Pan-American Studies Institute (PASI): Adaptive Water-Energy Management in the Arid Americas; La Serena, Chile, 2013

由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国能源部（DOE）联合支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）将于2013年在智利的拉塞雷纳成立。克里斯托弗·斯科特博士（亚利桑那大学）将与来自智利和美洲全球变化研究所的科学家一起加入组委会。该研究所将重点发展一支多学科科学家骨干队伍，他们具有概念理解、技能和工具，以解决水资源（主要是淡水）和能源（电力和生物燃料）之间的相互联系。淡水短缺和能源供应不足的地区特别容易受到全球变化的影响。水和能源之间的相互关系对政策和规划提出了挑战。该PASI将为参与者提供诊断技能以及水和能源联合管理工具，以保持或提高资源利用生产率，同时增强适应成果。重点将放在定制新工具上，如资源和效率清单、分析和计算模型以及利益相关者参与方法。PASI将培训年轻的研究人员、机构人员和非政府组织工作人员。目标是向参与者提供诊断技能以及水和能源联合管理工具，以保持或提高资源利用生产率，同时增强适应成果。本课程将向美国学生介绍上述科目的许多重要技巧。PASI还将加强美洲内部的区域知识网络，以便将适应性管理原则纳入水和能源决策。参与者将获得与决策者互动的模型实践经验。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI), jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in La Serena, Chile, in 2013. Dr. Christopher Scott (University of Arizona) will be joined in the organizing committee by scientists from Chile and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. The institute will focus on developing a cadre of multidisciplinary scientists with conceptual understanding, skills and tools to address the inter-linkage of water resources (primarily freshwater) and energy (electrical power and biofuels). Regions experiencing scarcity of freshwater and inadequate availability of energy are especially vulnerable to global change. The interrelationship between water and energy raises challenges for policy and planning. This PASI will provide participants with diagnostic skills and water and energy co-management tools that maintain or increase resource-use productivity while enhancing adaptation outcomes. Foci will be on tailoring new tools such as resource and efficiency inventories, analytical and computational models, and stakeholder engagement methods. The PASI will train young researchers, agency personnel, and non-governmental organization staff. The objectives are to provide participants with diagnostic skills and water and energy co-management tools that maintain or increase resource-use productivity while enhancing adaptation outcomes.This PASI will introduce U.S. students to many important techniques in the above subjects. The PASI will also strengthen a regional knowledge network within the Americas for the inclusion of adaptive management principles in water and energy decision-making. Participants will gain hands-on experience working with models in interaction with decision-makers.