RAPID: Texas Winter Storm

快速：德克萨斯州冬季风暴

• 批准号: 2126096
• 负责人: Haoran Chu
• 金额: $ 8.62万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 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: 2021-04-15 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2126096&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Texas; Winter; Storm

As one of the first natural disasters striking the continental United States since the COVID-19 outbreak, the 2021 Winter Storm has caused severe economic and health damage in Texas as millions of residents lost electricity and water supply amid the record-breaking cold outbreak and an ongoing pandemic. In response to these challenges, this Grant for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) project assesses the influence of extreme weather, power outages, the COVID-19 pandemic, and online social network use on Texas residents’ access to resources and information embedded in their social network (i.e., social capital) and recovery from the winter storm (i.e., disaster resilience). Additionally, the research seeks to identify if the use of public (e.g., Twitter) vs. invitation-only social networks (e.g., Nextdoor) alleviates or exacerbates the disparity in social capital and resilience. Findings from this project on the one hand help us understand the long-term influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on our society, while on the other contribute to the design and implementation of future disaster relief programs targeting underprivileged communities in the U.S.Utilizing a longitudinal survey targeting residents of 108 counties in Texas with major disaster declaration, this project seeks to achieve three objectives. First, it identifies the influence of socioeconomic status, extreme weather, power outages, and the COVID-19 pandemic on Texas residents’ access to social capital during the 2021 winter storm. Second, the proposed project pinpoints the extent to which the use of different online social networks (i.e., public vs. invitation-only online social networks) facilitated Texas residents’ access to bonding, bridging, and linking social capital during the winter storm. Third, it seeks to identify the extent to which online social network use and social capital acquisition mitigated the psychological, physical, and financial impacts inflicted by the winter storm and power outages.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.

作为自 COVID-19 爆发以来首次袭击美国大陆的自然灾害之一，2021 年冬季风暴给德克萨斯州造成了严重的经济和健康损害，数百万居民在创纪录的寒冷爆发和为了应对这些挑战，快速响应研究补助金 (RAPID) 项目评估了极端天气、停电、COVID-19 大流行和在线社交网络使用对德克萨斯州居民获取嵌入资源和信息的影响。在他们的社交网络中此外，该研究还试图确定使用公共网络（例如 Twitter）与仅限邀请的社交网络（例如 Nextdoor）是否可以缓解或缓解冬季风暴带来的影响。加剧了社会资本和复原力的差距。该项目的研究结果一方面有助于我们了解 COVID-19 大流行对我们社会的长期影响，另一方面有助于未来救灾的设计和实施。针对美国贫困社区的计划该项目利用对德克萨斯州宣布发生重大灾害的 108 个县的居民进行的纵向调查，力求实现三个目标：首先，确定社会经济状况、极端天气、停电和新冠疫情的影响。 -19 大流行对 2021 年冬季风暴期间德克萨斯州居民获得社会资本的影响 其次，拟议项目明确了不同在线社交网络（即公共社交网络与仅限邀请的在线社交网络）的使用程度。第三，它试图确定在线社交网络的使用和社会资本获取在多大程度上减轻了冬季风暴造成的心理、身体和财务影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。