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

这个由美国国家科学基金会和能源部（DOE）共同支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）将于2013年在智利拉塞雷纳举行。 来自智利和美洲全球变化研究所的科学家将与Christopher Scott博士（亚利桑那大学）一起参加组织委员会。 该研究所将侧重于培养一批多学科科学家，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。 淡水稀缺和能源供应不足的区域特别容易受到全球变化的影响。 水与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共同管理工具，以保持或提高资源使用生产力，同时加强适应成果。 重点将放在调整新的工具上，如资源和效率清单、分析和计算模型以及利益攸关方参与的方法。 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。 目标是为参与者提供诊断技能和水和能源共同管理工具，以保持或提高资源使用生产力，同时加强适应成果。该PASI将向美国学生介绍上述科目中的许多重要技术。 该倡议还将加强美洲内的区域知识网络，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工作的实践经验。

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.