Conference: Student and Early Career Participation for the Solving Water Availability Challenges through an Interdisciplinary Framework Chapman Conference

该奖项提供资金，以支持职业生涯早期的研究人员参加美国地球物理联盟(AGU)查普曼会议，该会议的标题是“综合评估：通过跨学科框架解决水资源供应挑战”。早期职业科学家将：(1)通过演讲和讨论获得关于当前挑战和领先研究的信息，(2)通过参加会议和研讨会向寻求合作的专家或感兴趣的研究人员介绍，以及(3)更好地了解如何扩大他们的研究，以纳入综合目标和目的，以应对当前的跨学科挑战。这次会议产生的讨论、结果、工作组或关系将直接影响综合水资源评估的未来，以及如何在美国和世界各地应对水资源挑战。这次会议旨在探索不同的观点、假设、数据类型和研究方法，以促进对水资源可获得性的综合评估，并推动科学状况向前发展。本次会议将概述当前的挑战、最新进展，以及改进综合评估和跨学科科学以解决水资源可用性研究的途径。尽管水的可获得性本身就很复杂，但历史上一直从狭隘的学科角度研究水文循环，并将其与社会背景隔绝开来。本次会议旨在促进研究人员、实践者和学科专家之间的讨论，以推动跨学科合作。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 award provides funding to support participation of early-career researchers in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference titled, “Integrated Assessments: Solving Water Availability Challenges through an Interdisciplinary Framework.” Early career scientists will: (1) get information via presentations and discussions about current challenges and leading research, (2) get introduced to experts or interested researchers seeking collaborations through participation in sessions and workshops, and (3) achieve a better understanding of how to broaden their research to incorporate integrated goals and objectives to contribute towards current interdisciplinary challenges. Discussions, outcomes, and working groups or relationships that result from this conference will directly impact the future of integrated water availability assessments and how water resource challenges are addressed throughout the U.S. and around the world. The conference aims to explore divergent views, assumptions, data types, and research methods to facilitate integrated assessments of water availability and move the state of the science forward. This conference will provide an overview of current challenges, recent progress, and pathways toward the improvement of integrated assessments and interdisciplinary science to address water availability research. Despite the inherent complexity of water availability, the hydrologic cycle has historically been studied from narrow disciplinary perspectives and isolated from societal context. This conference is structured to facilitate discussion between researchers, practitioners, and disciplinary experts to propel interdisciplinary collaboration forward.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.