Workshop on Deploying Post-Disaster Quick-Response Reconnaissance Teams: Methods, Strategies, and Needs

部署灾后快速反应侦察队：方法、策略和需求研讨会

• 批准号: 1153981
• 负责人: James Kendra
• 金额: $ 9.58万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1153981&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Deploying; Post; Disaster; Quick

This award supports a two-day workshop in Arlington, VA, in 2012 on conducting Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants that have been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) following major disasters. Scholars in a number of disciplines have long recognized the importance of deploying research teams to the site of a disaster as soon as possible in order to gather perishable or ephemeral data, i.e., data that might be available for only a short period of time. Initial data gathering, scoping out the likely scientific content, proposal development, assembling a team (including collaboration with colleagues in the affected area), and reaching the field quickly are among the challenges in this research. While findings from RAPID studies have enriched knowledge across the phases of disaster, techniques for conducting quick-response research are less shared across the research community. The workshop will provide a forum for information exchange and development of best practices, including new and innovative ones, for this demanding research genre. Projected workshop attendees are RAPID grant recipients, as well as representatives of the principal research centers, agencies, and societies whose work involves disaster-related research. The objectives of the workshop are to explore burgeoning methods for developing initial situation awareness after disaster strikes (such as through growing social media); transforming initial situation awareness into researchable questions for transformative potential; team-building and best practices for deploying researchers (including the prospect of novel approaches); and recommendations to NSF and the hazards community on how to best organize and support RAPIDs following a major disaster for maximum efficiency, alacrity in reaching research sites, and scientific benefits. The outcome of the workshop will be a workshop report. This award is part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), and the workshop report will be archived on the NEHRP web site (http://www.nehrp.gov). NSF has developed the RAPID program as a mechanism for funding small-scale exploratory projects on an expedient basis to enable researchers to get into the field quickly to gather perishable or ephemeral data. More recently, researchers have been supported by NSF to conduct quick-response research for major earthquakes and tsunamis worldwide. Disaster research often requires multidisciplinary knowledge, and it is anticipated that the workshop will be valuable in helping scholars from a variety of disciplines to share best practices for conducting quick-response research and to build cooperative networks.

该奖项支持2012年在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行的为期两天的研讨会，该研讨会的主题是实施由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持的重大灾害后快速反应研究（Rapid）拨款。许多学科的学者早就认识到尽快将研究团队部署到灾难现场的重要性，以便收集易腐烂或短暂的数据，即可能仅在短时间内可用的数据。最初的数据收集、确定可能的科学内容、提出建议、组建一个团队（包括与受影响地区的同事合作）以及迅速到达实地是这项研究的挑战之一。虽然RAPID研究的结果丰富了灾害各个阶段的知识，但是进行快速反应研究的技术在整个研究界的共享较少。讲习班将为这一要求很高的研究类型提供一个信息交流和发展最佳做法的论坛，包括新的和创新的做法。计划的研讨会参加者是RAPID基金的接受者，以及主要研究中心、机构和从事灾害相关研究的社团的代表。讲习班的目标是探索灾害发生后发展初步情况意识的新兴方法（例如通过不断发展的社会媒体）；将最初的情境意识转化为具有变革潜力的可研究问题；团队建设和部署研究人员的最佳实践（包括新方法的前景）；并就如何在重大灾害发生后最好地组织和支持RAPIDs，以达到最高效率、快速到达研究地点和科学效益向NSF和危害社区提出建议。讲习班的结果将是一份讲习班报告。该奖项是国家减少地震灾害计划（NEHRP）的一部分，研讨会报告将在NEHRP网站上存档（http://www.nehrp.gov）。美国国家科学基金会开发了RAPID项目，作为一种机制，在权宜之计的基础上资助小规模的探索性项目，使研究人员能够迅速进入该领域，收集易腐烂或短暂的数据。最近，研究人员得到美国国家科学基金会的支持，对世界范围内的大地震和海啸进行快速反应研究。灾害研究往往需要多学科的知识，预计这次研讨会将有助于来自不同学科的学者分享进行快速反应研究和建立合作网络的最佳做法。