Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for One Water

规划资助：一水工程研究中心

• 批准号: 1840464
• 负责人: William Walker
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.Arid and semi-arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and the world are threatened by dwindling usable water supplies, driven by drought, growing and competing demands, and increasing salinity. Many of the U.S./Mexico border States, and especially the Colorado and Rio Grande river basins, face a future water crisis that includes increasingly frequent and severe periods of drought and growing demands for water in the urban, agricultural, and environmental sectors. The ?siloed?, piecemeal water management approach of the past 100 years is unable to sustain our cities and farms in the future, while meeting environmental and social concerns, as well. We need a ?One Water? management approach, one that is holistic, comprehensive and integrated to meet the challenges of the 21st century. We propose here a novel, innovative, and convergent planning process to develop a team of engineers, scientists, and stakeholders with a unified understanding of water sectors, problems, and solutions and a shared vision for the One Water Engineering Research Center that will generate new technical discoveries with broad societal impact. We will meet the water challenges of our water scarce region while training the water resource professionals of the future. Our goal is to formulate and implement a planning process that is informed by recent NSF-funded basic research on team science and convergent learning across disciplines and perspectives. This process will provide a model for how to effectively lead convergent research teams during their early, formative stage. With a strategic series of stakeholder focus group meetings, researcher summit meetings, and researcher working meetings, we will generate a shared vision among researchers and stakeholders of a new kind of ERC ? one that catalyzes transformative innovations through the synergies created by deeply integrating diverse perspectives. The product will be a proposal for a One Water approach to the management of water on a landscape scale, one that integrates the needs of all sectors of water users with social and environmental needs. The convergent product of this planning grant will be an integrated team with a dynamic system understanding that will serve as the roadmap for future water management. Our vision for the One Water Center is that it will provide the strong underpinning of water research, engineering, management, education, and outreach needed to develop this roadmap, one that is based on innovation and cutting-edge science and technology, to solve the seemingly intractable problems of meeting the water needs of all major use sectors in the coming decades. Our testbed for this One Water Approach will be the Paso del Norte region of the U.S./Mexico border, a particularly challenged arid region threatened by water scarcity, climate, competing demands for water, high rates of poverty, and a complex water governance system including an international border and multiple state and local jurisdictions. The results will be widely applicable to other arid and semi-arid regions of the world where water scarcity is a source of local and even global conflict.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 规划赠款不需要作为整个ERC竞争的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划收敛，中心规模的工程研究。美国西南部和世界的干旱和半干旱地区受到可用水供应减少的威胁，干旱，需求增长和竞争，以及盐度增加。 许多美国/墨西哥边境各州，特别是科罗拉多和格兰德河流域，面临着未来的水危机，包括日益频繁和严重的干旱时期和城市，农业和环境部门对水的需求不断增长。的？孤立？过去100年的零碎水资源管理方法无法在满足环境和社会问题的同时维持我们未来的城市和农场。 我们需要一个？一杯水？管理方法，是一个整体，全面和综合的，以应付二十一世纪的挑战世纪。 我们在这里提出了一个新颖的，创新的和融合的规划过程，以开发一个工程师，科学家和利益相关者的团队，对水行业，问题和解决方案有着统一的理解，并对一个水工程研究中心有着共同的愿景，这将产生具有广泛社会影响的新技术发现。 我们将应对缺水地区的水挑战，同时培训未来的水资源专业人员。 我们的目标是制定和实施一个规划过程，这是由最近NSF资助的跨学科和视角的团队科学和收敛学习的基础研究。这个过程将提供一个模型，如何有效地领导收敛的研究团队在其早期，形成阶段。通过一系列战略性的利益相关者焦点小组会议、研究人员峰会和研究人员工作会议，我们将在研究人员和利益相关者之间形成一种新的ERC？一个通过深度整合不同观点所产生的协同效应来催化变革性创新的平台。该产品将是一项关于在景观尺度上管理水资源的“一水”办法的建议，该办法将所有部门的用水者的需要与社会和环境需要结合起来。 该规划补助金的融合产品将是一个具有动态系统理解的综合团队，将作为未来水资源管理的路线图。 我们对“一个水中心”的愿景是，它将为制定这一路线图所需的水研究、工程、管理、教育和推广提供强有力的支持，这一路线图基于创新和尖端科学技术，以解决在未来几十年内满足所有主要用水部门水需求的看似棘手的问题。 我们在美国北帕索（Paso del Norte）地区进行“一水方案”的试验。墨西哥边境，一个特别困难的干旱地区，受到水资源短缺，气候，对水的竞争需求，高贫困率以及复杂的水治理系统（包括国际边界和多个州和地方管辖区）的威胁。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。