GRANDE: Geoscience Research Programs' Adaptations to Natural Disruptive Events

GRANDE：地球科学研究项目对自然破坏性事件的适应

• 批准号: 2223004
• 负责人: Christopher Keane
• 金额: $ 48.93万
• 依托单位: American Geological Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2223004&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GRANDE; Geoscience; Research; Programs; Adaptations

When natural processes and society intersect, daily life can be upended with impacts ranging from minor delays and interruptions to severe impacts to people and property caused by major disruptive events. Geoscience programs at colleges and universities lead the way in new research and educational experiences related to natural processes as well as in developing the future professionals that can predict, mitigate, and prevent these societal impacts. Even beyond normal earth system processes such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and regular storms, that lead to disruptions, climate change is enhancing the frequency and intensity of many events, such as storms and floods, and expanding the range impacted by other processes such as wildfires. Although disruptive events have been documented as negatively impacting higher education and research, and especially so for vulnerable populations, they may be potentially transformative for geoscience programs as they represent direct experiences with the processes being studied by students and researchers in those programs. However, such events impact geoscience programs as well. This study will examine how geoscience programs have managed the impacts of natural disruptive events, the thresholds at which they have experienced critical negative outcomes, if and how they have been able to leverage the experience for improved teaching and research, and how they contributed to resilience strategies for their institutions. This project will identify how U.S.-based geoscience departments that have been impacted by major natural disruptive events have changed their programs during the recovery and will highlight new challenges and opportunities which might have arisen as a result of these disruptions. The project will also identify specific actions and postures by geoscience departments that present opportunities to create value in the geoscience community and mitigate future impacts from disruptive events. The PIs plan to utilize a spectrum of methods to examine the scope, nature, and intensity of impacts and resulting operational and policy changes across four distinct work packages: 1) Quantitatively assess how declared disasters impacted geoscience education and research; 2) Identify specific operational and pedagogical outcomes that evolved from disruptive event-impacted departments; 3) Determine how the geoscience community has leveraged natural disruptions broadly beyond those departments directly impacted by the events; and 4) Capture the attitudes and forward perspectives of students and early-career geoscientists on impacts to the geosciences by climate change and associated disruptive experiences.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.

当自然进程和社会相互交织时，日常生活可能会被颠覆，影响范围从轻微的延迟和中断到重大破坏性事件对人员和财产造成的严重影响。 学院和大学的地球科学课程在与自然过程相关的新研究和教育经验方面以及在发展能够预测，减轻和预防这些社会影响的未来专业人员方面处于领先地位。 即使超出正常的地球系统过程，如火山爆发，地震和定期风暴，导致中断，气候变化正在增加许多事件的频率和强度，如风暴和洪水，并扩大其他过程的影响范围，如野火。 虽然破坏性事件已被记录为对高等教育和研究产生负面影响，特别是对弱势群体，但它们可能对地球科学项目具有潜在的变革性，因为它们代表了学生和研究人员在这些项目中研究过程的直接经验。 然而，这些事件也影响地球科学计划。 本研究将探讨地球科学计划如何管理自然破坏性事件的影响，他们经历了关键的负面结果的阈值，如果以及如何利用经验来改善教学和研究，以及他们如何为他们的机构的弹性战略做出贡献。该项目将确定美国如何-受到重大自然破坏事件影响的地球科学部门在恢复期间改变了计划，并将强调这些破坏可能带来的新挑战和机遇。该项目还将确定地球科学部门的具体行动和姿态，为地球科学界创造价值和减轻破坏性事件的未来影响提供机会。 PI计划利用一系列方法来检查影响的范围，性质和强度以及由此产生的四个不同工作包的业务和政策变化：1）量化评估宣布的灾害如何影响地球科学教育和研究; 2）确定从破坏性事件影响部门演变而来的具体业务和教学成果; 3）确定地球科学界如何利用自然破坏，而不仅仅是那些直接受事件影响的部门;及4）掌握学生的态度和前瞻性的观点，并及早-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。