Challenges and Opportunities for Building Coastal Resiliency through Convergence Research
Abstract
This presentation will share extensive collaborative experiences in planning and implementing large, multi-year, federally-funded projects focused on coastal land-margin regions of the northern Gulf of Mexico. It will begin with an overview of transdisciplinary and convergence research with focus on coastal resiliency challenges. As conceptualized in recent reports, convergence research is an approach driven by a specific and compelling societal problem requiring and involving deep multi-disciplinary integration for innovative solutions (www.nsf.gov/od/oia/convergence/index.jsp). Next, the presentation will identify, discuss, and provide examples of different types of challenges and opportunities in designing convergence research projects, particularly those focused on coastal concerns. Topics such as funding, organizational structures and policies, project management, and partnerships will be examined. Also considered and explored will be team construction and dynamics, stakeholder representation and engagement, mentoring and training, scientific rigor, and actionable outcomes. Observations and insights from diverse perspectives (i.e., professors in social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering) will be infused into the discussion. Further, connections will be made to frameworks and concepts from the transdisciplinary literature for possible guidance. It is hoped that this presentation will prompt dialogue and a productive path forward for determining best practices to help build coastal resiliency through convergence research projects, especially in the face of climate change and sea level rise.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.H11O1724D
- Keywords:
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- 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1803 Anthropogenic effects;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1880 Water management;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 4303 Hydrological;
- NATURAL HAZARDS