Andean-Amazonian Watershed Experience: Exploring Sustainability of Mountain Ecosystems in Ecuador (Awesome)

SUSTAINING THE CAPACITY OF WATERSHEDS TO REGULATE AND FILTER WATER FLOWS THAT NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS AND A GROWING HUMAN POPULATION, IS ONE OF THE WORLD? Addressing this Challenge Requirements that Future Leaders have a Strong Understnding of the Science of Watershed Sustainability and Complex Socioecohydrological Systems (SEHS), and the ability to apply that UNDERSTANDING TO DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE POLY Transdisciplinary approaches. This Irres Seeks to Develop An International Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students, The? (Awesome). The Goals of Awesome Are To, (1) Provide An International Research Experience that enhances Student Underestanding of the complex dynamics of coupled sehs in responsuing to diverse global change drivers, and (2) Investigate Science-Based Polies for Improving Watershed Sustainability. The Andean-Amazonian Region of Ecuador? With its Range of Water-Related Issues, Global Change Divers, and Diverse Water Fund Polies? Provides an ideal Landscape for Mizving Students in International Research Experiences that prepare them to Tackle Complex Global Water Issues. Awesome Will Support 18 Students Over Three Years to Individual Behavior Research Projects Over Two Months at Two Sites In The Upper Andean-Amazonian Region: Alpine Paramo in the Paute Watershed, and Rainforest in the Napo Watershed. Students Will Be Supported By 26 Faculty Mentors from Three Collaboating Ecuadorian Institutions, The University of Cuenca, The Regional University of Amazonia, and the University of Azuay, and 16 UNH Faculty Mentors from Diverse Disciplines. Two Cohort Experiences, an orientation watershed tour and a synthesis workshop (10 days each), Will introduces Students to Water Resource Science and Policy Across Diverse Natural Ecosystems and Human Communities, Foster Their Capacity Systems-Thinking and Inter/Inter/Transdisciplinary Analysis Analysis, and Help Them to Conceptualalize their Own Disciplinary Research Within Complex Sehs-Watershed Dynamics.

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