NRT-NNA: Systems Approaches to Understanding and Navigating the New Arctic (SAUNNA)

北极是世界上变化最快的环境。生活在北半球的人们现在正在经历北极变化的后果，包括天气模式的突然变化，鱼、矿物和水等自然资源的可获得性改变，以及对土著文化遗产和经济的威胁。预测和适应这些变化需要在从北极到较低纬度的环境和社会系统中进行探索和理解，这增加了培训未来北极科学家的新方法的必要性。这项授予缅因州大学的国家科学基金会研究培训奖将通过培训北极系统科学跨学科领域的研究生来满足这一需求。该项目预计将培训57名硕士和博士生，其中包括20名来自生态学、地球科学、人类学、经济学和海洋科学的资助学员。加强技能和能力以促进环境、社会和知识系统的整合对于理解和驾驭新的北极以及加强对更广泛的STEM劳动力的培训至关重要。该项目的目标是培训新一代领导人，以促进对北极变化及其局部和全球影响的了解，2)开展以解决方案为导向的研究，重点关注社会环境系统及其动态，3)应用模型和工具来整合跨系统，4)发展关于新出现的环境和经济问题的跨文化和跨学科的视角，5)与利益攸关方开展跨学科的协作研究，以培养受北极变化影响的系统的应变能力，6)为未来的北极政策提供信息，7)有效和迅速地交流针对不同受众的结果。将创建一个跨学科的课程，其中包括积极的学习模式、专业发展、教师和同行指导、协作研究和利益攸关方参与，重点是格陵兰、北极-北大西洋和缅因州的变化。该项目的核心培训内容包括年度务虚会、一套新的和现有的课程、协作的跨学科研究项目、北极实地经验以及在伙伴组织的实习机会。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革意义的STEM研究生教育培训模式。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合培训模式，在高度优先的跨学科或趋同研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项的共同资金来自NSF十大想法之一的导航新北极(NNA)计划。NNA支持以下项目：应对快速变化的北极地区的汇聚科学挑战，增强新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正规和非正规教育的努力，并在适当情况下整合联合生产知识。这一奖项与这些目标一致。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。

The Arctic is the most rapidly changing environment in the world. People living in the Northern Hemisphere are now experiencing the consequences of a changing Arctic, including abrupt shifts in weather patterns, altered availability of natural resources such as fish, minerals and water, and threats to indigenous cultural heritage and economies. Anticipating and adapting to these changes requires exploration and understanding across environmental and social systems spanning from the Arctic to lower latitudes, raising the need for new approaches to train future Arctic scientists. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to the University of Maine will address this demand by training graduate students in the interdisciplinary field of Arctic systems science. The project anticipates training 57 MS and Ph.D. students, including 20 funded trainees from Ecology, Earth Sciences, Anthropology, Economics, and Marine Sciences.Strengthening skills and competencies to improve integration across environmental, social, and knowledge systems are essential to understanding and navigating the new Arctic and enhancing training of the broader STEM workforce. The goal of this project is to train a new generation of leaders prepared to: 1) advance understanding of Arctic changes and their local & global effects, 2) conduct solutions-driven research focused on socio-environmental systems and their dynamics, 3) apply models and tools to integrate across systems, 4) develop cross-cultural & cross-disciplinary perspectives on emerging environmental and economic issues, 5) conduct interdisciplinary, collaborative research with stakeholders to foster resilience of systems affected by Arctic change, 6) inform future Arctic policy, 7) effectively & rapidly communicate results geared to different audiences. An interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates active learning models, professional development, faculty and peer mentoring, collaborative research, and stakeholder engagement will be created, focused on changes in Greenland, the Arctic-North Atlantic and Maine. The core training elements of this project include an annual retreat, a suite of new and existing coursework, a collaborative interdisciplinary research project, Arctic field experience, and an internship with a partner organization. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.Co-funding for this award is being provided by Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program, one of NSF’s ten Big Ideas. NNA supports projects that address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic, empower new research partnerships, diversify the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhance efforts in formal and informal education, and integrate the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award aligns with those goals.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.