Puerto Rico has been subject to complex and compounding effects of multiple disasters, exacerbated by sociopolitical, climactic, and geographical challenges that complicate relief and resilience. Interdisciplinary teams are uniquely suited to traverse emerging challenges in post-disaster settings, but there are few studies that leverage transdisciplinary skill sets and virtual co-production of knowledge to build on local autonomous responses. Communities are key sources of information and innovation which can serve as a model for recovery amidst disaster. Thus, an interdisciplinary team of emerging scholars collaborated with Caras con Causa, a local organization in Cataño, Puerto Rico, to develop processes for enhancing autonomous responses to disaster events through participatory pathways, specifically highlighting local knowledge and preferences. The results of this collaboration include: (1) an iterative process model for transdisciplinary co-production in virtual settings and (2) key highlights from post engagement reflections including community-scale definitions of disaster, and limitations to virtual collaboration amidst disaster. Together, these results yielded critical insights and lessons learned, including recommendations for improved project communication methods within transdisciplinary and virtual collaborations. Collectively, the process, it’s resulting products, and the post-engagement reflections demonstrate a pathway for scholars and community members to engage disaster resilience challenges. These strategies are most effectively practiced through focused collaboration with community stakeholders and are paramount in solving real-world challenges related to the increasing complex of compounding disasters.

波多黎各一直受到多重灾害的复杂和复合影响，社会政治、气候和地理挑战使救济和复原力复杂化，加剧了这种影响。跨学科团队特别适合应对灾后环境中新出现的挑战，但很少有研究利用跨学科技能组合和知识的虚拟共同生产来建立当地的自主反应。社区是信息和创新的关键来源，可以作为灾难中恢复的模式。因此，一个由新兴学者组成的跨学科团队与波多黎各卡塔尼奥的当地组织 Caras con Causa 合作，开发了通过参与性途径增强对灾害事件的自主反应的流程，特别是突出当地的知识和偏好。这种合作的结果包括：(1) 虚拟环境中跨学科合作制作的迭代过程模型；(2) 参与后反思的主要亮点，包括社区规模的灾难定义，以及灾难中虚拟合作的局限性。总之，这些结果产生了重要的见解和经验教训，包括在跨学科和虚拟合作中改进项目沟通方法的建议。总体而言，该过程、其产生的产品以及参与后的反思为学者和社区成员提供了应对抗灾挑战的途径。