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[T.Tomich
01/14/2004]
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Opportunities
for follow up funding and activities: USAID initiative in watershed
management: www.usaid.gov/about/wssd/water.html.
The activities mentioned 'development of regional and national
policies and regulatory frameworks, using advanced technologies' would
seem to be a good fit with BNPP.
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Mid
2004, meeting in Indonesia: the ASB Global Steering Group meets each
year; in conjunction with the 2-day 'governance' meeting and a
fieldtrip, we always try to arrange a 2-day science meeting. One
(leading) idea at this point is to feature 'forests and water'
as the theme of the science meeting. Dates aren't set yet and I
still need to discuss this with Meine and our other hosts in Indonesia
(CIFOR and GOI), but I just wanted to flag that for the group as a
possibility, probably in the second half of the year.
[C.Vorosmarty
10/24/2003]
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Synoptic
scale, pan-Tropical analysis is capable of showing major domains of
hydrologic change and potential vulnerability arising from land cover
change
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Comparisons
of synoptic-scale and process level models show disparities arising
from model formulation, and importantly, different spatial scales.
These differences arise from disparities in the resolution (spatially
and temporally) of key biogeophysical inputs, including meteorological
forcings.
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Multi-resolution
sensitivity analysis (from 50 km down to 1km) in Central America
demonstrates that geomorphology-based vulnerability indices increase
in severity with finer granularity and greater proportions of the
regional population is put at risk.
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Future
work is required to more clearly articulate the specific space/time
resolutions necessary to assess such vulnerability.
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Future
work is also required to augment existing geomorphometric indices
(e.g. nested basin slope-length measures) with more dynamical features
of the hydrologic cycle (i.e. precipitation, runoff, discharge).
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These
expanded technical capabilities could then be used to focus on the
conjunctive interactions among shifting mosaics of land cover change,
climate extremes, population growth/migration, infrastructure, and
coping capacities (e.g. water infrastructure, flood warning,
etc).
[K.
Sebastian, E. Douglas, T.Tomich 10/2003]
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