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

在这个项目中，一个由学术和社区合作伙伴组成的团队将结合流域随时间变化的不同方法和知识来源，以增强社区对沿海社区日益增长的极端洪水威胁的适应能力。像世界各地的其他地方一样，该项目的地点哈莱拉，夏威夷考艾岛上的一个农村地区，正处于气候危机的尖端。2018年4月，哈莱拉的一场极端降雨事件创下了美国24小时降雨的新纪录(49.7英寸)，并因洪水造成了1970万美元的损失。自那以后，洪水和山体滑坡频繁发生。由于降雨量的变化、物种入侵和土地利用的变化，代代相传的对水资源的传统知识和监督不再足够。该项目将与社区成员、领导洪水和灾害应对的非营利组织以及考艾岛紧急事务管理署合作，通过加强社区成员彼此之间及其环境以及与当地政府、游客和新居民的联系，提高对沿海社区不断增加的洪水风险的适应能力。此外，该小组正在提炼最佳做法，为沿海地区开发包容性的、以社区为基础的环境管理方法，并参与与包括太平洋岛屿和美国大陆在内的沿海社区持续的知识共享。该项目的愿景是通过将土著知识、当地对生态变化的观察和来自科学仪器的数据联系起来，增强社会和生态社区对日益增加的洪水风险的适应能力。这一办法将提高从山到海的分水岭管理能力，同时将子孙后代与他们相互照顾的责任联系起来。这项工作涉及以下具体项目目标：(1)合作研究：与社区成员合作，整合流域随时间变化的不同方法和知识来源，以加强地方一级对溪流的照顾和管理；(2)恢复：提高溪流清理和恢复工作的有效性；(3)监测和通信：改善历史和实时水文气象数据的可用性，以加强对洪水危害的了解，并促进使用社交媒体，在极端事件发生之前、期间和之后改善社区联系；以及(4)社区教育和培训：就社区确定的主题提供课程和教育材料，以提高对未来气候变化引起的灾害的整体复原力。这个项目是公民创新挑战的一部分，该挑战是由NSF、能源部车辆技术办公室以及国土安全部科学和技术局和联邦应急管理机构合作的。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。

In this project, a team of academic and community partners will combine diverse methods and sources of knowledge of watershed changes over time to enhance community resilience to increasing threats of extreme flooding in coastal communities. Like other locales around the world, the project's site of Halelea, a rural district on Island of Kauai, Hawaii, is on the cusp of the climate crisis. In April 2018, an extreme rain event in Halelea set a new US 24-hr rainfall record (49.7”) and caused $19.7M in losses due to flooding. Since then, flooding and landslides have reoccurred frequently. Traditional knowledge and oversight of water resources, built across generations, is no longer sufficient due to changes in rainfall, species invasion, and land use change. In collaboration with community members, nonprofits who have led flood and disaster response, and the Kauai Emergency Management Agency, this project will enhance resilience to increasing flood risk in coastal communities by strengthening connections of community members with one another and their environment, as well as with local government, tourists, and newer residents. Additionally, the team is distilling best practices in developing an inclusive, community-based environmental management approach for coastal areas and participating in on-going knowledge sharing with coastal communities including the Pacific Islands and the continental US.The vision of this project is to enhance social and ecological community resilience to increasing flood risk by linking Indigenous knowledge, local observations of ecological change, and data from scientific instrumentation. This approach will improve capacity for mountain-to-sea watershed management, while connecting future generations to their responsibilities for reciprocal care. The work addresses the following specific project goals: (1) Collaborative Research: Work with community members to integrate diverse methods and sources of knowledge of watershed changes over time to enhance local level care and management of streams; (2) Restoration: Enhance effectiveness of stream clearing and restoration efforts; (3) Monitoring and Communication: Improve availability of historical and real-time hydrometeorological data to enhance understanding of flood hazards, and promote use of social media to improve community connectedness before, during, and after extreme events; and (4) Community Education and Training: Provide classes and educational material, in community-identified topics, to enhance holistic resilience to future climate-change induced disasters. This project is part of the Civic Innovation Challenge, a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technology Office, and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.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.