Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Adaptive and Resilient Coastal Infrastructure (CARCI)

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 规划赠款不需要作为整个ERC竞争的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划收敛，中心规模的工程研究。该项目的目的是规划适应性和弹性海岸基础设施工程研究中心（CARCI）。 我们的愿景是建立一个新的研究中心，以提高生活在沿海地区的人们的安全，公平和生活质量，促进经济繁荣和全球竞争力，考虑到沿海地区工业活动的重要性，并改善沿海地区建成的自然社会系统之间的和谐。展望我们沿海社区的未来是具有挑战性的：一方面，有前途的新技术可以重塑我们的社会？在所谓的第四次工业革命中，另一方面，随着我们的基础设施变得更加复杂和相互依赖，我们很容易受到慢性和急性危害的影响。 例如，2017年美国与天气有关的灾害的累计成本为3095亿美元，在飓风哈维，伊尔玛和玛丽亚之后影响了许多沿海社区。海平面上升和风暴模式的变化将加剧对沿海社区的影响。与此同时，沿海城市需要为几十年前的民用基础设施制定明智的再投资策略，以适应不断增长的人口和新技术。 平衡社会、经济和生态成本和效益战略，以适应（中长期）和复原力（短期至中期），对于从不同角度增加社区繁荣和福祉至关重要。无论有什么替代方案，沿海解决方案都需要融合许多学科：工程学、经济学、城市规划、公共政策和卫生、社会科学、风险管理、决策、沿海生态学和海洋科学。对于这项规划补助金，我们将举行三次团队建设会议，以发展一支合格的研究人员团队，创建一个研究中心，其关键思想包括：利益相关者知识到行动网络，以实现知识的共同生产;基于性能的海岸工程和新的适应性海岸工程设计范例;设想海岸风险，恢复力和适应性;自然，基于自然和生物启发的基础设施;以及系统级和数据驱动的决策。我们概述了CARCI的迭代和适应性团队组建过程，在整个过程中，我们将寻求竞争性研究途径，以实现团队范围内的适应性和弹性海岸系统愿景，并保留最具变革性和参与性的计划作为CARCI的基础。 除了团队会议外，还将举办两次研讨会，以了解利益相关者的需求和机会，包括教育和劳动力发展。将生成两份研讨会报告，并按照数据管理计划中的描述进行分发。 规划过程将使该团队能够确定创新战略，以解决我们沿海社区面临的一些最紧迫的问题：如何平衡中长期的适应性战略与短期至中期的社会复原力需求。该团队将在分布式和分层建模、数据驱动技术、优化和决策以及自然和生物启发解决方案等领域寻找新的机会。通过两个利益相关者研讨会，我们将汇集研究人员，从业者，决策者和其他人的多元化沿海社区利益相关者，以确定沿海基础设施适应和复原力的关键需求，差距和机会，并将公开分发，以促进塑造未来的研究和教育。 我们的团队科学和领导科学网络研讨会系列将对研究人员和管理人员在进一步融合研究方面产生更广泛的影响。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。

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The purpose of this project is to plan the Engineering Research Center for Adaptive and Resilient Coastal Infrastructure (CARCI). Our vision is to create a new research center to enhance the safety, equity and quality of life for people living in coastal regions, to promote economic prosperity and global competitiveness given the importance of industrial activity in coastal locales, and to improve the harmony among the built-natural-social systems in coastal regions. Envisioning the future of our coastal communities is challenging: on the one hand promising new technologies could reshape our societies ? the so-called fourth Industrial Revolution, and on the other hand as our infrastructure becomes more complex and interdependent, we are vulnerable to chronic and acute hazards. For example, the cumulative cost of weather-related disasters in the U.S. in 2017 was $309.5 billion, impacting many coastal communities in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Sea level rise and changing storm patterns will exacerbate these impacts on coastal communities. All the while, coastal cities need smart reinvestment strategies for decades-old civil infrastructure to accommodate growing populations and new technologies. Balancing the social, economic, and ecological costs and benefits strategies for both adaptation (medium-to-long term) and resilience (short-to-medium term) is crucial for increasing community prosperity and well-being from diverse perspectives. Regardless of alternatives, coastal solutions require a convergence of many disciplines: engineering, economics, urban planning, public policy and health, social science, risk management, decision-making, coastal ecology and marine sciences. For this planning grant, we will hold three team building meetings to evolve a team of qualified researchers to create a research center with key ideas such as stakeholder knowledge-to-action-networks to enable the co-production of knowledge; performance-based coastal engineering and a new adaptive coastal engineering design paradigm; envisioning coastal risk, resilience and adaptation; natural, nature-based and bio-inspired infrastructure; and systems-level and data-driven decision-making. We have outlined an iterative and adaptive team formation process for CARCI, and throughout this process we will seek competing research pathways to achieve team-wide adaptive and resilient coastal system visions and retain the most transformative and participatory plan as the basis for CARCI. In addition to the team meeting, two workshops will be convened to understand stakeholder needs and opportunities, including education and workforce development. Two workshop reports will be generated and will be distributed as described in the Data Management Plan. The planning process will allow the team to identify innovative strategies to solve some of the most pressing problems facing our coastal communities: how to balance adaptive strategies in the medium-to-long term with societal needs for resilience in the short-to-medium term. The team will identify new opportunities in the areas of distributed and hierarchical modeling, data-driven technology, optimization and decision-making, and natural and bio-inspired solutions. Through two stakeholder workshops, we will bring together a diverse coastal community stakeholder of researchers, practitioners, decision-makers and others to identify key needs, gaps and opportunities for coastal infrastructure adaptation and resilience, and will be distributed openly to contribute to shaping future research and education. Our team science and leadership science webinar series will have broader impacts on researchers and administrators in furthering convergent research.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.