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

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）是美国国家科学基金会的十大构想之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的融合科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和全球的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA支持从地方到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正式和非正式教育的努力，并在适当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，以开发新颖，领先的研究理念和方法来实现NNA目标，从而实现了该目标的一部分。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， 建立了重要的教育机会， 在国际上与当地和土著社区合作。快速变化的北极条件需要多视角的方法来创造新的知识，并使受这些变化影响最大的社区参与进来。因此，规划和共同开展有效的北极研究是必要的，其结果将为国家和全球范围内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，退缩的Kaskawulsh冰川切断了Lhù ' ààn m<e:1>（克卢恩湖）的水流，有效地消除了该湖最大的水输入之一。此外，最近爆发的昆虫对附近的森林造成了损害，气候变暖改变了冬季结冰和积雪的形成。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经被正式的研究团体所观察到，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，如克卢恩第一民族、香槟和艾希希克第一民族，作为研究问题和设计的共同制作人。这个融合研究团队正在共同创造研究问题，寻求与克卢恩湖地区相关和可推广的问题，特别是育空地区，以及泛北极范围内的广泛问题。通过结合社区的经验和当地知识，正在确定研究问题。具体而言，规划活动围绕项目聘用的社区联络员展开，在湖泊周围的社区中具有可信度，包括两次启动范围考察（研究小组），然后是社区驱动的研讨会，以确定当前理解和现有方法的差距，以制定：1)公民科学监测计划，生成可靠和一致的气候和湖泊条件数据；2)数据集、数据库和工具的汇编，以便可访问性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观点。研究人员在合作生产过程中采用混合方法三角测量方法，通过收集现有定量数据，关键信息访谈，以及在研讨会期间收集结构化和非结构化定性数据。然后，研究人员将根据最终共同提出的研究问题扩大团队，以包括专业知识方面的差距。最后，研究小组正在让来自多个机构的代表性不足的学生参与规划过程，因此他们可能会看到知识联合生产的混合模式（传统的和西方化的知识观）是如何发生的。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).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.