Focused CoPe: Strengthening Resilience of Manoomin, the Sentinel Species of the Great Lakes, with Data-Science Supported Seventh Generation Stewardship

土著社区不成比例地受到土地开发（如采矿、伐木、石油/天然气管道）和气候变化威胁的影响。极端天气事件、海水变暖以及栖息地的迅速丧失降低了这些社区获取、维护和利用沿海资源的能力，如Manoomin（奥吉布语中的野生水稻）。马诺明生长在沿海湿地，其分布范围已经大大减少，这使得了解、保护和恢复马诺明栖息地成为五大湖面临的一个关键挑战。Manoomin将沿海湿地的物理和生态问题与生活在这些海岸上的人们的精神、社会和生存问题联系起来，并充当人与海岸线之间的接口。这个重点中心将发展网络、科学、教育和社区基础，通过将部落、政府、保护主义者和研究人员聚集在马诺明周围，确保五大湖的第七代可持续性和复原力，马诺明是奥吉布文化和生计的支柱，也是了解和保护五大湖沿海湿地的关键哨兵物种。该中心将采用一种整体的、跨学科的方法来解决人类、沿海和气候变化等相互关联的问题，这些问题导致了大湖区西部地区的人口减少。该中心将提高测量、理解和预测沿海湿地生态系统变化的科学能力，重点关注作为重要哨兵物种的马诺米。与土著民族和社区的直接伙伴关系将确认当地对沿海土地、水和生态系统的主权，并为社区、部落、国家、州和地区各级的恢复决策提供信息。该中心将通过社区参与、知识合作生产以及培训新一代科学家和该地区目前代表性不足的社区的领导人来提高沿海社区的能力。该中心使沿海湿地过程的基础研究跨越四个主题：1)遥感和数据科学网络基础设施将本地和遥感与数据科学方法相结合，以加深对沿海湿地的了解。本主题将为其他主题提供数据支持：2)物理和环境过程将揭示湿地系统的基本过程，重点关注水、沉积物和污染物在湿地生态系统中的综合影响；3)治理、社会和人类维度将研究指导决策的治理系统以及湿地恢复力的社会和人类维度。4)社区参与、交流和教育将加强大学研究人员、政府、部落实体和保护组织之间的关系，同时为土著学生创造新的教育机会。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。

Native communities are disproportionately affected by threats of land development (e.g., mining, logging, oil/gas pipelines) and climate change. Extreme weather events, warming waters, and rapid habitat loss reduce the ability of these communities to access, maintain, and use coastal resources such as Manoomin (Ojibwe word for wild rice). Manoomin grows in coastal wetlands, and its range has decreased considerably, making understanding, conservation, and restoration of manoomin habitat a critical challenge for the Great Lakes. Manoomin ties the physical and ecological issues of coastal wetlands to the spiritual, social, and subsistence issues of the people who have lived on these coasts, and acts as an interface between people and coastlines. This Focused Hub will develop cyber, scientific, educational, and community foundations to ensure 7th generation sustainability and resilience of the Great Lakes by bringing together tribes, government, conservationists, and researchers around Manoomin as a pillar of Ojibwe culture and livelihood, and as a keystone sentinel species for understanding and conserving Great Lakes coastal wetlands. This Focused Hub will use a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to untangle the interconnected human, coastal, and climate change issues causing region-wide manoomin decline in the Western Great Lakes. The Hub will advance scientific capacity to measure, understand, and predict changes in coastal wetland ecosystems, focusing on manoomin as a vital sentinel species. Direct partnerships with Native Nations and Communities will affirm local sovereignty over coastal land, water, and ecosystems, and inform resilience decisions at community, tribal, national, state, and regional levels. The Hub will increase coastal community capacity through community engagement, knowledge co-production, and training a new generation of scientists and leaders from currently underrepresented communities in the region. The Hub enables basic research on coastal wetlands processes across four Themes: 1) Sensing and Data Science Cyberinfrastructure will combine local and remote sensing with Data Science approaches to develop a deeper understanding of coastal wetlands. This theme will provide data to support the other Themes: 2) Physical and Environmental Processes will unravel the fundamental processes that underlie wetland systems, focusing on the combined effects of water, sediments, and contaminants in manoomin ecosystems, 3) Governance, Social, and Human Dimensions will investigate the governance systems that guide decision-making and the social and human dimensions of manoomin resilience. 4) Community Engagement, Communication, and Education will strengthen relationships between university researchers, government, tribal entities, and conservation organizations while building novel educational opportunities for Indigenous students.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.