Core Support for the Geographical Sciences Committee: Using Geographical Sciences to Support Research for Decision-Making

该奖项将为美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院（NASEM）地理科学委员会（GSC）提供持续的核心支持。这种支持将使委员会能够通过强调将社区与地理联系起来的问题，如自然和人为危害、人口增长和变化以及物理和社会基础设施的变化，来解决地理科学如何为社会福祉、安全和繁荣做出贡献。地理科学研究可以帮助解决人类与自然环境之间的相互作用和反馈，从而做出更明智的决策，并有助于与城市或农村规划者、自然资源管理者和政策制定者共同制定战略，以解决人们居住的地方的个人和社区脆弱性问题。对GSC的支持将为联邦机构提供一个直接的接入点，以参与地理科学界的实践，并将为地理科学界提供一个直接的接口，以通知政府和政策。地理科学委员会将新兴和相关的研究带到决策的前沿，在一系列问题中放大单个主题的知识价值，以增加社会影响。该奖项汇集了不同世代的研究人员，包括学生和早期职业专业人士，在地理科学和政策的界面上进行建设性的对话。由于极端天气事件、野火等灾害以及经济和人口变化迫使人们背井离乡，迫使人们对在哪里和如何生活做出关键决定，因此，以安全、经济和环境上可行的方式满足人类健康、能源、水、交通、基础设施和其他需求将面临挑战。该奖项的核心活动将开发和监督新的活动，以解决人类对自然和人为危害的脆弱性（如荒地火灾，特别是在荒地-城市界面）；解决与物质基础设施和社区变化相关的问题（如沿海发展和洪水风险或农村地区的能源转型）；并研究地理科学感兴趣的新兴领域（例如获取自愿提供的地理信息或用于商业应用的地理空间数据的进展）。该奖项将通过从地理角度看待这些问题来解决这些问题；通过促进政府、学术界、工业界和其他利益相关者之间的合作；并帮助确保地理科学仍然是国家发展的重要领域。对GSC的支持将使知识生成的模式和方法得以使用，这些模式和方法围绕召集来自不同群体的信息和投入而汇聚。该奖项的活动将在对话、信息交流和共识的基础上产生新的知识。该奖项还将确保信息与政府、学术界、非政府组织、工业界和公众共享。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。

This award will provide continued core support for the Geographical Sciences Committee (GSC) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). This support will permit the committee to address how the geographical sciences contribute to societal well-being, security, and prosperity by highlighting issues that connect communities with geography, such as natural and human-induced hazards, population growth and change, and changes in physical and social infrastructure. Geographical science research can help address the interactions and feedbacks between humans and the physical environment for more informed decision-making and can contribute to strategies developed together with urban or rural planners, natural resource managers, and policy makers to address individual and community vulnerabilities in the places where people live. Support for the GSC will provide an immediate access point for federal agencies to engage with the geographical science community of practice and will provide the geographical sciences community with a direct interface to inform government and policy. The Geographical Sciences Committee brings emerging and relevant research to the forefront of decision-making, amplifying the intellectual merit of individual topics in a range of issues to increase societal impact. This award brings together different generations of researchers, including students and early-career professionals, for constructive dialogue at the interface of geographical science and policy. As extreme weather events, hazards such as wildfires, and economic and population changes displace people from their homes and cause people to make critical decisions about where and how to live, challenges will exist to satisfy human health, energy, water, transportation, infrastructure, and other needs in ways that are safe and economically and environmentally viable. The core activities of this award will develop and oversee new activities to address human vulnerability to natural and human-induced hazards (such as wildland fire, particularly at the wildland-urban interface); to address questions related to changes in physical infrastructure and communities (such as coastal development and flood risk or energy transitions in rural regions); and to examine emerging fields of interest to the geographical sciences (such as access to volunteered geographic information or advances in geospatial data for commercial applications). This award will address these questions by bringing a geographic perspective to these problems; by fostering cooperation among government, academia, industry, and other stakeholders; and by helping to ensure that the geographical sciences remain an important area of growth for the nation. Support for the GSC will enable the use of modes and methods of knowledge generation that converge around convening information and input from different constituencies. The activities of the award will generate new knowledge on the basis of dialogue, information exchange, and consensus. The award will also ensure that the information is shared with government, academic, non-governmental, industry, and public audiences.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.