The past month has been especially productive for the Riparian Resilience project team. On Friday, January 28th, we held the Inception Meeting for the project in Tucson, Arizona. It was a great opportunity for the entire team, including our partners from Hermosillo, Mexico and Copenhagen, Denmark, to meet and lay the groundwork for the exciting and challenging interdisciplinary research that we are embarking on. A highlight of the Inception Meeting was the public hour, during which members of the project team presented the research problem, central questions, methodology, and goals for project outcomes. We drew a large and diverse crowd, with over 40 people in attendance, including faculty from departments across the University of Arizona, scientists from federal agencies such as USGS, and members of stakeholder groups and organizations currently tackling similar issues in the San Pedro watershed.
Throughout the day, members of the team worked to identify research synergies, pinpoint appropriate study sites in the US and Mexico within the two watersheds (the San Pedro and the Rio Sonora), strengthen international partnerships, and begin the process of conceptualizing the Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) system.The team is now setting the first dates to conduct fieldwork in the watersheds in the coming month!
For more pictures from the Inception Meeting, see the photo link on the right side of the blog.
