Converging Social, Ecological, and Technological Infrastructure Systems for Urban Resilience

The USL is working with partners at Arizona State University on a National Science Foundation Convergence Research grant. Initiated in 2016, the NSF’s Convergence program aims to address “vexing research problems, in particular, complex problems focusing on societal needs...forming novel frameworks to catalyze scientific discovery and innovation.” This 5 year initiative will accelerate advances in a convergent urban systems science capable of providing cities with the knowledge and methods for building integrated SETS resilience strategies to extreme events, supported by cutting-edge modeling, simulation, and visualization of infrastructure systems. The project will develop and refine an urban resilience conceptual framework to guide this emerging, convergent urban systems science for cities to test and deploy. Participating cities include San Juan (PR), Atlanta, New York, and Phoenix. http://convergence.urexsrn.net/