CNH-L: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Biophysical Feedbacks in the Changing Bonneville Salt Flats

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项目编号	1617473
	CNH-L: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Biophysical Feedbacks in the Changing Bonneville Salt Flats
	Brenda Bowen
主持机构	University of Utah
项目开始年	2016
	2016-07-01
项目结束日期	2020-06-30
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	1499999(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	ABSTRACT The Bonneville Salt Flats is a vast perennial salt pan in northwest Utah that is changing rapidly. The system is sensitive to variations in rain, wind, evaporation, and groundwater flux, and it is known world-wide as the location where land-speed racing records are set. It has also supported potash mining and other recreational activities. Recent environmental changes are limiting these historic uses, and land managers are actively making decisions about ways to preserve this environment for the continuation of land-speed racing, while still maintaining opportunities for natural resource extraction and ecosystem function. This project will look closely at how the physical environment and the human population around it are linked; how the changing environment influences decisions and policy changes regarding the maintenance and use of the Bonneville Salt Flats; and how ongoing human activities and interventions are altering the conditions of this important resource. This project will identify the linkages among management decisions, stakeholder perception and use, and the natural biophysical and hydrological system of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Examining the salt flats as a coupled natural and human system will help determine: how environmental, hydrological, and microbiological conditions regulate the dissolution and precipitation of the salt crust; the nature of the relationships among various stakeholders and their motivations for maintaining specific conditions at the Bonneville Salt Flats; the influence of the salt flats on culture and land use over time; and the effects of human activities, decisions, and mitigation efforts on the biophysical system. This project will quantify rates and characteristics of environmental change and evaluate the feedbacks between the biophysical changes and the stakeholder communities.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/69796
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brenda Bowen.CNH-L: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Biophysical Feedbacks in the Changing Bonneville Salt Flats.2016.