NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Interaction Between Coastal and Riverine Processes and the Built Environment in Coastal Arctic 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，并在适当的情况下整合知识的共同生产。该奖项通过支持具有明确潜力的规划活动来实现这一目标的一部分，以开发新颖，前沿的研究思路和方法来实现NNA目标。阿拉斯加社区及其建筑环境受到永久冻土融化、海岸和河流侵蚀、洪水以及其他因环境变化而改变或加速的自然过程的影响。北极沿海社区尤其面临着来自河岸侵蚀、永久冻土融化和沿海风暴影响增加的复合威胁。由于北极地区的数据收集活动费用高昂，而且往往限于一年中天气允许进入有关地点的时期，因此可能造成数据和信息方面的重大空白。该NNA规划补助金采用旨在发现知识差距并制定相关研究问题和假设的研讨会，以解决影响阿拉斯加沿海北极社区的问题。它确定了在这些具有挑战性的环境中进行有针对性的测量的新策略。该项目还有助于为鼓励和依靠当地社区参与的新颖但可行的长期数据收集和监测战略提出想法。此外，该项目还帮助建立一个新的多学科和跨学科的研究团队，为未来的研究工作开辟道路。该NNA规划补助金综合并开发了与环境变化背景下沿海和河流过程以及沿海北极地区建筑环境之间相互作用相关的关键研究问题。该研究项目定位于自然和人造环境科学之间的联系，包括与当地北极社区共同制作知识，因为它确定了有效的数据收集和监测策略来回答这些问题，确定了组建多元化和跨学科研究团队所需的专业知识来解决这些问题，并让阿拉斯加北极沿海社区和利益相关者制定可行的，可持续和有影响力的研究战略。这些目标是通过两个研讨会，包括研究人员，联邦和国家机构的利益相关者，社区利益相关者，以及国内和国际专家，早期职业研究人员和学生的多元化代表实现的。该项目使当地社区利益攸关方参与项目的各个方面，以了解并纳入他们的知识和需求。该项目计划广泛传播研究成果，因为它集合了一个核心研究团队，为未来的北极沿海社区研究提供支持。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, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by supporting planning activities with clear potential to develop novel, leading edge research ideas and approaches to address NNA goals. It integrates aspects of the natural environment and built environment, addresses important societal challenges, and engages with local communities.Alaskan communities and their built environment are affected by permafrost thaw, coastal and river erosion, flooding, and other natural processes altered or accelerated by environmental changes. Arctic coastal communities in particular face compound threats from riverbank erosion, permafrost thaw, and increasing coastal storm impacts. As data collection campaigns in the Arctic are costly and often limited to periods of the year when weather affords access to sites of interest, significant gaps in data and information can result. This NNA planning grant employs workshops designed to discover gaps in knowledge and develop associated research questions and hypotheses to address issues affecting coastal Arctic communities in Alaska. It identifies novel strategies for making targeted measurements in these challenging environments. This project also facilitates development of ideas for novel but feasible long-term data collection and monitoring strategies that encourage and rely upon local community engagement. Additionally, this project aids the development of a new multi- and interdisciplinary research team to open pathways towards future research efforts.This NNA planning grant synthesizes and develops key research questions related to the interaction between coastal and riverine processes and the built environment in the coastal Arctic region in the context of environmental change. This research project is positioned at the nexus between the sciences of the natural and built environments and includes co-production of knowledge with local Arctic communities, as it identifies effective data collection and monitoring strategies to answer these questions, pinpoints expertise needed to assemble a diverse and interdisciplinary research team to address these questions, and engages Alaskan Arctic coastal communities and stakeholders to develop a feasible, sustainable, and impactful research strategy. These goals are achieved through two workshops that include researchers, federal and state agency stakeholders, and community stakeholders, as well as a diverse representation of domestic and international experts, early career researchers, and students. This project engages local community stakeholders into all aspects of the project to learn about and incorporate their knowledge and needs. The project plans to disseminate research findings widely as it assembles a core research team for future steps into research on Arctic coastal communities.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.