Global Centers Track 2: Nature-based Urban Hydrology Center

气候变化继续加剧与城市发展相关的环境挑战。为了帮助将世界各地城市水文系统面临的这些挑战降至最低，基于自然的解决方案(NBS)正成为一种流行的战略。以自然为基础的城市水文中心(NUHC)将提供全球相关的、可持续的、整体的、可转让的和社区驱动的方法来应对城市水文挑战。该奖项与全球中心计划的目标相一致，支持NUHC的规划阶段，将国内和国际合作伙伴组成的跨学科团队聚集在一起，开展受使用启发的研究。NUHC将与城市社区合作，分享知识并取得可广泛转让的进展，利用国家统计局来应对气候变化给城市水文学带来的挑战。国家统计中心将为目前不存在的易于共享的数据和调查结果建立一个信息交换中心，并使其能够更好地进行建模和数据分析。通过全球合作，国家统计局将扩大对国家统计局在城市水文方面的潜在益处的理解，增加国家统计局的生态系统服务和复原力，促进对这些系统的了解，以影响政策，并帮助改善城市环境和社会公平。全国城市水文学中心规划阶段将建立一个框架，让学生、城市社区、工业界和学术界同仁参与，以促进城市水文学中的公平和可持续性问题。随着全球气候变化加剧与城市发展相关的环境挑战，基于自然的解决方案(NBS)正迅速成为缓解对城市水文系统的各种影响的流行战略。然而，目前围绕国家统计局没有通用的数据门户或受控语言，术语不一致，设计和性能目标不同，在扩展和转移调查结果方面的挑战阻碍了知识的广泛共享。该项目的目标是规划和设计全国城市水文学中心，使一批对城市水文学和国家统计局的不同方面有深入了解的国内和国际合作伙伴聚集在一起，这将使设计和政策实践取得重大进展，以制定恢复和保护的方法，并考虑更广泛的背景，如生态系统健康、河流健康、土壤健康、社会健康和应急管理。一个关键成果将是创建一个数据结构，以利用现有数据并轻松共享数据和结果，以改进建模和分析技术，以根据气候、政策、设计和地形参数确定国家统计局和城市水文趋势、共性和差异。作为这一规划项目的一部分，将制定一个框架，说明全球合作伙伴如何合作、选择相关研究项目、培训学生以及让城市社区成员以及产业和学术合作伙伴参与进来。通过全球合作，该项目将扩大社区对国家统计局和城市水文学的了解，增加国家统计局的生态系统服务和复原力，促进对这些系统的了解，以影响政策，并帮助改善城市环境和社会公平。该奖项由全球中心计划资助，这是一项创新计划，旨在支持受使用启发的研究，以应对与气候变化和/或清洁能源相关的全球挑战。Track 2设计奖支持美国的研究人员将国际团队聚集在一起，开发研究问题和合作伙伴关系，进行景观分析，合成数据，和/或建立多方利益相关者网络，以推动他们未来更大规模的应用启发研究。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。

Climate change continues to exacerbate environmental challenges associated with urban growth. To help minimize these challenges for urban hydrologic systems around the world, nature-based solutions (NbS) are becoming a popular strategy. The Nature-based Urban Hydrology Center (NUHC) will provide globally relevant, sustainable, holistic, transferable, and community-driven approaches to respond to urban hydrology challenges. Aligned with the goals of the Global Centers Program, this award supports the planning phase of the NUHC to bring together an interdisciplinary team of domestic and international partners to perform use-inspired research. Working with urban communities, the NUHC will share knowledge and make broadly transferable advances that leverage NbS to meet the challenges brought by climate change on urban hydrology. The NUHC will establish a clearinghouse for easily shared data and findings that does not currently exist, as well as enable better modeling and data analysis. Through global collaboration, the NUHC will broaden understanding of the potential benefit of NbS on urban hydrology, increase NbS ecosystem services and resilience, advance understanding of these systems to influence policy, and aid in improving the urban environment and social equity. The NUHC planning phase will build a framework to engage students, urban communities, and industry and academic colleagues to promote issues of fairness and sustainability within urban hydrology. As climate change exacerbates environmental challenges associated with urban growth globally, nature-based solutions (NbS) are rapidly becoming the prevalent strategy to mitigate the varied impacts on urban hydrology systems. However, currently there is no common data portal or controlled language around NbS, there is inconsistent terminology, differing design and performance goals, and challenges in scaling and transferring findings inhibit widespread sharing of knowledge. The goal of this project is to plan and design the NUHC to bring together a group of domestic and international partners that have deep knowledge on diverse aspects of urban hydrology and NbS that will enable significant advances in design and policy practices to develop approaches for restoration, and protection that consider broader contexts, such as ecosystem health, stream health, soil health, social health, and emergency management. A key outcome will be to create a data structure to leverage existing data and to easily share data and findings to advance modeling and analytical techniques to determine NbS and urban hydrology trends, commonalities, and differences based on climate, policy, design, and physiographic parameters. As part of this planning project, a framework for how global partners can work together, choose relevant research projects, train students, and engage urban community members and industry and academic partners will be developed. Through global collaboration, this project will broaden the community’s understanding of NbS and urban hydrology, increase NbS ecosystem services and resilience, advance understanding of these systems to influence policy, and aid in improving the urban environment and social equity. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative program that supports use-inspired research addressing global challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy. Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.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.