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.

淡水对于加拿大的弹性经济发展，人类和生态系统健康以及社区的可持续性至关重要，尤其是在草原省的农村地区，水稀缺和有限的地表水选择是现实的。包括资源提取和改进以及农业生产在内的经济部门容易受到极端的淡水事件（EFWE），例如洪水和干旱。根据不确定性，年度气候变化和全球变化事件，创建增强的方法来计划和预测EFWE，对于面向弹性的流域管理至关重要。这项研究计划符合我团队的研究成就和USASK签名优势，重点是针对流域管理（质量和数量）的优化工程解决方案，尤其是在农村和农业领域。我的团队在流域量表水文学和水源保护，开发适当的技术解决方案方面具有专业知识，以解决工业和农业水质的影响，并收集和实施社区对EFWE的反应，以开发更好的工程解决方案和基础设施。这项研究的总体目标是为对分水岭管理建立韧性的高影响力实践的科学和工程理解和发展做出贡献。通过这样做，我们可以减少EFWE的脆弱性，并增强循证政策，监管变更和工程标准。 这项研究计划的长期目标是开发可靠，强大的决策分析工具，并在分水岭规模上为EFWE的基于证据的政策提供支持。研究计划包括未来五年（2020-2025）的几个可实现的短期目标：1。将EFWE预测与大草原行业和社区的高优先级别的管理挑战相关，并确定并提供了识别并提供了增强高风险和脆弱基础设施的恢复能力的见解。分散的水处理选择，反映了不断变化的流域管理需求和EFWE在农村和农业地区的影响； 4.累积累积需求并影响评估方法，以进行战略分水岭管理和分析与EFWE对大草原农村和农业地区弹性的影响有关。研究计划得到了卓越的研究设施和HQP的支持，并且位于全球水安全研究所（CFREF和CERC启用）和USASK的全球水位期货团队创建的功能非常高的协作研究环境中。通过这项创新且高影响力的研究，高风险的基础设施，行业和社区将拥有新的预测工具和新颖的工程解决方案，以解决EFWE和分水岭管理。