SCC-IRG Track 1: Strengthening Resilience of Ojibwe Nations Across Generations (STRONG)

气候变化加剧了美国许多原住民民族生计和福祉面临的现有威胁。此外，入侵物种、采矿和开发对为土著人民提供食物、水和文化安全的关键生态系统的影响不断加大。这项智能互联社区综合研究补助金 (SCC-IRG) 与部落合作伙伴合作，旨在了解增强的数据访问、可用性和可用性如何增强社区的复原力。该项目通过传统知识框架融合了社会科学、数据科学、环境科学和计算机工程，以确定原住民社区的复原力和主权之间的关键联系。采用先进传感技术的网络基础设施的部署有助于展示如何将多模型社会生态数据结合到可操作的弹性框架中。其结果是，为具有重要文化意义的动植物创造了适应气候变化的新途径，并指导了发展计划以尽量减少不利影响。这个部落驱动的项目采用传统知识框架来综合传统和科学知识，以推进三个领域的复原力研究创新：1）环境科学：该项目部署了最先进的Wild Sage边缘传感平台和微型无电池能量收集传感器，以持续测量水和生态系统状况，并评估气候变化、采矿污染物和石油/天然气管道故障对马努明（野生稻）和相关湿地生态系统的影响； 2) 治理：该项目通过共同制定和评估文化上适当的复原力指标来预测、应对和减轻急性和慢性社会生态扰动，从而评估通过传统知识框架产生的科学知识如何影响部落规划和治理； 3) 社区影响：该项目共同开发和部署 Noondawind，这是一个动态、集成的网络基础设施平台，它将不同的最终用户与强大的数据连接起来，并进行分析，以研究数据访问如何增强部落主权和复原力。通过使研究产品更能满足社区确定的需求并增强不同最终用户对网络基础设施的可访问性，该项目旨在展示数据如何在建设治理能力和加强共同环境、经济、政治和社会福祉优先事项的部落间协调方面发挥核心作用。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Climate change exacerbates existing threats to the livelihoods and well-being of many Native American nations across the United States. Additionally, the effects of invasive species, mining, and development have been increasing on critical ecosystems that provide food, water, and cultural security for Indigenous Peoples. Working with tribal partners, this Smart and Connected Communities Integrative Research Grant (SCC-IRG) seeks to understand how enhanced data access, availability, and usability can strengthen community resilience. The project converges social science, data science, environmental science, and computer engineering through a traditional knowledge framework to identify key links between resilience and sovereignty of Indigenous communities. Deployment of cyberinfrastructure with advanced sensing technologies helps demonstrate how multi-model socio-ecological data can be combined into actionable resilience frameworks. As the result, new pathways of climate adaptation are created for culturally significant plants and animals, as well as guiding development plans to minimize adverse impacts. This tribally driven project adopts a traditional knowledge framework to synthesize traditional and scientific knowledge to advance innovations in resilience research in three areas: 1) Environmental Science: the project deploys state-of-the-art Wild Sage edge-enabled sensing platforms and tiny battery-free energy-harvesting sensors to continuously measure water and ecosystems conditions, and to assess the effects of climate change, mining contaminants, and oil/gas pipeline failures on manoomin (wild rice) and associated wetland ecosystems; 2) Governance: the project assesses the effects of how scientific knowledge generated through a traditional knowledge framework impacts tribal planning and governance by co-producing and evaluating culturally appropriate resilience indicators for anticipating, responding to, and mitigating acute and chronic socio-ecological perturbations; and 3) Community Impact: the project co-develops and deploys Noondawind, a dynamic, integrated cyberinfrastructure platform that connects diverse end-users with STRONG data and analyses to examine how access to data strengthens tribal sovereignty and resilience. By making research products more responsive to community-identified needs and enhancing accessibility of cyberinfrastructure for diverse end-users, this project aims to demonstrate how data can play a central role in building governance capacity and strengthening intertribal coordination on common environmental, economic, political, and social well-being priorities.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.