Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Geoscience

规划补助金：I/UCRC 地球科学

• 批准号: 1362155
• 负责人: Thomas Heaton
• 金额: $ 1.15万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1362155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Geoscience

The proposed Center for Earthquake Risk Reduction (CERR) aims to protect lives and infrastructure from the devastating effects of earthquakes through development of tools and strategies to reduce their impact. CERR will solve industry relevant and challenging problems, while providing educational opportunities for students, which are multi-disciplinary in scope. The initial university members of CERR will be the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), the California Institute of Technology (CIT), and the University of Washington (UW). These three institutions already have a close partnership in the rapidly evolving area of Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) including having industry partners contributing to that development. Building on this existing partnership kernel, CERR will expand its mission beyond earthquake early warning, attract additional industry and government partners, and welcome additional university partners. This planning grant proposal seeks to fund a two-day planning workshop between the industry, government, and university groups (UCB, UW, and CIT) to map out an initial research agenda, agree on center policies, and establish the Industry Affiliates Board (IAB).The CERR would be in the unique position to bring together industrial, government, and academic expertise to advance the field of earthquake risk reduction. The critical challenge is to translate discoveries in earthquake science into actionable information, which impacts businesses, government sectors, and the public at large. This will be accomplished through the development of real-time information feeds, enhanced research for site-specific risk reduction (including path effects), physics-based rupture scenarios, the integration of low-cost sensor data, and analysis of the mechanics of induced earthquakes. The overarching vision is to push the state of the art in available data and knowledge areas to significantly impact risk mitigation both before and after a large rupture. The I/UCRC framework provides an important mechanism to bring together diverse groups who share common interests, but who have not historically had a method to leverage their individual strengths. Working together, there is a high potential for broad impacts on the challenge of risk reduction. CERR will also train the next generation of student researchers in an environment with an exposure to a broad range of business and government sectors.

拟议中的减少地震风险中心（CERR）旨在通过开发减少地震影响的工具和策略来保护生命和基础设施免受地震的破坏性影响。CERR将解决行业相关和具有挑战性的问题，同时为学生提供多学科范围的教育机会。CERR的首批大学成员将是加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）、加州理工学院（CIT）和华盛顿大学（UW）。这三个机构已经在快速发展的地震预警（EEW）领域建立了密切的伙伴关系，包括让行业合作伙伴为这一发展做出贡献。在现有伙伴关系的基础上，CERR将扩大其使命，超越地震预警，吸引更多的行业和政府合作伙伴，并欢迎更多的大学合作伙伴。该计划拨款提案旨在资助工业界、政府和大学团体（UCB、UW和CIT）之间为期两天的计划研讨会，以制定初步研究议程，就中心政策达成一致，并建立行业附属委员会（IAB）。CERR将处于独特的地位，将工业、政府和学术专家聚集在一起，推动减少地震风险领域的发展。关键的挑战是将地震科学的发现转化为可操作的信息，从而影响企业、政府部门和广大公众。这将通过开发实时信息馈送、加强对特定地点风险降低（包括路径效应）的研究、基于物理的破裂情景、集成低成本传感器数据以及分析诱发地震的力学来实现。总体愿景是推动现有数据和知识领域的最新发展，从而在大破裂之前和之后显著降低风险。I/UCRC框架提供了一个重要的机制，将具有共同兴趣的不同群体聚集在一起，但这些群体在历史上没有办法利用他们的个人优势。通过共同努力，很有可能对减少风险的挑战产生广泛影响。CERR还将在一个接触广泛的商业和政府部门的环境中培养下一代学生研究人员。