National Workshop: Collaborative Research in Engineering and Geoscience: Process-driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development

国家研讨会：工程和地球科学合作研究：可持续发展背景下过程驱动的风险评估和缓解

• 批准号: 0525781
• 负责人: David Furbish
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-15 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0525781&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Workshop; Collaborative; Research; Engineering

Furbish/0525781 (paired with Mauldon/CMS-0529898)VanderbiltThis award supports a national workshop to explore and set forth emerging opportunities for research collaboration between engineering and geoscience under the theme of Process-Driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development. Workshop participants will represent a broad cross-section of specialties, backgrounds and career stages. The product of the three-day workshop, to be hosted by Vanderbilt University during the summer of 2005, will be a report to NSF and the research community on the scientific and societal needs for such collaboration, and a list of priority cross-disciplinary research areas. Intellectual Merit The workshop theme will center on assessments of process-driven system risk and reliability, and on risk reduction and mitigation strategies in the context of system behavior. The systems to be examined involve both natural and designed components and may necessitate modeling of system behavior over time scales wherein engineering design lives approach the "deep" time of geological and geophysical processes. The workshop organizers mean to aim beyond current approaches to assessment of system behavior that are based largely on extant physical and environmental conditions, and instead focus on next-generation methods and tools that assess active processes rather than current state, and incorporate dynamical modeling of relevant time-dependent processes to anticipate future behavior. In addition, the workshop organizers envision "risk and reliability" as being applied to the health and functioning of environmental and ecological systems, as well as being applied in a conventional engineering sense to human and social risks and designed-system reliability. The organizers believe that certain topical areas are poised to gain immediately from exchanges between the engineering and geoscience communities, either because advances are likely to emerge directly from the joint expertise of these communities, or because these areas involve presently at-risk systems (e.g. coastal lands and wetlands). Broader Impacts A pressing need exists to develop and strengthen cooperative cross-disciplinary efforts in the engineering and geoscience communities - efforts that are focused on: (i) collaborative research in key areas where advances and innovations will require the knowledge and perspectives of both disciplines; (ii) developing and improving educational alliances between these communities; and (iii) applying engineering and geoscience expertise jointly to problems of increasing societal importance and complexity, both in the U.S. and worldwide. The reasons for this need are compelling. Projected population growth within the U.S. and worldwide over the next several decades will lead to demands for resources, including habitable space, at unprecedented scales, and with this an equally unprecedented need for strategies and technologies aimed at achieving the sustainable use of these resources - balancing utilization of resources and habitat with their protection and preservation for the long-term well-being of ecological systems and humans alike. These concerns fundamentally involve the intersection of engineering and the geosciences, and point clearly to the need to mesh existing knowledge and expertise of these disciplines in addressing questions of risk, mitigation strategies and sustainability of future development, as well as the need to develop novel ways of thinking about complex systems, natural and engineered, and their coupled behavior over times scales ranging from minutes to decades and centuries.

Furbish/0525781（与Mauldon/CMS-0529898配对）Vanderbiltthis奖奖支持一个国家研讨会，以在可持续发展的背景下以过程驱动驱动的风险评估和缓解方式探索并为工程和地球科学之间的研究合作提供了新的研究机会。研讨会的参与者将代表专业，背景和职业阶段的广泛横截面。由范德比尔特大学（Vanderbilt University）在2005年夏季举办的为期三天的研讨会的产品将是NSF和研究社区的一份有关这种合作的科学和社会需求的报告，以及优先的跨学科研究领域的列表。知识分子值得讲习班主题将集中于对过程驱动的系统风险和可靠性的评估，以及在系统行为背景下的降低风险和缓解策略。要检查的系统既涉及自然和设计的组件，又可能需要对系统行为进行建模，即工程设计生活的生活在地质和地球物理过程的“深度”时期。研讨会组织者的目标是超越当前的方法来评估主要基于现存的物理和环境条件的系统行为，而是专注于评估主动过程而不是当前状态的下一代方法和工具，并纳入相关时间依赖性过程的动态模型，以预测未来的行为。此外，研讨会组织者设想“风险和可靠性”，以应用于环境和生态系统的健康和功能，并以常规工程意义应用于人类和社会风险以及设计系统的可靠性。组织者认为，某些主题领域有望立即从工程和地球科学社区之间的交流中获得收益，要么是因为进步很可能直接从这些社区的共同专业知识中出现，要么是因为这些领域涉及目前处于危险的系统（例如沿海土地和湿地）。在工程和地球科学社区中发展和加强合作跨学科的努力存在更大的紧迫需求 - （i）在关键领域的协作研究，在关键领域，进步和创新将需要这两个学科的知识和观点； （ii）建立和改善这些社区之间的教育联盟； （iii）在美国和全球范围内将工程和地球科学专业知识应用于增加社会重要性和复杂性的问题。这种需求的原因是令人信服的。在接下来的几十年中，预计美国和全球的人口增长将导致对资源的需求，包括可居住的空间，以前所未有的规模，并且在这种情况下同样前所未有的策略和技术的需求，旨在实现这些资源的可持续利用 - 平衡资源利用和栖息地的保护和栖息地，并为他们的保护和保存而进行长期的效果和友好的效果，并保持友善的态度，并具有繁生的态度。 These concerns fundamentally involve the intersection of engineering and the geosciences, and point clearly to the need to mesh existing knowledge and expertise of these disciplines in addressing questions of risk, mitigation strategies and sustainability of future development, as well as the need to develop novel ways of thinking about complex systems, natural and engineered, and their coupled behavior over times scales ranging from minutes to decades and centuries.