Global Centers Track 2: Heat Adaptation

全球中心轨道 2：热适应

• 批准号: 2330587
• 负责人: Jennifer Vanos
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Arizona State 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: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; Heat; Adaptation

Extreme heat is an urgent threat to global health and prosperity. Growing challenges around heat exposure require enhanced adaptive capacity, monitoring, and cross-disciplinary training to minimize risks. Heat adaptation involves behavior, infrastructure, technology, and physiologic changes to protect people from heat, reduce vulnerability, and improve well-being to prosper and thrive in an increasingly warming world. However, fundamental knowledge gaps exist surrounding 1) types of heat adaptation that are essential for health and safety and 2) transdisciplinary training and education. This Global Centers Design award on heat adaptation and will lay the foundations for a future Global Center that will strengthen society's ability to manage and adapt to extreme heat and train the next generation of transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners. Data will be collected using the HeatSuite, a remote platform gathering information on heat exposure and behavioral and physiological changes during everyday activities. A week-long Global School on Heat Adaptation will engage students, researchers, and stakeholders in experiential learning and cross-disciplinary teaching. This project addresses the goals of the Global Centers Program by working internationally, including in understudied regions, and weaving together diverse expertise––from atmospheric science, social and behavioral sciences, and thermal physiology to data sciences and engineering. Use-inspired research will produce real-world solutions to yield sustainable, effective cooling practices supporting clean energy in a changing climate. Broader impacts are expected to improve the well-being of heat-vulnerable people by empowering communities, healthcare practitioners, government officials, and tomorrow's academics with new knowledge of heat adaptation strategies. To strengthen society's ability to manage and adapt to extreme heat across countries, climates, and cultures, this project will 1) coordinate and integrate knowledge across disciplines, sectors, and communities, 2) create the first Global School on Heat Adaptation, and 3) launch a pilot field study in five global locations to monitor heat exposure and adaptive strategies, including behavior change, social capital, and physiological responses. Data will be gathered through the HeatSuite remote data acquisition platform, a scalable, comprehensive, cutting-edge tool with cloud infrastructure and complete data governance. The project’s scientific contributions include 1) developing heat adaptation concepts and frameworks arising from disparate disciplines based on transdisciplinary collaboration (beyond academia) and ecologically valid data and 2) an innovative, economical, and scalable approach (HeatSuite) to remotely observe natural behavioral and physiological responses in vulnerable populations during extreme heat. The contributions will resolve underlying mechanisms that drive heat risk and vulnerability, behavior, and adaptations that can interrupt the causal pathways that lead to illness, death, and other adverse outcomes.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.

酷热是对全球健康和繁荣的紧迫威胁。热暴露带来的日益严峻的挑战要求增强适应能力、监测和跨学科培训，以将风险降至最低。热适应涉及行为、基础设施、技术和生理变化，以保护人们免受高温侵袭，减少脆弱性，改善福祉，以在日益变暖的世界中繁荣昌盛。然而，在1)对健康和安全至关重要的热适应类型以及2)跨学科培训和教育方面，存在着基本的知识差距。这一全球中心设计大奖是关于热适应的，将为未来的全球中心奠定基础，该中心将加强社会管理和适应极端高温的能力，并培训下一代跨学科的研究人员和从业者。数据将使用HeatSuite收集，这是一个远程平台，收集有关热暴露以及日常活动中行为和生理变化的信息。为期一周的全球热适应学校将让学生、研究人员和利益相关者参与体验式学习和跨学科教学。该项目通过国际合作，包括在研究不足的地区开展工作，并将从大气科学、社会和行为科学、热生理学到数据科学和工程的不同专业知识结合在一起，实现了全球中心计划的目标。受使用启发的研究将产生现实世界的解决方案，以产生可持续、有效的冷却实践，在不断变化的气候中支持清洁能源。更广泛的影响预计将通过赋予社区、医疗从业者、政府官员和明天的学者关于热适应战略的新知识来改善易受高温影响的人的福祉。为了加强社会管理和适应不同国家、气候和文化的极端高温的能力，该项目将1)协调和整合跨学科、部门和社区的知识，2)创建第一所全球热适应学校，3)在全球五个地点启动一项试点实地研究，以监测高温暴露和适应策略，包括行为变化、社会资本和生理反应。数据将通过HeatSuite远程数据采集平台收集，这是一个具有云基础设施和完整数据治理的可扩展、全面的尖端工具。该项目的科学贡献包括：1)基于跨学科合作(学术界以外)和生态有效数据，开发来自不同学科的热适应概念和框架，以及2)一种创新、经济和可扩展的方法(HeatSuite)，以远程观察极端高温期间脆弱群体的自然行为和生理反应。这些贡献将解决驱动高温风险和脆弱性、行为和适应的潜在机制，这些机制可能会中断导致疾病、死亡和其他不利结果的因果路径。该奖项由全球中心计划资助，该计划是一个创新计划，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。