SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Hoomalu Halelea - Community-led Innovation for Integrated Flood Resilience

2018年4月，考艾岛的哈雷岛创下了24小时降雨量（49.69英寸）的美国纪录，造成了1970万美元的损失。两年多过去了，家庭和企业仍在恢复中，这一事件为增强地区社区和世界上其他越来越容易受到洪水影响的地方的恢复能力提供了一个机会。夏威夷群岛是文化、降雨和生态系统多样性的社会生态系统的典范。传统上，夏威夷的粮食安全是由几代人建立起来的对水资源的监督来支撑的，但仅靠当地的知识已经不能涵盖降雨、物种入侵和土地利用的变化。该提案提供了一个模式，通过科学伙伴关系来加强监测和沟通工具，恢复地方管理水道的能力。本项目将透过以下途径，加强社会及生态社区对日益增加的洪水风险的应变能力：1)合作研究-与社区成员合作，整合各种有关流域变化的方法和知识，以加强地方层面的河流管理；2)引航恢复和河道清理；3)监测和通信，提高历史和实时水文气象数据的可用性，以了解洪水灾害，并促进极端事件前后的连通性；4)社区教育和培训，提供教育材料，以增强对未来灾害的整体复原力。项目合作伙伴包括七个社区非营利组织、县灾害规划和响应机构、三个专门研究水（从大气到地下水）的大学教师、一位研究地区的社会科学家，以及一位在土著管理方面经验丰富的社区领导。该项目的目标和研究范围包括与社区成员进行访谈和焦点小组讨论，通过清除入侵物种来试点恢复河流，安装实时气象站监测降雨，开发通信门户网站，以及为社区教育开设课程，其中包括面对面的现场学习和视频教学。研究人员和社区成员将共同整合老年人的知识和历史河流数据，以产生研究问题，设置监测站，并调查极端降雨事件期间的水文反应。该项目为大学学者、当地非营利组织和土著社区成员之间的合作提供了一个模式，以加强研究、基础设施和交流；提供监测、观测能力和培训机会，增强当地对气候变化的适应能力。该提案还将有助于理解复原力的文化、社会和背景方面；为协作过程建模，以生成和评估随时间推移与当地相关的复原力指标；同时测试水文科学和通信技术在气候变化适应和规划中的应用。该项目解决了B轨道-公民创新挑战的自然灾害恢复能力，这是与国家科学基金会和国土安全部合作的项目。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。

In April 2018, Haleleʻa, Kauaʻi, set a U.S. record for 24-hr rainfall (49.69 in), causing $19.7 million in losses. Over two years later, with families and businesses still recovering, the event offers an opportunity to enhance resilience of area communities and other places worldwide which are increasingly vulnerable to floods. The Hawaiian Islands comprise a model social-ecological system of diversity in culture, rainfall, and ecosystems. Traditionally, Hawaiian food security was underpinned by oversight of water resources built across generations, but local knowledge alone can no longer encompass changes in rainfall, species invasion, and shifting land use. This proposal offers a model to restore capacity for local stewardship of waterways through scientific partnerships to enhance monitoring and communication tools. This project will enhance social and ecological community resilience to increasing flood risk through: 1) Collaborative Research - Working with community members to integrate diverse methods and knowledge of watershed change to enhance local level stream management; 2) Piloting restoration and stream clearing; 3) Monitoring and Communication to improve availability of historical and real-time hydrometeorological data to understand flood hazards, and promote connectedness around extreme events; and 4) Community Education and Training offering educational materials to enhance holistic resilience to future disasters. Project partners include seven community non-profits, the county disaster planning and response agency, three university faculty specializing in water - from atmosphere to groundwater - and one social scientist native to the study area, along with a community lead experienced in indigenous stewardship. Project goals and scope of research include interviews and focus groups with community members, piloting stream restoration through invasive species removal, installation of real-time weather stations to monitor rainfall, development of a communication web portal, and course for community education that will include in-person on-site learning and video instruction. Researchers and community members will together integrate elders’ knowledge, and historic stream data to generate research questions, place monitoring stations, and investigate hydrological responses during extreme rainfall events. This project provides a model for collaboration between university scholars, local non-profits, and indigenous community members to enhance research, infrastructure, and communication; provide monitoring, observation capability and training opportunities and enhance local resilience to climate change. This proposal will also contribute to understanding of cultural, social and contextual aspects of resilience; model collaborative processes to generate and assess locally relevant indicators of resilience over time; while testing applications of hydrological science and communication technology to climate change adaptation and planning. This project addresses Track B – Resilience to Natural Disasters for the CIVIC Innovation Challenge a collaboration with NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.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.