RAISE: Bringing Together Diverse Perspectives on Water

STEM在水方面存在重大知识空白，包括气候变化将如何以及为什么影响水，水文变化将如何以不同方式影响整个西南部和其他地方的不同社区，以及土著社区如何解决水问题，特别是在适应气候变化和剥夺土地方面。但是，对过去和现在的环境以及对水的使用和理解的探索可以提供关键信息，改变理解影响水的过程以及长期与水和各种文化的关系的能力。因此，该计划将发展和编织来自多个学科的不同研究线索，作为了解温室气体水平上升对水循环和气候的区域影响的新窗口。这项研究将具有变革性，因为它将审查和分享关于水循环的不同观点，包括什么是水以及人们如何使用、价值和管理水，不同领域和人们如何在环境变化的背景下处理关于水的问题，一个地区对水的可持续性和历史有哪些不同的学科和文化视角，以及这些关于水的不同观点如何影响我们对环境未来的思考和交流方式。综上所述，这些相互交织的多条线索将帮助我们构建一幅更全面的图景，了解降雨和蒸发如何以及为什么对气候变化做出反应，从而提供一种手段来评估气候模型的技能和代表性，同时收集有关水在该地区的土著社区所面临的过去、现在和未来的数据，并开发和试验一个包容性的科学模型。这项提议寻求通过汇聚研究来汇聚和分享关于水的不同观点，这被称为编织知识，这将有助于导航到能够应对美国西南部环境挑战的解决方案。它还将为本项目以外的其他地区的水和更广泛的气候变化的融合研究提供一个模型。通过地学、人种学和考古学获得的关于深层历史的知识可以为科学提供信息，支持土著主权，并指导部落、地区和国家各级的决策。有关社区水的价值和需求的知识能够而且应该为水管理和科学提供信息。编织在一起，这些知识可以支持气候变化的适应。该项目的具体目标是：-使用新的跨学科方法来限制降水和蒸发率如何以及为什么对西南不同地区不断变化的气候强迫做出反应。-收集关于水在洛杉矶盆地或被输送到洛杉矶盆地和其他地区的土著社区过去和现在面临的水问题的数据。-通过包容性做法扩大参与，适应和评估新的包容性科学模型，以适应地球科学和环境科学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Major knowledge gaps exist in STEM relating to water, including how and why climate change will impact water, how hydrological changes will differently impact different communities throughout the Southwest and elsewhere, and how Indigenous communities have addressed water issues, especially with regard to climate change adaptation and dispossession. But exploration of past and present-day environments and uses and understandings of water can provide critical information, transforming the ability to understand the processes impacting water and the relationship to water and various cultures in the long-term. Therefore this program will develop and braid together different strands of research from multiple disciplines as new windows into the regional impacts of rising greenhouse gas levels on the water cycle and climate. The research will be transformative in that it will examine and share diverse perspectives on the water cycle, including what water is and how people use, value, and steward it, how different fields and people approach questions about water in the context of environmental change, what different disciplinary and cultural perspectives are on water sustainability and histories in a region, and how these diverse perspectives on water inform the ways we think and communicate about environmental futures. Taken together, these multiple interwoven strands will help us construct a more comprehensive picture of how and why rainfall and evaporation have responded to climate change and will thus provide a means to evaluate climate model skill and representation, while gathering data on water issues, past, present, and future, facing Indigenous communities whose waters are in the region, and developing and piloting an inclusive science model.This proposal seeks to bring together and share diverse perspectives on water through convergence research, which is referred to as braiding knowledge, which will help navigate towards solutions that could address environmental challenges in the Southwestern United States. It also will represent a model for convergence research on water in other regions, and climate change more broadly, beyond this project. Knowledge of deep history, obtained through geoscience, ethnography, and archaeology, can inform science, support Indigenous sovereignty, and guide decision-making at tribal, regional, and national levels. Knowledge of community water values and needs can and should inform water management and science. Braided, this knowledge can support climate change adaptation. The specific goals of the project are:- To use novel interdisciplinary approaches to constrain how and why precipitation and evaporation rates respond to changing climate forcing in different regions of the Southwest.- To gather data on the water issues, past and present, facing Indigenous communities whose waters are in, or are conveyed to, the Los Angeles basin, and other regions.- To broaden participation through inclusive practices with the adaptation and assessment of a new inclusive science model to the geosciences and environmental science.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.