IRES Track II: Multidisciplinary Coastal Zone Hazards Institutes - France, Japan, Indonesia

在这个为期3年的项目中，共有42名美国学生（每年14名）将在三个高级研究所（ASI）网站之一的外国机构停留两周期间获得沿海地区危害研究的多学科培训和实践实验室和现场经验（每年一个ASI网站）。美国团队（波士顿大学、北方亚利桑那大学和阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯）将与法国南布列塔尼大学（UBS）、日本东北大学（TU）和理化学研究所（RIKEN）以及印度尼西亚迪波尼戈罗大学（UNDIP）和加贾玛达大学（UGM）的教师/讲座合作，领导意大利空间研究所的活动。在国际范围内设置的ASI活动将为研究生提供多阶段，高质量的培训和研究，将产生适用于博士工作和本项目持续时间以外的其他研究活动的数据集和学习材料。 STEM领域的女性和代表性不足的少数民族将成为美国团队的特别目标。STEM的经验设置在全球范围内将参与美国学生准备使用科学以及政策透镜在他们未来的职业道路应对全球挑战。这些ASI解决物理和人为变化的复合影响影响人口稠密的沿海地区。随着沿海地区人口越来越密集，它们越来越容易受到气候变化现象（海平面上升、潮汐和风暴潮洪水）的影响，再加上自然地质灾害（地震、火山爆发、山体滑坡、地面沉降）和人类驱动的景观变化（城市化、农业和水产养殖、毁林），可能会加剧生态系统服务、生命和财产的破坏和损失。遥感技术和大数据分析为我们提供了测量和观察跨尺度和时间变化的手段。然而，近实时观测产生的大量数据提出了一个新的挑战：我们如何有效地利用这些数据来评估和预测沿海地区日益增长的人口对这些沿海灾害的风险暴露？了解海岸动态变化的过程需要一套来自多个学科的技能，而这些技能在美国的研究生课程中往往是缺失的。这就是为三个地点的高级研究生建立多学科海岸灾害培训计划的动机，这些研究生可以了解各种类型和水平的海岸变化过程和风险。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的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，

Over the course of this 3-year project, a total of 42 U.S. students (14 per year) will gain multidisciplinary training and hands-on laboratory and field experience in coastal zone hazards research during a two-week stay at foreign institutions in one of the three Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) sites (one ASI site per year). The U.S. team (Boston University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Alaska Fairbanks) will lead the ASI activities in partnership with faculty/lectures in the University of South Brittany (UBS), France, Tohoku University (TU) and RIKEN, Japan, and the University of Diponegoro (UNDIP) and University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. The ASI activities set in an international context will provide a multi-stage, high-quality training and research for graduate students that will produce data sets and learning materials applicable to PhD work and other research activities beyond the duration of this project. Women and under-represented minorities in STEM fields will be particularly targeted by the U.S. team. The STEM experiences set in the global context will prepare participating U.S. students to address global challenges using both a scientific as well as policy lens in their future career pathways.These ASIs address the compounded effect of physical and human-induced changes affecting densely populated coastal zones. As coastal areas become more densely populated, they become increasingly exposed to climate change phenomena (sea level rise, tidal and storm-surge flooding) which in combination with natural geological hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, land subsidence) and human driven landscape transformation (urbanization, agriculture and aquaculture, deforestation) can amplify the destruction and loss of ecosystem services, life, and property. Remote Sensing technology and big data analytics provide us the mean to measure and observe changes across scale and time. However, the vast amount of data produced by near-real time observations imposes a new challenge: how can we effectively use the data to assess and predict risk exposure of a growing population in coastal regions to these coastal hazards? Understanding the processes underlying coastal dynamic changes requires a set of skills drawn from multiple disciplines that is often missing in graduate programs in the U.S. This is the motivation for establishing a multidisciplinary coastal hazards training program for advanced graduate students in three locations that exemplify various types and levels of coastal change processes and risks.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.