Resilience-Oriented Watershed and Extreme Freshwater Events Management, Analysis, and Multi-Criteria Modelling

面向弹性的流域和极端淡水事件管理、分析和多标准建模

• 批准号: RGPIN-2020-04014
• 负责人: McMartin, Dena
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: University of Lethbridge
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=739621
• 关键词: Resilience; Oriented; Watershed; Extreme; Freshwater

Freshwater is essential for resilient economic development, human and ecosystem health, and community sustainability across Canada, and particularly in rural areas of the Prairie provinces where water scarcity and limited access to surface water options are reality. Economic sectors including resource extraction and refinement, and agricultural production are vulnerable to extreme freshwater events (EFWE), such as floods and droughts. Creating enhanced methods to plan for and predict EFWE in light of uncertainty, intra-annual climate variation, and global change events is essential for resiliency-oriented watershed management. This program of research aligns with my team's research achievements and USask signature strengths focusing on optimized engineering solutions for watershed management (quality and quantity), particularly in rural and agricultural areas. My team has expertise in watershed scale hydrology and source water protection, development of appropriate technology solutions to address industrial and agricultural water quality impacts, and collection and implementation of community responses to EFWE to develop better engineered solutions and infrastructure. The overarching goal of this research is to contribute to the scientific and engineering understanding and development of high impact practices for building resilience into watershed management. By doing so, we can reduce vulnerability to EFWE and enhance evidence-based policies, regulatory change and engineering standards. The long-term objective of this program of research is to develop reliable and robust decision analysis tools and support for evidence-based policy for EFWEs at the watershed scale. The program of research includes several achievable short-term objectives for the next five years (2020-2025): 1.Incorporating EFWE projections into high priority watershed management challenges for Prairies industries and communities 2.Identifying and providing insights for enhanced resiliency of at-risk and vulnerable infrastructure, industries, and communities at the watershed scale 3.Evaluating, optimizing, and field-testing modular and decentralized water treatment options that reflect changing watershed management needs and EFWE impacts in rural and agricultural areas; 4.Incorporating cumulative needs and impacts assessments methods to strategic watershed management and analysis relating to EFWE effects on resiliency of rural and agricultural areas on the Prairies. The program of research is supported by both exceptional research facilities and HQP, and is situated within the context of an extremely high functioning collaborative research environment created by the Global Institute of Water Security (CFREF and CERC enabled) and Global Water Futures teams at USask. Through this innovative and high impact research, at-risk infrastructure, industries and communities will have new predictive tools and novel engineering solutions to address EFWE and watershed management.

淡水对整个加拿大的经济发展、人类和生态系统健康以及社区的可持续性至关重要，特别是在大草原省份的农村地区，那里的缺水和获取地表水的机会有限是现实。包括资源开采和提炼以及农业生产在内的经济部门容易受到洪水和干旱等极端淡水事件的影响。根据不确定性、年内气候变化和全球变化事件，创建改进的方法来规划和预测EFWE，对于以弹性为导向的流域管理至关重要。这项研究计划与我的团队的研究成果和USASK的标志性优势相一致，专注于流域管理(质量和数量)的优化工程解决方案，特别是在农村和农业地区。我的团队在流域尺度的水文和水源保护、开发适当的技术解决方案以应对工业和农业水质影响、收集和实施社区对EFWE的响应以开发更好的工程解决方案和基础设施方面拥有专业知识。这项研究的总体目标是促进科学和工程上的理解和发展高影响力的做法，以便将复原力建设到流域管理中。通过这样做，我们可以减少对EFWE的脆弱性，并加强基于证据的政策、监管改革和工程标准。这项研究计划的长期目标是开发可靠和强大的决策分析工具，并支持分水岭规模的EFWE的循证政策。该研究计划包括未来五年(2020-2025年)的几个可实现的短期目标：1.将EFWE预测纳入草原行业和社区的高度优先流域管理挑战2.确定并提供见解，以增强流域尺度上处于风险和脆弱的基础设施、行业和社区的复原力3.评估、优化和现场测试模块化和分散式水处理方案，反映不断变化的流域管理需求和EFWE对农村和农业地区的影响；4.将累积需求和影响评估方法纳入战略性流域管理，并分析与EFWE对农村和农业地区复原力的影响。该研究项目得到了卓越的研究机构和总部基地的支持，并处于由全球水安全研究所(CFREF和CERC启用)和USASK的全球水期货团队创建的极高功能的协作研究环境中。通过这项创新和高影响力的研究，处于风险中的基础设施、行业和社区将拥有新的预测工具和新的工程解决方案，以解决EFWE和流域管理问题。