RII Track-1: Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition and Cascading Challenges to Socio-Environmental Systems in America's Headwaters

“预测气候-水过渡和美国上游社会环境系统的级联挑战”（WY-ACT）项目将汇集怀俄明州各地的研究人员，解决怀俄明州和落基山脉地区气候变化带来的关键水资源挑战。在水文、生态和社会系统相互作用的不确定性的限制下，研究人员将识别挑战、量化风险，并预测国家关键源头地区气候条件变化的社会后果。怀俄明州的山地生态系统将高海拔的国家公园和其他联邦土地与低海拔的部落、州、联邦和私人土地和水域连接起来，为研究这些气候不确定性提供了最完善的系统。该项目旨在通过与社区建立可信赖的网络，为气候变化导致的水资源紧张提供解决方案，这些社区将有机会提供投入并帮助项目团队制定成果。该项目将为怀俄明州社区参与STEM教育提供重要机会，并为该州开发重要的计算资源。WY-ACT将由怀俄明大学与怀俄明中央学院和私营公司西部生态系统技术公司合作管理。预测气候-水过渡和美国上游社会环境系统的级联挑战（WY-ACT）项目将创建一个世界级的研究和STEM培训设施，以解决怀俄明州和落基山脉地区气候变化带来的关键水资源挑战。way - act的目标是：1)确定相互作用的水文、生态和社会系统的气候驱动风险；2)揭示社区和利益相关者如何应对气候引起的风险的机会和限制；3)在数值模型中评估合作生产过程如何通过建立信任来增强关键利益相关者的适应能力；4)整合对气候、水文、生态和社会系统的风险和不确定性的理解和量化，这些风险和不确定性由模型、观测和利益相关者合作提供信息。这些项目目标将通过跨学科的方法来实现，包括社会科学、气候科学、经济学、水文学、数据科学、生态学和传播学。此外，该项目认识到部落国家参与合作生产的价值，并将包括土著知识、实践知识、经验知识和科学的理解方法，以告知和加强对不断变化的水资源供应及其影响的理解。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。

The Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition and Cascading Challenges to Socio-Environmental Systems in America's Headwaters (WY-ACT) project will bring together researchers from across Wyoming to address critical water resource challenges arising from climate change in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region. Researchers will identify challenges, quantify risks, and predict societal consequences of shifting climate conditions in the nation’s critical headwater areas, limited by uncertainties in how hydrological, ecological, and sociological systems interact. Wyoming provides the prefect system to study these climate uncertainties due to its mountainous ecosystems that link high-elevation National Parks and other federal lands to a mosaic of lower-elevation tribal, state, federal, and private lands and waters. The project is designed to create solutions to strains on water availability resulting from climate change by building trusted networks with communities who will have opportunities to provide input as well as help the project team formulate outcomes. The project will provide significant opportunities to engage Wyoming communities in STEM education and develop significant computational resources for the state. WY-ACT will be administered by the University of Wyoming in collaboration with Central Wyoming College and Western Ecosystem Technology, a private company.The Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition and Cascading Challenges to Socio-Environmental Systems in America's Headwaters (WY-ACT) project will create a world-class research and STEM training facility that will address critical water resource challenges arising from climate change in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region. WY-ACT’s goals are to: 1) identify climate-driven risks to interacting hydrological, ecological and social systems; 2) reveal opportunities and limits for how communities and stakeholders respond to climate-induced risks; 3) evaluate how the process of co-production enhances adaptive capacity for key stakeholders by building trust in numerical models; and 4) integrate the understanding and quantification of risks and uncertainties across climate, hydrological, ecological, and social systems that are informed by models, observations, and stakeholder collaboration. These project goals will be achieved by a transdisciplinary approach that includes social science, climate science, economics, hydrology, data science, ecology, and communication. Additionally, this project recognizes the value of involving Tribal Nations in co-production, and will include indigenous knowledge, practitioner knowledge, experiential knowledge, and scientific ways of understanding to inform and enhance the understanding of changing water availability and its implications.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.