CoPe Conference: Symposium on Far-Field Effects of Sea-Level Rise, Fayetteville, AR 2020

本次研讨会吸引了跨学科科学家和利益相关者的不同群体来研究影响海岸和美国心脏地带的气候变化的后果。讨论的问题包括地下水和地表水的流动和更新、洪水、人类迁移、农业、交通和经济远场影响。研讨会将进行现场直播。研讨会演示的视频将被存档在阿肯色大学的服务器上，这样在会议结束后，它们就可以被更广泛的公众发现和使用。将编制文件，记录讨论的结果和需要进一步审议的想法，并向公众提供。研讨会将在全国范围内进行广告宣传，以吸引广泛、多样化的参与者群体。主要发言人将是专家，他们将向大会介绍远领域的相关主题和面临的挑战，从而引发全国性的讨论。分组讨论可以更深入地探讨主题。研讨会将包括至少两个太平洋岛屿社区，当他们的岛屿被海平面上升淹没，人口被迫迁移到更高的地方时，他们已经将美国大陆中部确定为迁移区。这项工作的更广泛影响具有显著的社会效益，包括美国心脏地带的社区将如何应对移民的涌入，以及由海平面上升导致的沿海几何形状变化所驱动的远地社区经济和环境将如何应对。海平面上升的远场效应，包括其对远离沿海地区的美国大陆内陆的物理、社会和经济影响，很少受到约束，研究不足。这个为期3天的全国研讨会探讨了与海平面上升有关的远场问题，研究受影响社区面临的挑战，并确定知识差距和研究重点。讨论的主题包括：(1)海平面上升对大陆河流系统动态的影响；(2)海平面上升对大陆气候和水文循环的影响；(3)人口从沿海向内陆迁移和错位；(4)内陆资源（物质和资本）向海岸带流动的经济影响；(5)海平面上升对大陆农业的经济影响；(6)海平面上升对大陆河流贸易的经济影响。内布拉斯加州、阿肯色州和整个密西西比-俄亥俄-密苏里河的洪水记录比例，所有这些都是偏远地区，突出了大陆水文变化对大陆农业和河流商业的影响，证明了这样一个研讨会的必要性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop engages a diverse group of interdisciplinary scientists and stakeholders to examine the consequences of climate change that impact both the coasts and the US Heartland. Issues to be discussed include ground and surface water flow and renewal, flooding, human migration, agriculture, transportation, and economic far-field effects. There will be live streaming of the symposium. Videos of workshop presentations will be archived on University of Arkansas servers so they can be made discoverable and available, post-meeting, to the broader public. Documents recording the results of the discussions and the ideas to be further considered will be generated and made publicly available. The symposium will be nationally advertised to attract a broad, diverse group of participants. Key speakers, who are experts, will introduce the relevant topics and challenges faced in the far-field to the assembly, generating a national discussion. Small breakout groups will drill more deeply into the subject matter. The symposium will include at least two Pacific Island communities that have identified the mid-continent of the US as a relocation zone when their islands are inundated by sea level rise and the populations are forced to move to higher ground. Broader impacts of the work have significant societal benefits in terms of how communities in the US Heartland will handle the influx of migrants, as well as how far-field community economies and environments, driven by changes in coastal geometries due to rising sea levels, will respond. Far-field effects of sea level rise including its physical, social, and economic impact on the US continental interior, which is remote from the coastal zone, are poorly constrained and understudied. This 3-day national symposium explores what is known about far-field issues related to sea level rise, to examine the challenges facing impacted communities, and to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities. Discussion topics include: (1) impacts of rising sea level on dynamics of continental river systems; (2) influences of rising sea-level on continental climate and the hydrologic cycle; (3) population dislocation and migration flows from the coastal zone to the continental interior; (4) economic impacts of resource flows (material and capital) from the continental interior to the coastal zone; (5) economic impacts of sea level rise on continental agriculture; and (6) economic impacts of sea level rise on continental river commerce. Flooding-of-record proportion in Nebraska, Arkansas, and throughout the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri river, all of which are far-field locations, highlight impacts of altered continental hydrology on continental agriculture and river commerce, demonstrating the need for such a symposium.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.