Accelerating Inclusive Learning of Hydrology Under Change and COVID Times With Actions Towards a Panta Rhei Open Science for Future Earth

In Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) options have accelerated “education for preparedness” initiatives for 100 million people living at >90,000 water-risk prone areas. Before and during COVID pandemic, innovative T-shaped (“breadth-and-depth”) labs of open science have promoted education towards the Agenda 2030. Here we depict actions delivered by the Water-Adaptive Design & Innovation lab (@TheWADILab) to provide citizen science with inclusiveness (CC+), as a learning accelerator of human-water coevolution under change (i.e. ‘Panta Rhei Open Science for Future Earth’, PROSFE). We summarize CC+PROSFE examples of practical learning with a blend of options at the DRR Center for Education and Research on Disasters (CEPED, www.ceped.eesc.usp.br) through: open access to data and tools, new mechanisms, hybrid curation platforms, competency-skill curricula, and blended education. First, examples have been applied during >1,200 hours of lectures of hydrology to >600 students, ranging from “puzzling 3D transboundary aquifer” for undergraduate students (Fig 1) to competency learning (skills, fundamentals, attitudes) of blended education for professionals (Fig 2). Second, CC+PROSFE aims to: (1) mobilize international cooperation to improve knowledge and innovation to address water security challenges at “Panta Rhei Schools", i.e. welcoming visiting scientists to the School of Advanced Studies in Water & Society Under Change (SASW≻ http://www1.eesc.usp.br/ppgshs/internacionalizacao), (2) strengthen science-policy interface to reach water security at local-to-global levels through the new UNESCO Chair in Urban Waters and the new WMO-Americas Regional Climate Centre hosted by Prohimet (https://www.prohimet.org/), (3) pave new pathways for water security knowledge to empower and activate citizenry at the local level using the Socio-Hydrological Observatory for Water Security (SHOWS), cycles of #OneDropOfScience #OneDoseOfResilience and Academia-Community’s Waters for Our World! Project (https://prg.usp.br/academia-comunidade-wow-waters-for-our-world/), and (4) develop institutional and human capacities for water security, sustainability and inspiration through water literacy and communication in the joint initiative of UNESCO-IHP-LAC & Pechakucha (https://www.pechakucha.com/events/agua-todavia-unesco-x-pechakucha).