US-Egypt Workshop: Broadening the Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Water Resources Management: Coping with the Challenges of Large River Basins, Cairo, December, 2008

这个项目是为一个名为？美国-埃及关于扩大数字基础设施在水资源管理中的作用以应对大流域挑战？的研讨会而进行的。将于2008年12月29日至2009年1月2日在埃及开罗举行。美国组织者是爱荷华州爱荷华市爱荷华州大学爱荷华州水力学研究所的玛丽安·穆斯特博士。埃及的联合组织者是开罗大学的Tarek Salaheldin博士和埃及Shoubra El-Kheima国家水研究中心的Rasha El-Kholy博士。几十年来，水资源决策者一直指出，需要一种新的管理模式，其基础是健全的科学，无缝整合复杂流域过程及其相互作用的跨学科数据和模拟模型。最近快节奏的科学和工程进步，加上信息和通信技术的进步，有望将所需的范例变为现实。拟议中的讲习班是一个极好且及时的机会，让来自IIHR-水科学与工程研究所(IIHR)、爱荷华大学和埃及国家水研究中心(NWRC)的研究人员一起分享、集思广益并规划联合工作，以应对共同的挑战：建立基于网络基础设施的平台和网络，为超越管辖范围的大流域水资源决策提供科学依据。该项目将支持国际人权研究所的7名研究人员、2名青年研究人员和4名博士生，让他们通过科学讨论和协作规划进行为期一周的互动。智力优势：拟议的能力建设和合作研讨会将使美国和埃及的研究人员和教育工作者之间进行直接的第一手互动，这些研究人员和教育工作者率先开发和实施基于网络基础设施的大流域环境观测站和网络。讲习班将具有变革性，在尽可能大的范围内解决分水岭问题，使人们能够在任何较小规模的封闭过程中对水-人类动态的理解作出推断和取得进展。拟议讲习班的直接好处包括：a)为有意为流域规模的环境观测站开发网络基础设施的美国和埃及的30名研究人员和学生提供独特的第一手经验和直接互动；b)为今后提交的联合提案编写具体的合作项目，并为大流域水科学和工程网络基础设施方面的首次国际合作奠定基础；c)通过讲习班出版物和专门网站，综合和传播在跨越国家和国界的大流域内实施基于网络基础设施的平台的现状和未来的发展需求。更广泛的影响：研讨会促进的科学和教育交流将有助于美国大学水文科学促进会(CUAHSI)和水与环境研究系统(WATERS)网络在跨越行政和政治边界的大型流域开发和实施环境和水文网络基础设施的努力。通过美国科学家和学生与他们的外国同行之间的直接对话，将获得支持这些努力目标的实用信息，特别是在增加利益攸关方(特别是妇女)参与决策过程的领域。接触进行网络基础设施建设的领导小组的丰富经验会促进参与者的进步吗？该中心将提供专业知识和专门知识，并将形成对其研究领域的全球视角，并通过国际合作为专业成长和建立网络提供机会。

0827148MusteThis project is for a workshop titled ?US-Egypt Workshop on Broadening the Role of Cydberinfrastructure in Water Resources Management Coping with the Challenges of Large river Basins? to be held in Cairo, Egypt, December 29, 2008 to January 2, 2009. The U.S organizer is Dr. Marian Muste, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. The Egyptian co-organizers are Dr. Tarek Salaheldin, Cairo University, and Dr. Rasha El-Kholy, National Water Research Center, Shoubra El-Kheima, Egypt. For several decades, water resources decision-makers have indicated the need for a new management paradigm based on sound science seamlessly integrating cross-disciplinary data and simulation models for complex watershed processes and their interaction. Recent fast-paced scientific and engineering advancements in concert with those in information and communication technologies promise to bring the needed paradigm to reality. The proposed workshop is an excellent and timely opportunity to bring together researchers from IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (IIHR), The University of Iowa and the National Water Research Center (NWRC) in Egypt for sharing, brainstorming, and planning joint work on a common challenge: building cyberinfrastructure-based platforms and networks for providing the scientific basis for decision-making about water resources in large river basins transcending jurisdiction boundaries. The project would support 7 researchers, 2 young investigators and 4 PhD students from IIHR, engaging them in a week-long interaction through scientific discussions and collaborative planning. Intellectual Merit: The proposed capacity building and collaboration workshop will enable a direct, first-hand interaction between U.S. and Egyptian researchers and educators pioneering the development and implementation of cyberinfrastructure-based environmental observatories and networks for large river basins. The workshop will be transformative, addressing watershed problems at their largest possible scale, allowing inferences and advances in understanding the water-human dynamics at any of the smaller-scale enclosed processes. Among the direct benefits of the proposed workshop are to: a) provide a unique first-hand experience and direct interactions between 30 researchers and students from U.S. and Egypt interested in developing cyberinfrastructure for watershed-scale environmental observatories; b) prepare specific collaborative items for future submission of joint proposals and establish the foundation for the first international collaboration in cyberinfrastructure for water science and engineering in large river basins; c) synthesize and disseminate the current status and future developmental needs for the implementation of cyberinfrastructure-based platforms in large river basins transcending state and national boundaries through a Workshop publication and a dedicated website. Broader Impact: The scientific and educational exchange facilitated by the workshop will contribute to U.S. efforts by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences Inc, (CUAHSI) and the Water and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network for the development and implementation of environmental and hydrologic cyberinfrastructure in large-scale basins transcending administrative and political boundaries. Through direct dialogue between U.S. scientists and students and their foreign counterparts, practicable information will be obtained that will support the goals of these efforts, especially in the areas of increasing the stakeholder participation (particularly women) in the decision making process. Exposure to the extensive experience of the leading groups conducting cyberinfrastructure will advance the participants? knowledge and expertise, and will engender a global perspective of their area of study, as well as provide opportunities for professional growth and networking through international collaboration.