IRES: US-MEXICO Border Water & Environmental Sustainability Training (UMB-WEST)

这个为期三年的国际学生研究经验项目将为美国本科生和研究生提供水资源管理方面的国际合作研究经验。在亚利桑那州立大学的Enrique R. Vivoni和几个美国和墨西哥研究伙伴的联合指导下，参与者将花四个星期的时间在亚利桑那州和索诺拉的美墨边境地区调查水文科学。学生将收集对水资源管理有用的实地水文测量数据，考察当地水资源基础设施，与当地决策者会面，并将数据分析技术应用于水文建模经验。每年，学生们将进行为期两周的实地活动，在此期间，他们将部署仪器，进行实地采样，参观水基础设施项目，并与当地水管理人员进行互动。这些活动将在索诺拉河流域和邻近地区进行。在这三年的每一年里，参与者将包括大约两名研究生和大约八名本科生，每年总共有十名参与者。该项目将培训学生如何通过现场仪器和遥感图像测量水文过程，并向他们展示如何将水文信息和模型输出转化为对当地水资源管理者有用和相关的水资源信息。该项目的目标是培养能够适当解决墨西哥和美国跨境水管理问题的美国科学家和工程师。该IRES计划的更广泛影响包括促进国际研究合作；本科生与研究生、美国教师和外国教师共同参与积极的研究环境；获取水资源的决策者；为代表性不足的群体提供实地研究经验，这将有助于提高这些学生在科学研究生课程中的成功程度。该项目还将进一步促进美国和墨西哥科学家之间的研究合作。

This three-year International Research Experiences for Students project will provide US undergraduate students and graduate students with an international collaborative research experience in water resources management. Under the joint mentorship of Enrique R. Vivoni of Arizona State University and several U.S. and Mexican research partners, participants will spend four summer weeks investigating hydrologic science in the US-Mexico Border regions of Arizona and Sonora. Students will collect field hydrologic measurements useful for water resources management, examine local water resources infrastructure, meet with local decision makers, and apply data analysis techniques to hydrologic modeling experiences. Each year, students will conduct a two-week field campaign during which they deploy instrumentation, conduct field sampling, visit water infrastructure projects, and interact with local water managers. These activities will be conducted in the Sonora River basin and neighboring regions. In each of the three years the participant cohorts will include approximately two graduate students and approximately eight undergraduate students, for a total of ten participants per year. The program will train students how to measure hydrologic processes through field instrumentation and remote sensing imagery, and it will show them how to translate hydrologic information and model outputs into water resources information that is useful and relevant to local water managers. The goal of this project is to develop US scientists and engineers who can appropriately address cross-border water management problems in Mexico and the US.Among the broader impacts of this IRES program are the promotion of international research collaborations; involvement of undergraduates in an active research environment with graduate students, US faculty, and foreign faculty; access to water resources decision-makers; and field research experiences for underrepresented groups that should help increase the success of these students in graduate programs in the sciences. The project will also further research collaborations between U.S. and Mexican scientists.