CoPe EAGER: Mobilizing our Coastal Communities: Facilitating Rapid Response Observations of Extreme Event Flooding, Inundation, and Overwash

极端风暴、涨潮洪水、海啸、地震和其他自然事件对沿海社区构成高风险，并造成数十亿美元的损失。虽然导致洪水的地球物理强迫可能是区域性的，但洪水的强度和持续时间可能在一系列尺度上表现出显着的时间或空间变化。公民科学家可以迅速部署的低成本仪器的先进技术，将使科学家和当地社区能够通过收集极端洪水的关键观测数据来解决长期存在的采样不足问题。 将建立一个能够测量局部洪水的仪器借阅图书馆。公民科学家收集的观察结果将作为沿海地质学家和规划者的资源，重点是洪水预测和景观对极端事件的结构反应。这方面的知识可以提供信息，以社区面临的应急响应和沿海adaptation decisions.The拟议的项目从事公民科学家（本科生，推广科学志愿者（ESV），和沿海居民）在一个合作的公民科学项目的三个队列。各种公民科学家团体将收集一系列极端洪水情况下的高分辨率洪水观测结果。 这一探索性项目将从一开始就吸引地球物理和公民科学学科的参与，以利用最近的技术进步，实现转变我们高分辨率地球物理场采样能力的目标。 我们的目标是：1）与学生和ESV合作开发低成本传感器，2）创建沿海居民可访问的沿海洪水仪器借阅图书馆（CFILL），3）提供仪器使用培训，并与公民科学志愿者一起测试CFILL协议的可用性，以及4）与沿海居民合作部署传感器，以促进对包裹和社区层面的洪水和淹没进行高分辨率采样。通过收集极端洪水的关键观测数据，推动低成本仪器技术的进步，并使公民科学家能够快速部署，将改变我们解决长期采样不足问题的能力。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Extreme storms, high tide flooding, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other natural events pose high risk to coastal communities and cause billions of dollars of damage. Although the geophysical forcing leading to the flooding may be regional in nature, the intensity and duration of the flooding may exhibit significant temporal or spatial variability over a range of scales. Advancing technologies for low-cost instrumentation that can be rapidly deployed by citizen scientists will allow for scientists and local communities to address the chronic under-sampling problem by collecting critical observations of extreme flooding. A lending library for instruments that are able to measuring localized flooding will be created. The observations collected by citizen scientists will serve as a resource for coastal geologists and planners focused on the predictions of flooding and the structural response of the landscape to extreme events. This knowledge could provide information to communities faced with emergency response and coastal adaptation decisions.The proposed project engages three cohorts of citizen scientists (undergraduate students, Extension Science Volunteers (ESVs), and coastal residents) in a collaborative citizen science project. High-resolution flooding observations from a range of extreme flooding situations will be collected by the various citizen scientist groups. This exploratory project will, from the onset, engage the geophysical and citizen science disciplines to capitalize on recent technological advancements for the goal of transforming our capacity for high-resolution geophysical field sampling. Our objectives are to 1) develop low cost sensors with students and ESVs as partners, 2) create a coastal flooding instrumentation lending library (CFILL) accessible to coastal residents, 3) provide training on the use of the instruments and test the usability of CFILL protocols with citizen science volunteers, and 4) deploy the sensors in collaboration with coastal residents to facilitate high-resolution sampling of parcel and community-level flooding and inundation. Advancing technologies for low-cost instrumentation that can be rapidly deployed by citizen scientists will transform our ability to address the chronic under-sampling problem by collecting critical observations of extreme flooding.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.