Collaborative Research: Working with Inuit Elders and Youth to Identify, Document, Quantify, and Share Human-Relevant Environmental Variables (HREVs) in Clyde River, Nunavut

合作研究：与因纽特老年人和青少年合作，识别、记录、量化和共享努纳武特地区克莱德河与人类相关的环境变量 (HREV)

• 批准号: 1733578
• 负责人: Glen Liston
• 金额: $ 36.95万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-15 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1733578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Working; Inuit; Elders

Paragraph 1 This award supports scientific research by anthropologists, geographers, and atmospheric scientists to understand the relationship between how weather is normally measured and the factors that Arctic Indigenous peoples need to travel and work out of doors. In the same way that wind-chill, a combination of temperature and wind speed has become a commonly used composite of weather information used by many Americans, for Inuit visibility and sea-state are critical factors in whether to travel or stay put. For example, visibility is a product of cloud cover, wind, snow conditions, terrain, and more. The research team will seek to quantify factors and test them through camps for Elders and youth. In turn, the Elders and youth will train scientists about the nuanced nature of safely and successfully traveling and working in the Arctic. If successful, the team plans to share the factors with forecast agencies and others to increase the production of actionable knowledge. Paragraph 2 This research will investigate human-relevant environmental variables in close collaboration with an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic to co-produce knowledge on Arctic weather in order to inform decisions that enable safe, productive travel on land, open sea, and sea-ice required for acquiring food and other cultural purposes. In the research team's work with the community of Clyde River, Nunavut, they have found that synthetic environmental variables (e.g., visibility, blowing snow, wave height) are more important than individual meteorological variables (e.g., air temperature, wind speed). In addition, the work will be expanded and strengthened by working with additional communities in the US and Greenland. In short, Inuit synthesize complex variables representing the natural environment to inform decisions that facilitate their life-way in this environment. The research will be carried out in a setting familiar to Inuit and consistent with Inuit social values and interactions, organized as a series of Elder-youth science camps between Alaska Native and Eastern Arctic Inuit. This approach overlaps with strong community interests in fostering interactions and knowledge transfer among Elders and youth, as well as collaborating with visiting scientists. As Elders consider what to do, they will also be teaching the youth, making explicit many thoughts and considerations that otherwise typically remain implicit. The youth, in turn, will help document this knowledge transfer by keeping journals during the camps about their activities and what they are learning and doing. Participant observation by the research team will give insight into this process, so they can understand how awareness of weather and related factors emerge, and will allow them to create mathematical descriptions of those factors. In addition to the usual project publications and presentations for academic audiences, the scientists will add to their existing network of local weather stations and the associated Inuktitut (Eastern Canadian Inuit language) and English public website that reports near-real-time weather dataThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

第1段该奖项支持人类学家、地理学家和大气科学家进行科学研究，以了解通常如何测量天气与北极土著人民需要在户外旅行和工作的因素之间的关系。与风寒一样，温度和风速的组合已经成为许多美国人常用的天气信息组合，因为因纽特人的能见度和海况是决定旅行或留在原地的关键因素。例如，能见度是云层、风、雪条件、地形等因素的产物。研究小组将寻求量化这些因素，并通过老年人和青年夏令营对其进行测试。反过来，长老和青年将培训科学家关于安全和成功地在北极旅行和工作的微妙性质。如果成功，该团队计划与预测机构和其他人分享这些因素，以增加可操作知识的生产。第2段这项研究将与北极东部的因纽特人社区密切合作，调查与人类有关的环境变量，共同产生关于北极天气的知识，以便为决策提供信息，以便能够安全、有效地在陆地、公海和海冰上旅行，以获取食物和其他文化目的。在研究小组与努纳武特克莱德河社区的合作中，他们发现综合环境变量(例如能见度、吹雪、波高)比单独的气象变量(例如气温、风速)更重要。此外，通过与美国和格陵兰的更多社区合作，这项工作将得到扩大和加强。简而言之，因纽特人综合代表自然环境的复杂变量，为促进他们在这种环境中的生活方式的决策提供信息。这项研究将在因纽特人熟悉的环境中进行，并与因纽特人的社会价值观和互动相一致，该组织是阿拉斯加土著和北极东部因纽特人之间的一系列老年-青年科学夏令营。这一方法与社区在促进老年人和青年之间的互动和知识转移以及与来访的科学家合作方面的强烈兴趣重叠。在长辈们考虑该做什么的同时，他们也将教育年轻人，让他们明确地表达许多通常保持含蓄的想法和考虑。反过来，这些青年将通过在夏令营期间记录他们的活动以及他们正在学习和做的事情来帮助记录这种知识传授。研究团队的参与者观察将使他们深入了解这一过程，这样他们就可以理解对天气和相关因素的认识是如何产生的，并将使他们能够对这些因素进行数学描述。除了通常的项目出版物和面向学术受众的演讲外，科学家们还将增加他们现有的当地气象站网络和相关的因努基特(加拿大东部因纽特语言)和报告近实时天气数据的英语公共网站。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Connecting understandings of weather and climate: steps towards co-production of knowledge and collaborative environmental management in Inuit Nunangat

连接对天气和气候的理解：因纽特努南加特迈向知识共同生产和协作环境管理的步骤

• DOI: 10.1139/as-2019-0010
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Arctic Science
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Fox, Shari;Qillaq, Esa;Angutikjuak, Ilkoo;Tigullaraq, Dennis Joseph;Kautuk, Robert;Huntington, Henry;Liston, Glen E.;Elder, Kelly
• 通讯作者: Elder, Kelly