Global Centers Track 2: Enabling interdisciplinary wildfire research for community resilience

美国西部与气候变化相关的最重要的后果之一是野火的频率和规模迅速增加。在过去的二十年里，野火越来越多地从荒野蔓延到人类社区。这些野火对社区的影响包括民用基础设施的损失和破坏。由于全球经济的相互关联性和基础设施系统之间的依赖程度越来越高，这些损失和破坏变得越来越复杂。这个全球中心轨道2设计奖旨在建立一个国际、跨学科的中心，帮助解决社会挑战，以减轻、适应和恢复野火对物理、社会和经济基础设施的影响。应对野火的累积影响，包括对社会和经济系统的影响，跨越学科和管辖边界，需要社会、经济和技术部门之间的合作。奖励活动旨在建设科学和社区能力，包括情景构建、社区参与、培训和劳动力发展。该奖项是由美国俄勒冈州立大学、俄勒冈大学和华盛顿大学与澳大利亚和英国的多所大学合作设立的。该项目将填补减少基础设施损失风险的方法方面的知识空白，以及土地管理机构、地方政府和居民采取缓解行动的多重障碍。它将通过使用基于情景的练习和考虑工程方面(例如，材料特性)、数据驱动的决策框架、火灾后激光雷达数据以及对社区基础设施的多种危险影响来促进共同产生知识。这项研究的结果将推进或确定研究问题，以进一步了解野火对相互连接的基础设施系统、社区以及自然、文化、社会、政治、金融和建筑环境的影响。确定这些联系将导致制定变革性的汇聚研究远景，这将在第一轨道提案中概述。这一研究愿景将(I)确定野火的具体部门影响及其联系和相互依存关系；(Ii)开发模型说明此类影响并评估缓解、应对和恢复战略；(Iii)确定利用遥感技术量化社区内的火灾需求并使用遥感数据验证建模方法的机会。这些联系的确定还将使跨学科的科学家和工程师小组能够进一步发展对荒地城市界面的研究。该奖项由全球中心计划资助，这是一项创新计划，旨在支持受使用启发的研究，以应对与气候变化和/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，合成数据，和/或建立多方利益相关者网络，以推动他们未来更大规模的应用启发研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

One of the most consequential climate change-related outcomes in the western US is the rapid increase in wildfire frequency and size. Over the last two decades, wildfires increasingly have moved from wildlands into human communities. The impacts of these wildfires on communities includes losses of and damages to civil infrastructure. These losses and damages have become increasingly complex due to the increasing interconnectedness of the global economy and dependencies among infrastructure systems. This Global Centers Track 2 Design award aims to develop an international, interdisciplinary center that will contribute to solving societal challenges to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from the effects of wildfires on physical, social, and economic infrastructure. Addressing the cumulative effects of wildfires, including those on social and economic systems, crosses disciplines and jurisdictional boundaries and requires collaboration among social, economic, and technical sectors. Award activities are designed to build scientific and community capacity and include scenario building, community engagement, and training and workforce development. The award is a partnership among Oregon State University, University of Oregon, and University of Washington in the U.S. with multiple universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. This project would fill gaps in knowledge of methods for reducing the risk of infrastructure losses and the multiple barriers to mitigation actions by land management agencies, local government, and residents. It will foster a co-production of knowledge by using scenario-based exercise and considering engineering aspects (e.g., material properties), data-driven decision-making framework, post-fire Lidar data, and multi-hazard impacts on community infrastructure. The results of this research will advance or identify research questions to further knowledge of wildfire impacts on connected infrastructure systems, communities, and natural, cultural, social, political, financial, and built environments. The identification of these connections will lead to the development of a transformational convergent research vision, which will be outlined in a Track 1 proposal. This research vision will (i) identify sector-specific impacts of wildfires, as well as their connections and interdependencies; (ii) develop models that illustrate such impacts and evaluate mitigation, response, and recovery strategies, and (iii) identify opportunities to engage sensing technology to quantify fire demands within communities and use sensing data to validate modeling methodologies. The identification of these connections will also enable further research development on the wildland urban interface by groups of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers. 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.