Workshop: Leading Arctic Convergence Research with the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Irvine, CA - Fall 2019

该项目的目标是开发和执行一个研讨会，提高自然，物理，工程和社会科学家之间的能力，以开发与北极相关的跨学科，融合研究项目，深入参与社会和行为科学。加州大学欧文分校召集了来自美国各地不同STEM领域的学者，他们希望按照NSF的导航新北极（NNA）大想法中的设想进行与北极环境变化相关的融合研究。讲习班提供培训活动，以加强他们的能力，使社会和行为科学深入融合，并使当地和土著社区参与公平合作，共同创造知识。通过这样做，该项目扩大了对融合研究中跨学科整合的理解，这将广泛增强与北极相关的融合研究理论和实践。该研讨会的预期成果将是提高准备社会和行为科学主导的提案的能力，这些提案与NSF的NNA Big Idea的目标和目的保持一致并大力推进。与会者包括学者谁都有和以前没有在北极进行研究。该研讨会的重点是激励研究不断变化的北极对北极以外的其他地球仪的影响，以及不断变化的北极对生活在北极的人们的影响。与全球环境变化有关的“邪恶”问题。然而，这种整合往往难以实现，跨学科整合研究的障碍仍然存在。拟议的讲习班涉及三个关键目标：（1）如何在北极趋同研究中纳入社会和行为科学理论，并制定严格的社会科学方法;（2）如何与当地社区，包括土著社区合作，并将传统/土著生态知识纳入北极环境变化研究; 3）如何在北极研究项目的规划和执行中纳入设计趋同研究框架的最佳做法和程序，包括跨学科知识整合战略、大学与社区合作生产和利用知识的伙伴关系，和（网络）研究基础设施需要与不同类型的数据和分析工作和整合。项目资金将支持约55人的现场参与，其中包括最多10名演讲者/主持人，研讨会将通过Zoom进行网络直播，以促进无法前往欧文的其他人的虚拟参与。研讨会的过程将被记录下来，并将与研讨会报告一起沿着广泛提供，以及通过两个公共数字平台生成的其他资源材料，NSF北极数据中心和实验与合作人种学平台。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。

The goal of this project is to develop and execute a workshop that will enhance capacity among natural, physical, engineering, and social scientists to develop transdisciplinary, convergence research projects related to the Arctic that are deeply engaged with social and behavioral science. The University of California, Irvine convenes scholars from diverse STEM fields across the United States who wish to undertake convergence research related to environmental change in the Arctic as envisioned in NSF's Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Big Idea. The workshop offers training activities to enhance their capacity to do so in a manner that deeply integrates the social and behavioral sciences and engages local and indigenous communities in equitable collaborations for the co-production of knowledge. In so doing, the project expands understanding of interdisciplinary integration in convergence research in ways that will broadly enhance convergence research theory and practice as it relates to the Arctic. An intended outcome of the workshop will be an enhancement of capacity to prepare social and behavioral science-led proposals that align with and robustly advance the goals and objectives of NSF's NNA Big Idea. Participants includes scholars who both have and have not previously conducted research in the Arctic. The workshop focuses on stimulating research on the impact of the changing Arctic on the rest of the globe outside the Arctic as well as on the impact of the changing Arctic on people who live in the Arctic.A growing body of literature points to the need for deep integration of the social, natural/physical, and engineering sciences in research frameworks to address increasingly complex, "wicked" problems associated with global environmental change. Yet, such integration is often difficult to accomplish, and obstacles to interdisciplinary integration in research remain. The proposed workshop addresses three key objectives: 1) How to integrate social and behavioral science theory and develop rigorous social science methodologies in Arctic convergence research; 2) How to engage and work with local communities, including indigenous communities, and integrate traditional/indigenous ecological knowledge into Arctic environmental change research; 3) How to incorporate best practices and processes for designing convergence research frameworks in the planning and execution of Arctic research projects, including strategies of cross-disciplinary knowledge integration, university-community partnerships for co- production and utilization of knowledge, and (cyber)research infrastructure needed to work with and integrate different kinds of data and analysis. Project funds will support the onsite participation of approximately 55 individuals, including up to 10 speakers/facilitators, and the workshop sessions will be webcast via Zoom to facilitate the virtual participation of others who may be unable to travel to Irvine. Workshop proceedings will be recorded, and transcriptions will be made broadly available along with a workshop report, and other resource materials generated via two public digital platforms, the NSF Arctic Data Center and the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography.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.