UPDATE
The VIEW program is in its second stage of project selection; decisions on Expressions of Intent (EOIs) were sent on December 6, 2024 by email. Please check your spam folder if you have not received an update on your EOI status. If you have not received any communications regarding your EOI, please contact water@schmidtsciences.org.
Program Summary
The Virtual Institute for Earth’s Water (VIEW) will support research needed for a sustainable global water future. This encompasses quantifying and addressing sustainable water use, improving projections of freshwater resources, preparing for climate extremes, and quantifying linkages to ecosystem resilience, the carbon cycle, and climate change mitigation including the food/energy/water nexus. Schmidt Sciences intends to fund multiple transformational research projects that will be crucial in informing freshwater management, producing results that are poised to support decision-making worldwide within the next decade.
Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institutes are high-risk, high-impact international networks intentionally formed to pursue timely opportunities to significantly increase our knowledge of the natural world and apply it for the positive benefit of science or society.
Our Mission
The intended outcome of VIEW is to advance a holistic and integrated understanding of global freshwater availability and its evolution at spatial and temporal scales that will: enable effective and equitable seasonal to multi-decadal planning and decision-making for conservation, energy, food, and water availability at regional scales; quantify the limits of sustainable water extraction; identify regions and ecosystems facing systemic risk within the coming decades; and address opportunities for a sustainable water future for everyone. To that end, VIEW will tackle crucial knowledge gaps in freshwater research and facilitate an integrated approach to global freshwater study and management under the umbrella of future climate change scenarios, motivated by the following overarching questions:
How does the changing hydrologic cycle impact climate change mitigation (e.g., by informing the future of the terrestrial carbon sink and energy transitions) and vice versa?
How attainable is water sustainability at local, regional and global scales?
What will be the impacts of changing precipitation and temperature extremes on terrestrial water, and what are the limits to the resilience of human and natural systems?
Additional Information
Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institutes are high-risk, high-impact international networks intentionally formed to pursue timely opportunities to significantly increase our knowledge of the natural world and apply it for the positive benefit of science or society. The Virtual Institute for Earth’s Water (VIEW) is part of Schmidt Sciences’ newly formed Climate Institute, which aims to advance fundamental science to understand the implications of climate change mitigation strategies and to ensure that such planning takes into account Earth system feedbacks and constraints. The Climate Institute works towards a synthesis of new climate science, forging connections between Schmidt Sciences-supported work. As such, all Climate Institute projects, including VIEW projects, are encouraged to collaborate and connect within and across Schmidt Sciences programs. Programs that VIEW will closely interact with include Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institute for Scientific Software (VISS), and the Climate Institute’s Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI), Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI), and Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC), as well as potential new initiatives focused on energy and decarbonization modeling, and AI emulator research for climate and energy models.
Virtual Institute for Earth’s Water (VIEW)
UPDATE
The VIEW program is in its second stage of project selection; decisions on Expressions of Intent (EOIs) were sent on December 6, 2024 by email. Please check your spam folder if you have not received an update on your EOI status. If you have not received any communications regarding your EOI, please contact water@schmidtsciences.org.
Program Summary
The Virtual Institute for Earth’s Water (VIEW) will support research needed for a sustainable global water future. This encompasses quantifying and addressing sustainable water use, improving projections of freshwater resources, preparing for climate extremes, and quantifying linkages to ecosystem resilience, the carbon cycle, and climate change mitigation including the food/energy/water nexus. Schmidt Sciences intends to fund multiple transformational research projects that will be crucial in informing freshwater management, producing results that are poised to support decision-making worldwide within the next decade.
Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institutes are high-risk, high-impact international networks intentionally formed to pursue timely opportunities to significantly increase our knowledge of the natural world and apply it for the positive benefit of science or society.
Our Mission
The intended outcome of VIEW is to advance a holistic and integrated understanding of global freshwater availability and its evolution at spatial and temporal scales that will: enable effective and equitable seasonal to multi-decadal planning and decision-making for conservation, energy, food, and water availability at regional scales; quantify the limits of sustainable water extraction; identify regions and ecosystems facing systemic risk within the coming decades; and address opportunities for a sustainable water future for everyone. To that end, VIEW will tackle crucial knowledge gaps in freshwater research and facilitate an integrated approach to global freshwater study and management under the umbrella of future climate change scenarios, motivated by the following overarching questions:
How does the changing hydrologic cycle impact climate change mitigation (e.g., by informing the future of the terrestrial carbon sink and energy transitions) and vice versa?
How attainable is water sustainability at local, regional and global scales?
What will be the impacts of changing precipitation and temperature extremes on terrestrial water, and what are the limits to the resilience of human and natural systems?
Additional Information
Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institutes are high-risk, high-impact international networks intentionally formed to pursue timely opportunities to significantly increase our knowledge of the natural world and apply it for the positive benefit of science or society. The Virtual Institute for Earth’s Water (VIEW) is part of Schmidt Sciences’ newly formed Climate Institute, which aims to advance fundamental science to understand the implications of climate change mitigation strategies and to ensure that such planning takes into account Earth system feedbacks and constraints. The Climate Institute works towards a synthesis of new climate science, forging connections between Schmidt Sciences-supported work. As such, all Climate Institute projects, including VIEW projects, are encouraged to collaborate and connect within and across Schmidt Sciences programs. Programs that VIEW will closely interact with include Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institute for Scientific Software (VISS), and the Climate Institute’s Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI), Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI), and Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC), as well as potential new initiatives focused on energy and decarbonization modeling, and AI emulator research for climate and energy models.