NNA Track 1: Pursuing Opportunities for Long-term Arctic Resilience for Infrastructure and Society (POLARIS)

NNA 第 1 轨道：为基础设施和社会寻求北极长期复原力的机会 (POLARIS)

• 批准号: 1927827
• 负责人: Guangqing Chi
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Track; Pursuing; Opportunities; Long

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. Alaskan coastal Indigenous communities face severe, urgent, and complex social and infrastructural challenges resulting from environmental changes. Coastlines are degrading and this impacts infrastructure that communities use on a daily basis, changing how people access and hunt for food and other natural resources and conduct their lives. The magnitude and significance of impacts are unclear as is how local communities will respond to resulting disruptions and disasters. A major problem facing researchers, stakeholders, and policymakers in addressing these issues is that existing research is piecemeal. The whole picture of coastal communities is not well understood, and ways to address problems they face are not as effective as they could be. A changing environment drives changes to the populations of Alaskan coastal Indigenous communities due to families and individuals relocating either seasonally or permanently, which complicates efforts to understand the relationship between environmental changes and society. These challenges demand a robust, integrated, and convergent research platform to identify the complexities of the issues and the ways communities can respond. The POLARIS (Pursuing Opportunities for Long-term Arctic Resilience for Infrastructure and Society) project supplies just that kind of research platform for analyzing current and future needs in order to create resilient communities in the face of a changing environment.The POLARIS project has identified three convergent research pillars to help communities adapt: environmental hotspots of disruption to communities and infrastructure, food in complex adaptive systems, and migration and community relocation. These pillars are interwoven with five component processes: education, outreach, local community engagement, international comparison and collaboration, and evaluation. Research integrates the pillars where system responses and uncertainties are predicted under several socio-environmental scenarios. Researchers from a variety of fields are coming together with local community members to conduct the research. The data and analysis created through surveying local community members, modeling environmental changes, and conducting economic research inform local, state, and national decision makers and leaders about how to address infrastructure and social needs in the face of environmental changes. In addition to the research and community focus of the project, POLARIS is training junior researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students in interdisciplinary research as they participate in work across the pillars and five components. This helps ensure that the rising generation of researchers is well prepared to continue the crucial work to address the issues that the project identifies well past its conclusion. In addition, local educators are working with local communities to develop classroom tools to engage students in K-12 settings. This integrated research project will enable communities to become more resilient with both stronger societies, civic culture, and improved infrastructure needed as the new Arctic continues to emerge.Co-funding for this award is being provided by the NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT), reflecting the project's alignment with the broader goals of interdisciplinary graduate education.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.

新北极航行（NNA）是NSF的十大创意之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的趋同科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和地球仪的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA授权从地方到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，并整合知识的共同生产。这个奖项实现了这个目标的一部分。阿拉斯加沿海原住民社区面临着环境变化带来的严重、紧迫和复杂的社会和基础设施挑战。供水线路正在退化，这影响了社区日常使用的基础设施，改变了人们获取和寻找食物和其他自然资源以及生活的方式。影响的程度和重要性尚不清楚，当地社区将如何应对由此造成的破坏和灾害。研究人员、利益相关者和政策制定者在解决这些问题时面临的一个主要问题是，现有的研究是零碎的。人们对沿海社区的整体情况了解不多，解决他们面临的问题的方法也没有发挥应有的效力。由于家庭和个人季节性或永久性地搬迁，不断变化的环境导致阿拉斯加沿海土著社区人口的变化，这使得理解环境变化与社会之间关系的努力变得复杂。这些挑战需要一个强大、综合和融合的研究平台来识别问题的复杂性以及社区的应对方式。 北极星（为基础设施和社会的长期北极复原力寻求机会）项目提供了这样一个研究平台，用于分析当前和未来的需求，以便在不断变化的环境中创建具有复原力的社区。POLARIS项目确定了三个融合的研究支柱，以帮助社区适应：对社区和基础设施的破坏、复杂适应系统中的食物以及移民和社区搬迁等环境热点。这些支柱与五个组成流程交织在一起：教育、外展、当地社区参与、国际比较和合作以及评估。研究整合的支柱，系统的反应和不确定性，在几个社会环境的情况下进行预测。来自各个领域的研究人员正在与当地社区成员一起进行研究。通过调查当地社区成员、模拟环境变化和进行经济研究而创建的数据和分析，为地方、州和国家的决策者和领导者提供了有关如何在环境变化的情况下解决基础设施和社会需求的信息。除了该项目的研究和社区重点外，POLARIS还在跨学科研究中培训初级研究人员，研究生和本科生，因为他们参与了支柱和五个组成部分的工作。这有助于确保新一代的研究人员做好充分准备，继续开展关键工作，解决项目结束后确定的问题。此外，当地教育工作者正在与当地社区合作开发课堂工具，以吸引K-12环境中的学生。这个综合研究项目将使社区变得更有弹性，随着新北极的不断出现，需要更强大的社会，公民文化和改善的基础设施。该奖项的共同资金由NSF研究培训计划（NRT）提供，反映了该项目与跨学科研究生教育的更广泛目标的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的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，

项目成果

The need to include wild foods in climate change adaptation strategies

需要将野生食物纳入气候变化适应战略

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101302
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
• 影响因子: 7.2
• 作者: Powell, Bronwen;Bhatt, Indra D.;Mucioki, Megan;Rana, Suresh;Rawat, Sandeep;Bezner Kerr, Rachel
• 通讯作者: Bezner Kerr, Rachel

Energy choices in Alaska: Mining people's perception and attitudes from geotagged tweets

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.109781
• 发表时间: 2020-05-01
• 期刊: RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
• 影响因子: 15.9
• 作者: Abdar, Moloud;Basiri, Mohammad Ehsan;Asadi, Somayeh
• 通讯作者: Asadi, Somayeh

Fishing in the time of COVID: Assessing risk in the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery and the societal benefits of social science research

新冠疫情期间的捕鱼：评估布里斯托尔湾商业鲑鱼渔业的风险以及社会科学研究的社会效益

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Arctic yearbook
• 作者: Holen, Davin;Howe, E. Lance;Chi, Guangqing
• 通讯作者: Chi, Guangqing

Spatial proximity to wildfires as a proxy for measuring PM2.5: A novel method for estimating exposures in rural settings

与野火的空间接近度作为测量 PM2.5 的代理：一种估算农村环境暴露量的新方法

• DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100219
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Journal of Climate Change and Health
• 作者: Smith, M. Luke;Chi, Guangqing
• 通讯作者: Chi, Guangqing

Addressing Climate Impacts in Alaska Native Tribes: Legal Barriers for Community Relocation due to Thawing Permafrost and Coastal Erosion

解决阿拉斯加原住民部落的气候影响：由于永久冻土融化和海岸侵蚀而导致社区搬迁的法律障碍

• DOI: 10.5070/l540259339
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
• 作者: Korkut, Ekrem;Fowler, Lara B.;Halvorsen, Kathleen E.;Holen, Davin;Howe, E. Lance;Chi, Guangqing
• 通讯作者: Chi, Guangqing