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以实现恢复力：生态学、工程和建筑学的融合研究。该项目解决了国家基础设施的重大需求，即更换城市地区失效的海岸线保护。它将设计出加强保护、造福社会社区并最大限度地发展海岸线生物群落及其提供的服务（包括加强渔业）的设计。蓝色经济包括渔业、采矿、贸易等传统海洋产业，也包括近海可再生能源等新兴产业，以及碳汇、海岸保护等自然群落提供的生态系统服务。城市化的沿海地区推动了蓝色经济的发展，但也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。硬化或装甲海岸线，例如舱壁和海堤，一直是保护海岸线免受侵蚀和风暴的主要工具，特别是在城市环境中。但是，当前的基础设施正在失效，必须更换。它在物理和功能上都在衰竭，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老化而不断恶化。这些结构既不支持多样化的生态群落，也不为人类提供体验和理解城市沿海生态系统宝贵性质的场所。这种失败不仅是城市生活贫困的一个原因，也是城市缺乏韧性的一个因素。因此，需要创新新一代的现有硬化海岸线替代方案，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，它不仅可以解决紧迫问题，而且可以扩展并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广泛领域的专业知识，包括通常不合作的领域。该项目涉及一个来自很少一起工作的领域的团队，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，提供有关海岸线问题、科学和设计评估工具的教育，并将他们的反馈纳入模型的开发中。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合作。为了将自然科学、社会科学、工程和建筑的学科知识与当地知识相结合，该团队将与包括学生在内的利益相关者举办研讨会。将鼓励感兴趣的学生在项目期间以“公民科学家/公民设计师”的身份参与其中。研究团队旨在通过三种方式推进知识发展：1）学科内部和学科之间，2）公民之间，3）专家与公民之间。沿海地区是蓝色经济的重要组成部分。它们是城市化程度最高、经济生产力最高的地区，为海洋生物多样性提供栖息地和培育区，并支持重要的渔业和水产养殖业。然而，海平面上升和风暴潮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，但现有结构正在失效，需要更换。它们导致生态群落退化，鱼类繁殖区减少，在风暴潮期间无效，并限制了人类与海滨的互动。因此，迫切需要创新的替代品来保护城市边缘、支持生物多样性并提升人类体验。该项目的目标是设计一种新型基础设施，以更好地保护城市海岸线，同时增强当地生物群落和人类与海岸线的互动。该项目将采用融合、跨学科的方法，结合新材料、复杂的建筑形态和先进的水文计算机分析，为城市边缘设计新的多尺度结构和空间。它将： 制定结构、材料、生物、经济和社会参数的跨学科框架，用于建设新的基础设施，以增强生物和社会群落，同时加强对海平面上升和风暴潮的保护；利用建筑设计和工程模型提出建造海岸加固的新方法，为城市和港口提供风暴潮和气候变化的保护，同时最大限度地发展生物群落和为人类提供的服务。它将开发为数字原型，并将让当地利益相关者（包括服务不足的社区）参与设计活动，这些活动将整合有关海岸线问题的教育、科学和设计评估工具，并将包括他们的反馈。这些成果将用于制定改善沿海基础设施的指导方针和设计原则。该项目将创建务实的方案，为气候适应型海岸线结构的决策提供基础，这些结构具有更大的生态和社会价值，同时升级迫切需要的机械功能。该原型设计将提供一种新颖的模型，能够提高人类、海洋边缘和海岸线物种的福祉，促进减少灾害风险，并增加生态系统和城市服务。它将成为未来海岸线基础设施开发和应用研究的基准方法。该团队将通过融合框架将很少互动的领域（自然科学和社会科学、工程和建筑设计）与当地用户、利益相关者、监管机构和行业联系起来。该项目将以三种方式帮助推进知识、协作和教育：以前孤立的学科内部和之间、公民团体之间以及专家和公民之间。当地用户、利益相关者、监管机构和行业将成为这个互动团队的重要组成部分。该项目将作为一个平台，通过与团队的融合网络、课程整合、战略网络扩展和寻找新盟友的合作来开发和实施这一方法。网络合作伙伴将直接参与公共空间和基础设施设计过程。该项目将对高中进行重要的推广，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群体的成员。项目进展、过程和结果将通过项目网站、各种社交媒体的积极参与以及传统的科学会议演示和出版物向更广泛的公众分享。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。