NRT: Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2)

美国的沿海地区是大部分美国人口的家园，在美国经济中发挥着重要作用，并支持着许多有价值的生态系统。目前约有400万美国人居住在涨潮线以上1米的范围内，2300万人居住在涨潮线以上6米的范围内。在该国的许多地区，1960年至2010年间海平面上升（全球平均海平面上升约8厘米）已经导致“令人讨厌的”洪水发生率增加了2至5倍，海平面上升使极端洪水更有可能发生。在一个变暖的世界里，强烈的飓风可能会变得更加频繁，这进一步加大了沿海洪水的风险；而频繁的高温、湿度和极端降水给社会、经济和生态系统带来了额外的压力。然而，传统的学科项目在培训评估沿海气候风险、制定和部署提高沿海气候适应能力的综合战略所需的劳动力方面配置不足。这项授予罗格斯大学的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将通过培训硕士和博士水平的个人，培养在面对气候风险时建立沿海恢复力的劳动力，这些人进行研究，整合沿海系统的所有要素，并在定义研究问题、开展研究和应用研究方面与沿海利益相关者进行有效沟通，以应对现实世界的恢复力挑战。该项目预计将培养大约100名硕士和博士研究生，其中包括20名受资助的学员，他们来自地球系统科学、社会科学和工程学。为了准备发展和解决与沿海气候风险和复原力相关的跨学科研究问题，并将通过本研究收集的知识应用于开发复原力强的沿海系统，学员将学习：(1)在跨学科团队中担任学科专家；(2)制定和调查整合自然科学、社会科学和工程观点的研究问题和概念/系统模型；(3)将利益相关者的需求纳入研究问题和模型的构建中，让利益相关者参与知识合作生产；(4)与利益相关者就沿海气候风险和适应能力进行沟通。在前两年，学员将学习四门核心课程：(1)方法和观点课程；(2)向决策者传授科学知识的课程；(3)夏季实地课程；(4)工作室工作坊，将学员与沿海利益相关者聚集在一起，解决实际的决策问题。教师将与受训者合作，将跨学科研究纳入他们的论文，并通过使用心理映射技术跟踪和反思他们的经验。学员还将参与额外的专业发展活动。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训新模式。通过创新、循证、适应不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模式，培训项目致力于在高优先级跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。

The nation's coasts are home to much of the American population, they play an important role in the US economy, and they support many valuable ecosystems. About four million Americans currently live within one meter above the high tide line, and 23 million live within six meters. In many parts of the country, sea-level rise between 1960 and 2010 (about 8 cm in the global mean) has already led to a two- to five-fold increase in the rate of "nuisance" flooding, and rising seas are making extreme floods more likely. Further amplifying coastal flood risk, intense hurricanes may become more frequent in a warming world; while frequent heat, humidity and precipitation extremes provide additional stresses to societies, economies, and ecosystems. Yet traditional, disciplinary programs are poorly configured to train the workforce needed to assess coastal climate risk and to develop and deploy integrated strategies for increasing coastal climate resilience. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Rutgers University will prepare the workforce that will build coastal resilience in the face of climate risks, by training individuals at the MS and PhD levels who conduct research that integrates all the elements of coastal systems and that communicate effectively with coastal stakeholders in defining research problems, conducting research, and applying research to address real-world resilience challenges. The project anticipates training approximately one hundred (100) MS and PhD students, including twenty (20) funded trainees, from the Earth system sciences, social sciences, and engineering.In preparation for developing and addressing transdisciplinary research questions related to coastal climate risk and resilience, as well as applying the knowledge gleaned through this research to developing resilient coastal systems, trainees will learn to: (1) serve as disciplinary experts in interdisciplinary teams; (2) formulate and investigate research questions and concept/systems models that integrate natural science, social science and engineering perspectives; (3) incorporate stakeholder needs into the construction of research questions and models and engage stakeholders in knowledge co-production; and (4) communicate with stakeholders about coastal climate risk and resilience. Over their first two years, trainees will take four core courses: (1) a methods and perspectives course; (2) a course on communicating science to decision-makers; (3) a summer field course, and (4) a studio workshop that brings trainees together with coastal stakeholders to address real decision problems. Faculty will work with trainees to incorporate transdisciplinary research into their theses and to track and reflect on their experiences through the use of mental mapping techniques. Trainees will also engage in additional professional development activities. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through the comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.