SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Hoomalu Halelea - Community-led Innovation for Integrated Flood Resilience

2018年4月，考阿岛的哈雷勒（Halele）创下了美国24小时降雨量（49.69英寸）的纪录，造成了1970万美元的损失。两年后，随着家庭和企业仍在恢复，该活动提供了一个机会，以提高地区社区和世界各地越来越容易受到洪水影响的其他地方的复原力。夏威夷群岛是一个社会生态系统的典范，在文化、降雨和生态系统方面具有多样性。传统上，夏威夷的粮食安全是由几代人对水资源的监督所支撑的，但仅靠当地知识已经不能涵盖降雨量的变化、物种入侵和土地利用的变化。这项建议提供了一个模式，通过科学伙伴关系，加强监测和通信工具，恢复地方管理水道的能力。该项目将通过以下方式增强社会和生态社区对日益增加的洪水风险的抵御能力：1）合作研究-与社区成员合作，整合流域变化的各种方法和知识，以加强地方一级的河流管理; 2）试点恢复和河流清理; 3）监测和通信，以提高历史和实时水文气象数据的可用性，了解洪水灾害，并促进围绕极端事件的连通性;以及4）社区教育和培训，提供教育材料，以提高对未来灾害的整体抵御能力。项目合作伙伴包括七个社区非营利组织、县灾害规划和反应机构、三个专门研究水资源（从大气到地下水）的大学教师和一名研究地区的社会科学家，沿着还有一名在土著管理方面经验丰富的社区领导。项目的目标和研究范围包括与社区成员的访谈和焦点小组，通过入侵物种清除试点恢复河流，安装实时气象站以监测降雨量，开发通信门户网站，以及社区教育课程，包括现场学习和视频教学。 研究人员和社区成员将共同整合长者的知识和历史溪流数据，以生成研究问题，放置监测站，并调查极端降雨事件期间的水文响应。该项目为大学学者、当地非营利组织和土著社区成员之间的合作提供了一个模式，以加强研究、基础设施和沟通;提供监测、观测能力和培训机会，并提高当地对气候变化的适应能力。该提案还将有助于理解复原力的文化、社会和背景方面;建立协作进程模型，以生成和评估与当地相关的长期复原力指标;同时测试水文科学和通信技术在气候变化适应和规划方面的应用。 该项目涉及与NSF和国土安全部合作的公民创新挑战赛的轨道B -自然灾害复原力。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。

In April 2018, Haleleʻa, Kauaʻi, set a U.S. record for 24-hr rainfall (49.69 in), causing $19.7 million in losses. Over two years later, with families and businesses still recovering, the event offers an opportunity to enhance resilience of area communities and other places worldwide which are increasingly vulnerable to floods. The Hawaiian Islands comprise a model social-ecological system of diversity in culture, rainfall, and ecosystems. Traditionally, Hawaiian food security was underpinned by oversight of water resources built across generations, but local knowledge alone can no longer encompass changes in rainfall, species invasion, and shifting land use. This proposal offers a model to restore capacity for local stewardship of waterways through scientific partnerships to enhance monitoring and communication tools. This project will enhance social and ecological community resilience to increasing flood risk through: 1) Collaborative Research - Working with community members to integrate diverse methods and knowledge of watershed change to enhance local level stream management; 2) Piloting restoration and stream clearing; 3) Monitoring and Communication to improve availability of historical and real-time hydrometeorological data to understand flood hazards, and promote connectedness around extreme events; and 4) Community Education and Training offering educational materials to enhance holistic resilience to future disasters. Project partners include seven community non-profits, the county disaster planning and response agency, three university faculty specializing in water - from atmosphere to groundwater - and one social scientist native to the study area, along with a community lead experienced in indigenous stewardship. Project goals and scope of research include interviews and focus groups with community members, piloting stream restoration through invasive species removal, installation of real-time weather stations to monitor rainfall, development of a communication web portal, and course for community education that will include in-person on-site learning and video instruction. Researchers and community members will together integrate elders’ knowledge, and historic stream data to generate research questions, place monitoring stations, and investigate hydrological responses during extreme rainfall events. This project provides a model for collaboration between university scholars, local non-profits, and indigenous community members to enhance research, infrastructure, and communication; provide monitoring, observation capability and training opportunities and enhance local resilience to climate change. This proposal will also contribute to understanding of cultural, social and contextual aspects of resilience; model collaborative processes to generate and assess locally relevant indicators of resilience over time; while testing applications of hydrological science and communication technology to climate change adaptation and planning. This project addresses Track B – Resilience to Natural Disasters for the CIVIC Innovation Challenge a collaboration with NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.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.