Research Starter Grant: An Urban Environmental Observatory

研究启动资助：城市环境观测站

基本信息

批准号：
0906169
负责人：
George Jenerette
金额：
$ 5万
依托单位：
University of California-Riverside
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-01 至 2010-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906169&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Research Starter Grant Urban Environmental

项目摘要

Urban environments provide novel opportunities for increasing our understanding of ecological processes and identifying feedbacks between ecological and societal dynamics. To address scientific and management uncertainties associated with the linkages between carbon, water, and energy exchanges within a city, this project will begin developing a multiple-scale urban environmental observatory. The urban observatory approach will provide novel opportunities to describe current urban environmental conditions and develop short- and long-term forecasts of likely futures based on societal decisions and future climate predictions. By focusing on the water-carbon-energy nexus, the urban observatory will provide descriptions of how urban water use leads to changes in urban ecosystem functioning. It will also allow for testing of hypotheses regarding the response of urban ecosystem processes to weather, irrigation, and land-cover changes. The proposed urban observatory will have an immediate impact by identifying the sensitivity and resilience of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services associated with human health and prosperity in response to changes in land-use, management, and water availability for the city of Riverside, CA. This project will provide a longer-term impact by developing a framework for improving management of ecological processes to provide ongoing availability of ecosystem services to support human well-being within this region. The results will be disseminated in venues appropriate for scientists and local stakeholders in a format that can assist real-time management activities. In conjunction with the improved knowledge, this project will contribute to the training of underrepresented groups in science at undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.

城市环境为增加我们对生态过程的理解并确定生态和社会动态之间的反馈提供了新的机会。为了解决与城市内碳，水和能源交流之间联系有关的科学和管理不确定性，该项目将开始开发多个规模的城市环境天文台。城市天文台方法将为描述当前的城市环境状况提供新的机会，并根据社会决策和未来的气候预测对可能的未来进行短期和长期预测。通过专注于水碳 - 能源Nexus，城市天文台将提供有关城市用水如何导致城市生态系统功能变化的描述。它还将允许测试有关城市生态系统过程对天气，灌溉和土地覆盖变化的响应的假设。拟议的城市天文台将通过确定与人类健康和繁荣相关的生态系统功能和生态系统服务的敏感性和韧性，以应对加利福尼亚州里弗赛德市的土地利用，管理和水上的可用性，对生态系统功能和生态系统服务的敏感性和韧性。该项目将通过开发一个框架来改善生态过程管理的框架，以提供生态系统服务的持续可用性，以支持该地区内的人类福祉，从而提供长期影响。结果将以可以帮助实时管理活动的格式在适合科学家和当地利益相关者的场所中传播。结合知识的改善，该项目将有助于对本科，研究生和博士后水平的科学科学群体的培训。