CoPe RCN: Cascadia Coastal Hazards Research Coordination Network

1940034 (Schmift)。沿海自然灾害，如地震、海啸、洪水和山体滑坡，给研究、规划和沟通带来了挑战。这些挑战为推进基础知识和科学创造了新的机会，以支持沿海社区的恢复力，从而减少导致灾害的沿海灾害的可能性。太平洋西北海岸与环太平洋沿岸其他沿海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，以利用该地区灾害提供的科学机会，并满足社区对特定地点的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）将与学术界、政府和部落机构的利益相关者合作，推进太平洋西北地区沿海灾害和恢复力的综合研究。RCN将以现有的沿海灾害研究基础设施和基于实践的伙伴关系为基础，将公共和人口健康科学以及科学家纳入其他学科和跨学科的灾害研究；加强对俯冲带环境下海岸灾害以及动态和级联海岸灾害的认识；与西北太平洋沿岸社区合作，推动工程、规划、政策和地球科学领域的综合、跨学科研究问题和方法的发展，以减轻自然灾害带来的风险和灾害。Cascadia海岸灾害RCN将与潜在受影响的社区合作，解决有关相互作用的自然灾害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还将推进以人为中心的设计和以使用为中心的沿海灾害建模和模拟结果的表示和交流，以及将地质和工程科学与沿海政策和规划研究相结合，了解灾害对沿海社区健康的风险。RCN将通过协作灾害和恢复力研究的进展，为加强沿海社区的决策、规划和对沿海灾害的恢复力做出贡献。通过吸纳研究或旨在减轻沿海灾害的组织的成员，RCN指导委员会将与太平洋西北地区的主要沿海灾害和复原力导向组织（包括华盛顿沿海灾害复原网络）、州和联邦研究和管理机构进行有效联络。通过年度研讨会和每月的沿海灾害跨学科研讨会，RCN还将为研究生提供学习、应用和推进跨学科沿海灾害科学的独特机会，并增加这一科学劳动力的多样性，从而在该地区建立研究能力。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。

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.