CIVIC-FA Track A: Codeveloping local flood thresholds and high tide flooding predictions with community science and innovative technology

这项公民创新挑战赛由海洋科学司和地球科学局助理局长办公室以及刺激竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该研究解决了海平面上升和沿海洪水，这是影响缅因州的沿海社区，以提高他们对气候变化影响的适应能力。结合联合收割机当地对水位和洪水影响的观测结果的近期和长期洪水预测，对于社区适应新气候和海平面现实的能力至关重要。在全国范围内，海平面上升适应性研究通常集中在城市中心，那里的财产价值损失最大。然而，农村沿海社区由于地处偏远、与中央规划机构隔绝、资源有限和代际贫困，面临着独特的适应挑战。根据美国人口普查局的数据，缅因州是美国最偏远的州，只有11%的城市有城市规划师。72%的社区缺乏地方规划者或区域规划支持不足或根本没有。为了帮助这些社区，缅因州湾研究所领导了一个由公民，社区，教育和行业合作伙伴组成的团队，共同设计和建设社会和技术基础设施，以扩大当地潮汐洪水数据的收集，并利用它来建立小型和农村缅因州沿海社区的复原力。合作伙伴包括四个沿海缅因州社区，那里将安装低成本的验潮仪，以收集洪水易发地区的当地水位。该项目还将支持当地能力发展，以运行和维持一个社区科学计划，该计划收集当地洪水事件和影响的地理和时间参考观测，开发供社区使用的数据产品，并提供小额赠款，以利用新数据支持正在进行的洪水复原力项目。这项工作的一个组成部分是通过试行一个由三部分组成的课程，包括参与社区科学计划和与当地市政领导人就气候适应问题进行合作，让当地青年参与进来。支持沿海洪水复原力的本地化和共同开发的数据将为社区利益攸关方面临的多维度、多部门、气候适应规划问题提供基础信息。该项目还将涉及并培训一名女性博士后和两名早期职业项目工作人员，为新一代的韧性研究人员和实践者做出贡献，他们可以与公民领袖和社区成员合作。CIVIC创新挑战赛是与能源部，国土安全部和国家科学基金会合作。海平面上升造成缅因州许多沿海社区经常发生洪水。这种结合联合收割机当地水位观测和洪水影响的洪水预测对于社区适应这一新现实至关重要。缅因州面临着重大障碍，建设沿海洪水抗灾能力，由于稀疏的验潮覆盖面结合基于观测的洪水阈值和研究人员，民间领袖，参与社区成员（特别是青年）的网络的缺乏，以及准备利用这些数据来支持沿海规划和抗灾能力的复原力从业者。为了满足这一需求，缅因州湾研究所组建了一个由公民、社区、教育和行业合作伙伴组成的团队，以创建社会和技术基础设施，扩大关键的沿海洪水数据，并利用它来帮助社区恢复。该试点项目将在四个沿海缅因州社区（波特兰、布斯贝港、圣乔治和马奇亚斯）启动，这些社区经常遭受洪水，人口和市政能力各不相同。需要解决的研究问题包括：验潮仪的最佳位置是什么，以便它们可以为市政规模的弹性规划提供信息？一个结构良好的社区科学计划能否产生数据，支持抗灾活动，促进社区参与，特别是青年参与，以推动洪水适应？项目的成功依赖于与社区组织合作，以发展当地运行和维持沿海洪水社区科学计划的能力，这些计划收集地理和时间参考的洪水影响数据。这是通过与青年合作，与初中和高中教师一起创建一个由三部分组成的科学课程来实现的，他们将在课堂上进行试点。目标是培养学生对沿海洪水的科学和物理驱动因素的概念性理解，让他们参与收集和贡献沿海洪水社区科学计划的数据，并支持他们与成人社区成员导师一起参与便利的沿海恢复力学习活动。科学小组将利用通过这一方法获得的数据和信息开发和提供定制的数据产品。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。

This Civic Innovation Challenge is jointly funded by the Division of Ocean Science and the Office of the Assistant Director in the Directorate for Geosciences and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The research addresses the increase in sea level and coastal flooding, that is affecting Maine’s coastal communities, to enhance their resilience to climate change impacts. Near and long-term flood projections, that combine local observations of water level and flood impacts, are critical to communities’ abilities to adapt to the new climate and sea level reality. Nationally, sea level rise adaptation-research commonly focuses on urban centers where the greatest losses in property value occur. Rural coastal communities, however, face unique adaptation challenges due to their remoteness, isolation from central planning agencies, limited resources, and intergenerational poverty. According to the US Census Bureau, Maine is the most rural state in the US with only 11% of its municipalities having a town planner. The absence of a local planner or insufficient to no regional planning support affects 72% of these communities. To help these communities, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute leads a team of civic, community, education, and industry partners in co-designing and building social and technological infrastructure to expand the collection of local tidal flooding data and leverage it to build resilience in small and rural Maine coastal communities. Partners include four coastal Maine communities where low-cost tide gauges will be installed to collect local water levels in flood prone areas. The project will also support local capacity development to run and sustain a community science program that collects geo- and time-referenced observations of local flood events and impacts, develop data products for use by the community, and provide mini-grants to leverage the new data to support ongoing flood resilience projects. An integral component of the work is the engagement of local youth by piloting a three-part curriculum that includes participation in the community science program and working with local municipal leaders on climate adaptation. Localized and co-developed data supporting coastal flood resilience will provide information that is foundational to multi-dimensional, multi-sector, climate adaptation planning issues faced by a broad array of community stakeholders. The project will also involve and train a female postdoc and two early-career project staff, contributing to a new generation of resilience researchers and practitioners who can work collaboratively with civic leaders and community members.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation. Sea level rise has created a situation of routine flooding in many of Maine’s coastal communities. Such flood projections that combine local observations of water level and flood impacts are essential for communities to adapt to this new reality. Maine faces significant barriers to building coastal flood resilience due to sparse tide gauge coverage combined with observation-based flood thresholds and the absence of a network of researchers, civic leaders, engaged community members (particularly youth), and resilience practitioners ready to leverage such data to support coastal planning and resilience. To address this need, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute has assembled a team of civic, community, education, and industry partners to create social and technology infrastructure that expands critical coastal flooding data and leverages it to help with community resilience. The pilot project will be initiated in four coastal Maine communities (Portland, Boothbay Harbor, St. George, and Machias) that are experiencing regular flooding and that have a range of demographics and municipal capacities. Research questions to be addressed include: What is the optimal location for tide gauges so they can inform resilience planning at the municipal scale? Can a well-structured community science program yield data that supports resilience activities and catalyzes community engagement, particularly among youth, to drive flood adaptation? Project success relies on partnering with community organizations to develop local capacity for running and sustaining coastal flooding community science programs that collect geo- and time-referenced flood impact data. This is done by working with youth and creating a three-part science curriculum with middle and high school teachers who will pilot it in their classes. Goals are to develop students' conceptual understanding of the science and physical drivers of coastal flooding, have them participate in collecting and contributing data to the coastal flooding community science program, and support their participation in a facilitated coastal resilience learning exercise alongside adult community member mentors. The science team will use data and information obtained through this approach to develop and provide customized data products. It will also issue community mini-grants that support ongoing flood resilience projects in each targeted community.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.