Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Rapid Evaluation of Coastal Ocean and Nearshore - RECON

工程研究中心规划奖助金竞赛是作为ERC计划的试点征集活动进行的。计划拨款并不是整个ERC竞赛的一部分，而是为了建立团队之间的能力，以计划集中的、中心规模的工程研究。经济合作与发展组织(OECD)估计，到2030年，海洋经济可以为全球经济增加1.5万亿美元的价值，是2010年的两倍。我们设想的ERC能够产生的数据集可以通过更彻底地评估人类活动和经济发展对沿海环境的影响来帮助制定政策和决策。可以开发的技术可以使应急响应和搜救行动更快、更安全、更有效。对于这一规划基金的活动，我们相信它们可以为劳动力发展做出独特的贡献，通过为参与机构的学生提供一个独特的机会，让他们进行鼓舞人心的实际应用实地工作，以及与学术界、工业界和社区领袖建立网络和进行指导。沿海社区严重依赖和依赖附近复杂和动态的海洋地质生态系统，其范围、结构、相互作用和功能尚未完全了解。更重要的是，美国河口和沿海地区目前面临着多种额外的海洋空间规划问题和挑战，包括周期性风暴、气候变化和其他压力因素的影响。对这些自然多尺度动力系统的形态和演化以及它们如何受到人类活动的影响获得科学见解，将有助于评估沿海和近海长期开发项目的影响。它还将使我们能够更及时、更协调和更有效地应对自然和人为紧急情况和灾害。设想的Recon ERC旨在帮助创建了解潜在过程的科学；开发技术以高效和准确地观察、测量和记录相关现象；参与行业将技术转移到现场并利用新产品和服务进行创新；与地方政府合作，帮助他们有效地利用技术并为社区服务；接触社区以更好地了解他们的观点和问题，并让他们更全面地了解自动化技术和工程如何有助于他们的解决方案；最后，培养新一代领导者和实践者，他们将对这一新的技术驱动的行业细分市场进行推广、维护和发展。该项目由工程教育和中心(EEC)部门和既定的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)联合资助。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。

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that the ocean economy can add up to $1.5 trillion of value to the global economy by 2030, doubling their 2010 levels. The data sets that our envisioned ERC can produce can help policy and decision-making through a more thorough assessment of the impact of human activity and economic development on the coastal environment. The technology that can be developed can enable faster, safer, and more effective emergency response, and search-and-rescue operations. Specifically for the activities of this planning grant, we believe that they can contribute uniquely to workforce development, by offering a unique opportunity to participating students across institutions for inspiring, hands-on applied field work, as well as for networking and mentoring with academic, industry, and community leaders.Coastal communities are heavily dependent and reliant on the nearby complex and dynamic marine geo-eco systems, whose extent, structure, interactions, and function are not fully understood. What is more, estuarine and coastal regions in the US currently face multiple additional marine spatial planning issues and challenges, including the effects of episodic storms, climate change, and other stressors. Obtaining scientific insights on the morphology and evolution of these natural multi-scale dynamical systems, and how they are influenced by human activity, will help assess the impact of long-term coastal and offshore development projects. It will also enable us to facilitate a more timely, coordinated, and effective response to natural and man-made emergencies and disasters. The envisioned RECON ERC is intended to help create the science to understand the underlying processes; develop the technology to efficiently and accurately observe, measure and record the associated phenomena; engage with industry to transition the technology to the field and innovate with new products and services; partner with local government to help them effectively leverage the technology and serve their communities; reach out to the communities to understand better their perspective and problems, and give them a more complete picture of how automation technology and engineering can contribute to their solution; and finally, educate the new generation of leaders and practitioners who will field, maintain, and grow this new technology-driven industry segment.This project is jointly funded by the Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Division and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.