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

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、建筑环境和社会系统的各个方面，以应对这个十字路口的重要社会挑战，并在国际上以及与当地和土著社区接触。阿拉斯加每年经历数千次地震，包括扰乱和严重破坏基础设施和生命线网络的历史性重大事件。鉴于随着北极气候变暖，环境、生态和社会变化正在加速，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的战略的迫切需要。与社会制度相连的弹性基础设施对阿拉斯加州及其他州至关重要，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、当地部落会议和公共论坛使土著社区参与进来，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联工作，包括研究生跨学科研究培训、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。该奖项资助发展多样化和汇聚的研究团队，建设技术和社区能力，并能够规划综合的跨学科和定义明确的研究战略，以解决北极基础设施和社会系统受气候变化影响的地震复原力问题。阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校(UAF)的学生、政府机构和产业界进行了一项初步调查，并在阿拉斯加环境管理部落会议上进行了讨论，为计划中的研讨会提供了信息，该研讨会旨在评估最先进的环境管理和实践，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，来自不同学科和视角的学科专家将共同设想未来的研究需求和行动项目，以增强北极在自然、建筑和社会环境交汇处的地震复原力。研讨会汇集了来自美国、国际和阿拉斯加土著社区的一批研究人员、利益相关者和决策者，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了北极居民，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, 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.