FEW: Workshop: Developing Intelligent Food, Energy,and Water Systems (DIFEWS)

1541880PottsDgeed正在将加州相互交织的食品、能源和水系统推向崩溃的边缘。水库处于历史低点，农田休耕，能源系统在需求旺盛的日子里举步维艰。除了目前的干旱，加州的食品、能源和水系统还受到遗留基础设施、先前的土地使用决定以及人口接近5000万的进一步压力。作为美国最大的农业生产国，加州面临着食品、能源和水系统的挑战，其影响远远超出了自己的国界，进入了国内和国际市场。加利福尼亚州464亿美元的农产品中有近46%出口到国际上；与这些食品一起出口的还有生产所用的水和能源。全球农产品市场的互联互通确保了加州的食品、能源和水系统挑战在乳制品、水果、蔬菜和坚果市场可能尤为严峻。就地区而言，与许多西部州一样，加州的能源和农业系统依赖于大规模的积雪供水的水文系统，受到高度气候变异性的影响，并拥有受污染的土壤和地下水的遗产。在当地，不断增长的城市人口面临着不断上涨的食品价格和用水限制，而农村社区在持续缺水的情况下难以生存。为了努力创建从地方到全国的更安全、更安全、更具生产力和弹性的食品、能源和水系统，加州大学伯克利分校寻求在2015年9月21-22日主办一次发展中的智能食品、能源和水系统研讨会。以加州为试验台，研讨会将制定有针对性的多维研究议程，以开发智能FEWS，提高跨空间、跨时间和跨应用的效率。拟议的研讨会将汇集物理、自然、计算机和社会科学领域的60名研究人员，以及来自不同背景的工程师、经济学家、政策制定者和从业人员。PIS的目标是实现跨学科交流，确定容易处理的研究问题，促进足智多谋的问题解决，并确定下一代公民科学家的教育挑战。研讨会的直接成果将包括：(I)一套涉及食品、能源和水系统要素的易处理的研究问题；(Ii)未来研究工作的概要和将于2015年12月31日之前生成的白皮书的主要作者；以及(Iii)关于如何在这一套跨学科努力中教育新学者的想法。具体地说，DIFEWS研讨会将探讨四个领域的协同效应：农业生态学；可持续环境工程；消费者行为；以及网络物理系统研究在食品、能源和水系统中的应用。农业生态学将生态学原理应用于可持续的粮食系统，为粮食生产开辟了新的和传统的渠道，可以减少绝对水和能源的消耗。可持续环境工程使用新的方法来设计和运行水的收集、处理和分配。例如，NSF的工程研究中心为重塑国家城市水利基础设施而开发的工程创新减少了能源消耗，促进了资源回收，并增强了水系统的弹性。在能源方面，公用事业公司最近对智能电网基础设施的投资支持实时协调需求侧和供应侧对不断变化的系统条件的响应。行为经济学和社会科学正在积极探索消费者如何与这些技术互动，特别是正在试验使用经济激励措施来实质性地提高能源效率。最后，快速发展的网络物理系统领域使得在物理对象中使用传感器来协调跨空间和跨时间的资源优化分配成为可能。例如，这项技术被用于食品、能源和水系统，以安全地运行控制能源和水的分布式系统。在本科生一级，讲习班主题将被整合到一门大型环境科学入门课程和一门关于能源和环境经济学的高级课程中。在研究生层面，组委会成员将于2015年秋季学期在加州大学伯克利分校举办一场开发智能食品、能源和水系统的研究生研讨会。所有研讨会参与者将被邀请参加研讨会，并将有机会成为编写白皮书和随后经同行审查的出版物的团队的组成部分。除了在美国种族和文化最多元化的地区之一为本科生和研究生提供跨学科培训外，组委会还将联系加州主要的食品、能源和水系统规划师，分享研讨会的成果，并将与伯克利能源与资源合作公司合作，就加州的食品、能源和水系统问题与公众进行接触。

1541880PottsDrought is pushing California's intertwined food, energy, and water systems to the breaking point. Reservoirs are at historic lows, fields lie fallow, and energy systems struggle on high demand days. Beyond the current drought, California's food, energy, and water systems are further stressed by legacy infrastructure, prior land use decisions, and a population pushing towards 50 million. As the largest agricultural producer in the US, California faces food, energy, and water systems challenges with impacts extending far beyond its own borders, into domestic and international markets. Nearly 46% of California's $46.4 billion in agricultural products is exported internationally; exported along with this food are the water and energy resources used in its production. The interconnectivity of global agricultural markets ensures that California's food, energy, and water systems challenges are likely to be especially acute in dairy, fruit, vegetable, and nut markets. Regionally, as with many western states, California's energy and agriculture systems are dependent on large-scale, snow-fed hydrological systems subject to high climate variability and possess a legacy of polluted soil and groundwater. At the local scale, growing urban populations experience increasing food prices and water use restrictions while rural communities struggle to remain viable in the face of persistent water shortages.To work towards creating more secure, safe, productive, and resilient food, energy and water systems from the local to national scales, the University of California, Berkeley seeks to host a Developing Intelligent Food, Energy, and Water Systems workshop on September 21-22, 2015. Using California as a test bed, the workshop will develop a targeted multi-dimensional research agenda towards the development of intelligent FEWS that increase efficiency across space, time, and applications. The proposed workshop will bring together 60 investigators in the physical, natural, computer, and social sciences, along with engineers, economists, policy-makers, and practitioners from diverse backgrounds. The PIs goal is to enable cross-disciplinary exchange that will identify tractable research questions, promote resourceful problem-solving, and identify educational challenges for the next generation of citizen-scientists. Immediate outputs from the workshop will include: (i) a set of tractable research questions that cut across elements of food, energy, and water systems; (ii) outlines of future research efforts and identification of lead authors for white papers to be generated by 12/31/15; and (iii) ideas about how new scholars should be educated in this set of cross-disciplinary efforts. Specifically, the DIFEWS workshop will explore the synergies across four areas: agroecology; sustainable environmental engineering; consumer behavior; and the application of cyber-physical systems research to food, energy, and water systems. Agroecology, in its application of ecological principles to sustainable food systems, opens up new and traditional channels to food production that can lessen absolute water and energy use. Sustainable environmental engineering uses new approaches to the design and operation of water collection, treatment, and distribution. For example, engineering innovations developed by the NSF's Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure decrease energy use, facilitate resource recovery, and enhance the resilience of water systems. On the energy front, recent investments by public utilities in smart grid infrastructure support real-time coordination of demand- and supply-side responses to changing system conditions. Behavioral economics and the social sciences are actively exploring how consumers interact with these technologies and, in particular, are experimenting with the use of economic incentives to substantively enhance energy efficiency. Finally, the rapidly evolving domain of cyber-physical systems has enabled the use of sensors in physical objects to coordinate optimal allocation of resources across space and time. This technology is utilized in food, energy, and water systems, for example, to safely operate distributed systems for controlling energy and water. At the undergraduate level, workshop themes will be integrated into a large introductory environmental science course and an upper division course on the economics of energy and the environment. At the graduate level, the members of the organizing committee will run a Developing Intelligent Food, Energy, and Water Systems graduate seminar at UC Berkeley during the fall semester of 2015. All seminar participants will be invited to the workshop and will have the opportunity to be an integral part of the team that writes the white papers and subsequent peer reviewed publications. In addition to contributing to the interdisciplinary training of undergraduate and graduate students in one of the nation's most ethnically and culturally diverse regions, the organizing committee will reach out to key California food, energy, and water systems planners to share the workshop findings and will partner with Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative to reach out to the public on California's food, energy, and water systems issues.