HSD: The Dynamics of Human-Sea Ice Relationships: Comparing Changing Environments in Alaska, Nunavut, and Greenland

HSD：人类与海冰关系的动态：比较阿拉斯加、努纳武特和格陵兰不断变化的环境

• 批准号: 0624344
• 负责人: Shari Fox
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0624344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSD; Dynamics; Human; Sea; Ice

In recent years, Arctic sea ice has been thinning, retreating, and changing its patterns of freeze up and break up. For many indigenous communities in the Arctic, sea-ice use and human-sea ice relationships that are deeply rooted in time, as well as identity, are being challenged. There is an urgent need for scientists, decision makers, and others to better understand the human and social dynamics surrounding Arctic sea-ice change, what is at stake for coastal communities, and what the responses might be. Using the unique approach of an international, multidisciplinary, and multicultural "sea-ice knowledge exchange," the investigators, in partnership with indigenous sea ice experts (hunters and Elders) from three regions of the Arctic (Barrow, Alaska; Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada; and Qaanaaq, Greenland), will conduct a comparative study across these three communities. Bringing together traditional knowledge, science, and methods from social sciences (e.g. interviews; participatory observation) and physical science (e.g. analysis of remote sensing imagery and meteorological data), the research team will examine: (1) characteristics of sea ice and its use by humans, including the role of the human-sea ice relationship in social organization of the three communities; (2) changes in human use patterns over time; (3) changes to sea ice, with particular attention to the features most crucial for human uses; (4) recent human responses to changes in sea ice; (5) societal impacts from sea ice changes and human responses; and (6) implications for future changes, impacts, and adaptation.The results of the research will (a) provide important insights into present and anticipated changes to Arctic ecosystems at scales most significant to coastal inhabitants and ecosystems; (b) insights into present and potential adaptations by local residents; (c) involve local residents in the study, thereby increasing their capacity for collaborative participation in scientific research while improving capabilities to communicate results effectively to the local communities; (d) involve young investigators (graduate student, junior scientists, and local high school students); (e) increase the capacity of groups such as the Inuit Circumpolar Council and local Hunters and Trappers Associations to take a substantial role in Arctic research; (f) provide training and infrastructure for sea ice research in communities (e.g. ice monitoring equipment and oral history training) and build a network of researchers and Arctic residents across three countries; (g) create models and tools for studying human-environment relationships in the Arctic, as well as linking indigenous knowledge and science; and (h) contribute data sets and analysis to ongoing research efforts by organizations such as the Canadian Ice Service and the Inuit Circumpolar Council. The study expands on issues identified by the international Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA 2005) and will contribute to the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008.An award resulting from the FY 2006 NSF-wide competition on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) supports this project. All NSF directorates and offices are involved in the coordinated management of the HSD competition and the portfolio of HSD awards.

近年来，北极海冰一直在变薄，退缩，并改变其冻结和破碎的模式。 对于北极的许多土著社区来说，海冰的使用和人与海冰的关系，这些关系深深植根于时间和身份，正在受到挑战。 科学家、决策者和其他人迫切需要更好地了解围绕北极海冰变化的人类和社会动态，沿海社区面临的风险以及可能的应对措施。 调查人员将采用国际、多学科和多文化“海冰知识交流”的独特办法，与来自北极三个地区（阿拉斯加的巴罗、加拿大的努纳武特的克莱德河和格陵兰的Qaanaaq）的土著海冰专家（猎人和长者）合作，对这三个社区进行比较研究。 将社会科学的传统知识、科学和方法结合起来（例如访谈;参与性观察）和物理科学（例如分析遥感图像和气象数据），研究小组将研究：（1）海冰的特征和人类对海冰的利用，包括人类与海冰的关系在这三个群落的社会组织中所起的作用;（2）人类利用模式随时间的变化;（3）海冰的变化，特别注意对人类利用最重要的特征;（4）最近人类对海冰变化的反应;（5）海冰变化的社会影响和人类反应;以及（6）对未来变化、影响研究结果将（a）在对沿海居民和生态系统最重要的尺度上，提供对北极生态系统目前和预期变化的重要见解;（B）深入了解当地居民目前和潜在的适应情况;（c）让当地居民参与研究，从而提高他们合作参与科学研究的能力，同时提高向当地社区有效传播研究结果的能力;（d）让年轻的研究人员参与研究（研究生、初级科学家和当地高中生）;（五）提高因努伊特人北极圈理事会和当地猎人和捕兽者协会等团体在北极发挥实质性作用的能力研究;（f）为社区的海冰研究提供培训和基础设施（g）创建研究北极人类与环境关系的模型和工具，并将土著知识与科学联系起来;及（h）为加拿大冰务局及因努伊特人北极圈理事会等组织正在进行的研究工作提供数据集及分析。 该研究扩展了国际北极气候影响评估（ACIA 2005）确定的问题，并将为2007- 2008年国际极地年（IPY）做出贡献。2006财年NSF范围内的人类和社会动力学（HSD）竞赛获奖支持该项目。 NSF的所有董事会和办公室都参与了HSD竞赛和HSD奖项组合的协调管理。