SRS RN (Track 2): Nevada Water: A Science-With-Society Research and Education Network

内华达州是美国最干旱的州，正面临着多重水资源可持续性挑战，包括山区积雪减少、极端天气、人口快速增长和城乡紧张关系加剧。“内华达水”项目将与水供应商、用户、政策制定者和学者建立伙伴关系，其主要目标是创建一个动态的研究、社会和教育网络，重点关注内华达州关键的城乡水问题。该网络将包括主要的公共、私人、部落、研究、非营利和教育水资源合作伙伴。这些规划活动将在“科学与社会”的概念下进行，强调沟通、联系和合作。在这个为期一年的项目中，内华达州水务合作伙伴将共同努力：a)确定关键的城乡水可持续性问题；B)讨论并构建关于水可持续性解决方案的不同思考方式；C)识别需要填补的信息、知识和资源差距；D)为理想、公平和可持续的水资源未来发展共同愿景；e)确定解决内华达州城乡水可持续性挑战的最佳网络结构。为了实现这些目标，区域和基于主题的合作伙伴小组将为新生的网络准备为期两天的会议，重点是描述信息差距，共同确定水优先事项和网络发展。内华达水务公司将培育新的知识和合作战略，以显著推进整合、协调、创新和可持续的区域系统科学。在内华达州，水资源使用者、供应商和政策制定者正面临着越来越大的压力，包括积雪减少、极端天气、人口快速增长，以及围绕水资源可持续性的城乡紧张关系日益加剧。内华达水网是一个与水相关的从业者和学者的协作和包容的伙伴关系，其主要目标是创建一个动态的研究、社会和教育网络，专注于内华达州关键的城乡水问题。该网络将包括主要的公共、私人、部落、研究、非营利和教育水资源合作伙伴。通过一种变革性的科学与社会融合的方法，第二轨道的工作将a)共同确定气候变化中国家和区域城乡水资源的关键挑战；B)启动利益相关者对话，以制定基于合作伙伴的、公平的城乡水资源解决方案；C)共同确定信息需求、资源缺口、理论框架、应用和研究重点，以推进可持续区域系统科学，实现区域水的可持续性；D)培养对地区水资源可持续发展挑战的新知识和更深入的理解，并设想理想和公平的水资源未来；e)确定网络的最佳结构和功能，以应对这些挑战、解决方案、信息需求、资源差距和未来的优先事项。城乡“合作实验室”和专题小组将为为期两天的会议准备一个网络，重点讨论信息差距的特征、共同确定水资源优先事项和网络发展。这个内华达水网将培育新的知识和合作战略，以显著推进可持续的区域系统科学。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。

Paragraph 1Nevada is the driest state in the nation and is facing multiple water sustainability challenges including declining mountain snowpacks, extreme weather, rapid population growth, and increasing urban-rural tensions. “Nevada Water” will develop a partnership of water suppliers, users, policy-makers, and academics whose primary goal is to create a dynamic research, societal, and education network focusing on critical urban-rural water issues across Nevada. The network will include key public, private, tribal, research, nonprofit, and educational water resource partners. These planning activities will operate under the “Science With Society” concept, that emphasizes communication, connections, and collaboration. In this one-year project, Nevada Water partners will work together to a) identify crucial urban-rural water sustainability issues; b) discuss and frame different ways of thinking about water sustainability solutions; c) identify information, knowledge, and resource gaps need to be filled; d) develop shared visions for desirable, equitable, and sustainable water futures; and e) determine the best network structure to address Nevada’s urban-rural water sustainability challenges. To achieve these goals, regional and thematically-based groups of partners will prepare the nascent network for a 2-day conference focused on characterizing information gaps, co-identifying water priorities, and network development. Nevada Water will foster new knowledge and collaboration strategies to significantly advance integration, coordination, innovation, and sustainable regional systems science. Across Nevada, water users, suppliers, and policymakers are facing growing stressors including declining snowpacks, extreme weather, rapid population growth, and increasing urban-rural tensions around water sustainability. The Nevada Water network is a collaborative and inclusive partnership of water-related practitioners and academics whose primary goal is to create a dynamic research, societal, and education network focusing on critical urban-to-rural water issues across Nevada. The network will include key public, private, tribal, research, nonprofit, and educational water resource partners. Through a transformative Science-with-Society convergent approach, this Track 2 effort will a) co-identify key state and regional urban-rural water challenges in a changing climate; b) initiate stakeholder conversations to frame partner-based, equitable urban-rural water solutions; c) co-identify information needs, resource gaps, theoretical frameworks, applications, and research priorities towards advancing sustainable regional systems science to achieve regional water sustainability; d) foster new knowledge and deeper understanding of regional wicked water sustainability challenges, and envision desirable and equitable water futures; and e) determine the best structure and function of the network to serve these challenges, solutions, information needs, resource gaps, and future priorities. Urban-rural “collaboratories” and thematic groups will prepare a network for a 2-day conference focused on characterizing information gaps, co-identifying water priorities, and network development. This Nevada Water network will foster new knowledge and collaboration strategies to significantly advance sustainable regional systems 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.