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

授予阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学(UAF)的国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将使用土著方法来改变学术界和劳动力中往往缺乏文化多样性的领域的研究生教育计划；渔业和海洋科学。Tamamta(一个Sugpiaq单词，意思是“我们所有人”)NRT旨在扩大和多样化研究生培训，以成功地吸引土著学生，将土著知识体系集中在现有和新的课程中，并在整个大学和合作伙伴组织中广泛传播，以实现更大的制度变革。这一NRT与NSF的导航新北极计划以及UAF的战略目标密切一致，即巩固阿拉斯加土著和土著计划的全球领导地位，并发展尊重、多样性、包容和关怀的文化。随着北极环境和社会挑战的严重性不断加剧，跨越文化、种族和学科界限的大胆和变革性行动的必要性日益增长。为满足这一需求，Tamamta培训生计划将支持全面的研究生培训，以促进科学的发展，为15至20名土著和非土著硕士和博士NRT学员提供有意义和伦理上的西方和土著知识体系的桥梁。Tamamta计划将在项目过程中接触到100多名学生，并将促使联邦、州和部落合作组织在阿拉斯加和其他地区的渔业、海洋科学和管理领域进行更大的系统变革。在过去的五年里，由土著学者、社会科学家和自然科学家组成的Tamamta项目团队跨越文化和学科界限，建立了牢固的合作关系。这项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。研究小组使用循证和土著方法来改变研究生教育计划，包括提升土著的认识和存在方式、土著权利和价值观、土著知识、语言、故事和做法。该培训计划支持互动和创新活动，以帮助转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；长者常驻方案；访问土著学者方案；鱼营和其他文化沉浸体验；与教员和机构合作伙伴的专业发展和文化能力技能建设；务虚会；实习；沿海研究体验；主办对话；以及艺术装置。通过将土著宇宙观、价值观、实践和知识集中在该计划的各个方面，Tamamta旨在提高对阿拉斯加各地土著人民与土地、水和动物之间深刻的文化和精神联系的理解。通过为土著人民和他们的价值观、实践和知识创造有意义的教育机会，参与科学和管理系统，这一努力将有助于更大的系统变革，以确保今世后代更可持续的渔业和生态系统。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的新模式。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 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.