Goal: Science for Better Environmental Descion Making
(a) Understanding the physical and hydrological and ecological processes in the watershed and the water bodies;
(b) Monitoring and modeling the aquatic ecosystems’ responses to watershed pressures;
(c) Proposing system dynamics and optimization models for watershed policy analysis;
(d) Developing integrated modeling framework for better environmental decision making;
(e) Conducting interdisciplinary researches and case studies covering watershed-scale social, economic, ecological and basic physical processes and their linkages.