NSF Convergence Accelerator Track E: Reconfiguring Urban Shorelines for Resilience: Convergence Research Meshing Ecology, Engineering and Architecture

NSF 融合加速器轨道 E：重新配置城市海岸线以增强韧性：融合研究融合生态学、工程和建筑

• 批准号: 2137745
• 负责人: Dianna Padilla
• 金额: $ 74.97万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137745&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Convergence; Accelerator; Track; Reconfiguring

Abstract - Reconfiguring urban shorelines for resilience: convergence research meshing ecology, engineering and architecture.This project addresses a significant national infrastructure need, the replacement of failing shoreline protection in urban areas. It will produce designs that increase protection, benefit social communities, and maximize the development of shoreline biological communities and the services they provide, including enhancing fisheries. The blue economy includes traditional marine industries, such as fisheries, mining, and trade, as well as emerging industries like offshore renewable energy, and the ecosystem services provided by natural communities, such as carbon sequestration and coastal protection. Urbanized coastal zones drive much of the blue economy, but are increasingly vulnerable to damage from waves, flooding, storms, and sea level rise associated with continued climate change. Hardened or armored shorelines, such as bulkheads and sea walls, have been the major tool for protecting shorelines from erosion and storms, particularly in urban settings. But, current infrastructure is failing and must be replaced. It is failing physically and functionally as it cannot adapt to changing sea conditions and is deteriorating due to age in many locations. These structures neither support diverse ecological communities nor provides a place for humans to experience and understand the valuable nature of the urban coastal ecosystem. This failure is not only a cause of the impoverishment of urban life, but a contributing factor to the lack of resilience in cities. Therefore, there is a need for innovating a new generation of replacements for existing hardened shorelines that will protect the urban edge, while supporting biodiversity and expanding human experience at the coastal interface. This project will design a digital prototype that is not only a solution to an urgent problem, but is also scalable and transportable to other urbanized shores within the US and elsewhere. Solving problems that are complex and socially relevant requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including fields that do not normally collaborate. This project involves a team from fields that rarely work together including ecologists, engineers, architects, and social scientists. This project will also engage local stakeholders, including underserved communities, to provide education about shoreline issues, science and design evaluation tools, and include their feedback in development of the model. This project will include engagement with industry, agencies, and regulatory bodies, as well as citizen groups and students. To integrate disciplinary knowledge of natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and architecture, with local knowledge, the team will conduct workshop sessions with stakeholders, including students. Interested students will be encouraged to engage as “citizen-scientist/citizen-designers” for the duration of the project. The research team aims to advance knowledge in 3 ways: 1) within and among disciplines, 2) among citizens, and 3) between experts and citizens. Coastal zones are an essential element of the blue economy. They represent the most urbanized and economically productive areas, provide habitat and nursery areas for marine biodiversity, and support important fisheries and aquaculture. However, sea level rise and increased risk of storm surge are threatening the people and economic value of urban coastal areas. Shoreline hardening has been the major tool for protecting urban areas, but existing structures are failing and need replacement. They have depauperate ecological communities, reduced nursery areas for fish, are ineffective during storm surges, and limit human interaction with the waterfront. Therefore, there is urgent need for innovative replacements to protect the urban edge, support biodiversity, and elevate human experience. The goal of this project is to design a new type of infrastructure to better protect urban shorelines while simultaneously enhancing local biological communities and human engagement with the coastline. This project will use a convergence, transdisciplinary approach with use of new materials, complex architectural morphologies, and advanced hydrological computer analyses to design new multi-scalar structures and spaces for the urban edge. It will: develop a transdisciplinary framework of structural, material, biotic, economic and social parameters for building new infrastructure to enhance biological and social communities, while advancing protection from sea-level rise and storm surge; use architectural design and engineering modeling to propose new approaches to constructed coastal reinforcements that provide protection for cities and harbors from storm surges and climate change while maximizing development of biotic communities and the services to people. It will be developed as a digital prototype and will engage local stakeholders, including underserved communities, in design activities that will integrate education about shoreline issues, science and design evaluation tools, and will include their feedback. These outcomes will be used to develop guidelines and design principles to improve coastal infrastructure. This project will create pragmatic scenarios on which to base decision-making for climate-resilient shoreline structures that have greater ecological and social value while upgrading urgently needed mechanical function. The prototype design will deliver a novel model capable of increasing well-being for people, ocean edges, and shoreline species, boost disaster risk reduction, and increase ecosystem and urban services. It will represent a benchmark approach for future research on the development and application of shoreline infrastructure. The team will link fields that rarely interact (natural and social sciences, engineering, and architectural design), with local users, stakeholders, regulatory agencies, and industry through a convergence framework. This project will help advance knowledge, collaboration, and education in 3 ways: within and among previously isolated disciplines, among citizen groups, and between experts and citizens. Local users, stakeholders, regulatory agencies and industry will be important components of this interactive team. This project will serve as a platform for developing and implementing this approach through collaboration with the team’s convergence network, curriculum integration, strategic network expansion, and pursuit of new allies. Network partners will be brought directly into the processes of public space and infrastructure design. This project will have an important outreach to high schools and will engage citizens and students from underserved communities and members of underrepresented groups. Project progress, process, and results will be shared to the wider public through a project website, active engagement through various social media and traditional scientific conference presentations and publications.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.

摘要 - 重新配置城市海岸线的弹性：融合研究网格生态学，工程和建筑。该项目解决了重要的国家基础设施需求，更换了城市地区的海岸线保护失败。它将产生增强保护，受益于社会社区的设计，并最大程度地提高海岸线生物社区及其提供的服务的发展，包括增强渔业。蓝色经济包括传统的海洋行业，例如渔业，采矿和贸易，以及新兴行业，例如离岸可再生能源，以及由自然社区提供的生态系统服务，例如碳环境和沿海保护。城市化的沿海地区推动了大部分蓝色经济，但越来越容易受到与持续气候变化相关的海浪，洪水，风暴和海平面上升的损害。硬化或装甲的海岸线（例如舱壁和海墙）已成为保护海岸线免受侵蚀和风暴的影响，尤其是在城市环境中的主要工具。但是，当前的基础架构正在失败，必须更换。它在身体和功能上失败，因为它无法适应不断变化的海洋条件，并且由于许多地方的年龄而恶化。这些结构既不支持潜水员的生态社区，也不能为人类提供体验和理解城市沿海生态系统的宝贵本质的地方。这种失败不仅是城市生活贫困的原因，而且是导致城市缺乏弹性的原因。因此，需要创新的新一代替代品来替换现有的硬质海岸线，以保护城市边缘，同时支持生物多样性并扩大沿海界面的人类经验。该项目将设计一个数字原型，不仅是解决紧急问题的解决方案，而且还可以扩展且可运输到美国和其他地方的其他城市化海岸。解决复杂且与社会相关的问题需要在广泛的领域中的专业知识，包括通常不合作的领域。该项目涉及一个很少共同努力的领域的团队，包括生态学家，工程师，建筑师和社会科学家。该项目还将吸引当地利益相关者，包括服务不足的社区，以提供有关海岸线问题，科学和设计评估工具的教育，并将其反馈包括在模型的开发中。该项目将包括与行业，机构和监管机构以及公民团体和学生的参与。为了整合自然科学，社会科学，工程和建筑的纪律知识，并将团队与包括学生在内的利益相关者（包括学生）进行研讨会。在该项目期间，有兴趣的学生将被鼓励作为“公民科学家/公民设计者”。研究小组旨在以3种方式提高知识：1）在学科内部和之间，2）在公民中以及3）专家和公民之间。沿海地区是蓝色经济的重要因素。它们代表了最城市化和经济生产的地区，为海洋生物多样性提供了栖息地和托儿所，并支持重要的渔业和水产养殖。但是，海平面上升和风暴潮的风险增加正在威胁城市沿海地区的人民和经济价值。海岸线硬化一直是保护城市地区的主要工具，但现有的结构正在失败，需要更换。他们具有偏僻的生态群落，减少了鱼类的鱼类区域，在暴风雨中无效，并限制了人类与海滨的互动。因此，迫切需要创新的替代者来保护城市边缘，支持生物多样性并提高人类的经验。该项目的目的是设计一种新型的基础设施，以更好地保护城市海岸线，同时增强当地生物学群落并与海岸线的互动。该项目将使用新材料，复杂的建筑形态以及先进的液压计算机分析来使用融合，跨学科方法，以设计新的多量表结构和空间。它将：开发一个跨学科的跨学科框架，构建结构，物质，生物，经济和社会参数，以建立新的基础设施以增强生物学和社会社区，同时推动保护海平面上升和风暴潮的保护；使用建筑设计和工程建模来提出新的方法，以建造沿海增援部队，为城市和港口提供防止风暴潮和气候变化的保护，同时最大程度地提高生物群落的发展以及对人们的服务。它将作为数字原型开发，并将参与。当地利益相关者，包括服务欠佳的社区，在设计活动中，将整合有关海岸线问题，科学和设计评估工具的教育，并将包括他们的反馈。这些结果将用于制定指南和设计原则，以改善沿海基础设施。该项目将创建务实的场景，以此为基础的决策基础，以具有更大的生态和社会价值的，同时又急需机械功能，它们具有更大的生态和社会价值。原型设计将提供一种新型模型，能够增加人们的福祉，海洋边缘和海岸线物种，促进灾难风险减少，并增加生态系统和城市服务。它将代表一种基准方法，用于未来关于海岸线基础设施发展和应用的研究。该团队将通过融合框架将很少与本地用户，利益相关者，监管机构和行业的领域联系起来（自然和社会科学，工程和建筑设计）。该项目将以三种方式帮助提高知识，协作和教育：在公民群体之间以及专家和公民之间，在以前孤立的学科内部和之间。本地用户，利益相关者，监管机构和行业将是该互动团队的重要组成部分。该项目将通过与团队的融合网络，课程集成，战略网络扩展以及追求新盟友的合作来开发和实施这种方法的平台。网络合作伙伴将直接进入公共空间和基础架构设计的过程。该项目将与高中进行重要的宣传，并将吸引来自服务不足社区的公民和学生以及代表性不足的团体的成员。项目进度，过程和结果将通过项目网站，通过各种社交媒体和传统科学会议演示和出版物的积极参与与更广泛的公众共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子的评估和更广泛的影响来通过评估来获得的支持。