Ecosystem Responses to Hurricanes Synthesis Workshop

2017年秋季，三场主要飓风（哈维、厄玛和玛丽亚）在美国登陆。风暴潮、海水入侵、风灾和洪水对人类、经济和生态造成了灾难性的影响。风暴的数量、强度、登陆的数量以及造成的灾难性破坏都是惊人的。全球模型预测，下个世纪飓风将会增加，受影响的地区也会发生变化。因此，需要对严重热带风暴干扰作出综合反应，以了解影响和恢复的一般模式。该奖项将为研究人员、专家、管理人员和研究生提供研讨会资金，以发展对飓风对淡水、河口和陆地生态系统影响的综合理解。拟议的讲习班将为代表人数不足和早期职业科学家的职业发展和培训提供重要机会。多个主要飓风史无前例地登陆美国，为记录生态系统对极端扰动的一般反应模式提供了难得的机会。该研讨会将利用美国国家科学基金会在飓风研究方面的重大投资，在2017年飓风哈维、伊尔玛和玛丽亚的破坏性影响之后，产生一种新的跨系统干扰生态学综合。综合工作将由三项主要活动产生，包括：征聘和工作流程设计、为期三天的讲习班以及讲习班后的分析和综合。研讨会将汇集研究多种生态系统类型（河口、淡水、陆地）和生态系统响应(物理、生物地球化学、有机？移动与不动，微生物，动物和植物)对这些飓风的影响。参与者将把不同的数据集合并到一个共同的统计框架中，并进行综合分析，以确定对不同类型飓风压力源的共同和独特的反应。讲习班和讲习班后活动将产生对生态系统如何应对严重干扰的理解，并提供适用于生态系统和生态系统组成部分的可推广的概念框架。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。

Three major hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, and Maria) made landfall in the United States during the fall of 2017. Catastrophic human, economic, and ecological effects occurred from the storm surge, saltwater intrusion, wind damage, and flooding. The number of storms, their intensity, the number that made landfall, and the catastrophic damage was remarkable. Global models predict hurricanes will increase and effected areas will change over the next century. Thus, synthesizing responses to severe tropical storm disturbances is needed to understand general patterns of impact and recovery. This award will provide workshop funds for researchers, experts, managers, and graduate students to develop a synthetic understanding of hurricane impacts on freshwater, estuarine, and terrestrial ecosystems. The proposed workshop will provide important opportunities for career advancement and training of underrepresented and early career scientists.The unprecedented landfall of multiple major hurricanes in the United States presents a rare opportunity to document generalizable patterns in ecosystem response to extreme disturbance. The workshop will leverage the significant investment of the National Science Foundation in Hurricane Research following the devastating impacts of storms Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017 to generate a novel cross-system disturbance ecology synthesis. The synthesis will result from three major activities including: recruitment and workflow design, a three-day workshop, and post-workshop analysis and synthesis. The workshop will bring together research teams studying multiple ecosystem types (estuarine, freshwater, terrestrial) and ecosystem responses (physical, biogeochemical, organismal ? mobile vs sedentary, microbial, animal, and plant) to these hurricanes. The participants will merge diverse datasets into a common statistical framework and conduct synthetic analyses to identify shared and unique responses to different types of hurricane stressors. Both workshop and post workshop activities will yield an understanding of how ecosystems respond to severe disturbance and contribute a generalizable conceptual framework that is applicable across ecosystems and ecosystem components.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.