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Visible to the public Innovations for Sustainable Food, Energy, and Water Supplies in Intensively Cultivated Regions

Submitted by rodrigka on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 2:30pm. Contributor:

To keep pace with the demands of a growing global population, innovations will be needed to meet the unprecedented challenge of producing more food in intensively cultivated regions with less net energy and lowered environmental impacts. In this project, researchers from the biophysical, socioeconomic, and computational sciences will investigate two types of innovations using data from the northern U.S. Corn Belt.

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Visible to the public WaterSmart- A Decision-Support Web Service System to Facilitate Informed Irrigation Decision-Making

Submitted by rodrigka on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 2:30pm. Contributor:

Irrigation significantly increases crop yields but consumes approximately 80% of consumptive water and 23-48% of all energy used in crop production in U.S. Therefore, developing low-cost efficient irrigation technologies, applicable at the state or even national level, will have significant impact in enhancing agricultural profitability and competitativity and environmental and economic health.

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Visible to the public Indige-FEWSS- Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security-Sovereignty

Submitted by rodrigka on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 2:30pm. Contributor:

About 35% of homes in the Navajo Nation are not connected to central power or drinking water systems. To address this issue, this National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of Arizona, in partnership with Dine College and Navajo Technical University, will develop a diverse STEM workforce with intercultural awareness and multidisciplinary knowledge/skills for high priority research in sustainable food, energy, and water systems (FEWS). Such systems are appropriate in many remote regions of the world.

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Visible to the public Feeding and Powering the World - Capturing Sunlight to Split Water and Generate Fertilizer and Fuels.pdf

Submitted by rodrigka on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 2:30pm. Contributor:

In this collaborative research program the expertise of nine research groups has been combined to address critical, multi-disciplinary challenges in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: the production of hydrogen, the reduction of carbon dioxide to useable fuel, and the reduction of nitrogen to synthetic fertilizer. Currently, nearly all hydrogen is synthesized from non-renewable carbon sources and carbon dioxide is treated as an abundant waste. Additionally, the Haber-Bosch process for using this hydrogen to reduce nitrogen is energy intensive, which demands further fossil fuel consumption.

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Visible to the public FEWSTERN- US-China Food-Energy-Water Systems Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Network

Submitted by rodrigka on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 2:30pm. Contributor:

The interconnectedness of food, energy, and water (FEW) systems in meeting societal demands is broadly acknowledged. Similarly, competitive and synergistic allocations of water and energy resources for agricultural production, industrial demands, and human consumption are understood and their economic impacts predictable. Far less appreciated and understood are the relationships and feedback scenarios between the environment and the FEW systems complex.