NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Interaction Between Coastal and Riverine Processes and the Built Environment in Coastal Arctic Communities

航行新北极(NNA)是NSF的十大想法之一。NNA项目解决了快速变化的北极地区汇聚的科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大区域和全球的经济、安全和韧性提供信息。NNA增强了从地方到国际的新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正式和非正式教育的努力，并在适当的情况下整合共同创造知识。该奖项通过支持具有明显潜力的规划活动来实现这一目标的一部分，以开发新的、前沿的研究想法和方法来解决NNA的目标。它整合了自然环境和建筑环境的各个方面，应对重要的社会挑战，并与当地社区接触。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、洪水和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河岸侵蚀、永久冻土融化和越来越多的沿海风暴影响的复合威胁。由于北极地区的数据收集活动费用高昂，而且往往仅限于一年中天气允许进入有关地点的时段，因此可能导致数据和信息方面的重大差距。NNA计划赠款使用了旨在发现知识差距并开发相关研究问题和假设的讲习班，以解决影响阿拉斯加北极沿海社区的问题。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。该项目还有助于提出新的但可行的长期数据收集和监测战略的想法，鼓励和依赖当地社区的参与。此外，该项目帮助发展一个新的多学科和跨学科的研究小组，为未来的研究工作开辟道路。这项NNA规划赠款综合和开发了与环境变化背景下北极沿海地区沿海和河流过程与建成环境之间的相互作用有关的关键研究问题。这一研究项目定位于自然环境科学和建造环境科学之间的联系，包括与当地北极社区共同创造知识，因为它确定了有效的数据收集和监测战略来回答这些问题，确定了组建一个多样化的跨学科研究团队来解决这些问题所需的专业知识，并使阿拉斯加北极沿海社区和利益攸关方参与制定了可行、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实现的，其中包括研究人员、联邦和州机构利益攸关方、社区利益攸关方以及国内和国际专家、早期职业研究人员和学生的不同代表。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，因为它组建了一个核心研究团队，用于未来对北极沿海社区的研究。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。

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.