CoPe EAGER: Mobilizing our Coastal Communities: Facilitating Rapid Response Observations of Extreme Event Flooding, Inundation, and Overwash

极端风暴、涨潮洪水、海啸、地震和其他自然事件对沿海社区构成高风险，并造成数十亿美元的损失。尽管导致洪灾的地球物理强迫可能是区域性的，但洪灾的强度和持续时间可能在一系列尺度上表现出显著的时间或空间变异性。公民科学家可以快速部署的低成本仪器的先进技术，将使科学家和当地社区能够通过收集极端洪水的关键观测数据来解决长期采样不足的问题。将创建一个借阅库，借阅能够测量局部洪灾的仪器。公民科学家收集的观测结果将为沿海地质学家和规划者提供资源，重点放在洪水预测和地貌对极端事件的结构性反应上。这些知识可以为面临紧急反应和海岸适应决策的社区提供信息。拟议的项目邀请了三组公民科学家(本科生、推广科学志愿者(ESV)和沿海居民)参与一个合作的公民科学项目。来自各种极端洪灾情况的高分辨率洪灾观测将由各个公民科学家小组收集。这一探索性项目将从一开始就让地球物理学和公民科学学科利用最近的技术进步，以实现提高我们的高分辨率地球物理场采样能力的目标。我们的目标是1)与学生和ESVs合作开发低成本传感器；2)创建沿海居民可访问的沿海洪水仪器借阅图书馆(CFILL)；3)提供有关仪器使用的培训，并与公民科学志愿者一起测试CFILL协议的可用性；4)与沿海居民合作部署传感器，以促进对地块和社区洪水和洪水的高分辨率采样。公民科学家可以快速部署的先进低成本仪器技术将通过收集极端洪水的关键观测数据来改变我们解决长期采样不足问题的能力。该奖项反映了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。

Extreme storms, high tide flooding, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other natural events pose high risk to coastal communities and cause billions of dollars of damage. Although the geophysical forcing leading to the flooding may be regional in nature, the intensity and duration of the flooding may exhibit significant temporal or spatial variability over a range of scales. Advancing technologies for low-cost instrumentation that can be rapidly deployed by citizen scientists will allow for scientists and local communities to address the chronic under-sampling problem by collecting critical observations of extreme flooding. A lending library for instruments that are able to measuring localized flooding will be created. The observations collected by citizen scientists will serve as a resource for coastal geologists and planners focused on the predictions of flooding and the structural response of the landscape to extreme events. This knowledge could provide information to communities faced with emergency response and coastal adaptation decisions.The proposed project engages three cohorts of citizen scientists (undergraduate students, Extension Science Volunteers (ESVs), and coastal residents) in a collaborative citizen science project. High-resolution flooding observations from a range of extreme flooding situations will be collected by the various citizen scientist groups. This exploratory project will, from the onset, engage the geophysical and citizen science disciplines to capitalize on recent technological advancements for the goal of transforming our capacity for high-resolution geophysical field sampling. Our objectives are to 1) develop low cost sensors with students and ESVs as partners, 2) create a coastal flooding instrumentation lending library (CFILL) accessible to coastal residents, 3) provide training on the use of the instruments and test the usability of CFILL protocols with citizen science volunteers, and 4) deploy the sensors in collaboration with coastal residents to facilitate high-resolution sampling of parcel and community-level flooding and inundation. Advancing technologies for low-cost instrumentation that can be rapidly deployed by citizen scientists will transform our ability to address the chronic under-sampling problem by collecting critical observations of extreme flooding.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.