CoPe Conference on Community Resiliency In The Face of Coastal Hazards and The Renewable Energy Transition; May, 2020, Annapolis, MD

美国东海岸的社区，主要是北卡罗来纳州到缅因州，正处于快速过渡时期。首先，像美国其他沿海地区一样，他们正在经历更明显的沿海灾害，包括海平面上升，暴风雨事件增加，海洋水位飙升，导致洪水泛滥。这些因素因气候变化而变得复杂。此外，随着美国转向清洁能源，风力涡轮机开始被放置在海岸附近的海洋中。这两种动力可能导致社区和海岸之间的新关系。本次研讨会将探讨沿海社区、沿海过程和海洋电力基础设施之间的人际关系的变化性质的影响。研讨会将以未来的研究和机会为导向，以适应、提前准备、吸收和恢复风暴事件。该研讨会将于2020年春季在马里兰州安纳波利斯举行，届时科学家、规划师、公民团体和商业利益团体将齐聚一堂。美国东海岸的转变具有两个动态特征：沿海灾害，包括海平面上升、风暴潮和降水事件增加，导致洪水和淹没，这往往对最脆弱的沿海人口产生更严重的影响；海洋可再生能源基础设施的选址和安装。讲习班旨在更好地了解这些相互关联的动态，重点是建立复原力的努力和考虑开发海上风能系统。讲习班将利用学术界（例如，社会和物理科学家、灾害管理专家和海洋赠款参与专业人员）；政府（联邦、部落、州和地方规划者）；适应从业人员;沿海公民社会；以及工业/私营部门（商会、商业渔民、海上风能开发商），并关注小型沿海社区与海岸/海洋之间不断变化的人际关系。讲习班将努力提高对以下方面的理解：(a)物理过程带来的大规模沿海变化与近海可再生能源带来的海洋工业化之间的联系；(b)如何最好地让政策制定者共同看待这两种变化力量，以找到共同战略，克服体制障碍，以及具有共同利益的创新伙伴关系机会；(c)有效的风险沟通策略，阐明与沿海社区快速转型和复原力建设有关的权衡和不确定性。研讨会将制定一个跨学科的研究路线图，以解决新兴的沿海社区转型问题，并确定最佳做法和风险沟通策略，以增强适应能力和复原力。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。

Communities along the east coast of the United States, primarily North Carolina to Maine, are in a time of rapid transition. First, like much of the rest of coastal United States, they are experiencing more pronounced coastal hazards, including sea level rise, increased storm rain events, and surging oceanic waters, resulting in flooding. These factors are complicated by climate change. In addition, as the US moves toward clean energy, wind turbines are beginning to be placed in the ocean off their coasts. These two dynamics could result in new relationships between communities and their coasts. This workshop will explore the implications of the changing nature of the human relationship between coastal communities, coastal processes, and electricity infrastructure in the ocean. The workshop will be oriented toward future research and opportunities to adapt, advance preparedness, and absorb and bounce back after storm events. The workshop will be held in Annapolis, Maryland in Spring 2020, and bring together scientists, planners, citizen groups, and business interests.The transition of the US east coast is characterized by two dynamics: coastal hazards, including rising seas, storm surge and increased precipitation events leading to flooding and inundation, which often have more serious impacts in the most vulnerable coastal populations, and siting and installation of renewable energy infrastructure in the ocean. The workshop seeks a better understanding of these interrelated dynamics with a focus on resilience building efforts and consideration of the development of an offshore wind energy system. The workshop will draw on academia (e.g., social and physical scientists, disaster management specialists and Sea Grant engagement professionals); government (federal, tribal, and state and local planners); adaptation practitioners; coastal civil society; and industry/private sector (chamber of commerce, commercial fishers, offshore wind developers) and focus on the changing human relationship with the coast/sea in small coastal communities. The workshop will work to improve understanding of (a) the links between large-scale coastal changes from physical processes and industrialization of the ocean from offshore renewable energy, (b) how best to engage policymakers in viewing these two forces of change together to find common strategies, overcome institutional barriers, and innovative partnering opportunities with co-benefits, and (c) effective risk communication strategies that articulate tradeoffs and uncertainties related to rapid transitions and resilience building in coastal communities. The workshop will generate an interdisciplinary research roadmap that address emerging coastal community transitions and identifies best practices and risk communication strategies to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience.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.