NNA/Collaborative Research: Emergency Response in the Arctic (ERA): Investments for Global Capabilities and Local Benefits

NNA/合作研究：北极应急响应 (ERA)：全球能力和当地利益的投资

• 批准号: 1825712
• 负责人: Thomas Sharkey
• 金额: $ 42.97万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1825712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Collaborative; Research; Emergency; Response

The Arctic has been experiencing significantly longer ice-free, navigable maritime seasons, thereby changing the types of activities taking place in Arctic waters. Cruise ships are travelling through the Northwest Passage, oil exploration is occurring off the North Slope of Alaska, and the Northern Sea Route is seeing an increasing volume of cargo ships travelling through it. In Arctic Alaska, these tourism and industrial activities will occur far away from the infrastructure and resources of urban and industrial centers, limiting response capabilities when an emergency occurs in Arctic waters. For all of these reasons, there is a critical need to improve Emergency Response in the Arctic (ERA) to meet the increase in the demand for these capabilities. The scientific contribution of this research is to create prescriptive decision-making models that help to determine where, when, and how to make infrastructure investments to improve global ERA capabilities while also providing benefits to Arctic communities. Because the infrastructure required to improve ERA will be built and maintained in local Arctic communities, this project will involve Arctic stakeholders, including representatives from indigenous communities, to guide the research and help disseminate its results. This project contributes to the NSF's Big Idea on Navigating the New Arctic by: (1) safeguarding human and environmental welfare in increasing ERA capabilities and (2) working closely with local and indigenous populations to co-produce knowledge about the types of benefits potentially provided to communities should ERA infrastructure be located in them. Potential benefits include local management of ERA infrastructure and deployment of resources, training and workforce development opportunities, and improved transportation infrastructure.This research will create new Operations Research (OR) models that not only account for where and when to make infrastructure investments to improve ERA capabilities but how to properly integrate these investments into the communities where they are located. To accomplish this, this project is creating an innovative methodology where social science research done in conjunction with local Arctic communities is conducted in a way that informs the creation of the OR models and, in later stages of the work, validates their results. Therefore, this research integrates methods across OR and social science that link economic, social, cultural, and technical feasibility and desirability by incorporating expert local knowledge into the planning process. The results of this research will transform our understanding of how to design ERA systems that have positive impacts in the local communities where the supporting infrastructure is built and maintained.This 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.

北极经历了明显更长的无冰，可航行的海上季节，从而改变了北极水域发生的活动类型。游轮正在穿过西北通道，石油勘探正在阿拉斯加的北坡上发生，北海航线正在看到越来越多的货船穿过它。在阿拉斯加北极，这些旅游业和工业活动将远离城市和工业中心的基础设施和资源，从而限制了北极水域紧急情况时的响应能力。由于所有这些原因，迫切需要改善北极（ERA）的应急响应，以满足对这些能力需求的增加。这项研究的科学贡献是创建规范性的决策模型，以帮助确定在何处，何时以及如何进行基础设施投资以提高全球时代的能力，同时还为北极社区提供福利。由于改善ERA所需的基础设施将在当地北极社区建立和维护，因此该项目将涉及北极利益相关者，包括来自土著社区的代表，以指导研究并帮助分发其结果。该项目有助于NSF在新的北极航行中的重大想法：（1）在ERA越来越多的能力中保护人类和环境福利，（2）与当地和本地人群紧密合作，以共同培养有关潜在为社区提供的福利类型的知识，应在其中时代的基础设施。潜在的好处包括对ERA基础设施的本地管理和资源的部署，培训和劳动力发展机会以及改善运输基础设施。这项研究将创建新的运营研究（OR）模型，不仅说明了何时何地进行基础设施投资，以提高ERA的能力，还可以如何将这些投资融合到社区中。 为此，该项目正在创建一种创新的方法论，其中社会科学研究与当地北极社区结合进行，以告知创建或模型的创建以及在工作的后期验证其结果的方式进行。因此，这项研究通过将当地专家的专家纳入计划过程，将经济，社会，文化和技术可行性和可取性联系起来，将经济，社会，文化和技术可行性和可取性联系起来。这项研究的结果将改变我们对建立和维护支持基础设施的当地社区中如何设计时代系统的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来评估的。