Focused CoPe: Building Capacity for Adaptation in Rural Coastal Communities

海平面加速上升和风暴造成的沿海洪水增加导致盐水入侵，正在威胁地下水的可持续性。农村沿海社区特别容易受到这些威胁的影响，并面临着独特的挑战，而这些挑战由于缺乏获得科学信息和专门知识的机会、地理和社会孤立以及缺乏有效的政府结构和机构能力而加剧。该中心将把环境和社会经济数据与水文和沿海洪水模型相结合，以量化与沿海洪水和盐水入侵有关的环境风险。该中心扩大了传统上服务不足和脆弱的沿海社区的参与，让当地领导人和更广泛的社区参与研讨会，共同制作有关提高沿海复原力的知识，并对他们进行数据扫盲培训。这些活动通过减少气候风险的不公平性和促进长期气候适应战略，使农村沿海社区直接受益。这个Focus科普Hub将创建一个由研究人员、政策制定者、社区利益相关者和教育工作者组成的综合网络，使农村社区能够应对沿海气候影响。它将开发一个名为气候公平地图集的互动式开源平台，该平台将提供数据建模和可视化工具，使利益攸关方能够做出有效，公平的气候适应决策。该图集将使利益攸关方了解社会和经济因素如何与影响决策和公平的环境风险相互作用。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Saltwater intrusion from accelerated sea-level rise and increased coastal flooding caused by storms is threatening groundwater sustainability. Rural coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to these threats and face unique challenges that are exacerbated by lack of access to scientific information and expertise, by geographical and social isolation, and by lack of effective governmental structure and institutional capacity. This Hub will integrate environmental and socio-economic data with hydrological and coastal flooding models to quantify environmental risks related to coastal flooding and salt-water intrusion. The Hub broadens participation of traditionally underserved and vulnerable coastal communities by engaging local leaders and the broader community in workshops to co-produce knowledge about increasing coastal resilience and to train them in data literacy. These activities directly benefit rural coastal communities by reducing inequities of climate risk and promoting long-term climate adaption strategies.This Focus CoPe Hub will create an integrated network of researchers, policy makers, community stakeholders and educators to equip rural communities to respond to coastal climate impacts. It will develop an interactive, open-source platform called the Climate Equity Atlas that will provide data modeling and visualization tools to empower stakeholders to make effective, equitable climate adaptation decisions. The Atlas will enable stakeholders to understand how social and economic factors interact with environmental risks that influence decision-making and equity. The results of the research contribute knowledge that can be translated to solutions for groundwater security for rural communities in general.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.