Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Hurricane Urban Planning Hazards Research (HUPHR)

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，以规划融合的中心规模的工程研究。该奖项作为一个拟议的工程研究中心（ERC），将解决从沿海到内陆的飓风和严重风暴的化学和生物危害的挑战的规划补助金。这是一项具有重大社会影响的挑战，影响到人类健康和生命损失，特别是对缺乏人力、财力和技术资源来识别、规划和应对潜在风险的弱势社区而言。化学和生物危害可能源于化学品加工、储存和处置设施、水或废水基础设施以及医院和人类保健提供系统的故障。在大多数情况下，接触和潜在接触都是新的，只有在化学和生物安全网因风暴引起的风、风暴潮和洪水而暂时收缩时才会发生。这些努力将确定和了解社区和社区卫生面临的挑战，以及严重事件和可能导致疫情爆发的疾病媒介所强调的社区之间的联系。特别需要的是更好的预测工具，以确定潜在的危害及其在极端事件中可能造成的风险，以及对已实现的风险的真实的了解。物理、化学和生物科学与工程学与医学和公共卫生界的融合对于成功地将危害与已实现的风险相结合至关重要。规划方法包括与利益相关者举行高绩效会议，以深入了解ERC要解决的挑战。知识研讨会将用于开发ERC组件，整合工作将使ERC在当前的研究环境中定位。计划与科学和工程专家举行网络视频会议，以便在重点讨论团队建设和领导能力的最后研讨会之前，为ERC分享知识和组建团队。规划补助金将汇集参与飓风和严重风暴期间生物和化学品危害挑战的不同团体，这些团体通常不会相互作用和合作，从而实现真正融合的循证和多样化的研究合作。最重要的是，弱势群体，特别是弱势群体将参与紧急救济委员会。其目标是了解利益攸关方的期望和需求，并澄清不同社区对其环境、健康和安全的理解和看法。知识价值在于努力理解如何构建ERC，以通过融合多学科的努力最好地应对复杂的社会挑战。更广泛的影响是通过识别和解决与极端事件驱动的环境对社区的影响相关的挑战，特别是少数民族，弱势群体和移民社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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. This award serves as a planning grant for a proposed Engineering Research Center (ERC) that will address the challenge of chemical and biological hazards of hurricanes and severe storms from coast to inland. This is a challenge that has significant societal impact affecting human health and loss of life especially for disadvantaged communities that lack the human, financial and technical resources to identify, plan for and respond to the potential risks. Chemical and biological hazards can stem from failures in chemical processing, storage and disposal facilities, water or wastewater infrastructure, and hospitals and human health care delivery systems. In most cases, the exposures and potential exposures are novel, only occurring when the chemical and biological safety net has been pulled back temporarily by the wind, storm surge and flooding from the storm. The efforts will identify and understand the challenges to communities and community health and the connection between communities stressed by severe events and disease vectors that might lead to outbreaks. Particular needs include better predictive tools for identifying potential hazards and the risks they may pose in extreme events and real time understanding of the realized risks. The convergence of the physical, chemical and biological sciences and engineering with the medical and public health communities is critical to successfully coupling the hazards with realized risks. The planning approach includes high performance charrettes with stakeholders to develop an in-depth understanding of the challenges to be addressed in the ERC. A knowledge-workshop will be used to develop the ERC components, and integration efforts will enable positioning the ERC within the current research landscape. Web-enabled video conferencing with science and engineering experts is planned for the purpose of knowledge sharing and team formation for the ERC in advance of a culmination workshop focused on team building and leadership. The planning grant will bring together the diverse groups involved in the challenge of biological and chemicals hazards during hurricanes and severe storms that normally do not interact and collaborate, leading to a truly convergent evidence-based and diverse research collaboration. Most importantly, vulnerable communities will be engaged, particularly disadvantaged populations into the ERC. The goal is to gain informed insight into stakeholder expectations and needs and clarifying diverse community understanding and perceptions of their environment, and health and safety. The intellectual merit is in the effort to understand how to frame an ERC to best address complex societal challenges through convergent multidisciplinary efforts. The broader impacts are through the identification and resolution of challenges associated with extreme event-driven environmental impacts on communities, particularly minority, disadvantaged and immigrant communities.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.