NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Infrastructure and Social Systems to Changing Arctic Environments

导航新北极（NNA）是美国国家科学基金会的十大构想之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的融合科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和全球的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA支持从地方到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，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，以开发新颖，领先的研究理念和方法来实现NNA目标，从而实现了该目标的一部分。它整合了自然环境、建筑环境和社会系统的各个方面，以解决这个交叉点的重要社会挑战，并与国际、当地和土著社区合作。阿拉斯加每年都会经历数千次地震，其中包括破坏和严重破坏基础设施和生命线网络的历史重大事件。考虑到北极气候变暖加速了环境、生态和社会变化，包括土壤性质的变化，了解基础设施和社会如何应对地震事件是至关重要的。基础设施的地震评估、震后恢复和未来规划必须同时考虑自然环境、已建成的基础设施和社会系统。该项目解决了北极居民制定应对地震事件战略的迫切需求。与社会系统相联系的弹性基础设施对阿拉斯加州乃至其他地区至关重要，这将影响该州的经济竞争力、国家安全以及居民的安全和健康。该项目通过调查、地方部落会议和公共论坛吸引土著社区参与，作为提高公众意识和参与决策过程的重要途径。此外，该项目还涉及教育和外联工作，包括跨学科研究的研究生培训、课程改进和与土著社区的沟通，为未来的合作和参与奠定基础。该奖项资助发展一个多样化和融合的研究团队，建立技术和社区能力，并使规划一个综合的跨学科和明确的研究战略，以解决受气候变化影响的北极基础设施和社会系统的地震恢复能力。阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校（UAF）的学生、政府机构和行业进行了初步调查，并在阿拉斯加部落环境管理会议上进行了讨论，为计划中的研讨会提供了信息，该研讨会旨在评估最新技术和实践，并确定研究需求、挑战和优先事项。正在组织一次国际研讨会，来自不同学科和观点的学科专家将共同设想未来的研究需求和行动项目，以增强北极自然、建筑和社会环境交叉的地震弹性。研讨会汇集了一群来自美国、国际和阿拉斯加土著社区的研究人员、利益相关者和决策者，以交流知识、经验和期望。该项目范围通过三个当地社区的市政厅论坛吸引北极居民参与，这是建立未来共同生产知识所需关系的必要步骤。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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, built environment, and social systems to address important societal challenges at this intersection, and engages internationally and with local and Indigenous communities.Alaska experiences thousands of earthquakes every year, including historical major events that have disrupted and severely damaged infrastructure and lifeline networks. Given the accelerating environmental, ecological, and social changes as the Arctic climate warms, including changes in soil properties, it is critical to understand how infrastructure and society respond to seismic events. Seismic assessments of infrastructure, post-earthquake recovery, and future planning must simultaneously consider natural environment, built infrastructure, and social systems. This project addresses an urgent need for Arctic residents to develop strategies to respond to seismic events. Resilient infrastructure linked with social systems is crucial to the state of Alaska and beyond, which will impact the state’s economic competitiveness, national security, and residents’ safety and health. The project engages Indigenous communities through surveys, local tribal conferences, and public forums as an important way to increase public awareness and involvement in the decision-making process. In addition, the project involves education and outreach efforts including graduate student training in interdisciplinary research, curriculum enhancement and communicating with Indigenous communities to build foundations for future collaboration and engagement.This award funds the development of a diverse and convergent research team, builds technical and community capacity, and enables planning for an integrated cross-disciplinary and well-defined research strategy to address seismic resilience of Arctic infrastructure and social systems influenced by changes in climate. An initial survey from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF) students, governmental agencies, and industry along with a discussion session at an Alaska Tribal Conference on Environmental Management informs the planned workshop designed to assess the state-of-the-art and practice and determine research needs, challenges, and priorities. An international workshop is being organized where subject experts from different disciplines and perspectives will collectively envision future research needs and action items to enhance seismic resiliency of Arctic at the intersection of natural, built, and social environments. The workshop brings a group of researchers, stakeholders, and decision makers from the U.S., internationally, and from Alaskan Indigenous communities to exchange knowledge, experience, expectations. The project scope engages Arctic residents through town-hall forums in three local communities, which is a necessary step to build the relationships needed for future co-production of knowledge.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.