NNA Track 2: Developing Arctic village resilience to changes in the water cycle, river systems, and coasts

NNA 第 2 轨道：发展北极村庄对水循环、河流系统和海岸变化的抵御能力

• 批准号: 1927644
• 负责人: Julie Brigham-Grette
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Track; Developing; Arctic; village

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, and integrates the co-production of knowledge. This award fulfills part of that aim.The Arctic is responding rapidly to global climate change, which is driving Arctic temperature increases at twice the rate of the rest of the planet. Sea ice is retreating, permafrost is thawing, sea level is rising, and the timing of precipitation cycles in rain and snow are changing. As the Arctic continues to warm, it is essential that scientists and Arctic residents develop plans that holistically consider how communities might adapt to changes in their physical world.This new warmer Arctic presents challenges to Arctic peoples and ecosystems as traditional ways of life are altered. Adaptation requires knowledge of how, and at what rate, the Arctic is changing. To do so, this project will deepen existing partnerships with Arctic people in western coastal Alaska through the Alaska Native Tribal Health Council (ANTHC) and to collaborate with communities at risk. The research will grow a comprehensive view of community needs and prepare community members for responding to three important areas of concern to society: the impact of a changing climate on municipal water use; the impacts of coastal erosion and river derived sediment delivery to harbor facilities, infrastructure, and health; and the future of access to abundant and clean community water resources.This planning process will set the foundation for a larger project in the future. While the content and intellectual merit of this future science plan is purposefully not set given the need for community planning and dialogue, it is expected that the three focus areas will yield hypotheses and science goals that will answer important open science questions, while at the same time serving local communities and other stakeholders looking to the future. This planning process will identify new and exciting science questions as conceived by Arctic residents based on their own knowledge and observations. The approach is to hold four hub workshops in Alaska (2 in Bethel; 2 in Kotzebue) allowing local residents to express their concerns and desired science goals. The researchers will invite residents and other stakeholders from as many as 30 regional villages and subsistence camps to engage with the researchers to identify key concerns, threats and opportunities for resilience. The researchers will then use the intersection of societal needs and the scientific method to develop an integrated plan that both addresses emerging issues but also serves to build capacity (skills, knowledge, tools, equipment) in the hubs and villages as the Arctic continues to change in the coming decades. This phase one planning period will include direct training and support of multiple community members from each village, especially young people, empowering them to take charge of their own science as they navigate their own New Arctic.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.

航行新北极(NNA)是NSF的十大想法之一。NNA项目解决了快速变化的北极地区汇聚的科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大区域和全球的经济、安全和韧性提供信息。NNA增强了新的研究伙伴关系，从地方到国际范围，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，并整合了共同生产的知识。这一奖项部分实现了这一目标。北极正在对全球气候变化做出快速反应，全球气候变化导致北极气温上升的速度是地球其他地区的两倍。海冰正在消退，永久冻土正在融化，海平面正在上升，雨雪降水周期的时间正在发生变化。随着北极继续变暖，科学家和北极居民制定计划，从整体上考虑社区如何适应自然世界的变化，这一点至关重要。随着传统生活方式的改变，这种新的变暖给北极人民和生态系统带来了挑战。适应需要了解北极正在以何种方式和速度发生变化。为此，该项目将通过阿拉斯加原住民部落健康理事会(ANTHC)深化与阿拉斯加西部沿海地区北极人的现有伙伴关系，并与处于危险中的社区合作。这项研究将全面了解社区的需求，并使社区成员做好准备，以应对社会关注的三个重要领域：气候变化对城市用水的影响；海岸侵蚀和河流泥沙输送对港口设施、基础设施和健康的影响；以及获得丰富和清洁的社区水资源的未来。这一规划过程将为未来的更大项目奠定基础。虽然考虑到社区规划和对话的需要，这一未来科学计划的内容和知识价值是故意不确定的，但预计这三个重点领域将产生假设和科学目标，这些假设和科学目标将回答重要的开放科学问题，同时为当地社区和其他展望未来的利益攸关方服务。这一规划过程将确定北极居民根据自己的知识和观察构思的新的令人兴奋的科学问题。方法是在阿拉斯加举办四个中心讲习班(两个在伯特利，两个在科策布)，让当地居民表达他们的关切和期望的科学目标。研究人员将邀请多达30个地区村庄和自给自足营地的居民和其他利益相关者与研究人员接触，以确定关键的关切、威胁和恢复能力的机会。然后，研究人员将利用社会需求和科学方法的交集来制定一项综合计划，既要解决新出现的问题，又要随着北极在未来几十年的持续变化，在枢纽和村庄建设能力(技能、知识、工具、设备)。第一阶段的规划期将包括直接培训和支持来自每个村庄的多名社区成员，特别是年轻人，授权他们在自己的新北极航行时负责自己的科学。这一奖项反映了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。