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

在这个项目中，一个由学术界和社区合作伙伴组成的团队将结合流域变化的各种方法和知识来源，以增强社区对沿海社区日益严重的极端洪水威胁的抵御能力。像世界上其他地方一样，项目所在地夏威夷考艾岛上的一个农村地区哈雷亚正处于气候危机的风口浪尖。2018年4月，哈利亚州的极端降雨事件创下了美国24小时降雨量（49.7英寸）的新纪录，并因洪水造成了1970万美元的损失。从那以后，洪水和山体滑坡频繁发生。由于降雨、物种入侵和土地利用变化的变化，跨代建立的传统水资源知识和监督已不再足够。通过与社区成员、领导应对洪水和灾害的非营利组织以及考艾岛紧急事务管理局的合作，该项目将加强社区成员之间以及社区环境、当地政府、游客和新居民之间的联系，从而增强沿海社区对日益增加的洪水风险的抵御能力。此外，该团队正在提炼最佳实践，为沿海地区制定包容性的、以社区为基础的环境管理方法，并参与与包括太平洋岛屿和美国大陆在内的沿海社区的持续知识共享。该项目的愿景是通过将土著知识、当地生态变化观察和科学仪器数据联系起来，增强社会和生态社区对日益增加的洪水风险的抵御能力。这种办法将提高山海流域管理的能力，同时使子孙后代担负起相互照顾的责任。(1)合作研究：与社区成员合作，整合流域随时间变化的各种方法和知识来源，以加强地方一级对河流的护理和管理；(2)修复：提高溪流清理和修复工作的成效；(3)监测和通信：提高历史和实时水文气象数据的可用性，以增强对洪水灾害的认识，并促进使用社交媒体，以改善极端事件发生之前、期间和之后的社区联系；(4)社区教育和培训：在社区确定的主题上提供课程和教育材料，以增强对未来气候变化引起的灾害的整体恢复能力。该项目是公民创新挑战赛的一部分，该挑战赛由国家科学基金会、能源部车辆技术办公室、国土安全部科学技术局和联邦紧急事务管理局合作开展。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。

In this project, a team of academic and community partners will combine diverse methods and sources of knowledge of watershed changes over time to enhance community resilience to increasing threats of extreme flooding in coastal communities. Like other locales around the world, the project's site of Halelea, a rural district on Island of Kauai, Hawaii, is on the cusp of the climate crisis. In April 2018, an extreme rain event in Halelea set a new US 24-hr rainfall record (49.7”) and caused $19.7M in losses due to flooding. Since then, flooding and landslides have reoccurred frequently. Traditional knowledge and oversight of water resources, built across generations, is no longer sufficient due to changes in rainfall, species invasion, and land use change. In collaboration with community members, nonprofits who have led flood and disaster response, and the Kauai Emergency Management Agency, this project will enhance resilience to increasing flood risk in coastal communities by strengthening connections of community members with one another and their environment, as well as with local government, tourists, and newer residents. Additionally, the team is distilling best practices in developing an inclusive, community-based environmental management approach for coastal areas and participating in on-going knowledge sharing with coastal communities including the Pacific Islands and the continental US.The vision of this project is to enhance social and ecological community resilience to increasing flood risk by linking Indigenous knowledge, local observations of ecological change, and data from scientific instrumentation. This approach will improve capacity for mountain-to-sea watershed management, while connecting future generations to their responsibilities for reciprocal care. The work addresses the following specific project goals: (1) Collaborative Research: Work with community members to integrate diverse methods and sources of knowledge of watershed changes over time to enhance local level care and management of streams; (2) Restoration: Enhance effectiveness of stream clearing and restoration efforts; (3) Monitoring and Communication: Improve availability of historical and real-time hydrometeorological data to enhance understanding of flood hazards, and promote use of social media to improve community connectedness before, during, and after extreme events; and (4) Community Education and Training: Provide classes and educational material, in community-identified topics, to enhance holistic resilience to future climate-change induced disasters. This project is part of the Civic Innovation Challenge, a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technology Office, and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.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.