{"id":11214,"date":"2025-12-05T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsm.ucmerced.edu\/?page_id=11214"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:12:17","slug":"2023-alianza-mx-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wsm.ucmerced.edu\/zh\/2023-alianza-mx-project\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Alianza MX Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. Resilient Communities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Participants: John Williams (moderator), Marina Mautner (SEI), Jeanette Cobian (UC Merced), Laura Ponce (Ecosur). For presentations access here (provided approval)<\/p>\n<p>Progress: most participants of this group met in this event for the first time so the discussion was focused on new research ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Specific issues and needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of effective fire alert and prevention<\/li>\n<li>Ways to establish a better understanding and communication with communities from their experience and history<\/li>\n<li>Needs assessment to face and interact with fire: solidarity, risks, action, prevention<\/li>\n<li>Resilient communities review:\n<ul>\n<li>Culture, honesty, hope, joint efforts<\/li>\n<li>Climate resiliency: droughts, floods, fires. Socio-environmental responsability<\/li>\n<li>Local community definition of \u201cresiliency\u201d and action associated to it.<\/li>\n<li>Including social experts<\/li>\n<li>Learning from community historical or ancestral adaptations<\/li>\n<li>Technology-based adaptations for Mexico and California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. Resilient Communities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Participants: John Williams (moderator), Marina Mautner (SEI), Jeanette Cobian (UC Merced), Laura Ponce (Ecosur). For presentations access here (provided approval)<\/p>\n<p>Progress: most participants of this group met in this event for the first time so the discussion was focused on new research ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Specific issues and needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of effective fire alert and prevention<\/li>\n<li>Ways to establish a better understanding and communication with communities from their experience and history<\/li>\n<li>Needs assessment to face and interact with fire: solidarity, risks, action, prevention<\/li>\n<li>Resilient communities review:\n<ul>\n<li>Culture, honesty, hope, joint efforts<\/li>\n<li>Climate resiliency: droughts, floods, fires. Socio-environmental responsability<\/li>\n<li>Local community definition of \u201cresiliency\u201d and action associated to it.<\/li>\n<li>Including social experts<\/li>\n<li>Learning from community historical or ancestral adaptations<\/li>\n<li>Technology-based adaptations for Mexico and California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Research\/Policy Thrusts identified and Potential products:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>i. Access to technological tools to prevent and mitigate fire events and effects.<\/p>\n<p>ii. Development of mechanisms to facilitate support to communities (\u201cjump the hardle\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>iii. Two pages survey for needs assessment in communities (group)<\/p>\n<p>iv. Cartography interpretation in Meseta Comitec Tojolabal (Chiapas) (group)<\/p>\n<p>v. Seeking funds for meetings among community committees in charge of Fire Cultural Management (Sep 2024, Laura-Jeanette)<\/p>\n<p>vi. PRONACOSE: Open mic interview in December: inform about local necessity to adapt local needs to increase resiliency to droughts (Sam-Dante)<\/p>\n<p>vii. Field day in Copalita river\u2019s Basin (Norma-Sam)<\/p>\n<p>viii. Outreach through radio\/TV spots by local broadcast media in native tribe\u2019s languages (Mexico) and Spanish (California) (Laura-Jeanette-Samuel-Norma).<\/p>\n<p>ix. Training on Fire Behavior to Fire Fighter Brigades in protected natural areas of Chiapas and California (Laura-Jeanette)<\/p>\n<p>x. Woking on two scientific articles for publication and at least one for UNESCO chairs (Laura, Norma, Jeanette, Sam, Dante)<\/p>\n<p>xi. Working on academic articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Frontiers in Climate: outreach products description<\/li>\n<li>International Journal of Wildland Fire: Cultural use of Fire, multidisciplinary approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2. Climate Data Science<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants<\/strong>: John Abatzoglou (moderator), Carlos Patino (UDLAP), Rene Lobato (IMTA), Sam Sandoval (UC Davis). For presentations access here (provided approval)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Progress<\/strong>: two on-going case studies were discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Specific issues and needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Variability in precipitation and evapotranspiration in SW US and NW Mexico suggest research opportunities: Intra and interannual hydroclimate variability changes over the past decades:\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Aspects of surface water budget have detectable changes in variability<\/li>\n<li>Changes consistent with anthropogenic climate change?<\/li>\n<li>Can the changes be explained by internal climate variability?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Climate Observations,Forecasts, Impacts<\/li>\n<li>Unmet needs and partnering on funding:\n<ul>\n<li>What pressing pressing hydroclimate information and risk information is needed but not widely available in Mexico?<\/li>\n<li>What funding opportunities exist to partner in expanding the Climate Toolbox into Mexico and incorporating specific needs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of climate extremes and trends (i.e. pp is declining and temperatures rising)<\/li>\n<li>Drought forecasters can be improved by studying drought indicators: PP, temperature, soil moisture, vegetation, ET<\/li>\n<li>Including tools in hydroclimatic models: most reliable models for water resources management.<\/li>\n<li>Access to geographic and water data (quality and quantity)<\/li>\n<li>Increase resiliency for water supplies and communities<\/li>\n<li>Colorado River \u2013 Water Quantity, Quality and Economic Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Water salinity and its effects on soil salinity<\/li>\n<li>Research opportunities in Colorado river estuary<\/li>\n<li>Impacts of population growth in Colorado river basin (Phoenix, Utah, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Rio Grande \u2013 Rio Bravo: Resilient Flow Regimes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Research\/Policy Thrusts identified and Potential products:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>i. Binational Seminar or Workshop on \u201cClimate Toolbox\u201d: Tech tool that describes past, present and future. Objectives: discussion about pros and cons of the tool, and opportunities to implementing it in Mexico (data collection).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ii. Proposal: Expansion of University supported climate services through Alianza:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">a. Growing need to increase access and usability of climate information to improve climate readiness today, tomorrow, and decades into the future<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">b. Corporate world rapidly filling this gap, but often lacks knowledge on climate\/hydro and is interested in profits over democratization of information<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">c. Can we leverage infrastructure and lessons with the Climate Toolbox by partnering with knowledge experts in Mexico to offer services into Mexico??<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>iii. Catedra UNESCO: joint collaboration for publishing journal articles (Journal \u201cEntorno\u201d, Bulletin, Blogs).<\/p>\n<p>iv. Tech Tool to provide climate services focused on agricultural management to support farmers decision making.<\/p>\n<p>v. Use different outreach spaces or means to inform: Blogs, videos, webpages, infographics, etc. on academic platforms and\/or Alianza\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>vi. Scientific papers and policy briefs (i.e. Frontiers on \u201cWater Security\u201d):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">a. Flood management and correlation analysis between floods and economical losses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">b. Reliable multi-scale geographic and hydrological datasets to increase resilience to water scarcity<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3. Groundwater Sustainability<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0Participants: Tom Harmon (moderator), Francisco Flores (DWR), Graciela Herrera (UNAM). For presentations access here (provided approval)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Progress<\/strong>: MAR Playbook Case study (UCM-UNAM)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Specific issues and needs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0MLRP implementation and possible tech tool for aquifer recharge: evaluate feasibility and chances of success\n<ul>\n<li>Identify MLRP suitability features<\/li>\n<li>Identify data and create maps for features<\/li>\n<li>Understand stakeholders priorities<\/li>\n<li>Add cost-benefit analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Effects of MAR on water quality: uncertainty?<\/li>\n<li>Empowering communities to monitor domestic well water<\/li>\n<li>Aquifer overdraft in both, CA and Mexico: practices and strategies must be designed according to particular local conditions in order to be succesful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Research\/Policy Thrusts identified and Potential products<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i. Catedras Conahcyt (Dr Herrera)<\/p>\n<p>ii. MAR Playbook: continuous work on a \u201cLive\u201d document that is fed by new experiences and knowledge. Next steps<\/p>\n<p>iii. Papers and Policy briefs:<\/p>\n<p>o Methodologies and protocols<\/p>\n<p>o Include special issue in Frontiers \u201cWater Security\u201d (Tom Harmon)<\/p>\n<p>iv. Academic exchange (Mario Hernandez and Graciela Herrera visiting UC Merced on Feb 2024)<\/p>\n<p>v. Book with four Alianza\u2019s core groups as chapters<\/p>\n<p>vi. Pilot project on artificial aquifer recharge in native communities (Manatiales, Mexico)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;22px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4. Integrated Water Management<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Participants<\/strong>: Marc Beutel (moderator), Leopoldo Mendoza (UABC), Aldo ramirez (TM). For presentations access here (provided approval)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Progress<\/strong>: Case study (UCM-UABC) Article \u201cAchieving Responsible Reclaimed Water Reuse for Vineyard Irrigation: Lessons from Napa Valley, California and Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California\u201d final review for submission to Frontiers in Water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specific issues and needs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water issues in Guadalupe (Mendoza-Beutel-Hansen):\n<ul>\n<li>Water scarcity<\/li>\n<li>Cities produce large amounts of wastewater<\/li>\n<li>Water quality is variable due to lack of reliable treatments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lessons from Napa: same issues and wastewater treatment and use in agriculture but 40 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Key questions to implement water reuse:\n<ul>\n<li>No information on emerging contaminants that could affect grape quality<\/li>\n<li>Effect of reclaimed water on soil composition<\/li>\n<li>Large volumes of water<\/li>\n<li>Social, economic and legal aspects no addressed yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Empowering communities to monitor domestic well water<\/li>\n<li>Aquifer overdraft in both, CA and Mexico: practices and strategies must be designed according to particular local conditions in order to be successful<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure for water storage and distribution in Monterrey (A. Ramirez):\n<ul>\n<li>Assessment of climate threats and water supply vulnerability<\/li>\n<li>Studying and evaluating plans and policies that have failed to meet results as expected<\/li>\n<li>Needs to estimate operation cost, water rates, technical feasibility and optimization of methodologies to transport and store water<\/li>\n<li>Aquifer monitoring in Monterrey: no recovery reported when they switc to surface water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Research\/Policy Thrusts identified and Potential products:<\/p>\n<p>i. Water reuse in winegrapes: (Dr Mendoza)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Determination of quality of treated water according to Mexican legislation<\/li>\n<li>Determination of 5 emerging contaminants of concern<\/li>\n<li>Comparison of water quality standards (Tijuana and California)<\/li>\n<li>Establishment of a pilot scale irrigation scheme in Guadalupe<\/li>\n<li>Assess potential accumulation of contaminants in soils<\/li>\n<li>Assess legal, economic and social aspects in Guadalupe and compare to California\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Policy brief: proposed strategies to secure viability and sustainability of the water reuse scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Oxygenation in Bravo valley: implement technique in water bodies as a sustainable mechanism to purify water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ii. 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