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

全球中心轨道 2：促进跨学科野火研究以增强社区复原力

• 批准号: 2330343
• 负责人: Erica Fischer
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; Enabling; interdisciplinary

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.

美国西部与气候变化相关的最重要的后果之一是野火频率和规模的迅速增加。在过去的二十年里，野火越来越多地从荒地转移到人类社区。这些野火对社区的影响包括民用基础设施的损失和破坏。由于全球经济日益相互关联，基础设施系统之间相互依赖，这些损失和损害变得越来越复杂。这个全球中心轨道2设计奖旨在开发一个国际，跨学科的中心，将有助于解决社会挑战，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，跨越学科和管辖界限，需要社会、经济和技术部门之间的合作。奖项活动旨在建立科学和社区能力，包括情景建设，社区参与，培训和劳动力发展。该奖项是美国俄勒冈州州立大学、俄勒冈州大学和华盛顿大学与澳大利亚和英国多所大学合作设立的。 该项目将填补在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。它将通过使用基于网络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灾害影响。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。这些联系的识别将导致一个转型收敛的研究愿景的发展，这将在轨道1提案概述。该研究愿景将（i）确定野火的特定部门影响，以及它们的联系和相互依赖性;（ii）开发模型，说明这种影响并评估缓解，响应和恢复策略，以及（iii）确定参与传感技术的机会，以量化社区内的消防需求，并使用传感数据来验证建模方法。这些连接的识别还将使跨学科的科学家和工程师群体能够进一步研究开发荒地城市界面。 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。