NSF Engines: Colorado - Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine

NSF 引擎：科罗拉多州 - 怀俄明州气候恢复引擎

• 批准号: 2315760
• 负责人: Mike Freeman
• 金额: $ 1500万
• 依托单位: ROCKY MOUNTAIN INNOVATION INITIATIVE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315760&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Colorado; Wyoming; Climate

The Colorado - Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine will advance our nation's capacity for innovation in climate technologies. This NSF Engine is a regional team working to create consistent, reliable, and trustworthy systems that will support communities to monitor, mitigate and adapt to climate impacts. Research and commercialization efforts will focus on sensing, monitoring, and predictive analytic technologies for climate resiliency across several topics including methane emissions, soil carbon capture, earth sensing, water scarcity, wildfires, and extreme weather. The NSF Engine will not only develop innovative solutions to climate challenges, but will also grow the labor force equitably and inclusively; power innovative pathways toward climate resiliency by utilizing data, predictive modeling and cutting edge technologies; focus on recruitment and retention from rural communities and those traditionally underrepresented; and drive economic growth through programs in use-inspired research, workforce development, translation of products, and strategic partnerships. Officials in both states have recognized the opportunity of the NSF Engine to transform the region into a national leader in developing and commercializing environmental monitoring and climate-resilient technologies, as both states have a commitment to address climate-related challenges faced by communities of this region. The NSF Engine has the potential to increase the nation's ability to compete on a global stage as the world races to find technology solutions to the world's greatest climate challenges while also unlocking regional economic growth and creating opportunities. In addition to the significant national impacts, the NSF Engine has the potential to create new jobs and training opportunities in climate technology, particularly for historically underserved, Tribal, and rural communities within the region of service. If successful, the innovation ecosystem driven by the NSF Engine will accelerate market-ready, globally scalable scientific and technological innovations that empower communities, governments, and industry to prevent, mitigate, prepare, respond to, and recover from climate-related events exacerbated by aridification, including drought, wildfire, storms, and floods. The NSF Engine will also create new technology startups that solve industry needs, bringing with it new jobs, opportunities, and economic prosperity for the states of Colorado and Wyoming. The Colorado – Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine has a region of service that spans all of Colorado and Wyoming and includes a large ecosystem of core partners that are essential to the NSF Engine's success: large corporations; universities (including four- and two-year academic institutions, Tribal Colleges, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions); economic and workforce development organizations; non-profits; and investment firms. This diverse coalition of partners will be central to R&D, translation of technology to commercialization, and workforce development efforts. The NSF Engine will focus on environmental monitoring technologies and predictive analytics for climate resiliency. The NSF Engine will work with core partners and stakeholders including community members, researchers, and industry partners to prioritize R&D initiatives that will build more climate-resilient communities, address user needs, and demonstrate market potential through an integrated co-production process. The research and translation goals of the NSF Engine are to: (1) accelerate community-driven R&D in monitoring technologies and predictive analytics for climate-resilient communities; (2) de-risk translational projects with accelerator programs and rapidly scaling promising innovations; and (3) generate and attract more substantial investments, technologies, and startups to build a sustainable NSF Engine that will nurture a diverse, skilled workforce for a climate-tech innovation ecosystem across Colorado and Wyoming. Collectively, these goals will enable the region to become a global leader in innovations for climate resiliency and accelerate regional economic growth. The leadership team brings deep expertise across all core functions of the NSF Engine to ensure the NSF Engine goals are met. This expertise includes climate science and data analytics, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, small business management, and development of sustainable partnerships across higher education, industry, community, and government. The NSF Engine has engaged economic and workforce development organizations, industry, national labs, and technical colleges across Colorado and Wyoming to build training and mentorship opportunities. Specific activities include a range of work-based learning programs, talent matching programs to connect employers to future employees, and the development of credential programs for a climate science workforce. Workforce development activities will prioritize rural and historically underserved communities within the region of service. The Colorado – Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine has brought together a strong coalition of partners and identified strong alignment with regional assets and priorities. The NSF Engine has identified critical R&D topic areas that must be advanced to build climate-resilient communities worldwide. It will support R&D and translational activities to cultivate an innovative ecosystem of technology companies focused on climate science, while also driving economic growth through job creation and training opportunities.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.

科罗拉多-怀俄明州气候弹性引擎将提高我们国家在气候技术方面的创新能力。NSF Engine是一个区域团队，致力于创建一致、可靠和值得信赖的系统，以支持社区监测、缓解和适应气候影响。研究和商业化工作将侧重于传感，监测和预测分析技术，以适应包括甲烷排放，土壤碳捕获，地球传感，水资源短缺，野火和极端天气在内的多个主题的气候弹性。NSF引擎不仅将开发应对气候挑战的创新解决方案，还将公平和包容地增加劳动力;通过利用数据，预测建模和尖端技术，为气候弹性提供创新途径;专注于从农村社区和传统上代表性不足的社区招聘和保留;并通过以使用为导向的研究、劳动力发展、产品翻译和战略伙伴关系等项目推动经济增长。这两个州的官员都认识到NSF Engine有机会将该地区转变为开发和商业化环境监测和气候适应技术的国家领导者，因为这两个州都致力于解决该地区社区面临的气候相关挑战。NSF引擎有可能提高美国在全球舞台上的竞争能力，因为世界正在竞相寻找应对世界上最大气候挑战的技术解决方案，同时也释放了区域经济增长并创造了机会。除了重大的国家影响外，NSF引擎还有可能在气候技术方面创造新的就业机会和培训机会，特别是为服务区域内历史上服务不足的部落和农村社区。如果成功，由NSF引擎驱动的创新生态系统将加速市场就绪，全球可扩展的科学和技术创新，使社区，政府和行业能够预防，缓解，准备，应对和恢复干旱加剧的气候相关事件，包括干旱，野火，风暴和洪水。NSF引擎还将创建新的技术创业公司，解决行业需求，为科罗拉多和怀俄明州带来新的就业机会，机会和经济繁荣。科罗拉多-怀俄明州气候弹性引擎的服务区域横跨整个科罗拉多和怀俄明州，包括一个由核心合作伙伴组成的大型生态系统，这些合作伙伴对NSF引擎的成功至关重要：大型企业;大学（包括四年制和两年制学术机构，部落学院和西班牙裔服务机构）;经济和劳动力发展组织;非营利组织;和投资公司。这种多样化的合作伙伴联盟将成为研发、技术商业化转化和劳动力发展努力的核心。NSF Engine将专注于环境监测技术和气候弹性预测分析。NSF Engine将与包括社区成员、研究人员和行业合作伙伴在内的核心合作伙伴和利益相关者合作，优先考虑研发计划，这些计划将建立更具气候适应能力的社区，满足用户需求，并通过集成的联合生产流程展示市场潜力。NSF Engine的研究和转化目标是：（1）加速社区驱动的气候适应性社区监测技术和预测分析的研发;（2）通过加速器计划和快速扩展有前景的创新来降低转化项目的风险;（3）产生和吸引更多实质性投资，技术和初创公司，以建立可持续的NSF Engine，为科罗拉多和怀俄明州的气候技术创新生态系统培养多样化，熟练的劳动力。总的来说，这些目标将使该地区成为气候适应力创新的全球领导者，并加速区域经济增长。领导团队为NSF引擎的所有核心功能带来了深厚的专业知识，以确保NSF引擎的目标得以实现。这些专业知识包括气候科学和数据分析，技术商业化，创业精神，小企业管理，以及在高等教育，行业，社区和政府之间建立可持续的伙伴关系。NSF Engine已与科罗拉多和怀俄明州的经济和劳动力发展组织、行业、国家实验室和技术学院合作，以建立培训和指导机会。具体活动包括一系列以工作为基础的学习计划，人才匹配计划，以连接雇主和未来的员工，以及为气候科学劳动力开发证书计划。劳动力发展活动将优先考虑服务区域内的农村和历来得不到充分服务的社区。科罗拉多-怀俄明州气候复原引擎汇集了一个强大的合作伙伴联盟，并确定了与区域资产和优先事项的强有力的一致性。NSF引擎已经确定了关键的研发主题领域，必须在全球范围内建立具有气候适应能力的社区。该奖项将支持研发和转化活动，以培养专注于气候科学的技术公司的创新生态系统，同时通过创造就业机会和培训机会推动经济增长。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。