Alaska Adapting to Changing Environments (Alaska ACE)

阿拉斯加适应不断变化的环境 (Alaska ACE)

• 批准号: 1208927
• 负责人: Anupma Prakash
• 金额: $ 2000万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1208927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alaska; Adapting; Changing; Environments; ACE

This Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-1 award seeks to understand complex, coupled human-natural interactions. The specific focus is to evaluate vulnerabilities, resilience, and adaptive capacities of Alaskan communities to the effects of environmental changes occurring in their region. The work involves interdisciplinary research and education in the area of Social Ecological Systems (SES) and is scientifically significant and regionally relevant. The project participants are the three main campuses of the University of Alaska (UA) located in the urban centers of Fairbanks (UAF), Anchorage (UAA), and Juneau (UA Southeast - UAS), 13 satellite campuses in rural areas across Alaska, a Tribal College, and learning centers in small communities around the state. Intellectual MeritThe Alaska Adapting to Changing Environments (Alaska ACE) project will examine how the pronounced changes in the environmental and natural processes affect and are affected by the adaptation capacity of Alaskan communities. The work is organized around three Test Cases in the Southeast, Southcentral, and Northern Alaska to study the changes in landscape and water resources. The project will also support processes that enable communities to better adapt to environmental changes. The results of the Test Cases study will be linked in a broader comparative framework by a Coordination, Integration, and Synthesis Working Group. This group will undertake integrated modeling and deliver research findings as decision-support tools, hold annual Regional Outreach Workshops, and help to craft cyber-enabled visualizations of SES modeling results. Policymakers, resource managers, and members of the public will be invited to participate in 'Decision Theater' events in which they will be able to use decision support tools in real time to view and manipulate possible scenarios of environmental changes and adaptive strategies.Broader ImpactsThe Alaska ACE project will advance interdisciplinary SES research methodology and translate research results into visualization tools useful for researchers, local communities, resource managers, and policy makers. The program will train and educate a diverse set of students across Alaska and strengthen partnerships with local communities, government and non-government organizations. At the college level, the program focuses on the training and mentoring of junior faculty and graduate and undergraduate students through grant-writing workshops, interdisciplinary science courses and seminars, student fellowships and internships, and travel support to professional conferences. Engagement of rural, mostly Alaska Native, K-12 students and teachers is targeted through summer scholarships and ongoing statewide programs. Partnerships with the private sector are enabled through student internships at Native Corporations and competitive grants to assist small Alaskan businesses apply for large federal and state funding. The Alaska ACE project will build human capacity for STEM research and education as well as the infrastructure for sustained engagement of rural campuses, local communities, resource managers, and policy makers in socially relevant science.

该研究基础设施改进（RII）轨道1奖旨在了解复杂的，耦合的人类与自然的相互作用。具体重点是评估阿拉斯加社区对所在地区环境变化影响的脆弱性、复原力和适应能力。 这项工作涉及社会生态系统（SES）领域的跨学科研究和教育，具有科学意义和区域相关性。项目参与者是阿拉斯加大学（UA）的三个主要校区，位于费尔班克斯（UAF），安克雷奇（UAA）和朱诺（UA东南部- UAS）的城市中心，阿拉斯加农村地区的13个卫星校区，部落学院，以及该州周围小社区的学习中心。阿拉斯加适应不断变化的环境（阿拉斯加ACE）项目将研究如何在环境和自然过程中的显着变化的影响和阿拉斯加社区的适应能力的影响。这项工作是围绕三个测试案例在东南部，中南部，和北方阿拉斯加研究景观和水资源的变化。 该项目还将支持使社区能够更好地适应环境变化的进程。测试案例研究的结果将通过一个协调、整合和综合工作组在一个更广泛的比较框架中联系起来。该小组将进行综合建模并提供研究结果作为决策支持工具，举办年度区域外展研讨会，并帮助制作SES建模结果的网络可视化。政策制定者、资源管理者和公众将被邀请参加“决策剧场”活动，在这些活动中，他们将能够真实的使用决策支持工具来查看和操纵环境变化和适应策略的可能场景。更广泛的影响阿拉斯加ACE项目将推进跨学科的SES研究方法，并将研究结果转化为对研究人员有用的可视化工具，地方社区、资源管理者和政策制定者。 该计划将培训和教育阿拉斯加各地的各种学生，并加强与当地社区，政府和非政府组织的伙伴关系。 在大学一级，该计划的重点是通过赠款写作研讨会，跨学科科学课程和研讨会，学生奖学金和实习以及专业会议的旅行支持，对初级教师和研究生及本科生进行培训和指导。农村，主要是阿拉斯加土著，K-12学生和教师的参与是通过夏季奖学金和正在进行的全州计划的目标。通过学生在本地公司实习和竞争性赠款，与私营部门建立伙伴关系，以帮助阿拉斯加小企业申请大型联邦和州资金。 阿拉斯加ACE项目将建设STEM研究和教育的人力资源能力，以及农村校园、当地社区、资源管理者和政策制定者持续参与社会相关科学的基础设施。