻求举办一个发展智能食品，能源，2015年9月21日至22日，水系统研讨会。该研讨会将以加州为试验平台，制定针对性的多维研究议程，以开发智能FEWS，提高空间、时间和应用程序的效率。拟议的研讨会将汇集60名物理，自然，计算机和社会科学的研究人员，沿着工程师，经济学家，政策制定者和来自不同背景的从业者。PI的目标是实现跨学科交流，以确定易于处理的研究问题，促进足智多谋的问题解决，并确定下一代公民科学家的教育挑战。研讨会的直接产出将包括：（i）一套跨越食品，能源和水系统要素的易处理的研究问题;（ii）未来研究工作的概述和2015年12月31日之前产生的白色论文的主要作者的确定;以及（iii）关于如何在这套跨学科努力中教育新学者的想法。具体而言，DIFEWS研讨会将探讨四个领域的协同作用：农业生态学;可持续环境工程;消费者行为;以及网络物理系统研究在食品，能源和水系统中的应用。农业生态学将生态学原则应用于可持续粮食系统，为粮食生产开辟了新的和传统的渠道，可以减少水和能源的绝对使用。可持续环境工程采用新的方法来设计和操作水的收集，处理和分配。例如，美国国家科学基金会的工程研究中心为重塑国家城市水基础设施而开发的工程创新减少了能源使用，促进了资源回收，并增强了水系统的弹性。在能源方面，公用事业最近对智能电网基础设施的投资支持需求方和供应方对不断变化的系统条件的反应的实时协调。行为经济学和社会科学正在积极探索消费者如何与这些技术互动，特别是正在尝试使用经济激励措施来大幅提高能源效率。最后，快速发展的网络物理系统领域使物理对象中的传感器能够在空间和时间上协调资源的最佳分配。该技术用于食品、能源和水系统，例如，用于安全地操作分布式系统以控制能源和水。在本科一级，讲习班的主题将纳入一个大型的环境科学入门课程和一个关于能源和环境经济学的高年级课程。在研究生阶段，组委会成员将在2015年秋季学期在加州大学伯克利分校举办一个开发智能食品，能源和水系统研究生研讨会。所有研讨会参与者将被邀请参加研讨会，并将有机会成为撰写白色论文和随后同行评审出版物的团队的一个组成部分。除了有助于本科生和研究生在全国最种族和文化多样性的地区之一的跨学科培训，组委会将接触到关键的加州食品，能源和水系统规划者分享研讨会的结果，并将与伯克利能源资源合作，接触到公众对加州的食品，能源和水系统的问题。

1541880PottsDrought is pushing California's intertwined food, energy, and water systems to the breaking point. Reservoirs are at historic lows, fields lie fallow, and energy systems struggle on high demand days. Beyond the current drought, California's food, energy, and water systems are further stressed by legacy infrastructure, prior land use decisions, and a population pushing towards 50 million. As the largest agricultural producer in the US, California faces food, energy, and water systems challenges with impacts extending far beyond its own borders, into domestic and international markets. Nearly 46% of California's $46.4 billion in agricultural products is exported internationally; exported along with this food are the water and energy resources used in its production. The interconnectivity of global agricultural markets ensures that California's food, energy, and water systems challenges are likely to be especially acute in dairy, fruit, vegetable, and nut markets. Regionally, as with many western states, California's energy and agriculture systems are dependent on large-scale, snow-fed hydrological systems subject to high climate variability and possess a legacy of polluted soil and groundwater. At the local scale, growing urban populations experience increasing food prices and water use restrictions while rural communities struggle to remain viable in the face of persistent water shortages.To work towards creating more secure, safe, productive, and resilient food, energy and water systems from the local to national scales, the University of California, Berkeley seeks to host a Developing Intelligent Food, Energy, and Water Systems workshop on September 21-22, 2015. Using California as a test bed, the workshop will develop a targeted multi-dimensional research agenda towards the development of intelligent FEWS that increase efficiency across space, time, and applications. The proposed workshop will bring together 60 investigators in the physical, natural, computer, and social sciences, along with engineers, economists, policy-makers, and practitioners from diverse backgrounds. The PIs goal is to enable cross-disciplinary exchange that will identify tractable research questions, promote resourceful problem-solving, and identify educational challenges for the next generation of citizen-scientists. Immediate outputs from the workshop will include: (i) a set of tractable research questions that cut across elements of food, energy, and water systems; (ii) outlines of future research efforts and identification of lead authors for white papers to be generated by 12/31/15; and (iii) ideas about how new scholars should be educated in this set of cross-disciplinary efforts. Specifically, the DIFEWS workshop will explore the synergies across four areas: agroecology; sustainable environmental engineering; consumer behavior; and the application of cyber-physical systems research to food, energy, and water systems. Agroecology, in its application of ecological principles to sustainable food systems, opens up new and traditional channels to food production that can lessen absolute water and energy use. Sustainable environmental engineering uses new approaches to the design and operation of water collection, treatment, and distribution. For example, engineering innovations developed by the NSF's Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure decrease energy use, facilitate resource recovery, and enhance the resilience of water systems. On the energy front, recent investments by public utilities in smart grid infrastructure support real-time coordination of demand- and supply-side responses to changing system conditions. Behavioral economics and the social sciences are actively exploring how consumers interact with these technologies and, in particular, are experimenting with the use of economic incentives to substantively enhance energy efficiency. Finally, the rapidly evolving domain of cyber-physical systems has enabled the use of sensors in physical objects to coordinate optimal allocation of resources across space and time. This technology is utilized in food, energy, and water systems, for example, to safely operate distributed systems for controlling energy and water. At the undergraduate level, workshop themes will be integrated into a large introductory environmental science course and an upper division course on the economics of energy and the environment. At the graduate level, the members of the organizing committee will run a Developing Intelligent Food, Energy, and Water Systems graduate seminar at UC Berkeley during the fall semester of 2015. All seminar participants will be invited to the workshop and will have the opportunity to be an integral part of the team that writes the white papers and subsequent peer reviewed publications. In addition to contributing to the interdisciplinary training of undergraduate and graduate students in one of the nation's most ethnically and culturally diverse regions, the organizing committee will reach out to key California food, energy, and water systems planners to share the workshop findings and will partner with Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative to reach out to the public on California's food, energy, and water systems issues.