US-Chile Planning Visit: Interdisciplinary Study of Water Management in an Arid Basin

这项美国-智利规划访问提案将支持来自美国的五名高级研究人员和三名研究生，在康奈尔大学特里·乔丹博士的指导下，计划访问智利。 该项目汇集了来自智利和美国的地球科学家，经济学家和工程师的跨学科团队，美国调查人员将与智利Pontificia Universidad Católica，Universidad del Desarollo和Universidad Católica del Norte的同事密切合作。 研究人员将制定一项计划，调查在不断变化的自然环境中以及在人类取水压力增加的情况下的水可持续性。 该团队将访问智利北方的Calamana盆地，以开发概念，量化不确定性和影响，并模拟水管理选择。 这项研究还将提供一个系统分析，将适用于其他半干旱到干旱地区，如美国西南部的访问将涉及五名美国高级研究人员，两名是女性，三名研究生。 它有可能在美国和智利研究人员之间产生可持续发展科学的长期跨学科合作，并进一步加深我们对水管理选择的理解。

This U.S - Chile Planning Visit proposal will support five senior researchers and three graduate students from the U.S., under the direction of Dr. Terry Jordan of Cornell University, on a planning visit to Chile. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team of geoscientists, economists, and engineers from Chile and the U.S. The U.S. investigators will collaborate intensively with colleagues from Pontificia Universidad Católica, Universidad del Desarollo, and Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile. Researchers will develop a plan to investigate water sustainability in a changing natural environment and under increased pressure from human withdrawals. The team will visit the Calamana Basin in Northern Chile to develop concepts, quantify uncertainties and impacts, and model water management choices. This research would also provide a systems analysis that would be applicable for other semi-arid to arid regions such as southwest U.S. The visit will involve five senior U.S. researchers, two who are female, and three graduate students. It has the potential to generate long-term interdisciplinary collaborations in sustainability science between U.S. and Chilean researchers and further our understanding of water management choices.