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

匡威中心：Converging on Volcanic Eruption Science with Equity Track I项目将为一个新的国家中心奠定基础，这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、爆发的强度、规模、风格和持续时间有前所未有的了解。该中心的目标是优化火山爆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的危险爆发进行准确预测。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。教育和推广是这个地质灾害中心的组成部分。培训和教育活动将对该中心的成功至关重要，包括在应对火山爆发的整个工作流程中培训未来的火山科学家，以及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与负责火山监测和喷发响应的政府机构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理解。 匡威地质灾害中心的总体目标是优化科学界对火山动荡的反应的科学进展，以提高对火山系统的基本理解，并帮助对未来危险喷发的维度（强度，规模，持续时间，位置）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应对动荡。匡威演变为NSF资助的研究协调网络，以应对2017年国家科学院火山作用共识报告（ERUPT）中的三个重大挑战中的第三个：通过将观测结果与定量模型相结合，预测火山爆发的发生、规模和危险性; 2.量化火山的生命周期; 3。发展一个协调一致的火山科学界，以最大限度地提高任何火山事件的科学回报。匡威研究合作网络（RCN）在国家科学院2020-2030愿景文件（“地球时间”）（NAS 2020）中得到了强调。该提案是匡威朝着实现这些目标发展的下一步。因此，该中心催化剂项目将设计一个位于美国的中心，以定义一个组织结构，支持在火山爆发的关键阶段收集多种类型的补充数据。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爆发对地球系统影响的理解。培训和教育活动将是中心在这一催化阶段取得成功不可或缺的一部分，并将侧重于：㈠培训未来的火山科学家掌握整个火山科学工作流程的最佳做法; ㈡通过讲习班和火山爆发情景进行社区培训和外联。将不断分析和评估接触和社区参与，并告知中心关于公平和包容多元化社区的设计和活动。在该中心的催化剂阶段的核心作用将是作为学术界和负责火山监测和喷发反应的政府机构，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计划以及世界各地的观测站、学术和火山观测站合作伙伴的伙伴关系。该奖项反映了NSF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.