REU Site: Inclusive Student Training in Rapidly Urbanizing Climate-sensitive Terrains (InSTRUCT)

REU 网站：快速城市化气候敏感地区的包容性学生培训 (InSTRUCT)

• 批准号: 2051110
• 负责人: Jay Banner
• 金额: $ 40.23万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051110&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Inclusive; Student; Training

As projected by the Fourth National Climate Assessment in 2018 for the Texas region, “As major metropolitan areas … continue their rapid population growth, overall exposure to extreme rainfall events (and droughts) will increase." A key challenge is to plan for the resilience of urban populations in the face of these challenges, in a region already prone to such weather extremes. Meeting this challenge requires an inclusive conversation that engages students from diverse backgrounds with culturally relevant material, and also incorporates multidisciplinary approaches that intertwine geosciences, hydrology, climate science, ecology, and civil engineering with fields addressing human impacts such as environmental policy, planning, and sustainability. Within our student research training program, we will analyze the processes, feedbacks, and impacts that affect our quality of life, ranging from human health, to ecosystem services, to degradation of resources. We will place new emphases on: 1) building an inclusive program by recruiting students from groups underrepresented in STEM majors and the STEM workforce, 2) integrating a diverse mentor team with respect to gender, race, culture, research, and career-stage, and 3) embracing an interdisciplinary, synergistic set of research themes, involving mentors from six different schools and disciplines within the university: natural sciences, geosciences, engineering, architecture, government, and public affairs. We thus propose to develop the REU Site on InSTRUCT: Inclusive Student Training in Rapidly Urbanizing Climate-sensitive Terrains.Most of the research projects will be focused on the central Texas region, which is a climatological and demographic hotspot. We will organize our research themes around the key connections between the integrated natural, social, and engineered subsystems. Whereas an individual student research project will emphasize one subsystem, students will gain an appreciation of all three subsystems as guided by program elements such as research roundtables, co-mentoring, and peer shadowing. Research will be organized around three interdisciplinary themes. Research Theme A will focus on engineered-natural subsystems. To understand the impacts of rapid growth of urban populations and the associated built environment, we require models of urban expansion that integrate changing urban form, climate, and ecosystems, and the resulting demands for water and other resources. Research Theme B will focus on social-engineered subsystems. By understanding individual and organizational preferences, limitations, and behaviors—along with pressures placed on them by environmental factors—we can better understand how individuals and organizations within social-engineered systems alleviate or exacerbate key interactions between the subsystems. Research Theme C will focus on past perspectives on sustainability. Studies of past societies, ecosystems and climate and hydrologic systems offer unique perspectives on present and future change that can inform planning for sustainable urban systems. Students will apply a range of methodologies to these research themes, including computational modeling of climate, hydrology, and infrastructure projections, natural geochemical tracers of water quality impacts, and survey research on equitable distribution of environmental resources. Project design will consider that the short 10-week length of the experience does not compromise the research tenets of project design, hypothesis framing, method selection, assessment of data quality, data interpretation and communication of results.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.

正如德克萨斯州地区 2018 年第四次国家气候评估所预测的那样，“随着主要大都市地区……人口继续快速增长，极端降雨事件（和干旱）的总体风险将会增加，一个关键的挑战是制定恢复能力计划。”面对这些挑战，在一个已经容易遭受此类极端天气的地区，应对这一挑战需要进行包容性的对话，让来自不同背景的学生接触与文化相关的材料，并结合将地球科学、水文学、在我们的学生研究培训计划中，我们将分析影响我们生活质量的过程、反馈和影响，包括人类影响。我们将新的重点放在：1）通过从 STEM 专业和 STEM 劳动力中代表性不足的群体中招募学生来建立包容性计划，2）在性别方面整合多元化的团队导师，种族、文化、研究、和职业阶段，以及3）拥抱一套跨学科、协同的研究主题，包括来自大学内六个不同学院和学科的导师：自然科学、地球科学、工程、建筑、政府和公共事务。 REU 网站 InSTRUCT：快速城市化气候敏感地区的包容性学生培训。大多数研究项目将集中在德克萨斯州中部地区，这是一个气候和人口热点地区。我们将组织我们的研究主题。围绕综合自然、社会和工程子系统之间的关键联系，除了单个学生研究项目将强调一个子系统外，学生将在研究圆桌会议、共同指导和研究等项目元素的指导下获得对所有三个子系统的理解。研究将围绕三个跨学科主题进行，研究主题 A 将重点关注工程自然子系统。为了了解城市人口快速增长和相关建筑环境的影响，我们需要整合不断变化的城市形态的城市扩张模型。 ,研究主题 B 将重点关注社会工程子系统，以及环境因素对他们造成的压力。更好地了解社会工程系统中的个人和组织如何减轻或加剧子系统之间的关键相互作用。研究主题 C 将关注过去对可持续发展的看法，为现在和未来提供独特的视角。可以为规划提供信息的变化学生将在这些研究主题中应用一系列方法，包括气候、水文和基础设施预测的计算模型、水质影响的自然地球化学示踪剂以及环境资源公平分配的调查研究。短短 10 周的体验时间不会损害项目设计、假设框架、方法选择、数据质量评估、数据解释和结果交流的研究原则。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Human heat health index (H3I) for holistic assessment of heat hazard and mitigation strategies beyond urban heat islands

人体热健康指数 (H3I)，用于全面评估城市热岛以外的热危害和缓解策略

• DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101675
• 发表时间: 2023-11
• 期刊: Urban Climate
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Kamath, Harsh G.;Martilli, Alberto;Singh, Manmeet;Brooks, Trevor;Lanza, Kevin;Bixler, R. Patrick;Coudert, Marc;Yang, Zong;Niyogi, Dev
• 通讯作者: Niyogi, Dev

Resetting of soil compositions by irrigation in urban watersheds: Evidence from Sr isotope variations in Austin, TX

城市流域灌溉重置土壤成分：来自德克萨斯州奥斯汀市锶同位素变化的证据

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166928
• 发表时间: 2023-12
• 期刊: Science of The Total Environment
• 影响因子: 9.8
• 作者: Mauceri, Alessandro A.;Banner, Jay L.
• 通讯作者: Banner, Jay L.