CoPe Conference: Symposium on Far-Field Effects of Sea-Level Rise, Fayetteville, AR 2020

该研讨会吸引了一群不同的跨学科科学家和利益相关者，以研究影响海岸和美国中心地带的气候变化的后果。 将讨论的问题包括地下水和地表水的流动和再生、洪水、人口迁移、农业、交通和经济远场效应。研讨会将进行现场直播。 研讨会演讲的视频将在阿肯色州大学的服务器上存档，以便在会后向更广泛的公众提供。将编制并公布记录讨论结果和有待进一步审议的想法的文件。专题讨论会将在全国范围内进行宣传，以吸引广泛、多样化的与会者。由专家组成的主要发言人将向大会介绍相关主题和远场面临的挑战，引发全国性的讨论。小型分组将更深入地探讨主题。 研讨会将包括至少两个太平洋岛屿社区，这些社区已将美国中部大陆确定为搬迁区，因为他们的岛屿因海平面上升而被淹没，人口被迫迁移到高地。这项工作的更广泛影响具有重大的社会效益，包括美国中心地带的社区将如何处理移民的涌入，以及由海平面上升导致的沿海几何形状变化所驱动的远场社区经济和环境将如何应对。海平面上升的远场效应，包括其对美国大陆内陆的物理，社会和经济影响，这是远离沿海地区，是缺乏约束和研究。这个为期3天的国家研讨会探讨了与海平面上升有关的远场问题，研究受影响社区面临的挑战，并确定知识差距和研究重点。讨论主题包括：（1）海平面上升对大陆河流系统动力学的影响;（2）海平面上升对大陆气候和水文循环的影响;（3）人口迁移和从沿海地区向大陆内部的移民流动;（4）资源流动的经济影响（5）海平面上升对大陆农业的经济影响;（6）海平面上升对大陆河流商业的经济影响。内布拉斯加州、阿肯色州和整个密西西比-俄亥俄-密苏里州河流的洪水记录比例，都是远场位置，突出了改变的大陆水文对大陆农业和河流商业的影响，表明了这样一个专题讨论会的必要性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This workshop engages a diverse group of interdisciplinary scientists and stakeholders to examine the consequences of climate change that impact both the coasts and the US Heartland. Issues to be discussed include ground and surface water flow and renewal, flooding, human migration, agriculture, transportation, and economic far-field effects. There will be live streaming of the symposium. Videos of workshop presentations will be archived on University of Arkansas servers so they can be made discoverable and available, post-meeting, to the broader public. Documents recording the results of the discussions and the ideas to be further considered will be generated and made publicly available. The symposium will be nationally advertised to attract a broad, diverse group of participants. Key speakers, who are experts, will introduce the relevant topics and challenges faced in the far-field to the assembly, generating a national discussion. Small breakout groups will drill more deeply into the subject matter. The symposium will include at least two Pacific Island communities that have identified the mid-continent of the US as a relocation zone when their islands are inundated by sea level rise and the populations are forced to move to higher ground. Broader impacts of the work have significant societal benefits in terms of how communities in the US Heartland will handle the influx of migrants, as well as how far-field community economies and environments, driven by changes in coastal geometries due to rising sea levels, will respond. Far-field effects of sea level rise including its physical, social, and economic impact on the US continental interior, which is remote from the coastal zone, are poorly constrained and understudied. This 3-day national symposium explores what is known about far-field issues related to sea level rise, to examine the challenges facing impacted communities, and to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities. Discussion topics include: (1) impacts of rising sea level on dynamics of continental river systems; (2) influences of rising sea-level on continental climate and the hydrologic cycle; (3) population dislocation and migration flows from the coastal zone to the continental interior; (4) economic impacts of resource flows (material and capital) from the continental interior to the coastal zone; (5) economic impacts of sea level rise on continental agriculture; and (6) economic impacts of sea level rise on continental river commerce. Flooding-of-record proportion in Nebraska, Arkansas, and throughout the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri river, all of which are far-field locations, highlight impacts of altered continental hydrology on continental agriculture and river commerce, demonstrating the need for such a symposium.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.