Collaborative Research: IRES Track I: Post-hurricane recovery of island freshwater lenses: Understanding the impact of social and hydrological dynamics

合作研究：IRES 第一轨：飓风后岛屿淡水透镜体的恢复：了解社会和水文动态的影响

• 批准号: 2246400
• 负责人: Zoi Dokou
• 金额: $ 9.61万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises, Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2246400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; IRES; Track; Post

The goal of this project is to provide international collaborative opportunities to six students per year to explore broader climate change challenges related to freshwater resilience of small islands through a six-week long international research experience in the island of Grand Bahama. The project will advance our current understanding of the combined role of social and hydrological dynamics on post-hurricane recovery of freshwater resources on small sub-tropical islands. A group of U.S. students from diverse backgrounds will work closely with mentors and students from the University of the Bahamas, Grand Bahama Utility Company, the Bahamian Forestry Unit, and faculty from four US Universities (California State University, Sacramento, University of Wyoming, Oberlin College, and Rutgers University), comprising a diverse, interdisciplinary team of social scientists, hydrologists, soil scientists, and plant experts. Students will learn how to study local, global, and intercultural issues, understand and appreciate different perspectives, and interact with individuals from different cultures and backgrounds. The experiences gained through this international collaboration will be key to student's future success in an increasingly global economy, and will further the development of a diverse, globally competitive workforce, able to address cross-cutting challenges in socio-hydrology. This project will also have a positive impact on students from the host Institution, gaining research experiences and training that they would otherwise not have access to. Beyond the impacts on students, local water management authorities will benefit from the generation of new data and modeling tools and the project will help inform local communities about climate and social challenges and their role on the sustainability and resilience of their water resources, which is anticipated to increase their involvement and level of adaptation to climate change mitigation strategies.Despite the recognized importance of socio-hydrology in increasing our understanding of the interactions between water and human systems, interdisciplinary student training addressing the cross-cutting nature of socio-hydrology is not common. This project will investigate the importance of socio-hydrological dynamics on post-hurricane recovery of freshwater resources of small sub-tropical islands by collecting, integrating, and analyzing unique information on the social and hydrological processes that are identified as the main drivers of post-hurricane recovery of water resources in Grand Bahama. Our research will generate new data and knowledge on the relative importance and compound role of social and hydrological factors and will ultimately contribute to increased water resources sustainability and resilience of small islands under a changing climate. Students will participate in field campaigns to collect groundwater and soil salinity, groundwater levels and soil moisture data on various locations on the island. In addition, infiltration experiments will be conducted to assess salt build-up on the soil and its impact on the infiltration capacity of the soil. The above data will be used to improve the calibration and validation of an existing island scale model groundwater flow and salt transport modeling. This model will simulate FWL recovery under various recharge scenarios based on climatic projections. Soil salinity data will also be used to assess the loss in plant/forest biodiversity and changes in forest structure post-hurricane. Sociological investigations of community member’s perceptions on water management in Grand Bahama will also be conducted through focus groups and interviews. In addition to individual projects, the international research opportunity will culminate in an annual interdisciplinary research project that provides insights into the socio-hydrological dynamics of FWL recovery after storm induced salinization events. Students will present their research findings at an annual project Virtual Symposium, communicate their research beyond the program through outreach projects and scientific publications and gain important writing and presentation skills.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.

该项目的目的是通过在大巴哈马岛上一项为期六周的国际研究经验，每年为六名学生提供国际合作机会，以探索与小岛淡水韧性相关的更广泛的气候变化挑战。该项目将提高我们目前对社会和水文动力学在小型亚热带岛上淡水资源后回收后的综合作用的理解。一群来自潜水员背景的美国学生将与来自巴哈马大学，巴哈马大学大型公用事业公司，巴哈马林业单元以及来自美国四所美国大学（加利福尼亚州立大学，萨克拉曼多，怀俄明大学，奥伯林学院和鲁特格斯大学）的导师和学生紧密合作，并完成了多元化，跨学科，社交科学家，科学家，种族科学家，培养业科学家，填补了多元化学家。学生将学习如何学习地方，全球和跨文化问题，理解和欣赏不同的观点，并与来自不同文化和背景的个人互动。通过这项国际合作获得的经验将是学生在越来越多的全球经济中取得成功的关键，并将进一步发展多样性，全球竞争性的员工队伍，能够应对社会杂种学方面的交叉挑战。该项目还将对来自东道机构的学生产生积极的影响，获得他们原本无法获得的研究经验和培训。 Beyond the impacts on students, local water management authorities will benefit from the generation of new data and modeling tools and the project will help inform local communities about climate and social challenges and their role on the sustainability and resilience of their water resources, which is anticipated to increase their involvement and level of adaptation to climate change mitigation strategies.Despite the recognized importance of socio-hydrology in increasing our understanding of the interactions between water and human systems, interdisciplinary student解决社会流程学的跨裁切性质的培训并不常见。该项目将通过收集，整合和分析有关社会和水文过程的独特信息来研究社会流程动力学对小型亚热带岛屿淡水资源的淡水回收的重要性，这些信息被确定为大巴哈马水资源后海毛的恢复后水资源的主要驱动因素。我们的研究将产生有关社会和水文因素的相对重要性和复合作用的新数据和知识，并最终将有助于增加水资源的可持续性和在气候变化下的小岛的弹性。学生将参加野外运动，以收集岛上各个地方的地下水和土壤盐水平，地下水水平和土壤水分数据。此外，还将进行浸润实验，以评估土壤上的盐堆积及其对土壤浸润能力的影响。以上数据将用于改善现有的岛尺度地下水流量和盐传输建模的校准和验证。该模型将基于气候预测在各种充值方案下模拟FWL恢复。土壤盐度数据还将用于评估植物/森林生物多样性的损失以及赫鲁里奇森林结构的变化。也将通过焦点小组和访谈对社区成员对水管理的看法进行社会学调查。除了个别项目外，国际研究机会还将在年度跨学科研究项目中达到最终形象，该项目可提供对暴风雨引起的盐分事件后FWL恢复的社会流水学动力学的见解。学生将在年度项目虚拟研讨会上介绍他们的研究结果，通过外展项目和科学出版物来传达其研究以外的研究，并获得重要的写作和演讲技巧。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来评估的。