Global Centers Track 2: A multi-disciplinary framework to combat climate-induced desert locust upsurges, outbreaks, and plagues in East Africa

全球中心轨道 2：应对东非气候引起的沙漠蝗虫激增、爆发和瘟疫的多学科框架

• 批准号: 2330452
• 负责人: Daniel Gebregiorgis
• 金额: $ 24.84万
• 依托单位: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; multi; disciplinary

The latest IPCC report (released in 2023) highlights that climate change disproportionately affects nearly half a billion people in eastern Africa, mainly resulting from the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Increases in temperature and rainfall over desert areas in eastern Africa, and the strong winds associated with tropical cyclones, are postulated to provide favorable conditions for desert locust outbreaks. However, the specific impacts of changing climate conditions on locust dynamics and migration pathways are not fully understood. Desert locust outbreaks are a problem for many parts of eastern Africa where they seriously threaten the livelihoods of communities residing in Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In these areas crop losses to insects are projected to increase by up to 50% with an additional 2°C of global warming. Locust outbreak mitigation measures require comprehensive and coordinated response efforts inclusive of designing an early warning system, incorporating a continuous surveillance scheme, developing predictive models, innovative, accessible dissemination of information and products that permit prevention and intervention efforts at the local level. This project would develop effective strategies for mitigating future locust outbreaks driven by climate change in eastern Africa. By engaging academic researchers from relevant disciplines and local experts within affected communities, we will establish lasting partnerships to investigate and apply sustainable mitigation strategies. A central aspect of our approach is developing a mobile application that allows farmers and concerned individuals to access real-time information and report sightings of locust outbreaks. The project will test existing locust surveillance schemes and utilize a 'locust risk to communities' framework to create an interactive portal and application with location-based information. This platform will facilitate data collection and analysis, ultimately forming the basis for a future Global Climate Change Center that supports climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts in the world's least developed countries. The development of the global center will also facilitate the sharing of data and analytical results through a centralized cyberinfrastructure hosted at the Center for Disaster Informatics and Computational Epidemiology at GSU. Our project seeks to contribute to developing innovative locust outbreak mitigation strategies in eastern Africa and beyond, leveraging technology and interdisciplinary collaborations to address the pressing challenges climate change poses on vulnerable populations. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative program that supports use-inspired research addressing global challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy. Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.  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.

最新的IPCC报告（于2023年发布）强调，气候变化不成比例地影响东非的近十亿人，这主要是由于极端天气事件的频率和强度的增加而导致的。东非东部沙漠地区的温度和降雨量升高，以及与热带气旋相关的强风，可为沙漠蝗虫爆发提供有利的条件。但是，不完全了解气候条件对蝗虫动态和迁移途径的具体影响尚未完全了解。沙漠蝗虫爆发对于东非许多地区的许多地区都是一个问题，在那里他们严重威胁了居住在布隆迪，科莫罗斯，吉布提，埃塞俄比亚，埃里特里亚，肯尼亚，肯尼亚，卢旺达，苏格莱斯，索马里亚，索马里，南苏丹，苏丹，苏丹，坦桑尼亚和乌干达的社区的生计。在这些地区，昆虫的农作物损失预计将增加50％，并增加2°C的全球变暖。蝗虫爆发缓解措施需要全面，协调的响应工作，包括设计预警系统，增加连续的监视计划，开发预测模型，对信息和产品的创新性，可访问的信息传播，以预防和干预工作。该项目将制定有效的策略，以减轻东非气候变化驱动的未来蝗虫暴发。通过与受影响社区中相关学科和当地专家的学术研究人员参与，我们将建立持久的伙伴关系，以调查和应用可持续的缓解策略。我们方法的一个主要方面是开发一种移动应用程序，该应用程序使农民和有关个人可以访问实时信息并报告蝗虫爆发的目击。该项目将测试现有的蝗虫监视方案，并利用“蝗虫风险对社区”框架创建交互式门户和应用程序，并使用基于位置的信息。该平台将促进数据收集和分析，最终为未来全球气候变化中心的基础构成了支持气候变化的缓解和适应性国家的基础。全球中心的发展还将通过GSU的灾难信息学和计算流行病学中心主持的集中式网络基础设施来促进数据和分析结果的共享。我们的项目旨在为在东非及其他地区制定创新的蝗虫疫情缓解策略做出贡献，利用技术和跨学科的合作来应对紧迫的挑战，挑战了脆弱人群的气候变化立场。该奖项由Global Centers计划提供资金，该计划是一项创新计划，该计划支持以使用与气候变化和/或清洁能源相关的全球挑战的使用启发的研究。 Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed precious of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.