Collaborative Research: IRES Track III: Partnerships Along the Headwaters of the Americas for Young Scientists Program

世界上许多城镇都依赖冰川、积雪和高海拔流域地下水的水，这些水被称为水源。据预测，这些源头的供水将随着气候变化而发生变化。这些变化威胁到下游社区的生存能力，这些社区依赖于这些变化的供水进行农业和能源生产等活动。我们需要一支多元化的、全球参与的劳动力队伍来研究水资源的这些变化。“美洲源头伙伴关系青年科学家项目”以拉丁美洲为重点，培训来自美国各地的研究生研究这些复杂的水管理问题，以便我们能够确保美洲各地依赖水源的社区未来的生存能力。该项目将通过向研究生提供来自拉丁美洲各地知名科学家的研究指导和指导来实现这一点。该项目将与现有的美国国家科学基金会资助的研究协调网络（RCN）建立协同效应，该网络已经产生了一个跨学科的合作者团队，成员来自从加拿大阿尔伯塔到智利巴塔哥尼亚的6个国家和12个组织。该课程将引导学生在拉丁美洲不同的水源依赖社区设计自己的研究时，解决跨学科，国际和组织间的水资源挑战。途径项目的学生和他们的导师将使我们了解哪些策略可以最好地使社区应对可用水资源的变化。研究地点位于哥斯达黎加、厄瓜多尔、智利、阿根廷和巴西。研究设计过程包括六个步骤：(1)准备与规划；(2)赴智利参加为期两周的暑期学校；(3)在指定地点之一进行国际研究的经验；(4)回国后继续参与和指导；(5)最后的活动，包括口头、在线的体验报告；(6)继续参与未来的RCN活动。根据学生的时间安排，国际研究经历将持续两到四个月。从项目的接受点到最终的活动，学生将参与18个月的衔接课程。在此过程结束时，该项目将培养具有科学和文化知识的水资源专业人员，以便在各种水源和社区有效工作。通过这个项目，这些学生最终将提高美国高等教育机构的研究和推广能力，具备在国际环境中有效工作的科学和文化素养。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）和促进竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Many towns and cities worldwide rely on water from glaciers, snowpack, and groundwater in watersheds at high elevations, called headwaters. Water supplies from these types of headwaters are predicted to shift with climate change. These shifts threaten the viability of downstream communities that rely on these changing water supplies for activities such as agriculture and energy production. We need a diverse and globally engaged workforce to study these changes in water resources. Focusing on Latin America, this Partnerships Along the Headwaters of the Americas for Young Scientists Program trains graduate students from across the United States to study these complex water management problems so that we may ensure the viability of headwater-dependent communities across the Americas into the future. This program will do this by providing graduate students with research guidance and mentorship from established scientists working across Latin America. The program will build synergies with an existing NSF funded research coordination network (RCN), which has produced an interdisciplinary team of collaborators from six countries and twelve organizations stretching from Alberta, Canada to Patagonia, Chile. This program will guide students to address interdisciplinary, international and interorganizational water resources challenges as they design their own research studies within diverse headwater-dependent communities across Latin America. Pathways students and their mentors will allow us to understand what strategies may best allow communities to respond to changes in water availability. Study sites are located in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. The research design process includes six steps: (1) Preparation and planning; (2) A two week summer-school in Chile; (3) An international research experience at one of the designated sites; (4) Continued engagement and mentoring upon return to the US; (5) A culminating event with oral, online presentations on the experiences; and (6) Continued engagement in future RCN activities. The international research experience will be two to four months in duration depending on the student’s timeline. From the point of acceptance in the program through the culminating event, students will be engaged in the Pathways Program for 18 months. By the end of this process, this program will have produced water resources professionals with the scientific and cultural know-how to work effectively in a variety of headwater and communities. Through this program, these students will ultimately grow research and outreach capacity at US institutions of higher education with the scientific and cultural sophistication to work effectively in international settings.This project is jointly funded by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.