Meeting: The Third Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology (SUSE3)

会议：第三届城镇化与溪流生态研讨会（SUSE3）

• 批准号: 1427007
• 负责人: Seth Wenger
• 金额: $ 1.41万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1427007&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Third; Symposium; Urbanization; Stream

Human societies rely on many services provided by healthy freshwater ecosystems, including improved water quality, productive fisheries, aesthetic amenities and flood management, amongst others. In urban and suburban areas, these services are often impaired due to contamination, channel alteration and other human impacts. The causes and consequences of these impairments are not well known, particularly in the context of feedbacks on ecosystem function. The Third Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology will bring together ecologists and other scientists from around the world to advance our basic understanding of urban streams, and develop approaches to apply this understanding to improving management of freshwater resources. This third meeting (SUSE3) focuses on improving our mechanistic understanding of impacts of urbanization on streams, and in particular how these mechanisms vary around the globe due to differences in climate, civil infrastructure, historical land use, and natural ecosystem characteristics. Participants will report on recent research and take part in a series of targeted discussions aimed at synthesizing this knowledge and guiding future research. An improved mechanistic understanding will help managers and communities identify the most effective and economically efficient methods for restoring and protecting stream ecosystems. To facilitate the translation of scientific research into management action, the organizers will establish a web-based platform to communicate the research results of this symposium and future urban stream studies. The SUSE3 meeting will also include a training session devoted to scientific communication to improve the ability of scientists to communicate with broad audiences. The goal is to increase the rate of dissemination of scientific information and enhance pathways of communication between researchers and urban stream managers, policy makers and the general public, thereby improving the ecological condition of urban freshwater ecosystems and ensuring that they continue to provide services valued by society.

人类社会依靠健康的淡水生态系统提供的许多服务，包括改善水质，生产渔业，美学设施和洪水管理等。在城市和郊区，由于污染，渠道的改变和其他人类影响，这些服务通常会受到损害。这些障碍的原因和后果尚不清楚，尤其是在有关生态系统功能的反馈的背景下。关于城市化和流生态学的第三次研讨会将使世界各地的生态学家和其他科学家聚集在一起，以促进我们对城市流的基本理解，并开发方法将这种理解应用于改善淡水资源的管理。第三次会议（SUSE3）着重于提高我们对城市化对流的影响的机械理解，尤其是由于气候，民用基础设施，历史土地使用和自然生态系统特征的差异，这些机制如何在全球范围内变化。参与者将报告最近的研究，并参加一系列针对性的讨论，旨在综合这些知识并指导未来的研究。改进的机械理解将帮助管理人员和社区确定恢复和保护流生态系统的最有效和经济高效的方法。为了促进科学研究转化为管理行动，组织者将建立一个基于网络的平台，以传达此研讨会和未来城市流研究的研究结果。 SUSE3会议还将包括一项致力于科学沟通的培训课程，以提高科学家与广泛受众沟通的能力。目的是提高科学信息传播的速度，并增强研究人员与城市流管理人员，政策制定者和公众之间的沟通途径，从而改善城市淡水生态系统的生态状况，并确保他们继续提供社会价值的服务。