SEES Fellows: A framework for sustainable irrigation practice: integrating social, hydrologic, and ecologic factors to meet the urban water challenge

来自加州大学欧文分校的Nita Bijoor博士将研究如何利用社会经济、生物物理和管理因素来开发一个综合的灌溉可持续发展框架。该奖项得到了工程局、地球科学局和社会、行为和经济科学局的支持。拟议的工作将结合：从南加州七个政府组织获得的位置标记的用水数据，奥兰治县市政水区的土地利用/土地覆盖数据（基于航空调查数据），以及其他地质和社会经济数据库来量化灌溉效率，并开发改进的模型来管理用水。这项工作中提出的研究的目的是开发更好的水利用模型，旨在提供有用的数据，帮助决策者在干旱的城市环境中做出明智的决策，以可持续的方式管理水。Bijoor将与加州大学欧文分校水文建模中心主任James S. Famiglietti教授和奥兰治县市政水区的Joseph Berg先生密切合作。Bijoor博士还将与南加州海岸水研究项目、奥兰治县海岸管理员和谷冠设计集团合作。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划支持，其目标是帮助实现必要的发现，为导致环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在see研究员的支持下，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续性相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的职业生涯。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program) Dr. Nita Bijoor from the University of Califonia - Irvine will study the ways in which socioeconomic, biophysical, and management factors can be used to develop an integrated Irrigation Sustainability Framework. This award has support from: the Directorate for Engineering, the Directorate for Geosciences and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.The proposed work will combine: location-tagged water-use data obtained from seven governmental organizations in Southern California, land use/ land cover data from the Municipal Water District of Orange County (based upon aerial survey data), and other geological and socioeconomic databases to quantify irrigation efficiency and develop improved models to manage water use.The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to develop better models for water use, with the aim towards providing useful data to help policy makers make informed decisions on sustainable ways to manage water in an arid urban environment.Dr. Bijoor will be working with closely with collaborators Prof. James S. Famiglietti, Director of the Center for Hydrological Modeling at the University of California-Irvine, and Mr. Joseph Berg of the Municipal Water District of Orange County. Dr. Bijoor will also work with the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Orange County Coastkeeper, and the Valley Crest Design Group. 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.