RAISE: Bringing Together Diverse Perspectives on Water

RAISE：汇集关于水的不同观点

• 批准号: 1936715
• 负责人: Aradhna Tripati
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAISE; Bringing; Together; Diverse; Perspectives

Major knowledge gaps exist in STEM relating to water, including how and why climate change will impact water, how hydrological changes will differently impact different communities throughout the Southwest and elsewhere, and how Indigenous communities have addressed water issues, especially with regard to climate change adaptation and dispossession. But exploration of past and present-day environments and uses and understandings of water can provide critical information, transforming the ability to understand the processes impacting water and the relationship to water and various cultures in the long-term. Therefore this program will develop and braid together different strands of research from multiple disciplines as new windows into the regional impacts of rising greenhouse gas levels on the water cycle and climate. The research will be transformative in that it will examine and share diverse perspectives on the water cycle, including what water is and how people use, value, and steward it, how different fields and people approach questions about water in the context of environmental change, what different disciplinary and cultural perspectives are on water sustainability and histories in a region, and how these diverse perspectives on water inform the ways we think and communicate about environmental futures. Taken together, these multiple interwoven strands will help us construct a more comprehensive picture of how and why rainfall and evaporation have responded to climate change and will thus provide a means to evaluate climate model skill and representation, while gathering data on water issues, past, present, and future, facing Indigenous communities whose waters are in the region, and developing and piloting an inclusive science model.This proposal seeks to bring together and share diverse perspectives on water through convergence research, which is referred to as braiding knowledge, which will help navigate towards solutions that could address environmental challenges in the Southwestern United States. It also will represent a model for convergence research on water in other regions, and climate change more broadly, beyond this project. Knowledge of deep history, obtained through geoscience, ethnography, and archaeology, can inform science, support Indigenous sovereignty, and guide decision-making at tribal, regional, and national levels. Knowledge of community water values and needs can and should inform water management and science. Braided, this knowledge can support climate change adaptation. The specific goals of the project are:- To use novel interdisciplinary approaches to constrain how and why precipitation and evaporation rates respond to changing climate forcing in different regions of the Southwest.- To gather data on the water issues, past and present, facing Indigenous communities whose waters are in, or are conveyed to, the Los Angeles basin, and other regions.- To broaden participation through inclusive practices with the adaptation and assessment of a new inclusive science model to the geosciences and environmental science.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.

在与水有关的STEM方面存在重大知识差距，包括气候变化如何以及为什么会影响水，水文变化如何以不同的方式影响整个西南部和其他地方的不同社区，以及土著社区如何解决水问题，特别是关于气候变化适应和剥夺。但对过去和当今环境的探索以及对水的利用和理解可以提供关键信息，从而改变了解影响水的过程以及与水和各种文化的长期关系的能力。因此，该计划将开发和编织来自多个学科的不同研究链，作为温室气体水平上升对水循环和气候的区域影响的新窗口。该研究将是变革性的，因为它将研究和分享水循环的不同观点，包括水是什么以及人们如何使用，价值和管理它，不同的领域和人们如何在环境变化的背景下处理有关水的问题，不同的学科和文化观点是关于水的可持续性和一个地区的历史，以及这些关于水的不同观点如何为我们思考和沟通环境未来的方式提供信息。综合起来，这些多个相互交织的链将帮助我们构建一个更全面的图像，了解降雨和蒸发如何以及为什么对气候变化做出反应，从而提供一种评估气候模型技能和代表性的方法，同时收集有关水问题的数据，过去，现在和未来，面对沃茨在该地区的土著社区，以及开发和试点一个包容性的科学模式。该提案旨在通过聚合研究，即编织知识，这将有助于找到解决美国西南部环境挑战的解决方案。它还将成为本项目以外其他地区水资源和更广泛的气候变化趋同研究的典范。通过地球科学、民族志和考古学获得的深层历史知识可以为科学提供信息，支持土著主权，并指导部落、地区和国家层面的决策。社区水的价值和需求的知识可以而且应该为水管理和科学提供信息。这些知识可以帮助适应气候变化。该项目的具体目标是：-使用新的跨学科方法来限制降水和蒸发率如何以及为什么对西南部不同地区不断变化的气候强迫做出反应。收集有关水问题的数据，过去和现在，面对土著社区的沃茨是在，或被传送到，洛杉矶盆地，和其他地区。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。