RII Track-2 FEC: Community-Driven Coastal Climate Research & Solutions for the Resilience of New England Coastal Populations

RII Track-2 FEC：社区驱动的沿海气候研究

• 批准号: 2316271
• 负责人: Emanuele Di Lorenzo
• 金额: $ 599.9万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316271&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RII; Track; FEC; Community; Driven; RII; Track; FEC; Community; Driven

The "Community-Driven Coastal Climate Research & Solutions (3CRS)" project is a significant and timely initiative that addresses the pressing issue of climate change in low-lying, working waterfront communities in New England. These communities, which are deeply intertwined with ocean resources, are disproportionately vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. With large parts of these communities, including critical infrastructure, projected to be increasingly impacted by nuisance flooding and potentially permanently underwater by the end of the century, the need for climate adaptation strategies is urgent. The project's importance lies in its focus on developing a scalable and transferable framework for such strategies, thereby enhancing coastal resilience. Specifically, the project aims at developing the knowledge, data, modeling, and human network infrastructure to support a New England Hub for coastal climate resilience that is community-driven. This aligns directly with the NSF's mission to promote the progress of science to advance national health, prosperity, and welfare. The 3CRS Hub seeks to address and explore solutions for the intersect of fundamental issues of poverty, limited healthcare access, inadequate infrastructure, and limited climate change adaptation capacity in waterfront communities. Beyond addressing these immediate challenges, the project also holds potential for broader societal benefits. It aims to advance the field of climate resilience, support education and diversity through the mentorship of early career scientists, and benefit society by increasing the resilience of communities that play a crucial role in the nation's economy and cultural heritage.The 3CRS project is designed to tackle three key research challenges for climate resilience planning. The first challenge is to identify and measure dynamic changes in human health, wellbeing, habitability, environment, and other climate vulnerabilities. This involves a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between climate change and various socio-economic factors that influence community resilience. The second challenge is to downscale climate models outputs and information to the community level and project the impacts of climate resilience for planners. This requires sophisticated modeling techniques (e.g. dynamical and AI-based) that can translate large-scale climate models projections into actionable information at the community level. The third challenge is to expand the capacity to incorporate data, knowledge, and expert networks into community resilience planning processes. This involves building robust systems for data collection, analysis, and dissemination, as well as fostering strong relationships with expert networks. To address these challenges, the project will develop a Community Knowledge Collective, which will co-produce three primary knowledge streams: observational data, community-driven metrics of resilience, and climate adaptation narratives. A novel tool, the New England-wide Coastal Hazards Analysis Modeling and Prediction System (NE-CHAMP), will be deployed to enable communities to visualize and analyze the impacts of present and future climate on critical infrastructure, health, socio-economic, and other community-driven resilience metrics. In the final phase of the project, a series of shared resilience roadmaps will be produced that digitally document the transferable processes for developing coastal adaptation strategies, thereby providing a blueprint for other communities facing similar challenges.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.

“社区驱动的沿海气候研究与解决方案（3CR）”项目是一项重要且及时的计划，旨在解决新英格兰低洼，工作滨水社区气候变化的紧迫问题。这些社区与海洋资源深深交织在一起，不成比例地容易受气候变化的不利影响。随着这些社区的大部分地区，包括关键基础设施，预计将越来越多地受到麻烦洪水的影响，并可能在本世纪末永久地在水下产生了影响，紧急的气候适应策略的需求是紧迫的。该项目的重要性在于它的重点是为此类策略开发可扩展且可转让的框架，从而增强沿海弹性。具体而言，该项目旨在开发知识，数据，建模和人类网络基础设施，以支持新英格兰枢纽以社区驱动的沿海气候弹性。这直接与NSF促进科学进步以促进国家健康，繁荣和福利的任务保持一致。 3CRS枢纽旨在解决和探索解决贫困，有限的医疗保健访问，基础设施不足以及海滨社区气候变化适应能力有限的基本问题相交的解决方案。除了应对这些紧迫的挑战外，该项目还具有更广泛的社会利益的潜力。它旨在通过早期职业科学家的指导来提高气候韧性，支持教育和多样性的领域，并通过提高社区的韧性来使社会受益，这些社区的韧性在国家的经济和文化遗产中起着至关重要的作用。3CRS项目旨在应对气候弹性计划的三个关键研究挑战，以应对气候弹性计划。第一个挑战是识别和衡量人类健康，福祉，可居住性，环境和其他气候脆弱性的动态变化。这涉及对气候变化与影响社区韧性的各种社会经济因素之间复杂相互作用的全面理解。第二个挑战是降低气候模型的输出和信息到社区层面，并投射出气候弹性对计划者的影响。这需要复杂的建模技术（例如，基于动力学和AI的动力学），可以将大规模的气候模型预测转化为社区层面可行的信息。第三个挑战是将数据，知识和专家网络纳入社区弹性计划流程的能力。这涉及建立可靠的系统，以收集数据，分析和传播，并建立与专家网络的牢固关系。为了应对这些挑战，该项目将开发一个社区知识集体，该集体将共同生产三个主要知识流：观察数据，社区驱动的弹性指标和气候适应叙事。一种新型工具，即新英格兰范围内的沿海危害分析建模和预测系统（NE-CHAMP），将部署，以使社区能够可视化和分析当前和未来的气候对关键基础设施，卫生，社会经济和其他社区驱动的弹性弹性计量的影响。在项目的最后阶段，将制定一系列共同的弹性路线图，以数字方式记录开发沿海适应策略的可转移过程，从而为面临类似挑战的其他社区提供蓝图。该奖项反映了NSF的立法使命，并通过使用基础的智力优点进行评估，以评估的支持值得评估。