NSF Engines Development Award: Accelerating A Just Energy Transition Through Innovative Nature-Inclusive Offshore Wind Farms (CT,DE,MA,MD,NJ,RI,VA)

NSF 发动机开发奖：通过创新的自然包容性海上风电场加速公正的能源转型（康涅狄格州、特拉华州、马里兰州、马里兰州、新泽西州、罗德岛州、弗吉尼亚州）

• 批准号: 2315558
• 负责人: Daniel Kuchma
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Accelerating

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on advancing the science, engineering, economic models, industrial capacity, decision-making process, and regulations needed for the design and operation of nature-inclusive Offshore Wind (OW) underwater infrastructure (e.g. foundations and associated scour protection). Over the next ten years, about 2000 OW turbines are expected to be constructed off our nation’s eastern coastline from Massachusetts to Virginia at a cost of about $100 Billion. This brings great challenges and opportunities for the shared-use of our coastal waters. The marine ecosystem in this region is already under great stress due to climate change which has reduced biodiversity and fishing stocks; thereby, communities in this region are very concerned about additional stresses on the marine ecosystem that offshore wind may bring. MOCEAN (Mission is the OCEAN) is the lead for this NSF project, and it aims to: (i) make OW farm development a win for all (OW industry, fishers, coastal communities, ocean habitats); (ii) drive large-scale sustainable OW energy that will contribute greatly to achieving U.S. climate goals and ocean health; and (iii) catalyze the investment required to build and operate OW farms to address societal inequities. This project will engage industry, stakeholders, public officials, affected communities, and public and private decision makers to develop an effective strategic plan and innovation community to achieve MOCEAN’s mission. MOCEAN’s strategic plan and innovation community will be developed to support making significant advancements in science and technology; engineering, economic, and educational models; and associated policy drivers; the region of this community will include coastline areas from Massachusetts to Virginia. If the project succeeds in becoming an NSF Engine, then the advancements in science will range from the micro-to-macro scale, and these will include the formation of marine communities, marine biology, impact of stressors on habitats, the effect of different materials and coatings on marine growths, local ecosystems, as well as regional ecosystems. The advancements in technologies will include new sensing systems (e.g. eDNA, acoustic, image-based), robotics, coating systems, more durable materials, intelligent nature-inclusive scour protection, artificial reefs, and future-proof foundations. The advancements in engineering models will account for important factors that are presently ignored or insufficiently considered in practice (e.g. soil-foundation structure interaction, impact of cathodic protection on design life and the environment). For economics, the advancements will quantify the effect of local labor, environmental impact, and new blue technology within economic models that can be used in the decision-making process for the design and operation of offshore wind farms. In education, advancements will create new methods of engagement, support, and learning that lead to much greater participation of students and workers from marginalized communities in the New Blue Economy within MOCEAN’s region of service. The composition of the MOCEAN team was designed to make intellectual progress at the intersections between different fields, and to create system-of-system models. This Development Award will enable the team to engage in a regional, collaborative planning process to prepare a future Engine to meet these goals.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.

该区域创新引擎开发奖的重点是推进科学，工程，经济模型，工业能力，决策过程以及包括自然风险的海上风（OW）下水基础设施所需的法规（例如，基金会和相关的冲洗保护）。在接下来的十年中，预计将在我们国家的东部海岸线上从马萨诸塞州到弗吉尼亚州建造约2000个OW涡轮机，耗资约1000亿美元。这为我们的沿海水域共享带来了巨大的挑战和机会。由于气候变化减少了生物多样性和捕捞库存，该地区的海洋生态系统已经承受很大的压力。因此，该地区的社区非常关注海上风能可能带来的海洋生态系统的其他压力。 Mocean（Mission是海洋）是该NSF项目的负责人，其目的是：（i）使OW Farm Development赢得所有（OW行业，渔民，沿海社区，海洋栖息地）的胜利； （ii）驱动大规模的可持续性OW能源，这将极大地为实现美国的气候目标和海洋健康做出巨大贡献； （iii）催化建立和运营OW农场所需的投资以解决社会不平等。该项目将吸引行业，利益相关者，公职人员，受影响的社区以及公共和私人决策者，以制定有效的战略计划和创新社区，以实现Mocean的使命。 Mocean的战略计划和创新社区将被制定，以支持在科学和技术方面取得重大进步；工程，经济和教育模式；和相关的政策驱动力；该社区的地区将包括从马萨诸塞州到弗吉尼亚州的海岸线地区。如果该项目成功成为NSF发动机，那么科学的进步将从微观到麦克罗量表范围内，其中包括海洋社区的形成，海洋生物学，压力因素对栖息地的影响，不同材料和涂料对海洋生长的影响，对海洋生长的影响，当地生态系统以及区域生态系统。技术的进步将包括新的传感系统（例如EDNA，声学，基于图像），机器人技术，涂料系统，更耐用的材料，包括自然的智能冲刷保护，人造礁石和未来的防护基础。工程模型的进步将解释重要因素，这些因素在实践中被忽略或不足（例如，土壤发现结构的相互作用，阴极保护对设计生活和环境的影响）。对于经济学而言，进步将量化当地劳动力，环境影响和新蓝色技术在经济模型中的影响，这些技术可用于设计和运营离岸风电场的决策过程中。在教育方面，进步将创造新的参与，支持和学习方法，从而导致来自边缘化社区的学生和工人在Mocean的服务区域内的新蓝色经济中更大的参与。 Mocean团队的组成旨在在不同领域之间的交集和创建系统模型之间取得智力进步。该开发奖将使团队能够参与区域协作的计划过程，以准备未来的引擎以实现这些目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估来诚实地获得支持。