Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Report

TL;DR

This paper discusses a workshop series aimed at fostering interdisciplinary convergence research to enhance resilience against climate-driven extreme events through computing innovations, focusing on societal impact areas.

Contribution

It outlines a community-driven effort to identify research directions and foster collaboration for climate resilience using computing, based on a white paper and workshop series.

Findings

Identified key impact areas affected by climate change.

Facilitated interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers.

Outlined research priorities for climate resilience.

Abstract

In 2022, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Computing Research Association (CRA) to conduct a workshop to frame and scope a potential Convergence Accelerator research track on the topic of "Building Resilience to Climate-Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations". The CRA's research visioning committee, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), took on this task, organizing a two-part community workshop series, beginning with a small, in-person brainstorming meeting in Denver, CO on 27-28 October 2022, followed by a virtual event on 10 November 2022. The overall objective was to develop ideas to facilitate convergence research on this critical topic and encourage collaboration among researchers across disciplines. Based on the CCC community white paper entitled Computing Research for the Climate Crisis, we initially focused on five impact areas (i.e. application domains that are both important to society and critically affected by climate change): Energy, Agriculture, Environmental Justice, Transportation, and Physical Infrastructure.