CDI-TYPE II: Building and studying a virtual organization for adaptation to climate change

CDI-TYPE II：建立和研究适应气候变化的虚拟组织

• 批准号: 1029584
• 负责人: Nitesh Chawla
• 金额: $ 155万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1029584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CDI; TYPE; II; Building; studying

The world as we know it will be transformed by climate change with one-third of known species threatened with extinction, diseases projected to emerge in new areas, disruption of the ecosystems that provide our food and water, and urban environments at increased risk from rising sea levels. To diminish the negative impact of impending climate change, various strategies are being investigated, including societal ?adaptation? to increase eco-system tolerance. Climate change adaptation can include activities like managed relocation of species (like armadillos in Indiana), building habitat corridors to allow species to move into newly appropriate habitat, maintaining engendered species in zoos and botanic gardens, growing genetically modified drought-resist crops in newly dry regions, planting non-native trees to maximize carbon sequestration, or constructing large-scale levees to protect low-lying coastal areas like Manhattan. Relatively little is known about the conditions under which climate change adaptation activities can be successful or about their potentially disastrous side effects. Addressing this problem raises fundamental questions about the relationship of humans to natural systems that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Increasingly, policymakers recognize that evaluation of adaptation strategies must be integrative and interdisciplinary, informed by expertise in environmental science, law, engineering, and other disciplines. Adaptation to climate change necessitates an unprecedented mobilization, coordination and integration of data, information, and knowledge, enabled by emerging technologies and cyberinfrastructure. This award creates a climate adaptation virtual organization linking people and shared resources to enable informed decision-making and novel research. The Collaboratory for Adaptation to Climate Change relies on cyber infrastructure, data management, and computational algorithms including tools to generate ecological projections, survey data on expert opinion, an information clearing house on regulation related to adaptation, interactive mapping with geographic information systems, mining of social media on the issue of climate change, and data mining algorithms that integrate these elements to create forecasts under uncertainty. The Collaboratory promises to be transformative in its inter-disciplinary integration and will lead the science of adaptation to climate change. The ultimate goal is to make the Collaboratory a onestop-shop that encompasses multiple dimensions of climate change adaptation.

我们所知道的世界将因气候变化而改变，三分之一的已知物种面临灭绝的威胁，疾病预计将在新的地区出现，为我们提供食物和水的生态系统遭到破坏，城市环境面临海平面上升的风险增加。为了减少即将到来的气候变化的负面影响，正在研究各种战略，包括社会？适应？以提高生态系统的耐受性。适应气候变化可以包括有管理的物种迁移等活动（如印第安纳州的犰狳），建立栖息地走廊，让物种迁移到新的合适的栖息地，在动物园和植物园中维持已产生的物种，在新的干旱地区种植转基因抗旱作物，种植非本地树木，以最大限度地增加碳固存，或者建造大型堤坝来保护像曼哈顿这样的低洼沿海地区。 人们对气候变化适应活动取得成功的条件或其潜在的灾难性副作用知之甚少。 解决这个问题提出了关于人类与超越学科界限的自然系统的关系的基本问题。政策制定者越来越认识到，对适应战略的评估必须是综合性的和跨学科的，并以环境科学、法律、工程和其他学科的专门知识为依据。适应气候变化需要通过新兴技术和网络基础设施，对数据、信息和知识进行前所未有的动员、协调和整合。 该奖项创建了一个气候适应虚拟组织，将人员和共享资源联系起来，以实现明智的决策和新颖的研究。 适应气候变化合作实验室依靠网络基础设施、数据管理和计算算法，包括生成生态预测的工具、关于专家意见的调查数据、关于适应相关监管的信息交换所、与地理信息系统的交互式绘图、关于气候变化问题的社交媒体挖掘、以及数据挖掘算法，其整合这些元素以在不确定性下创建预测。该合作实验室有望在跨学科整合方面实现变革，并将引领适应气候变化的科学。最终目标是使合作实验室成为一个一站式商店，涵盖气候变化适应的多个层面。