Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for the Arctic 2050: Preparing for Human Displacement at the Climate Change Frontline

规划拨款：2050年北极工程研究中心：为气候变化前线的人类流离失所做好准备

• 批准号: 1840660
• 负责人: Erin Whitney
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840660&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The intended planning grant for the Engineering Research Center for the Arctic 2050 (ERCA2050) will develop the workforce, processes, and technologies necessary to plan, build, and maintain resilient communities for Arctic peoples displaced by climate change. This planning effort will develop a structure for ERCA2050 by connecting research partners across the world, developing workforce development pathways with Alaska?s homegrown students as well as those outside Alaska, incorporating diverse perspectives, and exploring opportunities for innovation toward marketable engineering solutions, testbeds for these products, and aggregated and accessible data. This planning effort is aligned with NSF?s new vision for ERCs: it features a strong social impact as described above, incorporates convergence by drawing from across a wide array of disciplines, features a diverse stakeholder community advisory committee to ensure broad engagement, and incorporates specific expertise in team science organization and science communication. This project also aligns with two of NSF's Grand Challenges: Navigating the New Arctic and Growing Convergent Research. Key components and deliverables include a dedicated fellow to coordinate planning activities, two community innovation festivals, and a year-long seminar series to enhance stakeholder connections. The community festivals will explore questions around convergence, stakeholder community, team formation and effective leadership and management, and societal impact. Information from these discussions will be synthesized into different levels of maps and spatial representations, which will be overlaid to find connections, gaps, and needs. These conceptual maps will be constructed for local resource availability, landscape parameters, social livability factors, educational and innovation pathways, and global impacts, factors that will ultimately form the components of ERCA2050. This planning project will seek to design an ERC that will engage students in research at all levels, with recruiting efforts targeting students from Alaska?s rural communities, and students from communities in similar contexts. The effort will broaden participation by Alaska Native populations by including them as key stakeholders in our process, both in planning our ERC roadmap and in their active role as participants in resilience efforts. Project personnel reflect NSF's commitment to gender and racial diversity. The creation and regular involvement of the stakeholder advisory committee will enhance partnerships between academia, communities, government, and industry.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.

工程研究中心规划补助金竞赛是作为 ERC 计划内的试点征集活动进行的。整个 ERC 竞赛并不需要规划拨款，而是旨在培养团队之间的能力，以规划融合的、中心规模的工程研究。 2050 年北极工程研究中心 (ERCA2050) 的预期规划拨款将开发必要的劳动力、流程和技术，为因气候变化而流离失所的北极人民规划、建设和维护有复原力的社区。这项规划工作将通过连接世界各地的研究合作伙伴、与阿拉斯加本土学生以及阿拉斯加以外的学生一起开发劳动力发展途径、纳入不同的观点、探索适销对路的工程解决方案、这些产品的测试平台以及汇总和可访问的数据的创新机会，来制定 ERCA2050 的结构。这项规划工作与 NSF 对 ERC 的新愿景相一致：它具有如上所述的强大社会影响，通过跨学科融合融合，具有多元化的利益相关者社区咨询委员会以确保广泛参与，并结合了团队科学组织和科学传播方面的具体专业知识。该项目还符合美国国家科学基金会的两项重大挑战：探索新北极和发展融合研究。关键组成部分和可交付成果包括一名专门的研究员来协调规划活动、两个社区创新节以及为期一年的系列研讨会以加强利益相关者的联系。社区节将探讨有关融合、利益相关者社区、团队组建、有效领导和管理以及社会影响的问题。这些讨论中的信息将被合成到不同级别的地图和空间表示中，这些地图和空间表示将被叠加以发现联系、差距和需求。这些概念图将根据当地资源可用性、景观参数、社会宜居因素、教育和创新途径以及全球影响而构建，这些因素最终将构成 ERCA2050 的组成部分。 该规划项目将寻求设计一个 ERC，让学生参与各个级别的研究，并招募来自阿拉斯加农村社区的学生以及来自类似环境的社区的学生。这项工作将扩大阿拉斯加原住民的参与，将他们作为关键利益相关者纳入我们的流程，包括规划我们的 ERC 路线图以及作为复原力工作参与者的积极作用。项目人员体现了 NSF 对性别和种族多样性的承诺。利益相关者咨询委员会的创建和定期参与将加强学术界、社区、政府和工业界之间的伙伴关系。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。