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: 1733580
• 负责人: Henry Huntington
• 金额: $ 8.89万
• 依托单位: Huntington Consulting
• 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=1733580&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的科学研究，以了解通常如何衡量天气与北极土著人民在门外旅行和工作所需的因素之间的关系。就像风速和风速的结合一样，许多美国人使用的天气信息的组合已成为一般使用的天气信息，因为因纽特人的可见性和海态是旅行还是留下来的关键因素。例如，可见性是云覆盖，风，雪，地形等的产物。研究小组将寻求量化因素并通过成年人和青年营地进行测试。反过来，长者和青年将培训科学家安全，成功地在北极旅行和工作的细微差别。如果成功，团队计划与预测机构和其他人共享这些因素，以增加可行知识的产生。第2段该研究将与东北极地区的因纽特人社区密切合作调查与人类相关的环境变量，以共同生产有关北极天气的知识，以便为能够在陆地上获得安全，富有成效的旅行，开阔海洋和海上冰的安全性，以获取食物和其他文化目的。在研究团队与努纳武特克莱德河社区的工作中，他们发现合成环境变量（例如，可见度，吹雪，波高）比单个气象变量（例如，空气温度，风速）更重要。此外，通过与美国和格陵兰的其他社区合作，将扩大和加强工作。简而言之，因纽特人合成了代表自然环境的复杂变量，以告知在这种环境中促进其生活的决策。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和互动一致，这是一系列阿拉斯加本地人与东北北极因纽特人之间的一系列长老科学训练营。这种方法与社区浓厚的兴趣重叠，在培养长者和青年之间的互动和知识转移以及与来访科学家的合作中重叠。正如长者们考虑的那样，他们还将教年轻人，并明确地提出许多通常仍然隐含的思考和考虑因素。反过来，年轻人将通过在营地期间保持期刊的活动以及他们正在学习和做什么来帮助记录这种知识转移。研究团队的参与者观察将深入了解这一过程，以便他们可以理解天气和相关因素的认识如何，并使他们能够对这些因素创建数学描述。除了对学术受众的常用项目出版物和演讲外，科学家还将增加其现有的本地气象站网络和相关的Inuktitut（加拿大东部因纽特人的语言）和英语公共网站，该网站报告了近实时的天气Datathis奖，反映了NSF的立法任务，并通过对基金会的智力效果进行评估，并被视为值得通过评估来进行评估。