NNA Planning: Collaborative Research: A holistic approach to monitoring abrupt environmental shifts in the Kluane Lake region

NNA 规划：合作研究：监测克鲁恩湖地区环境突变的整体方法

• 批准号: 2127220
• 负责人: Emily Huff
• 金额: $ 22.38万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127220&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Planning; Collaborative; Research; holistic

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).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, and addresses important societal challenges, builds significant educational opportunities, and engages internationally and with local and Indigenous communities. Rapidly changing Arctic conditions necessitate multi-perspective approaches to creating new knowledge and engaging communities that are most affected by these changes. Thus, planning and co-producing effective Arctic research is needed, results of which will inform social and ecological security on a national, and global scale. The Kluane Lake Region in the Yukon Territory has recently experienced many abrupt environmental shifts. In 2016, the retreating Kaskawulsh Glacier cut off flow from Lhù’ààn Mân (Kluane Lake), effectively removing one of the largest water inputs to the lake. Additionally, recent insect outbreaks have harmed nearby forests, and warming climate regimes have shifted winter ice formation and snowpack development. While these compounding environmental changes will have drastic impacts to the ecosystem for decades to come, their impacts on the local communities will be more rapid. While these ecological impacts have been observed by formal research communities, it is also critical to work closely with local communities to understand their perspectives on critical research questions and natural resource concerns. Thus, the research team works with local communities like the Kluane First Nations and Champagne and Aishihik First Nation, as co-producers of research questions and design. This convergence research team is co-creating research questions, seeking questions that are relevant and generalizable to the Kluane Lake region specifically, the Yukon generally, and broadly at a pan-Arctic scale. Research questions are being identified by incorporating the experiences and local knowledge of communities. Specifically, planning activities center around a community liaison employed by the project with credibility in the communities around the lake, with two kick-off scoping trips (research team), and then a community-driven workshop to identify gaps in current understanding and existing methodologies to develop: 1) a citizen-science monitoring program to generate reliable and consistent data for climate and lake conditions; 2) compilations of datasets, databases, and tools for accessibility and integration into educational offerings; and 3) knowledge of community acceptance and perspectives on new technologies and data tools. Researchers are employing a mixed methods triangulation approach during the co-production process, via assembly of existing quantitative data, key informant interviews, and structured and unstructured qualitative data collection during the workshop. Researchers will then expand the team to include gaps in expertise, based on final co-produced research questions. Finally, the research team is involving underrepresented students from multiple institutions in the planning process, so they may see how a hybrid model of knowledge co-production (traditional and westernized view of knowledge) takes place.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.

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。导航新北极（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。它整合了自然环境和社会系统的各个方面，解决了重要的社会挑战，创造了重要的教育机会，并在国际上与当地和土著社区进行了接触。迅速变化的北极条件需要多视角的方法来创造新的知识和参与受这些变化影响最大的社区。因此，需要规划和共同开展有效的北极研究，其结果将为国家和全球范围的社会和生态安全提供信息。育空地区的克卢恩湖地区最近经历了许多突然的环境变化。2016年，Kaskawulsh冰川的退缩切断了Lh 'ààn Mân（Kluane湖）的水流，有效地消除了该湖最大的水输入之一。此外，最近的昆虫爆发损害了附近的森林，气候变暖改变了冬季冰的形成和积雪的发展。虽然这些复杂的环境变化将在未来几十年对生态系统产生巨大影响，但它们对当地社区的影响将更加迅速。虽然这些生态影响已被正式的研究界观察到，但与当地社区密切合作，了解他们对关键研究问题和自然资源问题的看法也至关重要。因此，研究小组与当地社区合作，如Kluane第一民族和香槟和Aishihik第一民族，作为研究问题和设计的共同生产者。这个趋同研究小组正在共同创造研究问题，寻求与克卢恩湖地区特别是育空地区相关和可推广的问题，并广泛地在泛北极范围内。正在通过纳入社区的经验和当地知识来确定研究问题。 具体来说，规划活动围绕项目雇用的社区联络员展开，该联络员在湖周围的社区中具有公信力，并有两次启动范围界定之旅（研究小组），然后是一个社区驱动的研讨会，以确定目前的理解和现有方法的差距，以制定：1）公民科学监测计划，以产生可靠和一致的气候和湖泊状况数据; 2）汇编数据集、数据库和工具，以便于访问和整合到教育产品中; 3）了解社区对新技术和数据工具的接受程度和看法。研究人员在合作生产过程中采用混合方法三角测量方法，通过组装现有的定量数据，关键线人访谈以及在研讨会期间收集结构化和非结构化的定性数据。然后，研究人员将根据最终共同制作的研究问题，扩大团队，以包括专业知识的差距。最后，研究团队让来自多个机构的代表性不足的学生参与规划过程，让他们看到知识共同生产的混合模式（传统和西方化的知识观）是如何发生的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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。