Collaborative Research: Arctic Horizons Social Science and the High North

在过去的15年中，北极经历了重大的社会和环境变化。其中一些变化与20世纪90年代末的预测一致，但另一些变化发生得比预期的要快得多。北极的许多记录和预期变化都与环境变化有关：海冰和积雪覆盖的变化，导致现代村庄流离失所的海岸侵蚀和保存完好的考古遗址的破坏，自给自足的粮食安全问题，航运和石油勘探的增加及其相关的经济影响（积极和消极）以及石油泄漏的风险，仅举几例。北极的许多其他变化在很大程度上与气候变化无关：土著语言的持续消失、高失业率、家庭暴力和药物滥用，以及社交媒体在高北地区孤立社区之间和之间的影响力不断增强。然而，尽管对全球或美国的国家利益来说，北极似乎总是遥远而边缘化的，但北极的人民和环境在社会、经济和环境方面与生活在南方的人们越来越紧密地联系在一起。例如，北冰洋日益无冰的可能性，为开辟新的航运路线提供了可能性，改变了全球市场的经济成本和利益，扩大了对环极盆地的开发。美国的化石燃料和矿产资源，以及随之而来的将北方作为具有战略和战术重要性的经济和安全区的新焦点。所有这些潜在的转变不仅对美国有影响？最北端的社区，也是全球和国家的经济、社会和文化系统，最好由社会科学家在跨学科合作中研究，能够为政策制定和社区发展提供所需的信息和战略。国家科学基金会？美国北极社会科学项目（ASSP）是美国北极社会科学研究的主要资金来源。随着北极的变化，北极社会科学也经历了长足的成长和发展，从一个新兴的研究领域转变为一个成熟的多学科研究领域；NSF的研究重点是什么？美国的北极社会科学项目最近一次更新是在1999年。北极地平线项目将汇集北极社会科学研究和土著社区的成员，在快速变化的北极圈内重新评估这些不同社区和ASSP的目标、潜力和需求。在全国各地举行的一系列专题和区域研讨会将汇集大约150名西方和土著学者，讨论北极社会科学研究的未来。将通过一个互动式网络平台征求更广泛的北极社会科学、土著科学和利益攸关方社区的更多参与，该平台还将在国家和区域会议的特别会议的支持下分享讲习班和项目成果。讲习班的成果和在线投入将在最后的综合讲习班上汇编，并编写一份报告，描述社区对北极社会科学研究未来的愿景。这一重新设想的过程将有助于塑造未来的北极社会科学研究，并为北极经济、环境和政治政策的制定提供信息。北极地平线项目提供了一个框架和过程，将北极社会科学研究和北极土著社区聚集在一起，重新评估北极圈北极不同学科和跨学科社会科学研究的目标、潜力和需求。一系列的五个区域讲习班和一个综合讲习班将使大约150名西方和土著学者参与重新设想的过程。更广泛的北极社会科学、土著科学和利益相关者社区将通过一个互动网络平台征集更多的参与，该平台还将用于分享研讨会和项目成果（如演讲者的视频、研讨会笔记、报告副本），以及通过区域会议的特别会议（如阿拉斯加人类学协会年会、北极科学峰会周、美国地理学家协会）。只要有可能，主题演讲将通过平台进行视频直播，并保留以方便审查。动态嵌入式数据可视化将呈现项目分析的运行结果，包括研讨会讨论记录中的关联文本分析、参与者调查结果、引用调查以及1981年以来发布的所有737项NSF拨款的分析。由此产生的以社区为基础的愿景将为未来十年北极社会科学研究的研究投资提供信息。自1999年北极社会科学展望研讨会以来，北极社会科学在过去的15年中经历了巨大的增长和发展，从一个新兴的研究领域转变为一个成熟的多学科研究领域。该项目是五个机构的合作，所有这些机构都有支持北极社会科学研究的强大历史（UAF和Brown）或正在开发支持北极社会科学研究的新项目（UNI和PSU）。该过程将由一个高级顾问小组监督，该小组包括社会科学家和土著社区成员。该项目将利用ppi广泛的研究网络，从广泛多样的早期、中期和高级职业学者群体中招募参与者，确保性别和学科平等以及代表性不足群体的参与。这将通过有针对性地邀请参加讲习班、通过电子媒介促进网络投入的宣传运动和在各种会议上征聘与会者来实现。最重要的活动是一个综合研讨会，每个区域/专题研讨会产生的信息和在线输入将结合在北极社会科学界共同确定的研究优先事项报告中。

Over the past 15 years, the Arctic has experienced substantial social and environmental transformations. Some of these changes are on pace with predictions of the late 1990s, but others have occurred much more rapidly than expected. Many of the documented and anticipated shifts in the Arctic are linked to environmental change: changing sea ice and snow cover, coastal erosion leading to displacement of modern villages and destruction of preserved archaeological sites, questions of subsistence food security, increased shipping and oil exploration, with their associated economic impacts (positive and negative) and risk of oil spills, to name just a few. Many other changes in the Arctic are largely independent of changing climate: continued loss of Native languages, high rates of unemployment, domestic violence and substance abuse, and the increased influence of social media among and between isolated communities of the high north. Yet, while the North has always seemed remote and marginal to global or US national interests, Arctic people and environments are increasingly connected socially, economically, and environmentally to those living to the south. The potential for an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, for example, opens up possibilities for new shipping routes shifting economic costs and benefits for global markets, for expanded exploitation of the circumpolar basin?s fossil fuel and mineral resources, and for attendant new focus on the north as an economic and security zone of strategic and tactical importance. All of these potential transformations have impacts not only on the United States? northernmost communities, but also on the global and national economic, social, and cultural systems best studied by social scientists in interdisciplinary collaborations capable of providing information and strategies of need for policy development and community development. The National Science Foundation?s Arctic Social Sciences Program (ASSP) is the leading source of funding for U.S.-based social sciences research in the Arctic. Just as the Arctic has changed, arctic social sciences have experienced substantial growth and development, transitioning from an emerging field of research to a well-established multidisciplinary research area; yet the research priorities for NSF?s Arctic Social Sciences program were last updated in 1999. The Arctic Horizons project will bring together members of the Arctic social science research and indigenous communities to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and ASSP within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar North. A series of five topical and regional workshops held across the country will bring together approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars to discuss the future of Arctic social science research. Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also share workshop and project outcomes, supported by special sessions at national and regional conferences. The results of the workshops and on-line input will be compiled at a final synthesis workshop with a report produced to describes the community's vision for the future of Arctic social science research. This re-envisioning process will help shape future Arctic social science research and inform Arctic economic, environmental, and political policy development.Arctic Horizons project provides a framework and process that will bring together the Arctic social science research and Arctic indigenous communities to reassess goals, potentials, and needs in the diverse disciplinary and transdisciplinary currents of social science research of the circumpolar North. A series of five regional workshops and one synthesis workshop will engage approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars in the re-visioning process. Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences, indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited through an interactive web platform that will also be used to share workshop and project outcomes (e.g. videos of speakers, workshop notes, copy of the report), as well as through special sessions at regional conferences (e.g. Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Arctic Science Summit Week, Association of American Geographers). Whenever possible, keynote addresses will be video live cast through the platform and preserved for convenient review. Dynamic embeddable data visualizations will present the running results of project analytics, including text analysis of associations in the transcripts of workshop discussions, participant survey results, citation surveys, and an analysis of all 737 NSF grants issued since 1981. The resulting community-based vision will inform research investments for Arctic social science research over the next decade. Arctic social sciences have experienced substantial growth and development over the past 15 years, transitioning from an emerging field of research to a well-established multidisciplinary research area since the last arctic social sciences visioning workshop held in 1999. The project is the collaboration of five institutions, all of which have a strong history of supporting Arctic social science research (UAF and Brown) or are developing new programs that support Arctic social science research (UNI and PSU). The process will be overseen by a senior advisory panel that includes social scientists and indigenous community members. The project will leverage the broad research networks of the PIs to recruit participation from a diverse and wide-ranging group of early, mid and senior career scholars, ensuring gender and disciplinary equity and the participation of underrepresented groups. This will be achieved through targeted invitation to workshops, a promotional campaign for web input through electronic media, and through participant recruitment at conferences and meetings. The capstone event is a synthesis workshop where the information generated at each of the regional/topical workshops and the on-line input will be combined in a report on the research priorities collectively identified by the Arctic social sciences community.