Track 1: Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquake Science

该项目将发展地震科学集体影响中心，该中心的愿景是成为一个领先的地震研究中心，致力于以公平、可获取和可持续的方式提高地震灾害的恢复能力。其任务将是推进地震科学，以满足低概率、高影响地震风险地区所有社区减轻自然灾害的需要。低概率灾害往往对当地社区产生巨大影响。此外，即使是由人类活动引起的小到中等规模的人为（诱发）地震，也会导致公众意识的提高，对建筑环境的破坏，以及经济和能源基础设施的关闭。低概率、高影响的地震有时发生在板块构造理论不容易识别的地方，通常对了解社区如何应对这些地震的风险提出了独特的挑战。通过研究低概率、高影响的地震，包括诱发事件，该项目将制定更好地识别和潜在量化地震危害的策略，并为具有广泛重要性的基础地震科学的许多方面提供信息。该中心的目标是：1)推进基础地震科学与工程；2)为共享、价值驱动的科学理解奠定基础；3)通过使用启发研究响应各种社区的需求；4)招募、留住和培养下一代多样化的地球科学家；5)为有影响力的地球科学制定一个框架，将科学发现的结果转化为能够提高复原力和减少地震灾害风险的行动。要实现这些目标，需要一个创新和强有力的研究计划，其中包括社区参与。该项目将采用集体影响模式来建立该中心，通过制定共同议程、集中支持、持续沟通、相互加强的活动和共享衡量标准，建立一个由社区成员、组织和机构组成的网络。该中心将强调有潜力的研究，以回应弱势群体的需求，这些群体在历史上一直没有得到当前地震科学、工程和公共政策的充分服务。调查人员将征求试点项目，并利用这些试点项目建立加强伙伴关系和评价建议的机制。通过这些试点项目作为案例研究，我们将制定一个关于如何构建该中心的战略计划。所有项目都将作为试点项目开始，经过评估和反馈，然后在中心资金充足时过渡到一个完整的项目。在这种方式下，项目可以在实施之前保证完整的项目达到中心的目标。每个项目必须包括四个要素：1)必须与上面讨论的研究主题相一致的基础科学问题，2)使用启发式研究，其结果可能导致为社区实施实际解决方案，3)项目的社会影响，以及4)社区参与。这些试点项目将被设计用于解决关键的科学挑战，并深入到它们将影响的社区。我们最初的项目可能包括以下项目：1)调查资源不足社区的地震风险；2)利用公民科学了解新英格兰地区的地震风险；3)开发新技术，从地震数据中获取更多信息；4)提炼脆弱、两国、多语言社区（德克萨斯州埃尔帕索）的地震风险；5)利用众包帮助对脆弱建筑进行分类。将优先考虑那些资源匮乏的社区（如农村小城镇）或历史上处于边缘地位的人群（如低收入或移民人口）参与的项目。第二，试点项目将被要求包括劳动力发展的要素，特别是那些历史上在地球科学领域代表性不足的人。第三，将要求试点项目阐明其对促进跨学科研究或实践的贡献。第四，完整的中心项目将被要求资助研究生和/或本科生，并为学生提供在项目之间交叉训练的机会。通过将集体影响作为中心的指导原则，并为试点项目提供资金，中心将必要地使包容性卓越、多样性、公平和社区成为中心的基本原则。该奖项由地球科学理事会的地球科学部和地球科学多样性领导机会（GOLD-EN）提供支持。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。

This project will develop the Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science, which has the vision to become a leading-edge earthquake research center dedicated to improving resiliency from seismic hazards in an equitable, accessible, and sustainable manner. The mission will be to advance earthquake science with the aim of meeting the natural hazard mitigation needs of all communities in regions of low probability, high impact earthquake risk. Low probability disasters tend to have an oversized impact on local communities. Additionally, even small- to moderate-magnitude human-made (induced) earthquakes induced by anthropogenetic activities have resulted in heightened public awareness, damages to the built environment, and the shutting-down of economic and energy infrastructure. Low probability, high impact earthquakes sometimes occur in places not easily identified by the theory of plate tectonics and typically present unique challenges to understanding how communities respond to risks from these earthquakes. By studying low probability, high impact earthquakes, including induced events, the project will develop strategies for better identifying and potentially quantifying seismic hazards, plus inform many aspects of fundamental earthquake science of broad importance. The goals of the center will be to: 1) Advance basic earthquake science and engineering; 2) Establish a foundation for sharing, value-driven understanding of science; 3) Be responsive to the needs of all kinds of communities through use-inspired research; 4) Recruit, retain, and train the next generation of diverse earth scientists; and 5) Develop a framework for impactful geoscience that translates results of scientific discovery into actions that can improve resilience and reduce risk from seismic hazards. To achieve these goals requires an innovative and robust research plan that incorporates community engagement. The project will adopt the collective impact model for establishing this center, which develops a network of community members, organizations, and institutions through the development of a common agenda, centralized support, continuous communication, mutually reinforcing activities, and shared measurement. The center will emphasize research with potential to respond to the needs of vulnerable populations that have been historically underserved by current earthquake science, engineering, and public policy. The investigators will solicit pilot projects and use them these pilot projects to establish mechanisms for increasing partnership and for evaluation of the proposals. Using these pilot projects as case studies, a strategic plan we will be developed on how to structure the center. All projects will begin as pilot projects, be evaluated and given feedback, and then transition to a full project when the center is fully funded. In this fashion, the project can guarantee that the full-scale projects meet the goals of the center prior to implementation. Each project must include four elements: 1) the basic science question that must align with the research themes discussed above, 2) the use-inspired research where results may lead to implementation of practical solutions for the community, 3) the social impact of the project, and 4) the community engagement. The pilot projects will be designed to address key science challenges and reach deep into the communities that they will impact. Our initial projects may include projects on 1) investigating earthquake risk in under-resourced communities, 2) using citizen science to understand the earthquake hazard in New England, 3) developing new techniques to get more information out of seismic data, 4) refining the earthquake hazard in a vulnerable, bi-national, multi-lingual community (El Paso, TX), and 5) using crowdsourcing to help with cataloging vulnerable buildings. Priority will be given to projects that engage low-resourced communities (such as small rural towns) or historically marginalized populations (such as low-income or immigrant populations). Second, pilot projects will be asked to include an element of workforce development, particularly of those who are historically under-represented in geosciences. Third, pilot projects will be asked to articulate their contributions towards promoting interdisciplinary research or practice. Fourth, full center projects will be asked to fund graduate and/or undergraduate students and provide opportunities for students to be cross trained between projects. By adopting collective impact as a guiding principle for the center along with funding pilot projects, the center will, by necessity, make Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community a fundamental principle of the center. This award is supported by the Division of Earth Sciences and the Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD-EN) in the Directorate for Geosciences.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.