NRT: Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2)

美国的海岸是美国大部分人口的家园，在美国经济中发挥着重要作用，并支持许多宝贵的生态系统。 目前约有400万美国人居住在高潮线以上一米的范围内，2300万人居住在六米的范围内。在该国许多地区，1960年至2010年期间海平面上升（全球平均约8厘米）已导致“滋扰”洪水的发生率增加了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，这进一步放大了沿海洪水的风险;而频繁的高温、湿度和极端降水会给社会、经济和生态系统带来额外的压力。然而，传统的学科计划配置不佳，无法培训评估沿海气候风险所需的劳动力，并制定和部署提高沿海气候适应力的综合战略。这个国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）奖罗格斯大学将准备劳动力，将建立在面对气候风险的沿海恢复力，通过培训个人在MS和博士水平谁进行研究，整合了沿海系统的所有要素，并有效地沟通与沿海利益相关者在定义研究问题，进行研究，并应用研究来应对现实世界的复原力挑战。该项目预计将培训约一百（100）名硕士和博士生，其中包括二十（20）名资助的学员，来自地球系统科学，社会科学和工程学。在准备开发和解决与沿海气候风险和恢复力有关的跨学科研究问题，以及将通过这项研究收集的知识应用于发展弹性沿海系统，学员将学习：（1）在跨学科团队中担任学科专家;（2）制定和调查研究问题和概念/系统模型，整合自然科学，社会科学和工程学观点;（3）将利益相关者的需求纳入研究问题和模型的构建，并让利益相关者参与知识共同生产;（4）与利益相关者就沿海气候风险和恢复力进行沟通。在头两年，受训人员将学习四门核心课程：（1）方法和观点课程;（2）向决策者传播科学的课程;（3）夏季实地课程;（4）工作室讲习班，使受训人员与沿海利益攸关方一起解决真实的决策问题。教师将与学员合作，将跨学科研究纳入他们的论文，并通过使用心理地图技术跟踪和反思他们的经验。受训人员还将参加其他专业发展活动。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的，新的潜在变革模式。该培训轨道致力于在高优先级的跨学科研究领域的STEM研究生的有效培训，通过全面的培训模式，是创新的，以证据为基础，并与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。

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.