Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for the Arctic 2050: Preparing for Human Displacement at the Climate Change Frontline

工程研究中心规划奖助金竞赛是作为ERC计划的试点征集活动进行的。规划拨款并不是整个ERC竞赛的一部分，而是为了在团队之间建立规划汇聚的中央规模工程研究的能力。计划为北极工程研究中心(ERCA2050)提供的规划拨款将发展必要的劳动力、流程和技术，以规划、建设和维护因气候变化而流离失所的北极人民的弹性社区。这项规划工作将通过连接世界各地的研究合作伙伴，与阿拉斯加-S本土以及阿拉斯加以外的学生开发劳动力发展路径，纳入不同的视角，探索创新机会，朝着适销对路的工程解决方案、这些产品的试验台以及聚合和可访问的数据，为ERCA2050制定一个结构。这一规划工作与美国国家科学基金会S对环境影响控制中心的新愿景保持一致：如上所述，它具有强大的社会影响力，通过从广泛的学科中吸取经验教训来融入融合，以确保广泛参与的不同利益相关者社区咨询委员会，以及团队科学组织和科学交流方面的特定专业知识。该项目也与NSF的两个重大挑战相一致：导航新北极和增长汇聚研究。关键组成部分和交付成果包括协调规划活动的专职研究员，两个社区创新节，以及为期一年的研讨会系列，以加强利益相关者的联系。社区节将探讨关于融合、利益相关者社区、团队形成和有效领导和管理以及社会影响的问题。来自这些讨论的信息将被合成到不同级别的地图和空间表示中，这些地图和空间表示将被覆盖以找到联系、差距和需求。这些概念地图将根据当地资源可获得性、景观参数、社会宜居性因素、教育和创新路径以及全球影响构建，这些因素最终将构成ERCA2050的组成部分。这个规划项目将寻求设计一个教育资源中心，让学生参与所有级别的研究，招收来自阿拉斯加、S农村社区的学生，以及来自类似背景的社区的学生。这项努力将扩大阿拉斯加原住民的参与，将他们作为我们进程中的关键利益攸关方，无论是在规划我们的环境与和解路线图方面，还是在他们作为复原力努力参与者的积极作用方面。项目人员反映了NSF对性别和种族多样性的承诺。利益相关者咨询委员会的创建和定期参与将加强学术界、社区、政府和行业之间的伙伴关系。这一奖项反映了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。

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 intended planning grant for the Engineering Research Center for the Arctic 2050 (ERCA2050) will develop the workforce, processes, and technologies necessary to plan, build, and maintain resilient communities for Arctic peoples displaced by climate change. This planning effort will develop a structure for ERCA2050 by connecting research partners across the world, developing workforce development pathways with Alaska?s homegrown students as well as those outside Alaska, incorporating diverse perspectives, and exploring opportunities for innovation toward marketable engineering solutions, testbeds for these products, and aggregated and accessible data. This planning effort is aligned with NSF?s new vision for ERCs: it features a strong social impact as described above, incorporates convergence by drawing from across a wide array of disciplines, features a diverse stakeholder community advisory committee to ensure broad engagement, and incorporates specific expertise in team science organization and science communication. This project also aligns with two of NSF's Grand Challenges: Navigating the New Arctic and Growing Convergent Research. Key components and deliverables include a dedicated fellow to coordinate planning activities, two community innovation festivals, and a year-long seminar series to enhance stakeholder connections. The community festivals will explore questions around convergence, stakeholder community, team formation and effective leadership and management, and societal impact. Information from these discussions will be synthesized into different levels of maps and spatial representations, which will be overlaid to find connections, gaps, and needs. These conceptual maps will be constructed for local resource availability, landscape parameters, social livability factors, educational and innovation pathways, and global impacts, factors that will ultimately form the components of ERCA2050. This planning project will seek to design an ERC that will engage students in research at all levels, with recruiting efforts targeting students from Alaska?s rural communities, and students from communities in similar contexts. The effort will broaden participation by Alaska Native populations by including them as key stakeholders in our process, both in planning our ERC roadmap and in their active role as participants in resilience efforts. Project personnel reflect NSF's commitment to gender and racial diversity. The creation and regular involvement of the stakeholder advisory committee will enhance partnerships between academia, communities, government, and industry.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.