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OBJECTIVE OF GRANT

OBJECTIVE OF GRANT. Our proposed project will increase the capacity of our team to develop an applied interdisciplinary scientific research plan to study complex water systems in transitioning irrigated landscapes of the Intermountain West.

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OBJECTIVE OF GRANT

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  1. OBJECTIVE OF GRANT • Our proposed project will increase the capacity of our team to develop an applied interdisciplinary scientific research plan to study complex water systems in transitioning irrigated landscapes of the Intermountain West. • The scientific question at the center of our project is: what are the intended and unintended consequences of expected changes in the allocation and efficiency of water use at the watershed scale?

  2. Specific Objectives • Objective 1: All team members will engage and better understand component scientific models from other disciplines, plus contribute to developing an integrated systems model that links these components. • Objective 2: Build our team’s capacity to bring human dimensions into core models that capture important hydrologic and ecological processes at the watershed scale. • Objective 3: Develop our scientific framework in concert with water resource managers.

  3. In this proposed project, we seek to find ways to incorporate the following four types of water resource management behaviors into integrated models of hydrologic and ecological processes. • Increased efficiency of water transmission and use through changes in agricultural irrigation infrastructure (Huffaker and Whittlesey 2003; Peterson and Ding 2005). • Changed reservoir operations and dam releases to accommodate new users and previously unrecognized environmental objectives (Webb et al. 1999). • Shifting objectives and water management behaviors of rural landowners associated with the spread of rural residential and vacation homes in the region (Gosnell, Haggerty and Byorth 2007). • Formalreallocation of water rights from traditional agricultural users to urban and industrial water users through options contracts, trades, exchanges, leases, and permanent sale of water rights (National Research Council 1992; Gollehon 1999; (Knapp et al. 2003; Brown 2006).

  4. 4 Main Activities • Weekly workshops / work group sessions • Each sessions will include of a 30-minute public presentation followed by an hour of intensive discussion. • We will invite scientists from a range of disciplines and methodological approaches from within and outside our team to share their research methods, approaches, and findings, and to suggest how they would better integrate complex social, political, hydrologic and ecological processes that characterize the Intermountain West landscape into an interdisciplinary science program. • We will ask water managers to tell our team about the pressing issues and concerns that drive or constrain their decisions regarding water management in an era of increasing water demand and changing climate conditions. • We will also record, archive and post the session presentations on a project website to extend the impacts of these sessions to the wider research, student, and practitioner communities.

  5. Activities (cont) • four in-depth research methodology workshops to build a unified vision among the team members of the scientific hypotheses, data collection plans and analysis methods, and component and integrative modeling approaches that will guide our future research (January-March, 2011). • twodaylong field workshops involving our science team and water resource managers and water users from the Little Bear River watershed and the larger lower Bear River Basin • , we will write a synthesis paper that outlines our plan for a water systems research observatory that integrates human, hydrologic, engineering and ecological components (Spring 2011).

  6. Dimensions of Inter- & Trans-D Science • Bridging/merging disciplines • Disciplinary vs multi-disciplinary • Multi-D vs Inter-disciplinary • Inter-D vs Trans-disciplinary • Role of Stakeholders • Educational audience • Informants • Engaged in science

  7. Stage Model of Inter-D Faculty Teams Time Amey, M. J., & Brown, D. F. (2004). Breaking Out of the Box: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Faculty Work: Information Age Publishing.

  8. Role of Stakeholders • What is role of stakeholders on most science projects? • What can the role be?

  9. Cross-D Team Building • Communication • Meeting one another • Learning about one another • Learning other ‘languages’ • Moving toward Inter- and Trans-D models

  10. INTROS • Name, what you do • Experiences with • Water-resources related research • Team-oriented research (multi-D? inter-D?) • Experiences working with social (natural) scientists • Experiences working with stakeholders

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