NNA Track 1: Innovations in Energy Technologies and Empowerment in Arctic Fishing Communities

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。寒冷的北极条件，24小时的夏季阳光加上24小时的冬季黑暗，以及一年中大部分时间冻结的海洋海岸线正在威胁北极社区的生存。 这些社区目前完全依赖昂贵的化石燃料来满足其能源需求。能源成本、渔业和环境的变化以及年轻的自治国家政府的共同影响交织在一起，目前正在威胁着长期以来以该地区为家的人们的文化和生活方式。该项目发现了可持续的技术创新，并为不断变化的北极地区的小社区确定了一条可实现且负担得起的未来之路。该研究确定，创建，测试和展示适合寒冷，恶劣的北极条件的尖端和下一代能源技术系统，包括下一代电池，极地条件下的太阳能和风能技术以及海洋热泵。这些发现将被发表，以便这些发现将被广泛使用。与北极地区的青年和学校的教育活动将提供基于调查的实践活动，以了解在美国学校也有用的可再生能源系统。可持续的技术解决方案也将使中纬度地区的偏远社区受益。负担得起的可再生能源的供应将使文化的连续性，提高健康和安全，并加强社区的复原力。目前正在采用一种由利益攸关方价值观和目标驱动的迭代、基于系统的方法，以确定依赖渔业获取食物和收入的北极社区所面临的能源和渔业相关研究需求。该项目是由当地渔民邀请达特茅斯教授发起的，代表了社区成员和学者之间知识共生的知识驱动科学。在这个项目中，教师，研究生和本科生的研究将产生与任务相关的见解和原型，并将能够确定强大和有弹性的适应战略。工程师，科学家，学生，猎人，渔民，公用事业经理，地方政府代表和公民将合作，以解决具有挑战性的跨学科问题，在这个地区的规划和适应环境变化还没有到位。适应问题将以拥抱能源自力更生的方式进行，确定一个可实现的和可持续的途径，以适应未来，并有助于在不断变化的条件下进行工程能力建设。该奖项反映了NSF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。

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. Cold Arctic conditions, twenty-four-hour summer sunlight combined with twenty-four-hour winter darkness, and a frozen ocean coastline for much of the year are threatening survival of Arctic communities. These communities currently rely entirely on expensive fossil fuels for their energy needs. The joint impacts of energy cost, changes in fisheries and the environment, and a young self-rule national government are intertwined in ways that are currently threatening the culture and lifestyles of people who have long called the region home. This project discovers sustainable technological innovations and identifies an achievable and affordable pathway to the future for small communities in a changing Arctic. The research identifies, creates, tests, and demonstrates cutting-edge and next-generation energy technology systems suited to cold, harsh Arctic conditions, including, for example, next-generation batteries, solar and wind technologies for polar conditions, and ocean-linked heat pumps. The discoveries will be published so that the findings will be widely available. Educational activities with the youth and schools in the Arctic will provide inquiry-based, hands-on activities for learning about renewable energy systems that are also useful in schools in the U.S. The learning activities will contribute to self-confidence needed by students to pursue community or four-year college programs for technology-oriented careers. Sustainable technological solutions will also benefit remote communities in the mid-latitudes. Availability of affordable renewable energy will enable cultural continuity, enhance health and safety, and strengthen community resilience. An iterative, systems-based approach that is driven by stakeholder values and objectives is being used to define energy and fishery-related research needs faced by Arctic communities who rely on fishing for their food and income. Initiated by an invitation from local fishers to a Dartmouth professor, this project represents stakeholder-driven science with knowledge co-generation between community members and academics. Research by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in this project will produce mission-relevant insights and prototypes and will enable identification of robust and resilient adaptation strategies. Engineers, scientists, students, hunter-fishers, utility managers, local government representatives, and citizens will collaborate to address challenging interdisciplinary problems in this region where planning and adaptation to environmental change is not already in place. Issues of adaptation will be pursued in ways that embrace energy self-reliance, identify an achievable and sustainable pathway to a resilient future, and contribute to capacity-building for engineering in changing conditions.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.