Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Decadal Visioning for FY 2026-FY 2035

NSF支持的自然灾害工程研究基础设施(NHERI)奖最初由NSF 14-605和NSF 15-598项目征集资助，将于2025年9月30日结束。这些奖项形成了由NSF支持的NHERI中型设施，为自然灾害工程(NHE)社区提供了进行NHE研究的实验、现场、网络基础设施、高性能计算以及计算建模和模拟资源。该奖项授予Nexight Group LLC，将审查不断发展的自然灾害工程(NHE)研究、国家研究基础设施格局、具有弹性和可持续的民用基础设施的新兴技术、气候变化状况以及其他驱动力对未来NHE研究方向的影响，并将确定下一个十年，即从2026财年至2035财年，开展未来NHE研究所需的研究基础设施(即实验和现场设备、仪器以及新的实验技术和能力)、网络基础设施以及计算建模和模拟工具。这项研究将审查NHE研究和研究基础设施当前和新兴领域的自然灾害知识状况，并将为未来十年变革性科学和工程研究以及土木工程、计算和数据科学、基础设施材料、极端自然灾害事件和其他新兴领域前沿研究基础设施的全面愿景和战略提出建议。这项研究还将研究NHE研究界获取物理和网络设施的新模式，以及这些设施如何支持教育、推广以及实现多样性、公平和包容性(DEI)的途径。这项研究可以作为对NSF的投入，用于设计2026财年至2035财年期间的研究和研究基础设施计划支持，并将定义和调整NHE研究，以促进基础科学知识，在极端事件条件下为国家提供具有弹性和可持续的民用基础设施。这一奖项将有助于NSF在国家减少地震灾害计划(NEHRP)和国家减少风灾影响计划(NWIRP)中发挥的作用。该奖项将从广泛的NHE和其他相关研究社区收集意见，以制定十年展望(DV)框架(2026财年至2035财年)，以满足重大挑战研究、研究基础设施、教育和推广需求，以提高国家民用基础设施对自然灾害事件的可持续性和弹性。该项目的主要内容包括四项主要任务：(I)通过成立来自相关NHE社区的任务组，对NHE研究和研究基础设施的科学驱动因素和现状进行初步评估；确定DV的愿景、范围和目标；收集研究议程和研究基础设施需求的初步结果；(Ii)动员利益攸关方收集专家见解，以组织以社区为重点的虚拟研讨会，并协调审查小组，以开发DV框架；(Iii)规划和促进社区协作讲习班，以确定框架的关键科学驱动因素(即重大挑战)、研究基础设施、教育和外联需求并确定其优先顺序；以及(Iv)制定发展框架，包括关键的图形概念和最终简报材料，以传达最终发展报告的结果。DV框架报告将被存档并在NHERI数据仓库中公开提供(https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).This奖反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF-supported Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) awards, originally funded under the NSF 14-605 and NSF 15-598 program solicitations, will end on September 30, 2025. These awards, forming the NSF-supported NHERI mid-scale facility, have provided the natural hazards engineering (NHE) community with experimental, field, cyberinfrastructure, high performance computing, and computational modeling and simulation resources to conduct NHE research. This award, to Nexight Group LLC, will examine the influence of evolving natural hazards engineering (NHE) research, the national research infrastructure landscape, emerging technologies for resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure, state of climate change, and other driving forces on future NHE research directions, and will identify the research infrastructure (i.e., experimental and field equipment, instrumentation, and new experimental techniques and capabilities), cyberinfrastructure, and computational modeling and simulation tools needed to conduct future NHE research over the next decade, i.e., from fiscal year (FY) 2026-FY 2035. This study will review the state of natural hazards knowledge in the current and emerging areas of NHE research and research infrastructure and will generate recommendations for a comprehensive vision and strategy for the next decade of transformative science and engineering research and supporting research infrastructure at the frontiers of civil engineering, computational and data sciences, infrastructure materials, extreme natural hazard events, and other emerging fields. The study will also examine new modes of access to physical- and cyber-facilities by the NHE research community, and how these facilities can support education, outreach, and pathways for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The study can serve as input to NSF for designing research and research infrastructure program support during FY 2026-FY 2035 and will define and align NHE research to advance fundamental scientific knowledge in providing the nation with resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure under extreme event conditions. This award will contribute to NSF's roles in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP). This award will gather input from the broad NHE and other related research communities to develop a Decadal Visioning (DV) Framework (FY 2026-FY 2035) for Grand Challenges research, research infrastructure, education, and outreach needs to advance the sustainability and resilience of the nation's civil infrastructure to natural hazard events. The key elements of this project comprise four main tasks: (i) conduct a preliminary assessment of the science drivers and current state of NHE research and research infrastructure by establishing a Task Group from the relevant NHE communities; define the vision, scope, and goals of the DV; and gather preliminary findings for the research agenda and research infrastructure needs; (ii) engage stakeholders to gather expert insights for organizing community-focused virtual workshops and coordinate review teams for developing the DV Framework; (iii) plan and facilitate collaborative community workshops to identify and prioritize the Framework’s key science drivers (i.e., Grand Challenges), research infrastructure, education, and outreach needs; and (iv) develop the DV Framework, including key graphical concepts and final briefing materials to communicate the findings of the final DV report. The DV Framework report will be archived and made publicly available in the NHERI Data Depot (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).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.