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

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。它整合了自然环境、建筑环境和社会系统的各个方面，以应对这一交叉点上的重要社会挑战，并与国际社会以及当地和土著社区合作。阿拉斯加每年经历数千次地震，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。随着北极气候变暖，环境、生态和社会变化加速，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至关重要。基础设施的抗震评估、震后恢复和未来规划必须同时考虑自然环境、已建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要。与社会系统相关的弹性基础设施对阿拉斯加州及其他地区至关重要，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让土著社区参与，以此作为提高公众认识和参与决策进程的重要途径。此外，该项目还涉及教育和外展工作，包括跨学科研究的研究生培训、课程改进以及与原住民社区的沟通，为未来的合作和参与奠定基础。该奖项资助多元化和融合的研究团队的发展，建设技术和社区能力，并能够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抗震能力。从阿拉斯加大学在费尔班克斯（UAF）的学生，政府机构和行业沿着在阿拉斯加部落环境管理会议讨论会的初步调查通知计划研讨会旨在评估国家的最先进的和实践，并确定研究需求，挑战和优先事项。正在组织一个国际研讨会，来自不同学科和观点的主题专家将共同设想未来的研究需求和行动项目，以提高北极在自然，建筑和社会环境交叉点的地震恢复力。研讨会汇集了来自美国的研究人员、利益相关者和决策者，国际上，并从阿拉斯加土著社区交流知识，经验，期望。项目范围通过在三个当地社区的市政厅论坛吸引北极居民，这是建立未来知识共同生产所需关系的必要步骤。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, 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.