EAGER: SUstainable Material Management Extreme Events Reconnaissance (SUMMEER) Organization

自然灾害和人为灾害事件产生了大量碎片。巨大的规模和高度可变的成分使灾后碎片的管理变得复杂。通过适当的材料回收过程，再利用和回收创造价值，并将垃圾从垃圾填埋场转移出去，最大限度地减少垃圾对整体环境的影响。该项目的主要目标是建立具有地理分布网络的可持续材料管理极端事件侦察(SUMMEER)组织，以应对灾后碎片管理挑战。SUMMEER的任务是：(1)促进采取成员和社区相结合的办法，以最大限度地发挥灾后碎片侦察活动的效果；(2)组织和培训各类个人，对极端事件产生的碎片进行侦察和研究；(3)协调灾前和灾后努力，以及时和有效的方式收集关于灾后碎片的易腐烂数据；(4)为灾后碎片可持续管理研究提供重要数据和资源。这项研究开发的框架和工具将促进灾害碎片的适当规划和可持续管理，以通过再利用和再循环最大限度地从材料中获益，并最大限度地减少对人类健康和环境的不利影响。灾后碎片回收/再利用的重要性已在文献和实践中得到承认；但由于缺乏详细的灾后碎片调查，用于灾前和灾后规划的量化框架和工具非常有限。这个新的极端事件侦察(EER)组织将通过提供以前没有的标准化数据来填补这一空白。新的EER组织将首次为可持续碎片管理研究的高质量现场评估提供侦察指南、响应方案、数据标准和培训方案。这些灾后碎片数据的积累将导致制定灾害碎片的定量规划方法，并使灾后再利用和再循环应用变得有效。SUMMEER将作为一个综合平台，协调部署跨学科研究人员从极端事件收集这种多维碎片数据。此外，还将在研究期间生成一个数据储存库，供研究界使用。为了应对重大灾难事件，SUMMEER将与其他由NSF资助的EER参与联合响应活动，以及时有效地评估对可持续碎片管理研究至关重要的灾难事件的环境影响，以及通过现有EER确定的结构、岩土和社会影响，以增加价值并扩大联合EER的影响。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。

Large quantities of debris are generated from natural and anthropogenic disaster events. The sheer magnitude and highly variable composition complicate management of the post-disaster debris. With proper material recovery processes, reusing and recycling create value and divert debris from landfills, minimizing the overall environmental impacts of the debris. The main goal of this project is to establish the SUstainable Material Management Extreme Events Reconnaissance (SUMMEER) organization with a geographically distributed network to respond to post-disaster debris management challenges. The mission of SUMMEER is to: (i) facilitate a combined member and community-based approach to maximize the effect of post-disaster debris reconnaissance activities, (ii) organize and train a broad range of individuals for reconnaissance and study of debris from extreme events, (iii) coordinate pre- and post-disaster efforts to collect perishable data on post-disaster debris in a timely and effective manner, and (iv) provide significant data and resources for research on sustainable management of post-disaster debris. The framework and tools developed in this study will facilitate proper planning for and sustainable management of disaster debris to maximize benefits from the materials through reuse and recycling and to minimize adverse effects on human health and the environment.The importance of recycling/reuse of post-disaster debris has been recognized in the literature and practice; however, quantitative frameworks and tools for pre- and post-disaster planning are highly limited due to the lack of detailed post-disaster debris investigations. This new Extreme Events Reconnaissance (EER) organization will fill this gap by providing standardized data that has not previously been available. The new EER organization will, for the first time, provide reconnaissance guidelines, response protocols, data standards, and training programs for high-quality field assessment for sustainable debris management research. Accumulation of this post-disaster debris data will lead to development of quantitative planning methods for disaster debris and enable effective post-disaster reuse and recycling applications. SUMMEER will function as an integrated platform for coordinating the deployment of interdisciplinary researchers to collect such multidimensional debris data from extreme events. Also, a data repository will be generated during the study for use by the research community. In response to major disaster events, SUMMEER will participate in joint response activities with the other NSF-funded EERs to evaluate environmental impacts of disaster events that are important for sustainable debris management research in a timely and effective manner in addition to the structural, geotechnical, and social impacts identified through the existing EERs adding value and expanding the impact of the combined EERs.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.