GP-EXTRA Urban-Wide Advanced Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (Urban-WATER) program

GP-EXTRA 城市范围内的高级跨学科环境研究（城市水）计划

• 批准号: 1911584
• 负责人: Ruby Broadway
• 金额: $ 31.58万
• 依托单位: Dillard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; EXTRA; Urban; Wide; Advanced

Part 1 - The Urban-WATER project will create a unique interdisciplinary extracurricular certificate program at Dillard University that will enhance diversity and community problem-solving in the geosciences, particularly related to urban water issues. The purpose of this program is to train students in real world water-related environmental issues within an urban setting in order to grow the next generation of scientists and an urban water workforce. The intransigent environmental issues in the city of New Orleans touch on a building crisis for our nation amidst urban growth, the removal of watersheds and accelerating climate change. Thus, this program targets a central problem of critical national importance for economic prosperity and human welfare.The program will be based at Dillard University, a historically black university and college In New Orleans Louisiana, and a key training pipeline for African American students and females in science. In light of the results of Hurricane Katrina and other recent weather events, New Orleans is an ideal a test bed to engage and interest students toward a key scientific and urban/economic problem. Notably, in 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, exemplifying the tremendous vulnerability of urban homes and businesses to rising water, with other major cities across the U.S. facing similar challenges. Utilizing the Gulf Coast as a backdrop, this project will center on experiential approaches to environmental teaching and research, infusing GIS mapping, economic analyses, and community participation, to improve and advance undergraduate STEM education pathways into the geosciences.Part 2 - Twenty advanced students per year in their final two years of studies at Dillard University will be selected to participate in the Urban-WATER certificate program. These students will form a social/academic cohort and will pursue activities in the biological sciences, computer sciences, urban studies and economics to build a new community at Dillard for developing interest, awareness and competencies in key environmental issues affecting New Orleans. Topics will include: urban water geoscience, urban hydrogeology, the science of runoff, water usage, water management, and protection as well as the political and economic issues involved in urban water systems. In sum, this certificate program will interweave the study of geographic information systems (GIS), geography, cartography, spatial analysis, and fields such as geo-visualization, geodesy, geo-computation, modeling, and computer science to establish a new transdisciplinary field in urban water studies. This skill set will be brought to bear on the long-standing problem of urban water in New Orleans as a port city facing another potential catastrophic water-related event within this century. Dillard faculty will mentor students to develop independent research topics for the capstone course of the certificate with their research activities including water toxicology, flood assessment, GIS applications and other topics.Partners involved in this project include Dillard's School of STEM, the Department of Urban Studies, and the College of Business. In addition recruitment will also leverage and engage students from the NSF-funded Louis Stokes Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-LAMP), an alliance of 12 institutions across Louisiana. Methods involve a transdisciplinary team-based approach to courses/activities as well as a place-based approach through a unique certificate program that will draw community interest in geosciences across the university and in the region.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

第1部分 - 城市水项目将在迪拉德大学创建一个独特的跨学科课外证书计划，以增强地球科学的多样性和社区问题解决，尤其是与城市水问题相关。该计划的目的是在城市环境中培训与现实世界中与水有关的环境问题的学生，以增加下一代科学家和城市水的劳动力。新奥尔良市的固定环境问题在城市增长，拆除分水岭和加速气候变化的情况下涉及我们国家的建筑危机。因此，该计划是针对国家对经济繁荣和人类福利至关重要的核心问题。该计划将位于迪拉德大学，历史悠久的黑人大学和新奥尔良路易斯安那州的黑人大学和学院，以及针对科学领域的非裔美国学生和女性的关键培训管道。鉴于卡特里娜飓风和其他最近的天气事件的结果，新奥尔良是一个理想的测试床，可以吸引学生对关键的科学和城市/经济问题感兴趣。值得注意的是，在2005年，保护新奥尔良的堤防和洪水壁上有50多次失败，这体现了城市房屋和企业对升水的巨大脆弱性，美国其他主要城市面临类似的挑战。该项目利用墨西哥湾沿岸作为背景，将集中在环境教学和研究的体验方法上，注入GIS映射，经济分析和社区参与，以改善和提高本科本科STEM教育途径进入地球科学。第2-2-20名高级学生在Dillard University的最后两年中，将在Dillard University的最后两年中参与Dillard University的研究。这些学生将组建一个社会/学术队列，并将在生物科学，计算机科学，城市研究和经济学中进行活动，以在迪拉德建立一个新的社区，以发展影响新奥尔良的关键环境问题的兴趣，意识和能力。主题将包括：城市水地地球科学，城市水文地质学，径流科学，用水，水管理和保护以及城市水系统所涉及的政治和经济问题。总而言之，该证书计划将交织的地理信息系统研究（GIS），地理，制图，空间分析以及诸如地理访问，地理，地理，地理莫特尔，建模，建模和计算机科学等领域，以建立城市水研究中的新跨学科领域。这项技能将在新奥尔良的城市水上长期存在，因为港口城市面临着本世纪的另一个潜在灾难性水有关的事件。迪拉德教职员工将指导学生为证书的顶峰课程开发独立的研究主题，其研究活动包括水毒理学，洪水评估，GIS应用和其他主题。参与该项目的党派包括Dillard的STEM，城市研究系和商学院。此外，招聘还将利用NSF资助的路易斯·斯托克斯路易斯安那州联盟（LS-LAMP）的学生（LS-LAMP），这是路易斯安那州12个机构的联盟。方法涉及一种基于跨学科的课程/活动的基于跨学科的方法，以及通过独特的证书计划进行基于地点的方法，该计划将吸引整个大学和该地区对地球科学的兴趣。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的，这是值得的。