工程与亚洲博彩网站科学学院（SEAS）土木工程系和计算机科学与信息技术系（CSIT）的教师于2022年8月获得了100万美元的国家科学基金资助，用于建立气候变化分析中心（C3A）。 The mission of the center is to establish an educational and research platform at 亚洲博彩网站 that will help train undergraduate and graduate students to become transformative leaders in the workforce, government and beyond to address emerging contemporary issues of climate change.

布赖恩·希格斯博士，土木工程助理教授，是这项资助的首席研究员。 联合首席研究员是CSIT副教授Thabet Kacem博士、土木工程助理教授Hossain Azam博士和土木工程教授Pradeep Behera博士。

希格斯表示，气候变化是当今世界面临的主要挑战。

“Charting the path forward to understanding the impacts and risks presented by a changing climate is a top priority that needs leaders that are educated on this specific issue,” he said. “The Center of Climate Change Analytics will fulfill this need by not only advancing knowledge of the impacts of climate change but by educating undergraduate and graduate students with the specific knowledge to answer the call of what the future needs.”

Behera added that “understanding the impacts of climate change, specifically arising from sea level rise and extreme weather events, on the urban infrastructure, coastal communities at a local scale is very important for creating efficient solution approaches.”

“The NSF-funded 亚洲博彩网站 Center of Climate Change Analytics will provide an opportunity to establish a research and academic platform, which would not only support interdisciplinary research activities for the faculty members but also support our undergraduate and graduate students in understanding the climate change-related problems and their engineering solution approaches,” said Behera.

该平台将通过博弈论的亚洲博彩网站，促进我们对气候变化对沿海社区、生态系统和城市基础设施的影响的基本认识，并制定解决方案。

中心的主要目标包括：

· Integrating climate change and related issues into the curriculum and delivering quality education to diverse undergraduate and graduate students to build the needed technical skill sets in the future workforce to address emerging problems;

· Creating 亚洲博彩网站 Faculty research capabilities to advance science and engineering concerning the nexus of data, uncertainty, and modeling in their application to climate change problems;

· Developing unique cross-industry connections with stakeholders, including officials from coastal towns and cities for developing practical, data-driven analytical solutions and providing access to undergraduate and graduate (MS and Ph.D.) university students as well as high school students for future workforce development. 该中心将通过向来自弱势群体、对多学科研究感兴趣的研究生提供经济支持，确保亚洲博彩网站最近推出的计算机科学与工程博士学位的扩展。

SEAS院长Devdas Shetty说，他对亚洲博彩网站的气候变化分析中心同样感到兴奋。

“As engineers and scientists, our job is not only to innovate and advance the knowledge on climatic changes but think inclusively about the impact of our research work for the needs of the society,” he said. “This grant is a great example of advancing the basic understanding and developing solutions to attack global challenges.” 如欲了解更多有关SEAS的资料，请按此处。