Objective
The Dryland Research SSA will support visits of European scientists to the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) to conduct research on drylands-related issues under the Transnational Access Program. Located in the heart of the Negev dryland of Israel, BIDR offers a rare combination of an easily accessible dryland environment with all the logistics required for conducting modern multidisciplinary research. An integral part of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, BIDR is composed of 6 research departments: Man in the Desert, Desert Ecology, Water Research, Solar Energy & Environmental Physics, Dryland Agriculture, and Dryland Biotechnologies.
The mission of BIDR is to study and disseminate knowledge of the desert environment, based on basic and applied research, in order to:
(1) explore potentials for utilizing national, regional and global drylands;
(2) develop means to combat desertification;
(3) develop means for sustainable development of populated drylands.
The unique merit of BIDR, Multidisciplinary approach to drylands research, is the reason for proposing the entire BIDR as an SSA program. BIDR has 8 regional research stations and farms in the Negev dryland. These offer a wide range of climatic and landscape characteristics (rocky, sandy and loessial watersheds); altitudes 100-900 m above sea level); mean annual rainfall (20-300 mm); dryland types (hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid); biota (African, Asian, Mediterranean); farming type (intensive dryland agricultural farms as well as extensive agriculture and pasturalism); and other land uses (water resource development projects, nature reserves and ecotourism).
All institutional facilities and field sites will be available to SSA guests. The infrastructure caters to visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows and research students. The proposal will allow approximately 58 new SSA users to benefit from BIDR infrastructure for periods averaging 38 user days (total 2200 user days) over 4 years.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology drainage basins
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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FP6-2004-INFRASTRUCTURES-5
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BEER SHEVA
Israel
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