Planning Grant: Moving Forward Together - Transforming Arctic Geosciences for Alaska Native Sovereignty and Science

规划拨款：共同前进 - 为阿拉斯加原住民主权和科学转变北极地球科学

• 批准号: 2228064
• 负责人: Sarah Trainor
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228064&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Moving; Forward; Together

With this 2.5 year planning grant, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will lay the foundation for graduate geoscience education that is attractive to and supportive of Alaska Native, first-generation, and other students from underrepresented communities. Utilizing Indigenous methodologies and principles of knowledge co-production, the project leaders prioritize building partnerships across and beyond campus with Indigenous communities and leadership which requires a focus on process, dialogue, relationships, and respect. This transformative approach will converge the presently siloed disciplines of geosciences, social sciences, and Indigenous studies present at UAF and in the broader science community. The primary project partners are the UAF Alaska Native Success Initiative, the UAF Department of Equity and Compliance, and the First Alaskans Institute. In addition, the program will bring together currently disparate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion groups across the UAF campus, existing student groups such as Geoscientists of Color (GeoColor), the UAF faculty accelerator, and other related projects at UAF such as the NSF Tamamta Project and the Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub. This effort will include activities that will lay the foundation for a CTGC implementation proposal that is centered around convergence of entities, disciplines, and initiatives across and beyond the UAF campus, institutionalizing a teaching, learning, and research environment that is inclusive of multiple ways of knowing, and contextualizing the transformation of geosciences at UAF within diverse and specific educational opportunities, including experiential and cross-cultural learning. Activities will include a program of workshops, training, dialogues, and establishing the basis and framework for a mentoring program and a culture camp.Momentum has been building in the Geosciences at UAF toward institutional transformation and a new, transdisciplinary graduate degree program in Earth System Science is currently under institutional review. One important aspect of this program is the solid integration of sustainability science and the human dimension through a Sustainability Concentration. The proposed activities will be directly integrated into this transdisciplinary Sustainability Concentration of the newly designed Earth System Science program at UAF. The thematic focus is rapid change in the Arctic including climate change, impacts, and adaptation as well as hazard mitigation. Alaska Native peoples are especially vulnerable to climate extremes, with values and identity rooted in deep relationality between humanity and the natural world and compounding impacts arising from historical legacies of colonization and splintered governance that complicate response efforts. The climate is warming in northern latitudes at over twice the rate of other parts of the globe. Rural and Alaska Native communities throughout the state, many of which are accessible only by air or water, are among the most vulnerable, facing threats to key areas of concern such as salmon, large mammals, human health, and community infrastructure from extreme events such as flooding, high winds, erosion, increased rainfall, increased wildfire, and more extreme weather. Thus, there is an urgent need for Indigenous expertise in addressing these issues in Alaska and the Arctic.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.

有了这个2.5年的规划补助金，阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯（UAF）将奠定研究生地球科学教育的基础，这是有吸引力的，并支持阿拉斯加原住民，第一代，和其他学生从代表性不足的社区。利用土著方法和知识共同生产的原则，项目负责人优先建立跨校园和超越校园与土著社区和领导，这需要一个过程，对话，关系和尊重的重点伙伴关系。这种变革性的方法将融合目前孤立的地球科学，社会科学和土著研究的学科，目前在UAF和更广泛的科学界。主要的项目合作伙伴是UAF阿拉斯加土著成功倡议，公平和合规UAF部，和第一阿拉斯加研究所。此外，该计划将汇集目前不同的多样性，公平性和包容性团体在整个UAF校园，现有的学生团体，如颜色地球科学家（GeoColor），UAF教师加速器，以及其他相关项目在UAF，如NSF Tamamta项目和阿拉斯加北极观测站和知识中心。这项工作将包括为CTGC实施提案奠定基础的活动，该提案围绕UAF校园内外的实体，学科和举措的融合，将教学，学习和研究环境制度化，包括多种了解方式，并将UAF的地球科学转型置于多样化和特定的教育机会中，包括体验式和跨文化学习。活动将包括研讨会，培训，对话计划，并建立指导计划和文化营的基础和框架。在UAF的地球科学中，已经建立了向机构转型的势头，一个新的，跨学科的地球系统科学研究生学位课程目前正在接受机构审查。该计划的一个重要方面是通过可持续发展集中可持续发展科学和人类层面的坚实整合。拟议的活动将直接纳入UAF新设计的地球系统科学计划的跨学科可持续性集中。专题重点是北极的快速变化，包括气候变化、影响和适应以及减灾。阿拉斯加原住民特别容易受到极端气候的影响，其价值观和身份认同植根于人类与自然世界之间的深刻关系，并加剧了殖民化和分裂治理的历史遗留问题所产生的影响，使应对工作复杂化。北方纬度地区的气候变暖速度是地球仪其他地区的两倍多。整个州的农村和阿拉斯加原住民社区，其中许多只能通过空气或水进入，是最脆弱的社区之一，面临着对鲑鱼，大型哺乳动物，人类健康和社区基础设施等关键领域的威胁，如洪水，大风，侵蚀，降雨量增加，野火增加和更极端的天气。因此，在阿拉斯加和北极地区，迫切需要土著专业知识来解决这些问题。该奖项反映了NSF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。