Workshop: Coastal Engineering Research Framework, Arlington, Virginia, November 12-13, 2018

该赠款提供资金，用于召开为期1.5天的海岸工程研究框架研讨会，该研讨会将于2018年11月13日至14日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的弗吉尼亚理工大学高管教育中心举行。研讨会的目标是征求和综合未来十年及未来美国海岸工程研究和教育的方向。大约有45名来自学术界、政府和工业界的与会者。组织者将注意确保海岸工程社区的广泛代表性。还将邀请额外的外部专家来促进交叉受精。研讨会的成果将是一份报告，为国家科学基金会和更大的海岸工程领域的未来研究方向提供建议。海岸工程需要许多不同的工具集？从气候和天气研究开始（有时是海啸的地震研究）；包括海洋学，海洋地质学，经济学，社会学，规划，政策和生态学的部分；包括许多不同方面的结构荷载和设计和岩土工程；并且与大规模的基础设施紧密相连。因此，不缺乏科学挑战。虽然地震工程等学科早已对危险载荷有了合理的理解，但这仍然是海岸工程研究议程上的一个重要项目。特别是在复杂的建筑或自然环境中，许多海岸工程过程的预测仍然依赖于基于理想化案例或历史记录的半经验估计。同样，人类与海岸线的互动，如个人或社区范围内的灾害规划和响应，生态系统利益分析，或沿海环境长期变化的规划，需要许多不同学科的专业知识。虽然这些问题的一部分目前正在由各种机构解决，但NSF仍有很大的空间来解决小规模和大规模的海岸工程研究以及教育需求和机会。本次研讨会的成果将有助于为美国国家科学基金会和其他机构的海岸工程研究和教育提供持续的方向。将确定适合与其他学科交叉施肥的成熟领域。研讨会将为早期职业专业人员保留至少25%的空间，以确保他们获得沿海工程更大方面的经验，并可以与更多成熟的研究人员会面。同样，法律与公正党将确保妇女和未被充分代表的少数民族构成参与的关键群体。这将通过直接针对各级特定人员来实现。工作坊还将保留一些空间，供那些听说并直接与组织者联系的人使用。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。

This grant provides funds to convene a 1.5 day Coastal Engineering Research Framework Workshop to be held November 13-14, 2018 at the Virginia Tech Executive Education Center in Arlington, Virginia. The Workshop objective is to solicit and synthesize directions for coastal engineering research and education in the United States over the next ten years and further into the future. There will be approximately 45 participants from academia, government, and industry. The organizers will take care to ensure that a wide cross-section of the coastal engineering community is represented. Additional outside experts will also be invited to stimulate cross-fertilization. The product of the Workshop will be a report with recommendations for future research directions both at NSF, and in the larger coastal engineering field.Coastal engineering requires many different toolsets ? beginning with climatological and weather studies (and sometimes seismic for tsunamis); encompassing parts of oceanography, marine geology, economics, sociology, planning, policy, and ecology; including many different aspects of structural loading and design and geotechnical engineering; and thoroughly intertwined with large scale infrastructure. Thus, there is no shortage of scientific challenges. While disciplines such as earthquake engineering have long had a reasonable understanding of hazard loading, this continues to be an important item on coastal engineering research agendas. Particularly in complex built or natural environments, prediction of many coastal engineering processes remains reliant on semi-empirical estimates based on idealized cases or historical records. Similarly, human interaction with the coastline as individual or community-wide planning and response to disasters, analysis of ecosystem benefits, or planning for long-term changes in coastal environments, requires expertise in many disparate disciplines. While parts of these issues are presently being addressed by a variety of agencies, there remains a wide opening for NSF to address both small-scale and large-scale coastal engineering research and educational needs and opportunities. The results from this Workshop will help to provide sustained direction for coastal engineering research and education, both at NSF and other agencies. Areas ripe for cross-fertilization with other disciplines will be identified. The Workshop will reserve at least 25% of spaces for early career professionals to ensure that they obtain experience into larger aspects of coastal engineering, and can meet more established researchers. Similarly, the PIs will ensure that women and underrepresented minorities form a critical mass for participation. This will be accomplished through direct targeting of specific people at all levels. The Workshop will also keep a few spaces open for those who hear about it and contact the organizers directly.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.