Workshop: The Cadillac Desert 25 years later, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

2011年将是《凯迪拉克沙漠：美国西部及其消失的水源》（1986年，企鹅出版社）出版25周年。在这本书中，Reisner剖析了美国西部大型水利工程的政治、经济和生态上的愚蠢，并指出我们所知道的西部（美国）文明将会崩溃，原因是糟糕的水管理——大型水库的沉积、城市地区的水资源短缺和土壤盐碱化。Reisner的许多证据都是新闻报道（例如，专家意见）。我们为两个研讨会寻求资金，旨在确定适当的科学数据和分析工具，以严格评估Reisner的新闻启示。具体来说，我们将召开两次组织研讨会，以实现两个目标：1)整理数据，确定严格的分析方法，有助于对西部大型水利项目的水文、地貌、经济、农业和生态健康进行区域综合；2)撰写一篇政策论坛文章，总结现有数据集，“最重要的是确定数据缺口和研究需求，以完成这一区域综合。”这次规划研讨会将在国家生态分析与综合中心举行，并将成为国家生态分析与综合中心和早期的约翰·韦斯利·鲍威尔综合科学中心（一个基于NCEAS精神设计的早期美国地质勘探局智囊团）未来工作组的基础。我们的研讨会参加者名单包括水文学家、地质学家、生态学家、农业科学家、经济学家和律师（见下文名单）。因此，我们希望在科学和政策多个领域的投入下，为拟议的区域综合制定一项议程。更广泛的影响“计划中的讲习班将导致对可公开访问的数据库的综合，这些数据库可用于未来分析美国西部填海工程的广泛影响。B -

Intellectual Merit"The year 2011 will mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1986, Penguin Books). In this book Reisner dissects the politics, economics and ecological folly of large water projects in the American West and suggests that Western (US) civilization as we know it will collapse due to ailing water management"sedimentation within large reservoirs, water shortages in urban areas and soil salinity reclaimed agricultural bread baskets. Much of Reisner's evidence is journalistic (e.g., expert opinion). We seek funding for a pair of workshops aimed at identifying the appropriate scientific data and analytical tools necessary for rigorously evaluating Reisner's journalistic apocalypses.Specifically, we will convene two organizational workshops in which we accomplish two goals: 1) collating data & identifying rigorous analytic approaches that would contribute to a regional synthesis of the hydrologic, geomorphic, economic, agricultural and ecological health of large Western water projects, and 2) writing a policy forum piece summarizing existing datasets"and most importantly identifying data gaps and research needs to complete this regional synthesis. This planning workshop will be held at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, and will form the basis for future working groups at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis and the incipient John Wesley Powell Center for Integrated Science (an incipient USGS think tank being designed in the spirit of NCEAS). Our roster of workshop participants includes hydrologists, geologists, ecologists, agricultural scientists, economists and lawyers (see Roster below). Thus, we hope to develop an agenda for the proposed regional synthesis with input from multiple fields of science and policy.Broader Impacts"The planned workshops would lead to synthesis of publicly accessible databases that could be used in future analyses of the broad scale impacts of reclamation in the Western US.B-