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

80%的美国人口居住在城市地区。作为经济中心，城市社区的GDP占美国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。美国的大城市正日益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。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，需要创新的适应战略。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（如极冷、极热、沼泽、盐度和干旱）的惊人适应策略，为城市基础设施的智能适应提供丰富的信息库。研讨会的结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，以探索城市基础设施系统的生物适应的前沿。城市基础设施系统的生物适应研讨会将利用生物和生态系统的智能和适应策略作为灵感来源，创造设计和实施适应性城市基础设施系统的新方法。研讨会计划将重点关注四个主要领域：生物/生态系统的适应；仿生适应性基础设施系统；仿生适应性决策与治理；以及适应城市的教育和劳动力规划。工作坊为期两天，提供各种机会，包括团队建设、主题演讲、小组讨论、促进小组讨论和海报会议。该项目将促进研究人员、从业人员、社区领袖和决策者之间的跨学科交流。研讨会将为与会者提供广泛的互动机会，与会者将汇集跨学科的专业知识，以推进城市可持续发展的科学。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。

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.