REU Site: Stakeholder Informed Modeling of Innovations in the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) Nexus

这个由华盛顿州立大学(WSU)主办的本科生研究体验(REU)网站将为本科生提供解决大规模、变化、食物、能源和水(少数)问题的机会。随着人口的增加和全球经济的扩张，对食品、能源和水资源的需求一直在增长。少数资源的管理和协调具有挑战性，因为紧密、复杂的相互联系将资源的可获得性和用途彼此联系在一起，并因气候多变性和全球变化而变得复杂。综合的少数人系统的可持续管理将需要平衡一套复杂的技术和体制解决办法，以管理权衡和解决系统内的冲突。在这个为期九周的暑期REU期间，学生将深入了解复杂系统的行为和计算能力，以评估少数几个结点中的创新。这个REU站点将专注于哥伦比亚河流域(CRB)的食物、能源和水(少数)管理，那里需要水来生产水电，支持大规模灌溉农业，并为濒危鱼类提供足够的栖息地。学生将在NSF ColumbiaFEW项目中与研究人员、数据和建模导师合作，对技术和政策创新如何影响少数系统进行概念化、建模和评估。在整个夏天的课程中，学生们将与教师、研究生和导师一起学习复杂的系统思维和系统动力学模拟技能，与少数利益相关者接触，了解现实世界中的一些问题和管理需求，通过使用项目数据集和模型建立计算能力，参与该项目和华盛顿州立大学本科生研究办公室提供的专业发展机会，并练习与同行、其他科学家和少数利益相关者交流他们的科学。他们的暑假将以向他们的同龄人和更广泛的西斯安那州立大学暑期本科生研究项目进行陈述而达到高潮。通过身临其境的研讨会、利益相关者参与和多层次指导系统，学生将获得有效分析和综合数据的可移植技能，以及解释和参与复杂系统和传播科学的广泛、综合分析的培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site hosted by Washington State University (WSU) will provide undergraduate students the opportunity to tackle large-scale, changing, food, energy, and water (FEW) issues. Demand for food, energy, and water resources has been growing with increasing human populations and expanding global economies. Management and coordination of FEW resources is challenging due to tight, complex interconnections that link their availability and uses to one another and is complicated by climate variability and global change. Sustainable management of the integrated FEW system will require balancing a complex set of technological and institutional solutions for managing trade-offs and resolving conflicts within the system. During this nine-week summer REU, students will be provided with a deep understanding of complex system behavior and computational proficiency to evaluate innovations in the FEW nexus. This REU Site will focus on food, energy, and water (FEW) management in the Columbia River Basin (CRB), where water is needed to produce hydropower, support large-scale irrigated agriculture, and provide adequate habitat for endangered fish. Students will partner with researchers and data and modeling mentors in an active NSF ColumbiaFEW project to conceptualize, model, and assess how technological and policy innovations impact the FEW system. Over the course of a summer, students will work with faculty, graduate students, and mentors to learn complex systems thinking and systems dynamics simulation skills, engage with FEW stakeholders to learn about real-world FEW issues and management needs, build computational competency by working with project datasets and models, engage in professional development opportunities provided by this program and the WSU Office of Undergraduate Research, and practice communicating their science to their peers, other scientists, and FEW stakeholders. Their summer will culminate in presentations to their cohort members and to the wider WSU summer undergraduate research program. Through immersive workshops, stakeholder engagement, and multi-level mentoring system, students will gain transferrable skills for efficiently analyzing and synthesizing data and training in interpreting and engaging in broad, integrative analyses of complex systems and communicating 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.