Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards Researchers

该项目将（1）促进学者的发展，致力于危害，风险和灾害的研究;（2）为国家未来在这些领域的研究能力和基础设施做出贡献;（3）通过增加跨学科，融合奖学金，为危害，风险和灾害领域增加重要的原始科学知识。该项目建立在CMMI资助的以前成功的指导项目的基础上，并进行了一些重要的创新。首先，该项目将扩大实质性的跨学科和多学科的内容，包括耦合灾害社会建模，灾害健康和新兴技术的覆盖面。其次，该项目利用对成功导师的研究来设计一个早期职业教师导师计划，该计划最大限度地提高了对学员的有益影响，培养了新导师的技能，并可转移到广泛的研究导师环境中（例如，其他NSF计划）。第三，将更加重视培养学员通过NSF的CAREER机制寻求资金。第四，该项目将在扶持方案和科罗拉多博尔德大学自然灾害中心之间建立正式的伙伴关系，以提高方案的知名度和机构能力。该计划由几个关键要素组成：（a）20名研究员，他们在研究型大学担任终身职位，（B）10名高级学者，他们将担任研究员的导师，（c）一个计划咨询委员会，以及（c）一个项目领导管理团队，由主要和共同主要研究员和几名支持成员组成。这个项目是至关重要的知识在跨学科的危害/灾害/风险领域，这依赖于年轻学者致力于自己的学科和这一广泛领域的理论和应用方面的不断涌入的进步。该计划的意义在于开发和授权研究人员谁可以理解和解决与危害和灾害相关的社会，建筑和自然环境之间的复杂相互作用的干部。就更广泛的影响而言，该项目将培养一批精通系统解释灾害的社会原因和后果的各种学者，这对改进灾害管理的所有阶段至关重要。结果将通过期刊文章出版物和参加在科罗拉多举行的年度自然灾害研究和应用研讨会来传播，包括对可转移指导模式的描述和评估。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。

This project will (1) foster the development of scholars with a career-long commitment to research on hazards, risk, and disasters; (2) contribute to the nation's future research capacity and infrastructure in these areas; and (3) add important original scientific knowledge to the areas of hazards, risk, and disasters by increasing interdisciplinary, convergent scholarship. This project builds on previous successful mentoring projects funded by CMMI with some important innovations. First, this project will expand the substantive interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary content by including coverage of coupled hazards-society modeling, disaster health, and emerging technologies. Second, the project uses research on successful mentoring to design an early career faculty mentoring program that maximizes beneficial impacts for mentees, develops the skills of new mentors, and is transferable to a broad range of research mentoring contexts (e.g., university-based programs, other NSF programs). Third, there will be a greater emphasis on preparing mentees to pursue funding via the NSF's CAREER mechanism. Fourth, this project will establish a formal partnership between the Enabling Program and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder to improve program visibility and institutional capacity. The program consists of several key elements: (a) a cohort of 20 Fellows who are in tenure track positions at research universities, (b) 10 senior scholars that will serve as Mentors to the Fellows, (c) a program Advisory Committee, and (c) a project Leadership Management Team consisting of the Principal and Co-Principal Investigators and several supporting members. This project is crucial to the advancement of knowledge in the interdisciplinary hazards/disasters/risk field, which relies on a continuous influx of young scholars committed both to their own disciplines and to the theoretical and applied aspects of this broad field. The significance of the program lies in developing and empowering a cadre of researchers who can understand and address the complex interactions between the social, built, and natural environment associated with hazards and disasters. In terms of broader impacts, the project will create a diverse set of scholars versed in the systematic explanation of social causes and consequences of disasters, which is critical to improving all phases of disaster management. Results will be disseminated, including a description and assessment of the transferable mentoring model, through journal article publications and participation in the annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Colorado.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.