Track 1 - Center Catalyst: Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH)

轨道 1 - 中心催化剂：地表灾害中心 (CLaSH)

• 批准号: 2224871
• 负责人: Marin Clark
• 金额: $ 49.72万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224871&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Track; Center; Catalyst; Land; Surface

Landslides and river floods are common examples of land-surface hazards that have enormous impact on society because they occur frequently and in widespread environments around the world. The consequences of such hazards are magnified by climate change, modification of the land surface due to human activity, and increased exposure associated with population growth and urban development. Yet an integrated scientific approach to geohazards research lags to their growing effects. In response to the threats posed by geohazards, our funded Center Catalyst will develop a shared vision within the scientific community around contributions to hazards research and education, which will include strengthening ties between academic, government, non-profit groups, and local communities. This vision will be the basis of a proposed Center for Land-Surface Hazards (CLaSH). This Center, the detailed shape of which will be sculpted via Catalyst activities, would provide a trial for frontier work involving the impact of different types of land-surface hazards on society. Pilot activities of the Catalyst will include scientific community planning meetings, engaging existing NSF facilities and centers on education and outreach projects, and strengthening government agency partnerships. Center Catalyst activities will inform the strategic plan for a fully-fledged Center that enables innovative research on interconnected land-surface hazards, increases the diversity of geoscientists, and better prepares the public for disaster events.A particular emphasis of the Center Catalyst will be on how one incident of a hazardous event triggers more events creating a cascading hazard, such as storms that follow wildfire causing debris flows and floods. This focus is motivated by the major research challenge that individual land-surface hazards often receive attention in isolation. While they certainly merit study on their own, we fundamentally lack transdisciplinary science that addresses how geomorphic processes work together as a part of an interconnected system to generate cascading hazards. This gap represents an important link between hazards and fundamental science. Research on cascading hazards is a frontier poised for major advancement, fueled by maturing basic science frameworks (e.g., critical zone science, tectonic/climate coupling, impacts of the Anthropocene), increased computational modeling capabilities, and technological developments in imaging and sensing that promise a wholly new opportunity for integrated efforts. Another major gap in geohazard science is defined by the social, economic, and racial communities disproportionately affected by land surface hazards. These communities are the least represented in geoscience research and national agencies that support hazard planning and response. With these gaps in mind, the Center Catalyst will consider: (1) potential ways to address the lack of underrepresented groups in geoscience by developing workforce recruitment and retention programs around themes of social and environmental altruism and equity in hazard science, (2) related approaches to identify opportunities for advancing fundamental knowledge that readily translates to application in the hazards research space, and (3) the scope for developing research directions on how society itself increases hazard exposure through modification of the land surface.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.

山体滑坡和河流洪水是土地表面危害的常见例子，这些危害会对社会产生巨大影响，因为它们经常发生并在世界各地广泛的环境中发生。这种危害的后果会因气候变化，由于人类活动而改变土地表面以及与人口增长和城市发展相关的暴露而放大。然而，一种综合的科学方法来研究其不断增长的影响。为了应对地球扎第斯将带来的威胁，我们资助的中心催化剂将在科学界对危害研究和教育的贡献进行共同的愿景，其中包括加强学术，政府，政府，非营利组织和当地社区之间的联系。该愿景将是拟议的土地表面危害中心（冲突）的基础。这个中心是通过催化剂活动雕刻的详细形状，将为边境工作提供涉及不同类型的土地表面危害对社会的影响的试验。催化剂的试点活动将包括科学社区计划会议，参与现有的NSF设施以及教育和外展项目的中心以及加强政府机构的合作伙伴关系。中心催化剂的活动将为一个成熟的中心的战略计划提供信息，该中心能够对相互联系的土地表面危害进行创新研究，增加地球科学家的多样性，并为公众做好准备，为灾难事件做好准备。中心催化剂的特别强调将是一个危险事件的事件会导致更多的事件造成众多事件，造成一场危险的事件，诸如狂潮，诸如危险之中，诸如狂潮，诸如狂暴的爆发之中，造成危险的危险。这一重点是由个人土地表面危害通常受到孤立关注的重大研究挑战所激发的。尽管他们当然值得自己研究，但我们从根本上缺乏跨学科的科学，该科学涉及地貌过程如何作为互连系统的一部分共同起作用，以产生级联的危害。该差距代表了危害与基本科学之间的重要联系。关于级联危害的研究是有助于重大进步的领域，这是由基础科学框架（例如，关键区域科学，构造/气候耦合，人类世代的影响），计算建模能力的增加以及在成像和传感方面提高的技术发展的推动力的推动，并有助于全新的综合努力。地缘科学中的另一个主要差距是由社会，经济和种族社区的定义，受土地表面危害影响不成比例。这些社区是地球科学研究和支持危害规划和响应的国家机构的最少代表。考虑到这些差距，中心催化剂将考虑：（1）通过在社会和环境利益主义和危害科学中的社会和环境利害主义和公平主题围绕劳动力招募和保留计划来解决地球科学中缺乏代表性不足的群体的潜在方法（2）相关方法，可在促进范围内的研究范围，并在研究方面范围内的研究范围，并在研究方面发展范围，并在研究方面发展了范围的范围，并（3）范围内的研究范围（3））（3）的范围（3））（3））（3）的范围（3））该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来支持的。