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.

工程研究中心规划拨款竞赛是ERC项目的试点征集。规划补助金不需要作为ERC竞赛的一部分，但它旨在在团队之间建立能力，以规划聚合的、中心规模的工程研究。为2050年北极工程研究中心（ERCA2050）提供的计划拨款将发展必要的劳动力、流程和技术，为因气候变化而流离失所的北极人民规划、建设和维护有弹性的社区。这一规划工作将通过连接世界各地的研究伙伴，开发与阿拉斯加的劳动力发展途径，为ERCA2050制定一个结构。美国本土的学生以及阿拉斯加以外的学生，结合不同的观点，探索面向市场的工程解决方案的创新机会，这些产品的测试平台，以及汇总和可访问的数据。这一规划工作与NSF？我们对伦理委员会的新愿景：如上所述，它具有强大的社会影响，通过从广泛的学科中吸取经验，结合了融合，具有多样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交流方面的特定专业知识。该项目也与NSF的两项重大挑战相一致：导航新北极和不断发展的融合研究。关键组成部分和可交付成果包括一个专门负责协调规划活动的研究员，两个社区创新节，以及为期一年的系列研讨会，以加强利益相关者之间的联系。社区节日将探讨融合、利益相关者社区、团队组建、有效领导和管理以及社会影响等问题。从这些讨论中获得的信息将被综合到不同层次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连接、缺口和需求。这些概念地图将根据当地资源可用性、景观参数、社会宜居性因素、教育和创新途径以及全球影响等因素构建，这些因素最终将构成ERCA2050的组成部分。这个计划项目将寻求设计一个ERC，让学生参与各个层次的研究，并招募来自阿拉斯加的学生。美国农村社区，以及来自类似背景社区的学生。这项工作将扩大阿拉斯加土著居民的参与，包括他们作为我们过程中的关键利益相关者，在规划我们的ERC路线图和在恢复力工作中作为参与者的积极作用。项目人员反映了NSF对性别和种族多样性的承诺。利益相关者咨询委员会的成立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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。