The New Mobilities of the Anthropocene: Animal Migration, Infrastructure Development, and Wildlife Population Management

该研究的目的是研究北方三种标志性迁徙物种的保护和恢复工作的历史：林地北美驯鹿、杯状溪鳟和普通潜鸟。几十年来，这三个物种一直是恢复工作的重点，但在北部地区，这三个物种仍然处于危险之中。该项目旨在了解我们可以从过去了解和管理迁徙物种的努力中学到什么，最终目标是为人类世提供更可持续的战略。虽然该项目位于大湖区上游流域，但预计将产生的结果将为其他科学和管理背景提供见解，特别是那些涉及采掘业及其对迁徙物种的影响的科学和管理背景。更广泛的影响活动将包括一个专业设计的网站；与土著社区和五大湖研究中心开展教育活动，包括网络研讨会和公共信息会议上的演讲；开展媒体外联活动，包括在区域和国家播客和电台广播中接受采访。这是一个跨学科的研究项目；具体而言，它通过纳入空间考虑因素，为环境史和STS增加了新的维度。PI和她的合作者将研究最近出现的运动生态学作为一门科学，分析新的军事技术允许追踪迁徙野生动物的方式，从而使不可见的变得可见。然后，他们将分析新出现的人类世基础设施如何威胁到新出现的迁徙物种的持久性。来自空间历史的方法将使他们能够可视化和分析野生动物、采掘业和污染物的流动性如何影响对迁徙物种的概念化和管理。对于空间历史，他们将整合STS的话语分析工具，使他们能够分析政府机构如何应对采掘业日益增长的压力，以开放北方流域进行发展。该项目将把生态学、环境史和广泛的STS方法结合在一个综合研究项目中，以促进这些领域的发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The objective of the proposed research is to examine the history of conservation and restoration efforts for three iconic migratory species of the north: woodland caribou, coaster brook trout, and common loons. All three species have been the focus of decades of restoration efforts, yet all three remain at risk in northern landscapes. The project seeks to understand what we can learn from past efforts at understanding and managing migratory species, with the ultimate goal of contributing to more sustainable strategies in the Anthropocene. Although project is located within the upper Great Lakes basin, it is expected to generate results that will provide insights for other scientific and regulatory contexts, particularly those that concern extractive industries and their effects on migratory species. Broader impact activities will include a professionally-designed website; educational activities with Indigenous communities and the Great Lakes Research Center including a webinar and presentations at a public information session; and media outreach activities including interviews on regional and national podcasts and radio broadcasts.This is a project to engage in interdisciplinary research; specifically, it adds new dimensions to environmental history and STS by incorporating spatial considerations. The PI and her collaborator will examine the recent emergence of movement ecology as a science, analyzing the ways new military technologies allowed migrating wildlife to be tracked and thereby making the invisible visible. They will then analyze ways that emerging infrastructures of the Anthropocene threaten persistence of the migratory species that are becoming newly visible. Methods from spatial history will enable them to visualize and analyze ways that the mobility of wildlife, extractive industries, and contaminants influenced efforts to conceptualize and then manage migratory species. To spatial history, they will integrate STS tools of discourse analysis, enabling them to analyze ways that government agencies negotiated growing pressures from extractive industries to open boreal watersheds for development. The project will combine ecology, environmental history, and broad STS approaches in an integrative research project that will serve to advance each of these fields.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.