Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards Researchers

为下一代灾害研究人员提供支持

• 批准号: 1921157
• 负责人: Thomas Cova
• 金额: $ 48.06万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921157&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enabling; Next; Generation; Hazards; Researchers

This project will (1) foster the development of scholars with a career-long commitment to research on hazards, risk, and disasters; (2) contribute to the nation's future research capacity and infrastructure in these areas; and (3) add important original scientific knowledge to the areas of hazards, risk, and disasters by increasing interdisciplinary, convergent scholarship. This project builds on previous successful mentoring projects funded by CMMI with some important innovations. First, this project will expand the substantive interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary content by including coverage of coupled hazards-society modeling, disaster health, and emerging technologies. Second, the project uses research on successful mentoring to design an early career faculty mentoring program that maximizes beneficial impacts for mentees, develops the skills of new mentors, and is transferable to a broad range of research mentoring contexts (e.g., university-based programs, other NSF programs). Third, there will be a greater emphasis on preparing mentees to pursue funding via the NSF's CAREER mechanism. Fourth, this project will establish a formal partnership between the Enabling Program and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder to improve program visibility and institutional capacity. The program consists of several key elements: (a) a cohort of 20 Fellows who are in tenure track positions at research universities, (b) 10 senior scholars that will serve as Mentors to the Fellows, (c) a program Advisory Committee, and (c) a project Leadership Management Team consisting of the Principal and Co-Principal Investigators and several supporting members. This project is crucial to the advancement of knowledge in the interdisciplinary hazards/disasters/risk field, which relies on a continuous influx of young scholars committed both to their own disciplines and to the theoretical and applied aspects of this broad field. The significance of the program lies in developing and empowering a cadre of researchers who can understand and address the complex interactions between the social, built, and natural environment associated with hazards and disasters. In terms of broader impacts, the project will create a diverse set of scholars versed in the systematic explanation of social causes and consequences of disasters, which is critical to improving all phases of disaster management. Results will be disseminated, including a description and assessment of the transferable mentoring model, through journal article publications and participation in the annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Colorado.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.

本项目将(1)培养终身致力于灾害、风险和灾害研究的学者；(2)为国家未来在这些领域的研究能力和基础设施做出贡献；(3)通过增加跨学科、趋同的学术研究，为危害、风险和灾害领域增加重要的原创科学知识。该项目建立在CMMI资助的以前成功的指导项目的基础上，具有一些重要的创新。首先，该项目将扩大实质性的跨学科和多学科内容，包括耦合危害-社会建模、灾害健康和新兴技术的覆盖范围。其次，该项目利用对成功指导的研究来设计一个早期职业教师指导计划，最大限度地提高对学员的有益影响，培养新导师的技能，并可转移到广泛的研究指导环境中（例如，大学项目，其他NSF项目）。第三，将更加强调准备学员通过NSF的CAREER机制寻求资助。第四，该项目将在使能项目和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的自然灾害中心之间建立正式的伙伴关系，以提高项目的可见度和机构能力。该项目由几个关键要素组成：(a) 20名在研究型大学担任终身职位的研究员，(b) 10名资深学者作为研究员的导师，(c)一个项目咨询委员会，(c)一个项目领导管理团队，由首席和联合首席研究员以及几名支持成员组成。该项目对跨学科灾害/灾害/风险领域的知识进步至关重要，这依赖于不断涌入的年轻学者，他们既致力于自己的学科，也致力于这一广泛领域的理论和应用方面。该计划的意义在于培养和授权一批研究人员，他们能够理解和解决与灾害和灾害相关的社会、建筑和自然环境之间复杂的相互作用。就更广泛的影响而言，该项目将培养一批精通系统解释灾害的社会原因和后果的学者，这对改善灾害管理的各个阶段至关重要。将通过发表期刊文章和参加在科罗拉多州举行的年度自然灾害研究和应用讲习班来传播成果，包括对可转让指导模式的描述和评估。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。