Collaborative Research: IRES Track I: Flood Resilience Program - Integrated research experiences to foster understanding on how to increase resilience in flood-prone communities

合作研究：IRES 第一轨：防洪计划 - 综合研究经验，以促进对如何提高易受洪水影响的社区的防灾能力的理解

• 批准号: 2153710
• 负责人: Samuel Brody
• 金额: $ 28.84万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2153710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; IRES; Track; Flood

Impacts from flooding continue to be the most frequent, disruptive, and costly natural hazard worldwide. These impacts continue to mount, especially in rapidly developing coastal areas most influenced by the adverse effects of climate change. A new generation of graduates is needed that have the training and skillsets to address this problem that has already been causing catastrophic episodes of flooding and its associated hardship every year in the United States alone. The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) Flood Resilience Program (FRP) between the U.S. and the Netherlands will fill this critical need by implementing a place-based integrative research and educational program in science and engineering to help produce a diverse generation of researchers and practitioners equipped to solve complex problems related to flood risk reduction in the U.S. and around the world. Each year of the program, eight U.S. students (4 undergrad and 4 grad) will engage in an immersive, six-week problem-and place-based research experience in the Netherlands, a world leader in flood risk mitigation and management. Existing partnerships established among multiple institutions, researchers, and students in both countries will be leveraged to provide students with international research experiences under the guidance of faculty and researchers from multiple disciplines in both countries. Key U.S. partners include Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) and College Station (TAMU) campuses, Jackson State University (JSU), and University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM). Dutch partners include Delft University of Technology (main host), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Rijkswaterstaat. Students will conduct research projects covering both surge-based and precipitation-driven flood problems in both urban and coastal areas. The effectiveness of structural and non-structural strategies will be investigated, leading to a better understanding of when to pursue strategies for mitigating adverse impacts from flood events. U.S. researchers and students will be able to leverage Dutch data, methods, and facilities associated with flood management. The IRES FRP will prepare the next generation of engineers and scientists that will have to tackle the societal problem of widespread flooding in an innovative fashion. Furthermore, the program will create quantitative data on specific educational techniques and methods to improve student learning outcomes as part of place-based research settings.Problem-and place-based case studies involving the Houston-Galveston and Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan areas, respectively, will integrate researchers and faculty with expertise in engineering (TAMU/JSU/UPRM/TUD), coastal structures (TUD/RWS), architecture (TUD), economics (VU) and planning (TAMUG) to guide student projects addressing the following overarching research questions: 1) what are the underlying characteristics of physical flood resilience and the differences between the two countries; 2) why are urban communities and the associated built environment so vulnerable to flood impacts; and 3) which mitigation techniques, both structural and non-structural are being implemented in the Netherlands and what can be applied in the U.S.? Students will select research projects covering both surge-based and precipitation-driven flood problems. The effectiveness of both structural and non-structural strategies will be investigated, leading to a better understanding of when to pursue avoidance or resistance strategies for mitigating adverse impacts from flood events. U.S. researchers and students will be able to leverage Dutch data, methods, facilities, and expertise, associated with flood management. The primary goal of the program will be to provide participating students with interdisciplinary problem- and place-based international research experiences by creating “authentic transformative learning environments”. Participating students will learn “how to conduct research” in general and “how to approach a problem through different disciplinary lenses.” The program will prepare the next generation of engineers and scientists in academia and practice that will have to tackle the societal problem of flooding in an innovative fashion. Furthermore, the program will create quantitative data on specific educational techniques and methods to improve student learning outcomes as part of place-based research settings. These findings will lead to improved future international research exchange programs and be incorporated into teaching strategies at all partner institutions. Emphasis will be placed on actively recruiting students from underrepresented groups to participate in the program at all collaborating institutions. Broad representation across society is particularly important for effective strategies to flood-related problems since the impacts of floods are disproportionate to vulnerable populations and flood-related lived experiences of underrepresented groups may provide the spark to pursue related higher STEM education. PIs at TAMU, UPRM and JSU, a designated HBCU, have experience with recruitment of underrepresented groups that will be brought to bear for this proposal. This project is funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).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.

洪水的影响仍然是世界范围内最常见、最具破坏性和代价高昂的自然灾害，特别是在受气候变化不利影响最严重的快速发展的沿海地区。美国和荷兰之间的国际学生研究经验 (IRES) 防洪计划 (FRP) 每年都会导致灾难性洪水及其相关困难。充满通过在科学和工程领域实施基于地方的综合研究和教育计划来满足这一迫切需求，以帮助培养一代又一代的研究人员和从业人员，他们有能力解决美国和世界各地每年与减少洪水风险相关的复杂问题。项目中，八名美国学生（4名本科生和4名研究生）将在荷兰进行为期六周的沉浸式、基于问题和地点的研究体验，荷兰是洪水风险缓解和管理领域的世界领先者，现有多个机构之间建立了合作伙伴关系。两国的研究人员和学生将在来自两国多个学科的教师和研究人员的指导下，为学生提供国际研究经验。 、杰克逊州立大学 (JSU) 和波多黎各马亚圭斯大学 (UPRM) 的荷兰合作伙伴包括代尔夫特理工大学（主要主办方）、阿姆斯特丹自由大学和 Rijkswaterstaat 学生将进行。研究项目涵盖城市和沿海地区由潮汐和降水驱动的洪水问题。将对结构性和非结构性策略的有效性进行调查，以便更好地了解何时采取减轻洪水事件不利影响的策略。美国研究人员和学生将能够利用荷兰与洪水管理相关的数据、方法和设施，为下一代工程师和科学家做好准备，以创新的方式解决广泛的洪水问题。 ，该程序将创建特定的定量数据作为基于地点的研究环境的一部分，提高学生学习成果的教育技术和方法。分别涉及休斯顿-加尔维斯顿和鹿特丹-海牙大都市区的问题和基于地点的案例研究将整合具有工程专业知识的研究人员和教师（TAMU/JSU/UPRM/TUD）、沿海结构（TUD/RWS）、建筑（TUD）、经济学（VU）和规划（TAMUG），指导学生项目解决以下总体研究问题：1）什么是自然防洪能力的基本特征以及两国之间的差异；2) 为什么城市社区和相关建筑环境如此容易受到洪水影响；3) 两国正在实施哪些结构性和非结构性缓解技术；荷兰和美国可以应用什么？学生将选择涵盖浪涌和降水驱动的洪水问题的研究项目，并将研究结构性和非结构性策略的有效性，从而更好地了解何时进行。减轻不利影响的避免或抵抗策略美国研究人员和学生将能够利用与洪水管理相关的荷兰数据、方法、设施和专业知识，该项目的主要目标是为参与的学生提供基于问题和地点的跨学科国际研究。通过创建“真实的变革性学习环境”，参与的学生将学习“如何进行研究”以及“如何通过不同学科的视角来解决问题”。该项目将为学术界和实践界的下一代工程师和科学家做好准备。这将必须解决此外，该项目还将创建有关特定教育技术和方法的定量数据，以改善学生的学习成果，作为基于地方的研究环境的一部分，这些发现将改善未来的国际研究交流项目和。将重点纳入所有合作机构的教学策略中，重点是积极招募代表性不足的群体的学生参与所有合作机构的该计划，这对于有效应对洪水相关问题的策略尤为重要。洪水造成的脆弱人群不成比例，代表性不足群体的洪水相关生活经历可能会激发 TAMU、UPRM 和 JSU（指定的 HBCU）的 PI​​ 拥有招募代表性不足群体的经验，这些经验将用于本项目。由国际科学与工程办公室 (OISE) 资助。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。