Track I - Center Catalyst: The CONVERSE Center: CONverging on Volcanic ERuption Science with Equity

匡威中心：集中研究火山喷发科学与公平轨道1项目将为一个新的国家中心奠定基础，该中心将大大促进对火山的科学认识。这将通过实时观察火山爆发期间发生的动态过程来实现。在火山爆发期间收集的观测和科学数据将用于对导致火山爆发的过程、喷发的强度、规模、风格和持续时间进行前所未有的了解。该中心的目标是优化火山喷发的科学数据收集过程，以提高对火山系统的基本了解，并利用这些信息帮助对未来危险喷发进行准确预测。实现这一目标需要一个协调良好、包容、多样化和创新丰富的社区，能够应对火山动荡。教育和外展是这个地质灾害中心的组成部分。培训和教育活动对该中心的成功非常重要，包括培训未来火山科学家应对火山爆发的整个工作流程，并通过具体的火山爆发情景演习培训更广泛的科学界。该中心的另一个关键方面是建立和加强主要在大学工作的学术界和在负责火山监测和火山爆发反应的政府机构工作的科学家之间的长期关系。该中心的活动将旨在增加研究人员的多样性，以便能够响应、收集和分析至关重要的数据，以提高对火山爆发的了解。CONVERSE地质灾害中心的首要目标是从科学界对火山动荡的反应中优化科学进步，以提高对火山系统的基本理解，并有助于对未来危险喷发的维度（强度、震级、持续时间、位置）进行准确预测。要实现这一目标，就需要社会各界采取协调一致、包容、多样化和富有创新精神的应对措施。CONVERSE是一个由美国国家科学基金会资助的研究协调网络，旨在回答2017年美国国家科学院关于火山作用的共识报告（爆发）中三大挑战中的第三个：1。将观测结果与定量模型相结合，预测喷发的发生、规模和危害；2. 量化火山的生命周期；3. 发展一个协调的火山科学社区，最大限度地从任何火山事件中获得科学回报。美国国家科学院2020-2030年愿景文件（“地球及时”）（NAS 2020）强调了CONVERSE研究协作网络（RCN）。这项提议是匡威朝着实现这些目标的下一步发展。因此，该中心催化剂项目将设计一个位于美国的中心，以确定一个组织结构，支持在火山爆发的关键阶段收集多种类型的互补数据。这些数据将有助于开发多尺度定量模型，捕捉关键过程、反馈和阈值，以促进对火山过程和火山喷发对地球系统的影响的理解。培训和教育活动将是该中心在催化剂阶段取得成功的组成部分，并将侧重于：(i)培训未来的火山科学家，了解整个火山科学工作流程的最佳实践；（ii）通过研讨会和火山爆发场景进行社区培训和推广。深入和社区参与将持续进行分析和评估，并为中心的设计和活动提供有关公平和包容多元化社区的信息。在该中心的催化阶段，其核心作用将是作为学术界与负责火山监测和火山爆发反应的政府机构（主要是美国地质勘探局）之间的桥梁。该中心将简化与美国地质勘探局火山灾害项目以及世界各地的天文台、学术和火山观测站合作伙伴的合作关系。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。

The CONVERSE Center: CONverging on Volcanic ERuption Science with Equity Track I project will set up the foundations for a new national center that will significantly advance the scientific understanding of volcanoes. This will be accomplished by observing, in real-time, the dynamic processes that occur during volcanic eruptions. The observations and scientific data that will be collected during such eruptions will be used to develop an unprecedented understanding of the processes that lead to volcanic eruptions, the eruption’s intensity, size, style and duration. The ambition of the center is to optimize the scientific data gathering process from volcanic eruptions to improve the fundamental understanding of volcanic systems and with that information aid in producing accurate forecasts of future hazardous eruptions. Achieving this goal requires a well-coordinated, inclusive, diverse and innovation-rich community that is able to response to volcanic unrest. Education and outreach are integral parts of this geohazards center. Training and education activities will be of great importance to the center’s success and include training of future volcano scientists in the entire workflow of responding to eruptions and the training of the broader science community through specific volcano eruption scenario exercises. Another key aspect of the center is to build and strengthen long-lasting relationships between the academic community primarily working at universities and the scientists working at government agencies that are responsible for volcano monitoring and eruption response. The centers activities will be aimed at increasing the diversity of researchers able to respond, gather and analyze critically important data to improve understanding of volcanic eruption. The overarching ambition of the CONVERSE geohazards center is to optimize the scientific advaces from responses of the scientific community to volcanic unrest in order to improve fundamental understanding of volcanic systems and aid in producing accurate forecasts of the dimensions (intensity, magnitude, duration, location) of future hazardous eruptions. Achieving this goal requires a well-coordinated, inclusive, diverse and innovation-rich community response to unrest. CONVERSE evolved as an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network, to answer the third of three Grand Challenges in the 2017 National Academies consensus report on volcanism (ERUPT): 1. Forecast the onset, size, and hazard of eruptions by integrating observations with quantitative models; 2. Quantify the life cycle of volcanoes; 3. Develop a coordinated volcano science community to maximize scientific returns from any volcanic event. The CONVERSE Research Collaborative Network (RCN) was highlighted in the National Academies 2020-2030 vision document (“Earth in Time”) (NAS 2020). This proposal is the next step in the evolution of CONVERSE towards achieving these goals. This Center Catalyst project will therefore design a US-based center to defining an organizational structure that supports collecting multiple types of complementary data during the critical phases of volcanic eruptions. These data will then enable the development of multi-scale quantitative models that capture critical processes, feedbacks, and thresholds to advance understanding of volcanic processes and the consequences of eruptions on Earth systems. Training and education activities will be integral to the Center’s success in this Catalyst phase and will focus on: (i) training of future volcano scientists in the best practices of the entire volcano science workflow and (ii) community training and outreach through workshops and eruption scenarios. In-reach and community engagement will be analyzed and assessed continuously and inform the Center's design and activities with regards to equity and inclusion of a diverse community. A central role during the Center’s catalyst phase will be as the bridge between the academic community and government agencies responsible for volcano monitoring and eruption response, mainly the USGS in the USA. The center will streamline the partnership with the USGS Volcanic Hazards Program and with observatories and academic and volcano observatory partners around the world.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.