IRES Track II/Collaborative Research: PREEMPTIVE Multidisciplinary Natural Hazards Engineering Institute Series for Advanced Graduate Students

在自然灾害期间提高基础设施安全性的新技术正在通过美国正在进行的研究取得进展。国内外最近受到地震，海啸和飓风影响的地点为来自美国的多学科研究生群体提供了主要机会，以了解基础设施保护系统在最近的灾害中如何发挥作用，以便这些学生能够将他们当前和未来的研究引向最现代和最富有成效的方向，以便更好地为美国做好准备应对未来的自然灾害。该奖项的目的是通过在太平洋沿岸及其他地区自然灾害工程保护系统的最前沿进行研究，让来自各个学科的美国高级研究生参与嵌入式学习，并在他们与海外同行之间建立一个持续的研究社区。该奖项将支持六个高级研究所（ASI），每个研究所位于不同的地点，美国学生在其中向当地和美国教师专家学习，启动自然灾害工程的保护系统研究，并亲身体验自然灾害对建筑环境的影响。通过这些活动，该奖项提高了美国在自然灾害工程多学科组成部分的科学能力，并培养了一批即将到来的多元化科学工作者，以先发制人地推进新技术，为国内未来的灾难做好准备;与同行，高级和早期职业教师合作;并建立了一种新的多学科方法来工程灾害恢复能力。该项目将在世界各地的6个ASIs中，共有81名美国研究生参加。PREEMPTIVE（Pacific Rim Earthquake Engineering Mitigation Protective Technologies International Virtual Environment）ASIs从高度多学科的角度探讨灾害科学和弹性基础设施的主题，培养广泛的防护系统和减灾领域的多样化研究生。一系列为期六周的先发制人的asi计划在三年内，每个使先进的研究生和高级和早期职业教师从美国与来自世界各地的同行教师和学生的队列了解全球努力在自然灾害保护系统，建立多学科研究的新前沿，并形成长期的全球专业关系。ASI将在哥斯达黎加、泰国、新西兰、智利、波多黎各和日本探索老化基础设施的恢复力、海啸灾害和基础设施恢复力、结构控制岩土工程挑战、极端地震海啸灾害、飓风和多重灾害以及跨学科灾害科学。每个ASI将包括2-3天的研讨会，1-2天的文化和技术图尔斯之旅，以提供在最近的自然灾害中保护系统的性能背景，以及2-3天的合作小组项目，提供基础设施保护系统的指导经验学习经验。通过这个奖项，美国研究生研究人员学会先发制人：解决当前和未来的研究需求，在先进的减灾;与海外同行合作;并建立一个新的多学科的方法来工程灾害复原力。美国研究生参与者是通过严格的申请程序选择的。学生的学习成果将通过各种方式进行评估，通过网站、会议和期刊出版物进行分析和传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。

New technologies for improving the safety of infrastructure during natural hazards are advancing through ongoing research in the United States (U.S.) and abroad. Locations that have been recently impacted by earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes form prime opportunities for multidisciplinary groups of graduate students from the U.S. to learn the lessons of how infrastructure protective systems performed during recent disasters so that these students can direct their current and future research in the most contemporary and productive directions to better prepare the U.S. for future natural hazards. The objective of this award is to engage U.S. advanced graduate students from various disciplines in embedded learning through research at the forefront of protective systems for natural hazards engineering on the Pacific rim and beyond, and to build a sustained research community between them and their overseas counterparts. The award will enable six Advanced Studies Institutes (ASIs), each in a different location, in which the U.S. students learn from local and U.S. faculty experts, initiate protective systems research in natural hazards engineering, and experience first-hand the effects of natural hazards on built environments. Through these activities, this award advances U.S. scientific capabilities in multidisciplinary components of natural hazards engineering, and trains a diverse upcoming cohort of the scientific workforce to preemptively advance new technologies to prepare for future disasters at home; collaborate with counterparts, senior and early career faculty; and establish a new multidisciplinary approach to engineering hazard resilience. The project will involve a total of 81 U.S. graduate students via the six ASIs in different sites around the world.The PREEMPTIVE (Pacific Rim Earthquake Engineering Mitigation Protective Technologies International Virtual Environment) ASIs explore topics in disaster science and resilient infrastructure from a highly multidisciplinary perspective to train a diverse group of graduate students in the broad areas of protective systems and disaster mitigation. A series of six week-long PREEMPTIVE ASIs are planned over three years, each enabling a cohort of advanced graduate students and senior and early-career faculty from the U.S. with counterpart faculty and students from around the world to learn about global efforts in protective systems for natural hazards, establish new frontiers of multidisciplinary research, and form long-term global professional relationships. The ASIs will explore the Resilience of Aging Infrastructure, Tsunami Hazards and Infrastructure Resilience, Structural Control & Geotechnical Challenges, Extreme Earthquake & Tsunami Hazards, Hurricane and Multi-Hazards, and Interdisciplinary Disaster Science in Costa Rica, Thailand, New Zealand, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Japan. Each ASI will consist of 2-3 day workshops, 1-2 day cultural and technical tours to provide context to the performance of protective systems in recent natural hazards, and 2-3 day collaborative group projects providing guided experiential learning experiences in infrastructure protective systems. Through this award, U.S. graduate student researchers learn to be preemptive in: addressing current and future research needs in advanced hazards mitigation; collaborating with overseas counterparts; and establishing a new multidisciplinary approach to engineering hazard resilience. The U.S. graduate student participants are selected via rigorous application processes. Student learning outcomes will be assessed through a variety of modalities, analyzed and disseminated through a website and in conference and journal publications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.