Workshop on Bio-Inspired Adaptation of Urban Infrastructure; Sept. 9-10, 2019; Cleveland, Ohio

百分之八十的美国人口生活在城市地区。作为经济强国的中心，城市社区创造了美国GDP的85%左右。 因此，城市社区的可持续性是国家持续繁荣的基础。 美国的大城市越来越多地面临着快速老化的基础设施，城市系统的关键维护和维修需求以及现代化的需求。 要维持城市基础设施及其服务质量，以适应不断变化的气候和社会经济需求，就需要采取创新的战略来适应这些需求。 本次研讨会将探讨生物系统的潜力，这些系统展示了对极端气候条件的惊人适应策略，即，极端寒冷，极端炎热，沼泽，盐碱和干旱，提供丰富的信息库，作为城市基础设施智能适应的灵感来源。 研讨会的成果将是设计一个研究和教育路线图，并建立一个融合的研究社区，探索城市基础设施系统的生物启发适应的前沿。 城市基础设施系统的生物启发适应研讨会将利用生物和生态系统的智能和适应战略，作为创造设计和实施适应性城市基础设施系统的新方法的灵感来源。研讨会计划将侧重于四个主要重点领域：生物/生态系统的适应;生物启发的适应性基础设施系统;生物启发的适应性决策和治理;以及城市适应的教育和劳动力规划。研讨会为期两天，为团队建设、主题演讲、小组讨论、促进小组讨论和海报展示提供各种机会。该计划将促进研究人员，从业人员，社区领袖和决策者之间的跨学科交流。该研讨会将为与会者提供广泛的互动机会，他们汇集了跨学科的专业知识，旨在推进城市可持续发展的科学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

Eighty percent of the U.S. population lives in urban areas. As hubs for economic powerhouses, urban communities generate around 85% of tthe U.S. GDP. Therefore, the sustainability of urban communities underpins the sustained prosperity of the Nation. Large urban cities across the U.S. are increasingly faced with the rapidly decaying infrastructure, critical maintenance and repair needs across city systems, and a need for modernization. Sustaining the urban infrastructures and their quality of service to the evolving climatic and socio-economic demands call for innovative strategies for their adaptations. This workshop will explore the potential of biological systems, which demonstrate amazing adaptation strategies to extreme climatic conditions, i.e., extreme cold, extreme hot, marsh, salinity, and drought, to provide a rich repository of information as source of inspiration for the smart adaptation of urban infrastructure. The outcome of the workshop will be to design a research and educational roadmap and to build a convergent research community to explore the frontier of bio-inspired adaptation of urban infrastructure systems. The workshop on Bio-Inspired Adaptation for Urban Infrastructure Systems will leverage the intelligence and adaptation strategies of biological and ecological systems as sources of inspiration for creating new approaches to design and implementation of adaptive urban infrastructure systems. The workshop program will focus on four major thrust areas: adaptation in biological/ecological systems; bio-inspired adaptive infrastructure systems; bio-inspired adaptive decision and governance; and education and workforce planning for urban adaptation. The workshop will be a two-day event providing various opportunities for team-building, keynote speeches, panels, facilitated group discussions, and poster sessions. This program will facilitate transdisciplinary exchange among researchers, practitioners, community leaders, and decision-makers. The workshop will provide extensive opportunities for dynamic interactions among attendees who bring together transdisciplinary expertise, with the aim of advancing the science of the urban sustainability.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.