RII Track-2 FEC: Sustainable socio-economic, ecological, and technological scenarios for achieving global climate stabilization through negative CO2 emission policies

该研究基础设施改进Track-2重点EPSCoR合作（RII Track-2 FEC）奖是蒙大拿州，怀俄明州和南达科他州的三个机构之间的合作，包括蒙大拿州立大学（MSU），怀俄明大学（UW）和南达科他州大学（USD）。该项目将侧重于制定一个不会与粮食安全和清洁能源生产产生冲突的二氧化碳减排方案框架。该项目将提供新颖的实验见解、建模工具和技术解决方案，以提高粮食安全和生态系统服务对全球气候政策的适应能力。预计建模活动和广泛的实地研究将产生新的数据和发现，从而对如何在一个综合框架内使用生物地球化学建模、农业经济学、碳捕获和封存、水和生物多样性研究产生新的见解。该项目将利用现有的网络和集线器将新的数据流集成到建模练习中。通过与部落学院的合作，以及与美国原住民学生群体的现有项目建立联系，该项目将有助于提高参与司法管辖区的STEM劳动力并使其多样化。技术描述拟议的项目将评估密苏里河上游流域（UMRB）生物能源和碳捕获与封存（BECCS）经济的后果。为了评估负二氧化碳排放、安全和经济成本如何与能源政策变化相关，该项目将解决四个研究目标：(1)开发经验和数值模型来解释土地利用和土地覆盖变化的近期趋势；(2)应用生物地球化学生态系统和作物模型来评估一组利益相关者设计的生物能源生产潜力区域和情景，并利用新的和现有的数据和观测来量化生物燃料扩张与粮食安全以及其他碳、土壤和生物气候变量之间的权衡；(3)在碳捕集与封存、现有政治和制度限制以及影响农民和部落国家的政策框架的背景下，评估BECCS的可行性；(4)撰写一份综合报告，阐述BECCS的经济可行性，并为国家和国际组织的合作者提供知识转移的基础。除了一个科学咨询小组之外，与几个政府机构、非政府组织和私营部门的合作提供了很大的潜力，使该项目及其研究结果将转移到国家和国际阶段。

Non-technical descriptionThis Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaboration (RII Track-2 FEC) award is a collaboration among three institutions in Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota including Montana State University (MSU), University of Wyoming (UW) and University of South Dakota (USD). The project will focus on developing a framework of CO2 mitigation scenarios that would not create conflicts with food security and production of clean energy. The project will offer novel experimental insights, modeling tools, and technological solutions for improving the resiliency of food security and ecosystem services to global climate policies. The modeling activities and extensive field research is expected to generate new data and findings that will lead to new insights into how biogeochemical modeling, agricultural economics, carbon-capture and sequestration, water and biodiversity research can be used within an integrated framework. The project will leverage existing networks and hubs to integrate new data-streams into the modeling exercises. Through involvement with Tribal Colleges and networking with existing programs with Native American student populations, the project will serve to enhance and diversify the STEM workforce in the participating jurisdictions.Technical descriptionThe proposed project will evaluate the consequences of a bioenergy, and carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) economy in the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB). In seeking to evaluate how negative CO2 emissions, and the security and economic costs associated with changes to energy policy, the project will address four research objectives: (1) Develop empirical and numerical models to explain recent trends in land use and land-cover change; (2) Apply biogeochemical ecosystem and crop models to evaluate a set of stakeholder-designed regions and scenarios for bioenergy production potential, and use new and existing data and observations to quantify trade-offs between biofuel expansion and food security and other carbon, soil and bioclimate variables; (3) Evaluate the feasibility of BECCS within the context of carbon capture and storage, existing political and institutional constraints, and policy frameworks affecting farmers and Tribal Nations; and (4) Produce a synthesis report addressing the economic feasibility of BECCS and provide the basis for knowledge transfer to collaborators at national and international organizations. The collaborations with several government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, in addition to a scientific advisory panel, provide high potential that the project and its findings will transfer to national and international stages.