Global Centers Track 2: Nature-based Urban Hydrology Center

气候变化继续加剧与城市增长相关的环境挑战。为了帮助最大限度地减少世界各地城市水文系统的这些挑战，基于自然的解决方案（NbS）正在成为一种流行的策略。基于自然的城市水文中心（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相一致，该奖项支持NUHC的规划阶段，汇集了国内和国际合作伙伴的跨学科团队，以进行使用启发的研究。NUHC将与城市社区合作，分享知识，并利用NbS来应对气候变化对城市水文带来的挑战。NUHC将建立一个信息交换中心，以方便共享目前不存在的数据和调查结果，并实现更好的建模和数据分析。通过全球合作，NUHC将扩大对NbS对城市水文的潜在利益的理解，增加NbS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，并帮助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，行业和学术界的同事参与，以促进城市水文学中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增长相关的环境挑战，基于自然的解决方案（NbS）正迅速成为缓解城市水文系统各种影响的流行策略。然而，目前没有围绕NbS的通用数据门户或受控语言，术语不一致，设计和性能目标不同，扩展和转移结果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，以汇集一组对城市水文学和NBS的各个方面有深入了解的国内和国际合作伙伴，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，并轻松共享数据和研究结果，以推进建模和分析技术，以确定基于气候，政策，设计和自然地理参数的NbS和城市水文趋势，共性和差异。作为这一规划项目的一部分，将制定一个框架，指导全球合作伙伴如何共同努力，选择相关的研究项目，培训学生，并吸引城市社区成员以及行业和学术合作伙伴。通过全球合作，该项目将扩大社区对NbS和城市水文的理解，增加NbS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，并帮助改善城市环境和社会公平。 该奖项由全球中心计划资助，该计划是一项创新计划，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。途径2设计奖支持美国-该奖项旨在鼓励国际研究团队共同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，以在未来更大规模地推进其使用启发式研究。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。

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.