Large-scale CoPe Hub: Rising Voices, Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。发声，改变海岸（RVCC）中心将为学科和认识论的融合创造一个空间，来自不同沿海地区的土著知识持有者将与受过大学培训的社会、生态系统和物理地球系统科学家和学生合作，进行变革性的融合研究，以解决他们社区背景下的沿海灾害。目标是：1)与社会和地球科学以及土著知识共同开展趋同研究，以改进沿海过程的建模和预测，支持土著社区围绕缓解和适应作出决策；2)为跨文化趋同研究制定一个成功的包容性框架，可为未来的研究合作所采用和调整；3)扩大土著学生和研究人员的参与；培养新一代多样化的融合研究科学家；4)增加行政和技术基础设施，以支持当前和未来与土著科学家和社区合作进行的研究。基于地点的研究集中在四个地区：阿拉斯加（北极）、路易斯安那州（墨西哥湾）、夏威夷（太平洋岛屿）和波多黎各（加勒比群岛）。RVCC中心将结合土著知识、建模能力、考古记录、GIS技术、社会经济分析和危害研究。总之，这些数据、跨学科分析和趋同的发现将加强对导致沿海灾害和气候恢复机会的相互关联的物理、文化、社会和经济过程的基本理解，并提高模式预测在几十年时间尺度上的准确性、相关性和可用性。选择从热带到北极的四个不同的海洋沿海地区，将使该中心能够比较各地区之间的异同，以便建立对大规模变化驱动因素的理解，这些驱动因素如何在当地表现和观察到，以及土著社区如何在其适应反应中有所不同。通过关注土著地区的海洋沿海地区，该项目将能够充分利用地球系统建模的能力，测试缩小规模能力的程度，并将这些数据与祖先的观测结果和社区的当代适应能力相结合。将土著知识与地球系统建模结合在一起，也将检验融合多元认识论的认识方式的有效性。因此，该中心将提高气候科学家对物理的理解和建模能力；加强文献记录并投资于气候和生态知识的本土方法，并测试这些不同的数据和知识框架如何相互通报和促进。这个跨学科、跨文化的团队将促进对数据和知识如何为社区决策者提供信息以及社区拥有的知识如何使科学更适用于建设复原力的理解。改进的建模能力将被纳入社区地球系统模型，并将公开发布并免费提供。RVCC中心的分析将使土著参与者能够确定未来沿海变化的可能性和性质，并制定针对其优先事项的缓解和适应战略。纳入该项目的学生和博士后机会将扩大土著学生和研究人员的参与，并培养新一代多样化的融合研究科学家。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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (RVCC) Hub will create a space for convergence of disciplines and epistemologies where Indigenous knowledge-holders from diverse coastal regions will work with university-trained social, ecosystem, and physical Earth system scientists and students on transformative convergence research to address coastal hazards in the contexts of their communities. The goals are to 1) co-produce convergence research with social and Earth sciences and Indigenous Knowledges to improve modeling and prediction of coastal processes that support decision making by Indigenous communities around mitigation and adaptation, 2) develop a successful, inclusive framework for cross-cultural convergence research that can be adopted and adapted by future research collaborations, 3) broaden participation amongst Indigenous students and researchers, and train a new generation of diverse convergence research scientists, 4) increase administrative and technological infrastructure to support current and future research with and by Indigenous scientists and communities. The place-based research is focused on four regions: Alaska (Arctic), Louisiana (Gulf of Mexico), Hawai‘i (Pacific Islands), and Puerto Rico (Caribbean Islands).The RVCC Hub will combine Indigenous Knowledges, modeling capabilities, archeological records, GIS techniques, socio-economic analysis, and hazards research. Together, these data, transdisciplinary analysis, and convergent findings will enhance fundamental understanding of the interconnected physical, cultural, social, and economic processes that result in coastal hazards and climate resilience opportunities and increase the accuracy, relevance, and usability of model predictions on multi-decadal timescales. Selecting four diverse marine coastal regions - ranging from tropical to Arctic - will allow this hub to compare similarities and differences across the regions in order to build understanding of largescale drivers of change, how these drivers manifest and are observed locally, and how Indigenous communities vary in their adaptive responses. By focusing on marine coastal areas in Indigenous territories, this project will be able to use the fullest capabilities of Earth system modeling, test the extent of downscaling capabilities, and couple those data with ancestral observations and contemporary adaptive capacity of communities. Bringing together Indigenous Knowledges with Earth system modeling will also test the efficacy of converging multi-epistemological ways of knowing. Therefore, this Hub will advance the physical understanding and modeling capabilities of climate scientists; enhance documentation and invest in Indigenous methodologies of climate and ecological knowledge, and test how these distinct frameworks of data and knowledge can co-inform and advance one another. The trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural team will advance understanding of how data and knowledge can inform community decision-makers and how community-held knowledge can make science more applicable in building resilience. Improved modeling capabilities will be incorporated into the Community Earth System Model and will be publicly released and freely available. The RVCC Hub’s analysis will enable Indigenous participants to identify the likelihood and nature of future coastal changes, and to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies that target their priorities. The student and postdoctoral opportunities that integrated into this project will broaden participation amongst Indigenous students and researchers, and train a new generation of diverse convergence research scientists.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.