Global Centers Track 1: Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters

全球中心轨道 1：了解气候变化对跨界水域的影响

• 批准号: 2330317
• 负责人: Andrew Gronewold
• 金额: $ 497.89万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330317&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; Understanding; Climate

The Global Center for Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters leads research focused on understanding and mitigating water crises in transboundary jurisdictions. Water resources around North America are under threat as climate change intensifies floods and droughts, worsens water quality, exacerbates shoreline erosion, and damages infrastructure and homes. Communities must learn to adapt to increased extremes, but the tools and knowledge for adaptation are often non-existent or fragmented across jurisdictional boundaries. This problem is complicated in transboundary water systems which intersect multiple sovereign nations, including those of Indigenous Peoples. Managing water resources in multijurisdictional settings requires a diverse perspective on governance structures, stakeholder groups, and management strategies as well as dissemination of scientific resources, including data and models. The Center studies water resources spanning U.S.-Canada geopolitical boundaries, leveraging U.S. and Canadian expertise. The Center aims to increase the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities by integrating research across three organizing clusters focused on 1) reliable projections of the expected frequency and intensity of climate change impacts; 2) understanding of climate change impacts on ecological and social systems and outcomes; and 3) building capacity for governance and management systems that increase disaster resilience in communities across multiple scales. The Center is a partnership among University of Michigan, Cornell University, College of the Menominee Nation and Red Lake Nation together with McMaster University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and the Six Nations of the Grand River. It also trains graduate and undergraduate students and supports postdoctoral associates. The knowledge developed through the Center has international relevance and will be disseminated to benefit communities around the world. The international team focuses on understanding and mitigating an intensifying water crisis by addressing regional needs for water resources management guidance and preparing communities and ecosystems within transboundary water systems for hazards accompanying climate change. The Center will apply a unique social science framework that emphasizes engagement with communities across transnational watershed boundaries to develop new insights into risk tolerance and management practices, climate change monitoring strategies, and community resilience. The interdisciplinary Center will integrate knowledge from multiple fields to create a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing communities accessing transnational waters. The Center's use of statistical modeling, state-of-the-art process models, and novel, data-driven observational studies allow for testing of hypotheses about future climate change trajectories, providing critical insights to our stakeholders. This approach is designed to be flexible and responsive to community needs, ensuring that research outcomes are relevant and useful to the communities it serves and enabling for the development of a national model for transboundary watershed management in subsequent years. The scientific and community-engagement models developed by the Center will initially be focused on the Great Lakes region, and will be replicable and scalable, amplifying the Center’s impact across transboundary water systems and communities globally. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative partnership with funding agencies in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, to jointly support use-inspired research addressing global challenges in climate change and clean energy. Partnerships with the Commonwealth Science and Innovation Research Organisation (CSIRO), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) leverage resources to tackle challenges at a larger scale than would be possible for one funding agency alone. This Center is jointly supported by NSF and SSHRC. The NSF award is co-funded by the Office of International Science and the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program in the Directorate for STEM Education.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.

全球气候变化中心对跨界水域的影响领导着研究的研究侧重于理解和减轻跨界司法管辖区的水危机。随着气候变化加剧地板和干旱，水质恶化，加剧的海岸线侵蚀以及损害基础设施和房屋，北美地区的水资源受到威胁。社区必须学会适应极端的增加，但是适应的工具和知识通常是在管辖权边界之间不存在或分散的。在跨界供水系统中，这个问题很复杂，这些供水系统与包括土著人民在内的多个主权国家相交。在多期设置中管理水资源需要对治理结构，利益相关者群体和管理策略以及传播科学资源（包括数据和模型）的分歧。该中心研究跨越美国加拿大地缘政治边界的水资源，利用美国和加拿大的专业知识。该中心的目的是通过整合三个组织集群的研究，重点介绍了脆弱的沿海社区的韧性，该集团重点介绍了1）可靠的项目频率和气候变化影响强度的可靠项目； 2）了解气候变化对生态和社会系统以及结果的影响； 3）建立治理和管理系统的能力，从而增加了多个尺度的社区的灾难恢复能力。该中心与麦克马斯特大学，多伦多大都会大学以及大河的六个国家之间，密歇根大学，康奈尔大学，梅诺米尼国家学院和红湖国家之间的合作关系。它还培训毕业生和本科生，并支持博士后同伴。通过该中心发展的知识具有国际意义，并将被传播给有利于世界各地社区的知识。国际团队致力于理解和减轻加强水资源危机，以满足区域资源管理指导的需求，并准备跨界水系统中的社区和生态系统，以实现危害的危害参与气候变化。该中心将采用独特的社会科学框架，强调跨国流域界限与社区的参与，以开发出对风险承受能力和管理实践，气候变化监测策略和社区韧性的新见解。跨学科中心将整合来自多个领域的知识，以对进入跨国水域的社区面临的挑战有全面的了解。该中心对统计建模，最先进的过程模型以及新颖的，数据驱动的观察性研究的使用允许测试有关未来气候变化轨迹的假设，从而为我们的利益相关者提供了重要的见解。这种方法旨在灵活和响应社区需求，以确保研究成果对其所服务的社区具有相关性和有用性，并可以在随后几年开发用于跨界分水岭管理的国家模型。该中心开发的科学和社区参与模型最初将集中在大湖区，并且将是可复制和可扩展的，从而扩大了该中心在全球跨界水系统和社区中的影响。该奖项由与澳大利亚，加拿大和英国的资助机构的创新合作伙伴关系全球中心计划资助，共同支持以使用启发的研究来解决气候变化和清洁能源方面的全球挑战。与英联邦科学与创新研究组织（CSIRO），加拿大自然科学和工程研究委员会（NSERC），加拿大社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC）（SSHRC）和英国研究与创新（UKRI）与一家资助机构的合作伙伴关系，加拿大的社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC）和英国研究与创新（UKRI）利用资源利用与单独使用一家资助机构可能更大的规模来应对挑战。该中心由NSF和SSHRC共同支持。 NSF奖是由国际科学办公室和部落学院和大学计划共同资助的，该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。