NSERC CREATE for Water Security

加拿大面临着紧迫的水安全问题的挑战；中国的许多河流流域正在经历周期性的水资源短缺、代价高昂的洪涝和干旱、迅速变化的气候，以及与城市人口增长和自然资源开发相关的对水质和水量的日益严重的影响。为了确保加拿大河流流域持续的水生生态系统健康、持续的经济增长和负责任的资源开发，需要综合研究议程和合作方法，重点关注水安全的科学和治理。为此，需要一种培养研究生和博士后的新模式——一种综合性的、以职业为导向的模式，其研究重点包括支持水安全的许多学科之间的协作和整合。我们的NSERC CREATE for Water Security项目合作伙伴是来自萨斯喀彻温、曼尼托巴、卡尔加里、麦克马斯特和滑铁卢大学的地理学、土木工程、地球科学、生物学、大气科学和公共政策等学科的18名有成就的研究人员，还有8家私营公司和4个政府。该计划基于科学实践者模式，旨在激励研究生学习和理解科学，工程和政策分析的整合，以解决管理复杂和不确定的水系统中当前和未来的挑战。我们的研究和培训模式扩大了跨学科的互动，而不会稀释学科证书，模糊了研究与实践之间的界限，并建立了必要的个人和专业技能。通过跨学科核心课程、实习、实验室交流、技能培养短期课程、专业技能发展以及协作和综合研究的结合，NSERC CREATE水安全学员将成为知识渊博、综合、创业的毕业生，准备好填补加拿大及其他地区对技术专家、创新者、领导者和有影响力的研究人员的需求。

Canada is challenged with pressing issues of water security; many of its river basins are experiencing periodic water shortages, expensive floods and droughts, a rapidly changing climate, and increasing impacts to water quality and quantity associated with urban population growth and natural resources development. To ensure continued aquatic ecosystem health, sustained economic growth, and responsible resource development in Canada's river basins, required are integrative research agendas and collaborative approaches focused on both the science and governance of water security. For this, a new model for training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is needed - one that is comprehensive and career-oriented and with a research focus that embraces collaboration and integration across the many disciplines that support water security. Our NSERC CREATE for Water Security program partners 18 accomplished researchers from the disciplines of geography, civil engineering, geoscience, biology, atmospheric science and public policy from the Universities of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Calgary, McMaster and Waterloo with eight private sector companies and four governments. The program is based on a science-practitioner model to stimulate graduate students to learn and understand the integration of science, engineering and policy analysis to address current and future challenges in managing complex and uncertain water systems. Our research and training model expands interactions across disciplines without diluting disciplinary credentials, blurs the line between research and practice, and builds necessary personal and professional skills. Through a combination of interdisciplinary core courses, internships, lab exchanges, skill-building short courses, professional skills development and collaborative and integrative research, NSERC CREATE for Water Security trainees will become knowledgeable, integrative, and entrepreneurial graduates ready to fill the demand for technical experts, innovators, leaders and influential researchers in Canada and beyond.