JST: SCC-PG: Socially-integrated Technological Solutions for Real-time Response and Neighborhood Survival After Extreme Events

美国太平洋西北地区和日本位于太平洋的两侧，由于类似的地球物理条件，它们面临着重大的地震风险。太平洋西北部被认为早该发生卡斯卡迪亚俯冲带8.0-9.2级的大地震。当它发生时，俄勒冈州和华盛顿州的直接死亡人数估计高达1万人，经济损失超过800亿美元。南开特大逆冲地震对日本面积相当的地区造成的死亡人数估计为8万至32.3万人，经济损失约为9000亿美元。在大地震发生后不久，大部分救灾机构和人员（如果不是全部的话）将不堪重负，该地区的许多社区将需要依靠自己在很长一段时间内维持基本活动。为了支持这些基本活动，通信将需要足够强大，以便在高度不确定的情况下发挥作用，并实现实时和可靠的信息共享，以实现有效的资源分配和匹配。该提案代表了与多所日本大学的研究人员合作的规划拨款的美国部分，作为NSF/JST智能和互联社区计划合作的一部分。这项规划赠款旨在建立太平洋两岸（西雅图地区和日本）工程师和规划人员的合作伙伴关系，以开发这些急需的通信和信息共享技术。联合小组将与华盛顿州和日本名古屋市的三个社区合作，以确保最初的技术原型想法具有真实的、特定地点的相关性和适用性。焦点小组和社区研讨会将确定具体的社区需求、价值、资源和关注点，并为评估原型提供反馈循环。预计通过与这些社区合作，开发的技术工具将与社会相结合，不仅可以帮助社区解决为可能发生的大地震做准备的关键需求，还可以增强面对各种生活不确定性和中断的复原力，并改善社区的日常生活质量。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Situated on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean, the US Pacific Northwest Region and Japan face significant earthquake risks from similar geophysical conditions. The Pacific Northwest is considered overdue for a Cascadia Subduction Zone 8.0–9.2 magnitude megaquake. When it happens, the estimated direct fatalities for Oregon and Washington states are up to 10,000, with economic losses of more than $80 billion. For the comparably sized region of Japan facing a Nankai megathrust earthquake, estimated fatalities are 80,000–323,000 lives and about $900 billion in economic loss. In the immediate aftermath of a megaquake, most of the disaster response agencies and personnel, if not all, will be overwhelmed and many neighborhoods in the region will need to rely on themselves to maintain essential activities for a prolonged period. To support these essential activities, communications will need to be robust enough to function under highly uncertain circumstances, and to enable real-time and reliable information sharing for efficient resource allocation and matching. This proposal represents the US portion of a planning grant for a collaboration with researchers from multiple Japanese Universities as part of the NSF/JST collaboration for the Smart and Connected Community Program.This planning grant builds the capacity of a partnership of engineers and planners on both sides of the Pacific Ocean (Seattle area and Japan) to developing these critically needed communications and information-sharing technologies. The joint team will partner with three communities in Washington State and the city of Nagoya in Japan, to ensure that initial technical prototype ideas have real, place-specific relevance and applicability. Focus groups and community workshops will identify specific community needs, values, resources and concerns, and provide a feedback loop for evaluating the prototypes. It is expected that by working with these communities, the technological tools to be developed will be socially integrated, not only helping communities to address the critical need to prepare for a possible mega-earthquake but also to enhance resilience in the face of a wide range of life uncertainties and disruptions, and to improve communities’ daily quality of life.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.