Global Centers Track 2: Nature-based Urban Hydrology Center

全球中心轨道 2：基于自然的城市水文中心

• 批准号: 2330413
• 负责人: Bridget Wadzuk
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Villanova University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330413&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; Nature; based

Climate change continues to exacerbate environmental challenges associated with urban growth. To help minimize these challenges for urban hydrologic systems around the world, nature-based solutions (NbS) are becoming a popular strategy. The Nature-based Urban Hydrology Center (NUHC) will provide globally relevant, sustainable, holistic, transferable, and community-driven approaches to respond to urban hydrology challenges. Aligned with the goals of the Global Centers Program, this award supports the planning phase of the NUHC to bring together an interdisciplinary team of domestic and international partners to perform use-inspired research. Working with urban communities, the NUHC will share knowledge and make broadly transferable advances that leverage NbS to meet the challenges brought by climate change on urban hydrology. The NUHC will establish a clearinghouse for easily shared data and findings that does not currently exist, as well as enable better modeling and data analysis. Through global collaboration, the NUHC will broaden understanding of the potential benefit of NbS on urban hydrology, increase NbS ecosystem services and resilience, advance understanding of these systems to influence policy, and aid in improving the urban environment and social equity. The NUHC planning phase will build a framework to engage students, urban communities, and industry and academic colleagues to promote issues of fairness and sustainability within urban hydrology. As climate change exacerbates environmental challenges associated with urban growth globally, nature-based solutions (NbS) are rapidly becoming the prevalent strategy to mitigate the varied impacts on urban hydrology systems. However, currently there is no common data portal or controlled language around NbS, there is inconsistent terminology, differing design and performance goals, and challenges in scaling and transferring findings inhibit widespread sharing of knowledge. The goal of this project is to plan and design the NUHC to bring together a group of domestic and international partners that have deep knowledge on diverse aspects of urban hydrology and NbS that will enable significant advances in design and policy practices to develop approaches for restoration, and protection that consider broader contexts, such as ecosystem health, stream health, soil health, social health, and emergency management. A key outcome will be to create a data structure to leverage existing data and to easily share data and findings to advance modeling and analytical techniques to determine NbS and urban hydrology trends, commonalities, and differences based on climate, policy, design, and physiographic parameters. As part of this planning project, a framework for how global partners can work together, choose relevant research projects, train students, and engage urban community members and industry and academic partners will be developed. Through global collaboration, this project will broaden the community’s understanding of NbS and urban hydrology, increase NbS ecosystem services and resilience, advance understanding of these systems to influence policy, and aid in improving the urban environment and social equity. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative program that supports use-inspired research addressing global challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy. Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.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.

气候变化继续加剧与城市发展相关的环境挑战。为了最大限度地减少世界各地城市水文系统面临的这些挑战，基于自然的解决方案（NbS）正成为一种流行的策略。以自然为基础的城市水文中心（NUHC）将提供全球相关的、可持续的、整体的、可转移的和社区驱动的方法来应对城市水文挑战。与全球中心计划的目标一致，该奖项支持NUHC的规划阶段，将一个由国内和国际合作伙伴组成的跨学科团队聚集在一起，进行使用启发研究。国家水文中心将与城市社区合作，分享知识并取得广泛可转让的进展，利用国家统计局来应对气候变化给城市水文带来的挑战。NUHC将建立一个信息交换中心，方便共享目前不存在的数据和发现，并实现更好的建模和数据分析。通过全球合作，NUHC将扩大对国家统计局对城市水文的潜在效益的认识，增加国家统计局的生态系统服务和恢复力，促进对这些系统的理解，以影响政策，并有助于改善城市环境和社会公平。NUHC规划阶段将建立一个框架，让学生、城市社区、行业和学术同事参与进来，促进城市水文学的公平性和可持续性问题。随着气候变化加剧了与全球城市发展相关的环境挑战，基于自然的解决方案（NbS）正迅速成为减轻对城市水文系统各种影响的普遍策略。然而，目前在国家统计局周围没有共同的数据门户或受控语言，存在不一致的术语，不同的设计和性能目标，以及在扩展和转移发现方面的挑战阻碍了知识的广泛共享。该项目的目标是规划和设计NUHC，将一组在城市水文学和NbS的各个方面拥有深厚知识的国内外合作伙伴聚集在一起，这将使设计和政策实践取得重大进展，以制定考虑更广泛背景的恢复和保护方法，如生态系统健康、河流健康、土壤健康、社会健康和应急管理。一个关键成果将是创建一个数据结构，以利用现有数据，并方便地共享数据和发现，以推进建模和分析技术，以确定基于气候、政策、设计和地理参数的国家统计局和城市水文趋势、共性和差异。作为该规划项目的一部分，将为全球合作伙伴如何合作、选择相关研究项目、培训学生、吸引城市社区成员、行业和学术合作伙伴制定一个框架。通过全球合作，该项目将扩大社区对国家统计局和城市水文学的理解，增加国家统计局生态系统服务和恢复力，促进对这些系统影响政策的理解，并有助于改善城市环境和社会公平。该奖项由全球中心项目资助，该项目是一个创新项目，支持以使用为灵感的研究，解决与气候变化和/或清洁能源相关的全球挑战。Track 2设计奖支持美国的研究人员将国际团队聚集在一起，开发研究问题和合作伙伴关系，进行景观分析，综合数据，和/或建立多方利益相关者网络，以推进他们未来更大规模的使用灵感研究。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。