SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) for Greater Preparedness and Resilience to Post-Wildfire Flooding in Native American Communities

20多年来，野火和野火后洪水的综合影响改变了新墨西哥州印第安人社区的生活和景观。美国原住民社区、州和国家机构、大学研究人员和其他利益相关者都为恢复工作做出了贡献，并通过向普韦布洛合作伙伴学习，从根本上改变现有的方法，建立有弹性的社区和景观。具体来说，普韦布洛社区已经向研究团队传达了他们可以从设计和构建自己的传感器网络中受益，而不是使用商业现成的传感器，这代表了一种范式转变和一种新的社区恢复方法。这种模式转变为社区设计和构建传感器解决方案提供了一种增强社区复原力的新方法。在这项提案中，普韦布洛社区将设计、建造和实施他们自己的低成本高效无线智能传感器（LEWIS）。这些自建的分布式传感器网络将向社区通报景观的趋势和阈值，有助于管理野火，并在火灾和洪水发生时提供早期预警。该项目的长期愿景是建立一个全国性的实践社区，通过共同开发与传感器网络和决策支持工具相关的能力和通信，在部落社区分享关于恢复力的想法、设计和应用。这一合作将直接导致新的复原力指数、环境传感器网络的试点示范、将传感器数据纳入决策平台的蓝图，以及建立社区复原力的战略。这个试点项目的愿景是创造一个例子，催化传感器技术的用户社区，有助于提高部落社区的恢复能力。此外，该项目还将为圣达菲印第安人学校的高中生提供一个环境监测传感器技术的课程模块，展示新的、令人兴奋的技术，并介绍STEM领域的职业机会。通过这项努力，美国原住民领袖将把刘易斯作为他们自己的技术来教育他们的年轻人。该项目旨在通过解决美国西南部部落社区对野火和野火后洪水的恢复能力这一关键需求，为公民项目的使命做出贡献。拟议的研究将通过以下方式贡献新知识并推进S&amp；CC领域：(1)促进对美洲原住民社区和学术研究人员之间共同产生知识的过程和结果的理解；(2)在弹性指数和决策支持平台的协同开发中引入基于地知识的改进方法；(3)探索管理、安全和数据共享的新方法，以支持科学进步，建立社区弹性，并尊重美洲原住民社区对数据主权的关注。该项目由公民创新挑战赛（CIVIC Innovation Challenge）资助，该挑战赛与美国国家科学基金会、能源部车辆技术办公室和国土安全部科学技术主任建立了合作伙伴关系。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行了评估，认为值得支持。

The combined impacts of wildfires and post-wildfire flooding have changed the lives and landscapes of New Mexico’s Native American Communities for over 20 years. Native American communities, state and national agencies, university researchers, and other stakeholders have contributed to recovery efforts and initiated the difficult process of fundamentally changing existing approaches to building resilient communities and landscapes by learning from Pueblo partners. Specifically, Pueblo communities have conveyed to the research team that they can benefit from designing and building their own sensor networks, as opposed to using commercial off-the-shelf sensors, which represents a paradigm shift and a novel approach to community resilience. This paradigm shift presents a new approach to enhancing community resilience where the sensor solutions are designed and built by the community. In this proposal, Pueblo communities will design, build and implement their own Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS). These self-built distributed sensor networks will inform communities of trends and thresholds in landscapes that can assist in managing wildfires and providing early warning when fires and floods occur. This project's long-term vision is to develop a Nationwide community of practice that shares ideas, designs, and applications for resilience in Tribal communities by co-developing capacity and communications related to sensor networks and decision- support tools. This collaboration will lead directly to new resilience indices, a pilot demonstration of an environmental sensor network, a blueprint for incorporating sensor data into decision-making platforms, and strategies for building community resilience. The vision for this pilot project is to create an example that catalyzes a user community of sensor technologies that contributes to increased resilience in Tribal communities. In addition, this project will deliver a curriculum module on sensor technologies for environmental monitoring to high school students at the Santa Fe Indian School that demonstrates new, exciting technologies, and introducing career opportunities in STEM. Through this effort, Native American leaders will educate their youth on LEWIS as their own technology.This project aims to contribute to the CIVIC program mission by addressing a critical need in the American Southwest – resilience to wildfires and post-wildfire floods among Tribal communities. The proposed research will contribute new knowledge and advance the area of S&CC through: (1) advancing understanding of the processes for, and outcomes of, co-generation of knowledge between Native American communities and academic researchers; (2) developing improved approaches for incorporating place-based knowledge in the co-development of resilience indices and decision-support platforms; and (3) exploring novel approaches to management, security, and data-sharing that supports the advancement of science, builds community resilience, and respects Native American communities’ concerns regarding data sovereignty. This project is funded by CIVIC Innovation Challenge which includes a partnership with NSF, the Vehicle Technology Office in Department of Energy, and the Science and Technology Director of the Department of Homeland SecurityThis 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.