NSERC CREATE for Water Security

NSERC CREATE 促进水安全

• 批准号: 463960-2015
• 负责人: Westbrook, Cherie
• 金额: $ 21.86万
• 依托单位: University of Saskatchewan
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=695481
• 关键词: NSERC; CREATE; Water; Security

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.

加拿大面临紧迫的水安全问题。它的许多河流盆地正在经历周期性的水短缺，昂贵的洪水和干旱，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水质和数量的影响不断增加。为了确保持续的水生生态系统健康，持续的经济增长以及在加拿大河流盆地的负责资源发展，是综合研究议程和协作方法，侧重于科学和水安全治理。为此，需要一种新的培训研究生和博士后研究员的模型 - 一种全面且面向职业的模型，并以研究重点融合了许多支持水安全的学科的协作和融合。我们的NSERC为水安全计划合作伙伴创建了18名成熟的研究人员，该研究人员来自萨斯喀彻温省，曼尼托巴省，卡尔加里，麦克马斯特，麦克马斯特和八个私营部门公司的地理，土木工程，地球科学，生物学，大气科学和公共政策的学科。该计划基于科学实践模型，旨在刺激研究生学习和理解科学，工程和政策分析的整合，以应对管理复杂和不确定的供水系统的当前和未来挑战。我们的研究和培训模型扩大了跨学科的互动，而无需稀释学科证书，模糊了研究和实践之间的界限，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，技能建设短期课程，专业技能发展以及协作和综合性研究的结合，NSERC为水安全受训者创建，将成为知识渊博，综合性的，以及准备填补技术毕业生的需求加拿大及其他地区的专家，创新者，领导者和有影响力的研究人员。