EAPSI: A comparison of lake monitoring and modeling approaches - protecting freshwater resources in Lake Tahoe and Lake Taupo, and globally

该项目将比较太浩湖(加州/内华达州，美国)的水质数据和模型研究。对新西兰一个水质相似的湖泊进行研究，该湖泊也有一个建模程序，陶波湖。新西兰怀卡托大学的大卫·汉密尔顿博士在陶波湖有着丰富的经验，他是将3-D模型与实时传感器数据相结合的领导者。皮？S目前的研究重点是太浩湖近岸水质的监测和建模。通过与汉密尔顿博士和他的研究生的合作，国际和平研究所将获得陶波湖的数据和模型，这些数据和模型仅适用于他对生态上可比较的太浩湖的研究；国际和平研究所将改进他的近岸建模方法，将收集新西兰湖泊的参考数据，并将建立研究联系，最终验证他的美国西部关于新西兰湖泊和全球的模型。一个强大的、全球可转移的近岸水质模型将有助于更好地了解和保护人类最直接依赖的湖泊和水库区域。湖泊边缘既是重要的生态栖息地，也是人类主要的休闲和功利使用点。由于自然和人为的投入，这些近岸地区的水质易受高度变化的影响。人类发展和不断变化的气候模式继续迫使这些投入发生变化。要了解这些变化将如何影响近岸水质，需要了解近岸地区对外部负荷、气象和湖泊几何性质的时空响应。皮S目前的研究重点是开发太浩湖这种响应的模型。在与汉密尔顿博士的合作中，PI将深入了解推广他的模型以供全球应用；他将学习新的建模方法，收集参考数据，并建立长期研究联系，以不断改进和应用他的模型来保护全球淡水保护区。该EAPSI奖是与新西兰皇家学会合作资助的。

This project will compare water quality data and modeling research from Lake Tahoe (CA/NV, U.S.A.) to research on a New Zealand lake with similar water quality and which also has a modeling program, Lake Taupo. Dr. David Hamilton at the University of Waikato in New Zealand has considerable experience at Lake Taupo and is a leader in combining 3-D models with real-time sensor data. The PI?s current research focuses on monitoring and modeling water quality in the near-shore of Lake Tahoe. In collaborating with Dr. Hamilton and his graduate students, the PI will have access to data and models from Lake Taupo that are uniquely applicable to the his research on ecologically comparable Lake Tahoe; the PI will improve his approach to nearshore modeling, will collect reference data from New Zealand lakes, and will establish research links to eventually validate his western U.S. model on New Zealand lakes and globally. A robust and globally transferable nearshore water quality model will serve to better understand and protect the area of lakes and reservoirs on which human populations most directly depend.The margins of lakes are both an important ecological habitat and the primary recreational and utilitarian usage point for humans. These near-shore areas are subject to high variability in water quality due to natural and anthropogenic inputs. Human development and changing climate patterns continue to force changes to these inputs. Understanding how these variations will affect near-shore water quality requires an understanding of the spatiotemporal response of near-shore areas to external loading, meteorology, and the geometric nature of a lake. The PI?s current research focuses on developing models of this response in Lake Tahoe. In collaborating with Dr. Hamilton, the PI will gain insight into generalizing his model for global application; he will learn new modeling approaches, collect reference data, and establish long-term research links to continually improve and apply his model to protect global freshwater reserves. This EAPSI award is funded in collaboration with the Royal Society of New Zealand.