Planning visit for US-Australia Collaborative Research on Climate-Related Infrastructure Adaptation for Natural Hazards

1050443li该奖项支持密歇根理工大学的李岳教授计划访问澳大利亚，会见澳大利亚基础设施性能和可靠性中心主任Mark Steward教授、澳大利亚纽卡斯尔大学气候影响管理中心主任Garry Willgoose教授和英联邦科学与工业研究组织气候适应旗舰和可持续生态系统的王晓明博士。该项目的目标是支持美国和澳大利亚之间的合作研究伙伴关系的发展，以适应与气候有关的基础设施，以抵御自然灾害。有证据表明，飓风（旋风）、雪和强降水以及洪水等自然灾害预计将在频率和强度上发生变化，而气候变化导致的温度上升幅度最小。这些极端事件可能会对基础设施造成严重破坏，包括建筑物、道路、桥梁和公用设施，特别是因为目前的设计实践假设了一个平稳的过程，并且危险发生概率没有随时间变化。这项合作研究将为美国早期职业教师和学生提供大量的研究机会，建立长期的伙伴关系。具体而言，它将1)促进对气候变化风险的理解，以适应气候变化的不确定性，并建立损失估算与自然灾害变化模式之间的关系；2)为气候风险评估的工程-社会经济合作提供新的机会，并为气候适应措施的经济评估制定决策框架。本研究结果将有助于促进以可持续性为导向的长期规划和短期灾害响应措施/战略，并为具有成本效益的气候变化适应战略的决策过程提供新的、基于研究的信息。美国和澳大利亚的研究人员之间有足够的兴趣重叠，表明他们可以成功地开展所提议的活动，并且这种互动将使双方受益。此外，两位美国研究生的参与将使他们获得宝贵的国际视野和洞察力。他们还将参与与研究人员未来合作活动的讨论。

1050443LiThis award supports a planning visit to enable Professor Yue Li at Michigan Technological University to meet with Professor Mark Steward, Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability in Australian, Professor Garry Willgoose, Director, Centre for Climate Impact Management at the University of Newcastle in Australia and Dr. Xiaoming Wang at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Climate Adaptation Flagship and Sustainable Ecosystems. The goal of the project is to support the development of a collaborative research partnership between the U.S. and Australia for climate-related infrastructure adaptation for resistance to natural hazards. Evidence suggests that natural hazards such as hurricanes (cyclones), snow and heavy precipitation, and flood are expected to change in frequency and intensity with the smallest rise in temperature resulting from climate change. These extreme events can result in severe damage to infrastructure, including buildings, roads, bridges and utilities, especially because current design practice assumes a stationary process and no time-dependent changes to hazard occurrence probabilities. The collaborative research will develop a long-term partnership with numerous research opportunities for U.S. early-career faculty and students. Specifically, it will 1) advance understanding of risks due to climate change that accommodate the uncertainty of climate change and establish the relationship between loss estimation and the changing patterns of natural hazards, and 2) introduce new opportunities for engineering-socioeconomic collaborations on climate risk assessment and develop a decision framework for economic assessment of climate adaptation measures. The results of this research will help to facilitate sustainability-oriented long term planning and short term disaster-response measures/strategies and provide new, research-based information to inform the decision making process for cost-effective climate change adaptation strategies. There is sufficient overlap of interests between researchers in the U.S. and Australia to indicate that they can successfully pursue the activities proposed, and that the interaction will benefit both sides. In addition, the involvement of two U.S. graduate students will enable them to gain a valuable international perspective and insight. They will also participate in discussions on future collaborative activities with the researchers.