U.S.-Costa Rican Workshop: Interdisciplinary workgroup on water sustainability in the Tempisque Basin; Palo Verde NP, Costa Rica, April 2012

在这个国际合作项目中，来自美国和哥斯达黎加的研究人员将组建一个国际团队，以解决太平洋中美洲地区的水资源利用问题，特别是在哥斯达黎加西北部的Tempisque盆地。 该项目采用跨学科的方法，将水文学与生态学和社会经济学相结合，努力帮助提高在具有重要保护意义的严格管制的热带流域的湿地管理知识。 该团队将首先确定共同的目标和愿景，并确定要解决的关键研究问题，以了解这个复杂的系统是如何工作的。 一个顶点国际研讨会将聚集研究人员和利益相关者共同建立一个概念系统模型，将支持框架的令人信服的假设，为进一步的研究建议的发展。 参与研究的研究人员将来自佛罗里达大学、亚利桑那州立大学、杜克大学热带研究组织（OTS）、哥斯达黎加大学（UCR）和哥斯达黎加国立大学（UNA）。 计划开展的活动包括：（1）对哥斯达黎加西北部的Tempisque/Bebedero河流域的水供应和需求的可持续性进行深入的定量分析;（2）通过经验数据和利益攸关方投入的整合以及基于模型的情景分析，探讨气候变化如何通过水供应、土地利用和生物多样性的变化影响生态系统服务，以及（3）将该流域作为太平洋中美洲的一个代表性地点，调查从政策到实践可以采取哪些行动，以帮助在未来几年保持或改善水的可用性和生态系统服务。该项目的活动应有助于为更好地了解水的动态使用和供应情况以及流域可持续性的潜在政策解决方案奠定基础。 拟议的活动和任何更大规模的后续活动的成果可以在信息和理解方面促进地方和全球社会利益，这是经济增长、农业生产力和生物多样性保护的关键。 将通过知识交流活动向科学界和广大公众传播成果和结果。 易于准备的模型场景有可能极大地促进利益相关者参与识别研究差距和规划问题的过程。 美国和哥斯达黎加的学生和年轻研究人员将参与这项工作。 青年研究人员参与国际合作活动是OISE的一个主要目标。

In this international collaborative project researchers from the U.S. and Costa Rica will assemble an international team to address issues regarding water use in the Pacific Mesoamerican region, specifically in the Tempisque basin in northwestern Costa Rica. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates hydrology with ecology and socio-economics, this project strives to help advance knowledge of wetland management in a heavily regulated tropical catchment with important conservation interest. The team will first define common goals and vision and identify the key research questions to be addressed in order to understand how this complex system works. A capstone international workshop will then gather researchers and stakeholders to collectively build a conceptual system model that will support the framing of compelling hypotheses for further research proposal development. The researchers involved will come from the University of Florida, Arizona State University, the Duke-based Organization of Tropical Studies (OTS), Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) and Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA). Among the activities to be planned for are (1) an in-depth quantitative analysis of the sustainability of water supply and demand in the Rio Tempisque/Bebedero basin in NW Costa Rica; (2) an exploration of how climate change may affect ecosystem services through changes in water availability, land use and biodiversity through empirical data and stakeholder input integration and model-based scenarios analysis, and (3) use of the basin as a representative site of Pacific Mesoamerica to investigate what actions may be taken, from policy to practice, to help maintain or improve water availability and ecosystem services in future years. The activities of this project should help lay the foundation for a better understanding of dynamic water use and availability and potential policy solutions for watershed sustainability. Outcomes from the proposed activities and any larger subsequent activities can contribute to both local and global societal benefits in terms of information and understanding that are key to economic growth, agricultural productivity, and biodiversity conservation. Results and outcomes will be disseminated to the scientific community and to the wider public through knowledge exchange activities. Easily prepared model scenarios have the potential to greatly facilitate the involvement of stakeholders in the process of identifying research gaps and planning issues. US and Costa Rican students and young researchers will be included in this effort. Involvement of junior researchers in collaborative international activities is a major goal of OISE.