BLUEGEM

The coordination of the six projects funded by the Soils 2020 CRA is promoted by the NSF.

The BLUEGEM project is also benefiting from a special funding from ANR for coordination activities among these six projects.

Coordination Action 1. Share BLUEGEM’s global simulation results to the other CRA projects

• We will share a list of our global simulations and main variables (on the BLUEGEM web page, planned under task T1), and upon request by the PIs of the other projects, we will extract the requested data for their regions of interest (in netcdf format). The results of the high-resolution simulations over France and Mekong may also be distributed if necessary, but in a more limited way, since the high resolution drastically increases the data file’s size (for both storage and transfer).
• For easier appropriation, we also propose to plot maps and time series for selected variables, to be discussed with the projects’ PIs. Indicators based on simple combinations or the simulated variables may also be produced, if simple enough and upon discussion.
• The results of data processing will be made available online to the general public, in a FAIR way (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), unless they involve non-open input data (which will not be the case for our simulation results). This action will therefore contribute to task T5a of the project, aiming at disseminating the BLUEGEM results.

Coordination Action 2. Gather scientists and stakeholders from the other CRA projects to discuss plausible options for GW and irrigation management across the globe under climate change

• The approach is to use participatory methods to combine the results from the BLUEGEM project (global scale simulations, social science and transdisciplinary work at regional scale in two contrasted regions), with the expertise of other CRA projects and invited international experts, gathered at workshops organized alongside the CRA meetings, to discuss plausible options for GW and irrigation management across the globe under climate change.
• The other CRA projects will be involved at each of the three Belmont CRA meetings:
• kick-off meeting: information on BLUEGEM and Actions 1 and 2 for identification of interested projects
• mid-term meeting (half-day): informal exchanges between BLUEGEM scientists and interested PIs and project members on (i) BLUEGEM results and participatory work methods, (ii) the natural and social issues related to GW-irrigation-climate change in the areas addressed by the other CRA projects.
• end-of-term CRA meeting: main workshop of Action 2 (1 or 2 days depending on the number of participants), for interactive discussion regarding plausible solutions for sustainable GW and irrigation management, and how they relate to regional features. Following task T4F, the expected outcomes should take the form of storylines, which are efficient to convene information in a decision-making perspective (Malekpour 2017). We will highlight if general solutions can be proposed (trans-regional), and also regions where consensual tradeoffs seem difficult to achieve.
• This action corresponds to task T4G of the BLUEGEM project.