2023 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）任命威廉·安德雷格博士为2023年艾伦·沃特曼奖的三位获奖者之一。该奖项是NSF的最高荣誉，在提名当年的12月31日之前，表彰40岁或以下或获得博士学位不超过10年的杰出研究人员。除奖章外，获奖者还将获得100万美元的资助，为期五年，用于在获奖者选择的机构进行科学研究或高级学习。William“Bill”Anderegg博士是威尔克斯气候科学与政策中心主任，犹他大学生物科学学院副教授，因其在生态和气候变化研究方面的杰出贡献而获得认可。他的新颖研究采用多学科的重点来解决当今美国和世界面临的最大环境挑战。安德莱格博士关于白杨林的里程碑式论文将干旱死亡的风险与树木的基本生理机能，即血管功能的阈值丧失联系起来。他展示了森林的生理和生态组成部分，如水运策略的多样性，如何决定森林对气候压力的适应能力。他领导了一个由杰出研究人员组成的多学科团队，在2020年为森林气候减缓提供了一个新的框架，并在2022年对21世纪的地球森林进行了前所未有的全面风险分析。他的工作推进了对驱动植物对干旱敏感的机制的基本理解，与过去二十年在美国西部（即“特大干旱”）广泛发生的树木死亡事件有明确的联系。他的工作阐明了生物多样性对区域和全球水资源有限条件下森林生态系统可持续功能的重要性，对促进对气候变化的理解和发展森林生态系统的可持续性实践至关重要。在他的科学生涯中，Anderegg博士获得了许多NSF奖项，包括2021年的NSF career奖。他还获得过美国国家海洋和大气管理局气候与全球变化博士后奖学金、美国地球物理联合会全球环境变化早期职业奖和新植物学家坦斯利奖章。Anderegg博士将他的研究与本科和研究生教育、研究指导和专业发展紧密结合。他通过积极招聘、教学和培训历史上被排斥的群体成员，表现出了对增加STEM多样性、公平性和包容性的坚定承诺。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。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Dr. William Anderegg as one of the three 2023 recipients of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is NSF's highest honor and recognizes an outstanding researcher who is 40 years or younger or not more than 10 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree, by December 31 of the year of the nomination. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a $1 million grant over five years to support scientific research or advanced study at the institution of the recipient's choice. Dr. William “Bill” Anderegg, Director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah is recognized for his outstanding contributions to ecological and climate change research. His novel research uses a multi-disciplinary focus to address the greatest environmental challenges facing the U.S. and the world today. Dr. Anderegg’s landmark papers on aspen forests linked the risk of drought mortality with fundamental tree physiology, the threshold loss of vascular function. He showed how physiological and ecological components of forests, such as diversity of water-transport strategies, determine forest resilience to climate stresses. He led a multi-disciplinary team of distinguished researchers to provide a new framework for forest climate mitigation in 2020 and followed up with an unprecedented and comprehensive risk analysis for the Earth’s forests over the 21st century in 2022. His work advances the basic understanding of mechanisms driving plant sensitivity to drought, with clear links to widespread tree-mortality events of the last two decades across the Western U.S. (i.e., the “megadrought”). His work elucidates the importance of biodiversity to the sustainable functioning of forest ecosystems under water-limited conditions regionally and globally and is critical to advancing the understanding of climate change and developing sustainability practices for forest ecosystems.Throughout his scientific career, Dr. Anderegg has received numerous NSF awards, including an NSF CAREER grant in 2021. He was also a recipient of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship, the American Geophysical Union’s Global Environmental Change Early Career Award, and the New Phytologist Tansley Medal. Dr. Anderegg intimately integrates his research with undergraduate and graduate education, research mentorship and professional development. He has demonstrated a strong commitment to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM through his active recruitment, teaching, and training of members of historically excluded groups.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.