SEES Fellows: Engineering a carrying capacity framework for sustainable management of natural resources

在NSF科学，工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员计划）的这个奖项中，来自新英格兰大学的Carrie Byron博士将设计新的资源可持续管理工具，并将使用承载能力方法研究耦合的人类-自然系统之间的协同作用。 该奖项由地球科学理事会和社会、行为和经济科学理事会支持，拟开展的工作将：（1）调查生态和社会承载能力的量化方法;（2）调查生态和经济系统之间的反馈;（3）研究调节生态和社会承载能力的机制;（4）研究生态和社会承载能力。（4）探讨承载力概念能否用于促进沿海生态系统自然资源的可持续管理。 拜伦博士将与新英格兰大学海洋科学中心的詹姆斯·苏利科夫斯基教授和伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的迪·金博士合作，在罗德岛的纳拉甘塞特湾和缅因州的科布斯库克湾进行研究。以及罗得岛大学海洋事务系的Tracey道尔顿教授和缅因州大学海洋科学学院的盖勒扎勒维斯基教授。 拜伦博士将与她的大学合作者一起与研究生合作，并将通过科学和公共宣传传播她的工作成果。 该项目得到了NSF科学，工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划的支持，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使一个有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的地位。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program) Dr. Carrie Byron from the University of New England will engineer new tools for sustainable management of resources and will examine synergies between coupled human-natural systems using a carrying capacity approach. This award is supported by the Directorate for Geosciences and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.The proposed work will (1) investigate the ways in which ecological- and social-carrying capacities can be quantified ; (2) investigate the feedbacks between ecological and economic systems; (3) study the mechanisms regulating ecological- and social-carrying capacity; and (4) explore if a carrying capacity concept can be used to promote sustainable management of natural resources in coastal ecosystems. Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Cobscook Bay, Maine will be used as sites in the study.The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to develop better methods for the management of natural resources.Dr. Byron will be working with collaborators Prof. James Sulikowski of the Marine Science Center at the University of New England and Dr. Di Jin at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Instittuion; as well as Prof. Tracey Dalton in the Department of Marine Affairs, at the University of Rhode Island and Prof. Gayle Zydlewski in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. Dr. Byron will work with research students with her University collaborators and will disseminate the results of her work through scientific and public outreach. This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.