A novel approach for conducting transformative science through a professional meeting: the 5th Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology; February 12-15, 2020; Austin, Texas

溪流和河流为人们提供了许多服务，包括清洁饮用水以及商业和娱乐渔业。在城市地区，水生生态系统严重退化，使生态系统服务面临风险。在城市中维持这些服务需要研究人员、管理人员和当地利益相关者分享知识。第五届城市化与河流生态学研讨会（SUSE5）将汇集不同的科学家，工程师，从业者，景观设计师和规划师。他们将分享有关河流生态系统的基本知识。他们将共同制定有效的方法来恢复城市景观中的溪流和河流。SUSE5采用了一种新的专业会议形式，使用德克萨斯州奥斯汀的案例研究来产生对人们有实际好处的行动。目标是促进对城市溪流的理解和管理，并产生有益于人类福祉的成果。SUSE 5的目标是让参与者对城市溪流管理和恢复产生跨学科的全面理解，同时为奥斯汀市制定可操作的管理计划草案。会议组织者将广泛地向通常与水生生态会议无关的团体做广告（例如，土木工程师、社会科学家等）并为来自不同学科和具有不同个人经历的个人提供财政支持。虽然全体演讲者将介绍重要的概念，两个海报会议将提供分享当代研究和管理框架的机会，但四个案例研究将作为与会者交流思想的基础。参与者将通过单学科，跨学科和跨学科小组的进展，通过一个结构化的过程，包括实地考察地面实况计划概念，产生管理计划。辅助活动包括一项社会科学实验，研究多学科协作对解决复杂环境问题的益处，这将增加会议的知识价值。会议组织者将制作一系列手稿和白色文件，详细说明案例研究的结果和SUSE 5所使用的新颖方法的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Streams and rivers provide many services to people, including clean drinking water and commercial and recreational fisheries. In urban areas, aquatic ecosystems have been severely degraded, putting ecosystem services at risk. Maintaining these services in cities requires researchers, managers, and local stakeholders to share knowledge. The 5th Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology (SUSE5) will bring together a diverse group of scientists, engineers, practitioners, landscape architects, and planners. They will share fundamental knowledge about stream ecosystems. Together, they will develop effective approaches for rehabilitating streams and rivers in urban landscapes. SUSE5 applies a new format for a professional meeting that uses case studies in Austin, Texas to generate actions with tangible benefits to people. The goal is to advance understanding and management of urban streams and to generate outcomes that benefit human wellbeing.The goal of SUSE5 is for participants to generate a cross-disciplinary, holistic understanding of urban stream management and rehabilitation while producing actionable draft management plans for the City of Austin. Meeting organizers will advertise broadly to groups not typically associated with aquatic ecology conferences (e.g., civil engineers, social scientists, etc.) and provide financial support to individuals from diverse disciplines and with diverse personal experiences. While plenary speakers will introduce important concepts and two poster sessions will provide opportunities to share contemporary research and management frameworks, four case studies will serve as the foundation for exchanging ideas among attendees. Participants will progress through single-discipline, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary groups to generate management plans through a structured process that includes site visits to ground-truth plan concepts. Ancillary activities including a social science experiment examining the benefits of multidisciplinary collaborations for addressing complex environmental problems will increase the intellectual merit of the meeting. Meeting organizers will produce a series of manuscripts and white papers detailing the outcomes of the case-studies and the effectiveness of the novel approach used by SUSE5.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.