NRT: NNA: Tamamta (All of Us): Transforming Western and Indigenous Fisheries and Marine Sciences Together

美国国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖给阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯（UAF）将使用土著的方法来改变研究生教育计划的领域，往往缺乏文化多样性的学术界以及劳动力; 渔业和海洋科学。 该Tamamta（一个Sugpiaq字的意思是“我们所有人”）NRT旨在扩大和多样化的研究生培训，成功地吸引土著学生，在当前和新的课程土著知识体系的中心，并广泛覆盖整个大学和合作伙伴组织对更大的系统变革。该NRT与NSF的导航新北极计划以及UAF巩固阿拉斯加原住民和土著计划的全球领导地位并培养尊重，多样性，包容和关怀的文化的战略目标保持一致。随着北极地区环境和社会挑战的严重性不断加剧，需要采取跨越文化、种族和学科界限的大胆变革行动。为了满足这一需求，Tamamta培训计划将支持全面的研究生培训，促进科学，为15至20名原住民和非原住民硕士建立有意义和道德的西方和原住民知识体系。和博士NRT受训人员。Tamamta计划将在项目过程中接触到100多名学生，并将与联邦，州和部落合作伙伴组织合作，以实现阿拉斯加及其他地区渔业和海洋科学与管理的更大系统变革。在过去的五年中，Tamamta项目团队的土著学者，社会科学家和自然科学家跨越文化和学科界限，合作关系。这种投资以及由此产生的相互尊重和信任对于以有效和文化上适当的方式推进这项工作的目标是必要的。该研究小组使用基于证据和土著的方法来改造研究生教育课程，包括提高土著人的认识和存在方式，土著权利和价值观，土著知识，语言，故事和实践。该培训计划支持互动和创新活动，以帮助改变渔业和海洋科学计划，并促进机构和合作伙伴组织的变革。这些活动将包括：新的团队授课的跨学科课程;长者居住计划;访问土著学者计划;鱼营和其他文化沉浸体验;专业发展和文化能力技能建设与教师和机构合作伙伴;务虚会;实习;沿海研究经验;主持对话;和艺术装置。通过集中土著宇宙观，价值观，实践和知识在该计划的各个方面，Tamamta旨在提升阿拉斯加土著人民与土地，沃茨和动物之间深刻的文化和精神联系的理解。通过为原住民及其价值观、实践和知识创造有意义的教育机会，使其参与科学和管理系统，这一努力将有助于更大的系统变革，以确保当代和后代更可持续的渔业和生态系统。为STEM研究生教育培训提供新的潜在变革模式。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相一致的综合培训模式，在高优先级的跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项的共同资助由NSF十大创意之一的“新北极导航”（NNA）计划提供。NNA支持应对快速变化的北极地区科学挑战的项目，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，并酌情整合知识的共同生产。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 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will use Indigenous approaches to transform graduate education programs in fields that tend to lack cultural diversity within academia as well as the workforce; fisheries and marine science. The Tamamta (a Sugpiaq word meaning ‘All of Us’) NRT seeks to broaden and diversify graduate training to successfully engage Indigenous students, to center Indigenous knowledge systems in current and new curricula, and to reach widely across the university and partner organizations toward larger system change. This NRT closely aligns with NSF’s Navigating the New Arctic program and with UAF’s strategic goals of solidifying global leadership in Alaska Native and Indigenous programs and growing a culture of respect, diversity, inclusion, and care. As the gravity of environmental and social challenges in the Arctic continues to intensify, the need for bold and transformative action that crosses cultural, racial, and disciplinary boundaries grows. To respond to this need, the Tamamta traineeship program will support comprehensive graduate training that advances science that meaningfully and ethically bridges Western and Indigenous knowledge systems for 15 to 20 Indigenous and non-Indigenous M.S. and Ph.D. NRT trainees. The Tamamta program will reach over 100 students over the course of the project and will engage federal, state, and tribal partner organizations toward larger system change within fisheries and marine science and management in Alaska and beyond.Over the past five years, the Tamamta project team of Indigenous scholars, social scientists, and natural scientists has worked across cultural and disciplinary boundaries to build strong, collaborative relationships. This investment and the mutual respect and trust that have grown as a result are necessary to advance the goals of this work in effective and culturally appropriate ways. The research team uses evidence-based and Indigenous approaches to transforming graduate educational programs including an elevation of Indigenous ways of knowing and being, Indigenous rights and values, Indigenous knowledge, language, stories, and practices. This traineeship program supports interactive and innovative activities to help transform the fisheries and marine sciences programs and catalyze change in institutions and partner organizations. These activities will include: new team-taught interdisciplinary courses; an Elder-in-Residence program; a visiting Indigenous scholars program; a fish camp and other cultural immersion experiences; professional development and cultural competency skill-building with faculty and agency partners; retreats; internships; coastal research experiences; hosted dialogues; and art installations. By centering Indigenous cosmologies, values, practices, and knowledge in all aspects of the program, Tamamta aims to elevate an understanding of the profound cultural and spiritual connections that Indigenous peoples across Alaska have with the land, waters, and animals. By creating meaningful educational opportunities for Indigenous peoples and their values, practices, and knowledge to engage in science and management systems, this effort will contribute to larger system changes that are needed to ensure more sustainable fisheries and ecosystems for current and future generations.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.