Environmental Sustainability Systems Analysis Including Multiple Objective and Fixed Cost Optimization of Management Decisions with Watershed and Groundwater Applications

康奈尔大学环境可持续性系统分析，包括流域和地下水应用管理决策的多目标和固定成本优化本提案研究旨在开发改进的和计算效率更高的分析方法，可用于帮助确定最佳管理实践（BMPs）的最佳组合。本文的研究方法和分析将重点放在纽约市淡水水源的坎农斯维尔流域的非点源污染控制上。这一建议的知识价值来自于一个非常明显的分水岭。PI和她的团队完全有资格执行这个雄心勃勃的项目。优化例程是他们以前工作的延伸，可能提供加速和降低管理程序成本的工具，这个优秀提案的主要优势之一是时间框架在未来（2078年）显着延长，因此考虑到长期趋势。考虑到需要在全国范围内应用这些模型（并且很可能在水网络中做出重大努力），开发和扩展他们的建模方法的努力很容易被证明是合理的。作为提案的坎农斯维尔流域动态建模也将为气候变化影响该地区的未来努力提供一个试验台。随着时间的推移，水输入功能（降雨）可能会发生变化，植被覆盖也可能发生变化。因此，我可以设想这种建模工作将随着时间的推移而发展，就像它应该的那样。特别是Cannonsville流域地区可以提供“模型”流域进行研究，这样当模型导出到其他地区时，就可以优化水质监测（即采用最少的监测点数量），最大限度地获得流域建模所需的数据。如果这个提议只在分水岭上成功，那么它就是成功的。该提案的更广泛影响部分也很好，可以作为其他人的榜样。

ABSTRACTCBET- 0756575Shoemaker, ChristineCornell UniversityEnvironmental Sustainability Systems Analysis Including MultipleObjective and Fixed Cost Optimization of Management Decisions withWatershed and Groundwater ApplicationsThis proposal study is to develop improved and computationally more efficient analysis methods that can be used to help identify the best combinations of best management practices (BMPs). The methods and analysis will focus on the control of non-point source pollution of Cannonsville watershed which provides freshwater supply to New York City. The intellectual merit of this proposal is derived from a very well characterized watershed. The PI and her group are well-qualified to carry out this ambitious project. The optimization routines are extensions of their previous work and may provide tools that speed up and reduce the cost of management procedures one of the major strengths of this excellent proposal is that the time frame extends significantly in the future (2078) so that long term trends are taken into account. The efforts to develop and extend their modeling approach are easily justified considering the need to apply such models nationwide (and likely a major effort in the Water Network). The dynamic modeling of Cannonsville watershed as proposal will also provide a test bed for future efforts as climate change affects the region. It is possible that with time the water input functions (rain) will change as may the vegetative cover. Therefore, I could envision that this modeling effort will evolve with time, as it should. In particular, the Cannonsville watershed area might provide the 'model' watershed to study so that when the model is exported to other area, the water quality monitoring can be optimized (that is the minimum number of monitoring sites employed) to maximize the data necessary for watershed modeling. If this proposal is only successful for this on watershed then it will be a success. The section of broader impacts of the proposal is also excellent and could serve a model for others.