IRES Track II: Multidisciplinary Coastal Zone Hazards Institutes - France, Japan, Indonesia

在这个为期3年的项目中，共有42名美国学生（每年14名）将在三个高级研究所（ASI）站点之一的外国机构（每年一个ASI站点）停留两周，获得多学科培训，并获得沿海地区灾害研究的动手实验室和实地经验。美国团队（波士顿大学、北亚利桑那大学和阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学）将与法国南布列塔尼大学（UBS）、日本东北大学（TU）和理化研究所、迪波尼戈罗大学（UNDIP）和印度尼西亚Gadjah Mada大学（UGM）的教师/讲师合作，领导ASI活动。ASI在国际背景下的活动将为研究生提供多阶段、高质量的培训和研究，这些培训和研究将产生适用于本项目期间以外的博士工作和其他研究活动的数据集和学习材料。STEM领域的女性和代表性不足的少数族裔将成为美国团队的特别目标。在全球背景下的STEM经验将为参与的美国学生在未来的职业道路上利用科学和政策视角应对全球挑战做好准备。这些辅助措施处理影响人口稠密的沿海地区的自然和人为变化的复合影响。随着沿海地区人口越来越密集，它们越来越容易受到气候变化现象（海平面上升、潮汐和风暴潮洪水）的影响，这些现象与自然地质灾害（地震、火山爆发、山体滑坡、地面沉降）和人类驱动的景观改造（城市化、农业和水产养殖、森林砍伐）相结合，可能会加剧生态系统服务、生命和财产的破坏和损失。遥感技术和大数据分析为我们提供了测量和观察跨尺度和时间变化的方法。然而，近实时观测产生的大量数据带来了一个新的挑战：我们如何有效地利用这些数据来评估和预测沿海地区不断增长的人口对这些沿海灾害的风险暴露？了解沿海动态变化背后的过程需要从多个学科中汲取一套技能，而这在美国的研究生课程中往往是缺失的。这就是在三个地点为高级研究生建立多学科沿海灾害培训计划的动机，这些地点代表了不同类型和水平的沿海变化过程和风险。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。

Over the course of this 3-year project, a total of 42 U.S. students (14 per year) will gain multidisciplinary training and hands-on laboratory and field experience in coastal zone hazards research during a two-week stay at foreign institutions in one of the three Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) sites (one ASI site per year). The U.S. team (Boston University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Alaska Fairbanks) will lead the ASI activities in partnership with faculty/lectures in the University of South Brittany (UBS), France, Tohoku University (TU) and RIKEN, Japan, and the University of Diponegoro (UNDIP) and University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. The ASI activities set in an international context will provide a multi-stage, high-quality training and research for graduate students that will produce data sets and learning materials applicable to PhD work and other research activities beyond the duration of this project. Women and under-represented minorities in STEM fields will be particularly targeted by the U.S. team. The STEM experiences set in the global context will prepare participating U.S. students to address global challenges using both a scientific as well as policy lens in their future career pathways.These ASIs address the compounded effect of physical and human-induced changes affecting densely populated coastal zones. As coastal areas become more densely populated, they become increasingly exposed to climate change phenomena (sea level rise, tidal and storm-surge flooding) which in combination with natural geological hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, land subsidence) and human driven landscape transformation (urbanization, agriculture and aquaculture, deforestation) can amplify the destruction and loss of ecosystem services, life, and property. Remote Sensing technology and big data analytics provide us the mean to measure and observe changes across scale and time. However, the vast amount of data produced by near-real time observations imposes a new challenge: how can we effectively use the data to assess and predict risk exposure of a growing population in coastal regions to these coastal hazards? Understanding the processes underlying coastal dynamic changes requires a set of skills drawn from multiple disciplines that is often missing in graduate programs in the U.S. This is the motivation for establishing a multidisciplinary coastal hazards training program for advanced graduate students in three locations that exemplify various types and levels of coastal change processes and risks.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.