CoPe RCN: Cascadia Coastal Hazards Research Coordination Network

1940034（Schmift）。地震、海啸、洪水和山体滑坡等沿海自然灾害给研究、规划和沟通带来了挑战。这些挑战为促进基础知识和科学的发展创造了新的机会，以支持沿海社区的复原力，从而减少沿海灾害导致灾害的可能性。太平洋西北海岸与环太平洋其他海岸俯冲带的相似性为具有全球意义的比较和合作研究提供了独特的机会。需要加强灾害研究的区域协调，以利用该区域灾害提供的科学机会，并满足社区对特定地点灾害和风险科学的需求。卡斯卡迪亚海岸灾害研究协调网络（RCN）将与学术，政府和部落机构的利益相关者合作，以推进太平洋西北地区的海岸灾害和复原力研究。该网络将利用现有的沿海灾害研究基础设施和基于实践的伙伴关系，将公共和人口健康科学和科学家纳入其他学科和跨学科灾害研究;加强对俯冲带环境中的沿海灾害以及动态和级联沿海灾害的了解;并推动跨工程，规划和政策以及地球科学的综合，跨学科研究问题和方法的发展，与太平洋西北沿岸社区合作，减轻自然灾害带来的风险和灾害。卡斯卡迪亚沿海灾害RCN将解决与潜在受影响社区合作的自然灾害相互作用的机制和后果的基本问题，以推进沿海灾害的跨学科模拟和建模。RCN还将推进以人为本的设计和以使用为中心的沿海灾害建模和模拟结果的陈述和交流，以及地质和工程科学与沿海政策和规划研究的整合，并了解沿海社区健康面临的风险。RCN将通过在灾害和复原力合作研究方面取得进展，为加强沿海社区的决策、规划和对沿海灾害的复原力做出贡献。通过包括其组织研究或旨在减轻沿海灾害的成员，RCN指导委员会将与太平洋西北部的主要沿海灾害和以减灾为导向的组织进行有效联络，包括华盛顿沿海灾害恢复力网络，州和联邦研究和管理机构。通过关于沿海灾害的年度讲习班和每月跨学科研讨会，RCN还将通过为研究生提供学习，应用和推进跨学科沿海灾害科学的独特机会，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智力价值进行评估来支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

1940034 (Schmift). Coastal natural hazards such earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, and landslides pose research, planning, and communication challenges. These challenges create novel opportunities for advancing both fundamental knowledge as well as science to support the resilience of coastal communities and thus reduce the likelihood of coastal hazards resulting in disasters. The similarities of the Pacific Northwest coast to other coastal subduction zones on the Pacific Rim provide unique opportunities for comparative and collaborative research of global significance. Greater regional coordination of hazards research is needed, to leverage the scientific opportunities hazards in the region offer, as well as to meet community needs for place-specific hazards and risk science. The Cascadia Coastal Hazards Research Coordination Network (RCN) will engage stakeholders across academic, government, and tribal institutions to advance convergent coastal hazards and resilience research across the Pacific Northwest. The RCN will build on existing coastal hazards research infrastructure and practice-based partnerships to integrate public and population health science and scientists into other disciplinary and interdisciplinary hazards research; enhance the understanding of the coastal hazards in subduction zone environments, as well as dynamic and cascading coastal hazards; and advance the development of integrated, interdisciplinary research questions and approaches across engineering, planning and policy, and geosciences, to mitigate risks and disasters from natural hazards in partnership with Pacific Northwest coastal communities. The Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN will tackle fundamental questions on the mechanisms and consequences of interacting natural hazards in collaboration with potentially affected communities, in order to advance interdisciplinary simulation and modeling of coastal hazards. The RCN will also advance human-centered design and use-focused representations of and communications about coastal hazards modeling and simulation results, as well as the integration of geo- and engineering sciences with research on coastal policy and planning, informed by the risks to coastal community health in the face of disaster. The RCN will contribute to enhanced coastal community decision making, planning and resilience to coastal hazards, through advances in collaborative hazards and resilience research. By including members whose organizations research or aim to mitigate coastal hazards, the RCN steering committee will be constituted to liaise effectively with the primary coastal hazards and resilience-oriented organizations in the Pacific Northwest, including the Washington Coastal Hazards Resilience Network, state and federal research and management agencies. Through annual workshops and monthly cross-disciplinary seminars on coastal hazards, the RCN will also create research capacity in the region by providing graduate students with unique opportunities to learn, apply, and advance transdisciplinary coastal hazards sciences, and increase the diversity of this science workforce.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.