NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Current and future Arctic community vulnerabilities to sea-ice change and economic expansion

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。它整合了自然环境和社会系统的各个方面，解决了重要的社会挑战，并与国际以及当地和土著社区合作。由于环境变化和经济发展的扩大和加强，北极社区正在经历前所未有的转型。例如，随着气候变暖，海冰变得更薄，范围更小，这使得全球贸易的扩张和更大船只的航运交通成为可能。该项目正在调查快速变化的海冰条件对北极社区的影响，这些变化如何与社会和经济威胁相互作用，以及社区的社会经济和其他背景如何影响他们对两者的脆弱性。北极人民的观点和关切是这个项目的核心，它汇集了来自北极地区各地土著社区的领导人和西方科学家，在多个尺度上探索这些问题。该项目正在确定科学产品可以更好地服务于公共需求的方式，从而缩小科学项目与北极社区的适应和复原力之间的差距。预期的结果是社区成员、组织和学者组成的研究团队的整合，共同制定一项研究设计，以解决快速变化的北极地区的社区需求。本提案汇集了双重暴露和环境脆弱性的框架，以建立一个分析框架，以理解快速变化的气候和非气候过程对北极社区的协同效应是如何由社会经济、生物物理和政治背景介导的。这项研究是与阿拉斯加、格陵兰岛和其他地区的沿海土著社区共同研究当前和未来北极对海冰变化的脆弱性，以确定差距，并根据社区成员的解释和框架提供选择。这项工作正在生成分析框架和研究设计，以了解气候和非气候过程对社区的影响和脆弱性。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 and social systems, addresses important societal challenges, and engages internationally and with local and Indigenous communities. Arctic communities are experiencing unprecedented transformation due to environmental changes and expanding and intensifying economic development. For example, as the climate warms, sea ice becomes thinner and less extensive, which enables the expansion of global trade and more shipping traffic with larger ships. This project is investigating the impacts of rapidly changing sea ice conditions on Arctic communities, how these changes interact with social and economic threats, and how the socio-economic and other contexts of the communities affect their vulnerabilities to both. The perspective and concerns of Artic peoples are at the core of this project, which brings together leaders of Indigenous communities from across the Arctic region with Western scientists to explore these issues at multiple scales. This project is identifying ways that scientific products can better serve communal needs, and thus narrow the gap between scientific projects and adaptation and resilience of Arctic communities. An anticipated outcome is the consolidation of a research team of community members, organizations, and academics to co-produce a research design to address community needs in a rapidly changing Arctic.This proposal brings together the frameworks of Double Exposure and Contextual Vulnerability to develop an analytical framework for understanding how the synergic effects of rapidly changing climatic and non-climatic processes on Arctic communities are mediated by socio-economic, biophysical, and political contexts. This research is co-producing knowledge with coastal Indigenous communities in Alaska, Greenland, and other regions on the current and future Arctic vulnerabilities to sea-ice change to identify gaps and providing options by context as interpreted and framed by community members. The work is generating analytical frameworks and research designs for understanding the effects on and vulnerabilities of communities to climatic and non-climatic processes.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.