NNA Collaboratory: Collaborative Research: ACTION - Alaska Coastal Cooperative for Co-producing Transformative Ideas and Opportunities in the North

航行新北极(NNA)是NSF的十大想法之一。NNA项目解决了快速变化的北极地区汇聚的科学挑战。这项研究需要为国家、更大区域和全球的经济、安全和韧性提供信息。NNA增强了从地方到国际的新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正式和非正式教育的努力，并在适当的情况下整合共同创造知识。该奖项通过在以下NNA重点领域解决社会系统、自然环境和建筑环境之间的相互作用来实现这一目标的一部分：北极居民、数据和观测、教育、预测、全球影响和弹性基础设施。侵蚀、洪水、永久冻土融化，以及世界上最快的气候驱动的气温上升，正在导致北极沿海社区环境条件的快速变化，有时甚至是灾难性的。当台风Merbok于2022年进入白令海时，人们感受到了问题的迫切性，加剧了现有的沿海危害、应急挑战和极端事件的脆弱性。环境变化超过了旨在救灾和保护的现有治理机制，包括经济和搬迁战略。解决办法必须适应文化背景，促进土著自决，并使社区成为平等的合作伙伴和知识持有者。ACTION(阿拉斯加海岸合作，共同在北方产生变革性的想法和机会)项目致力于以科学为基础，以过程为基础，以可操作的社区驱动的科学和教育为基础，解决问题。该项目源于八个北极土著沿海社区和学术研究人员之间的现有伙伴关系，这些社区正在应对日益加剧的气候驱动的沿海灾害和环境变化，学术研究人员正在研究这些过程。该项目将开发和实施一种创新的、基于力量的沿海复原力社区方法，以推进融合科学和观测，确定社区优先事项，告知适应，整合现有知识，并改善多个利益攸关方群体之间的沟通，以有效应对快速变化的北极。行动将1)分析现有的地方和区域通信网络，并综合最佳做法，促进知识交流和创新联网；2)推进基于地点的沿海灾害评估、观测和预报；3)通过推进知识联合生产和社会-生态-技术建模，设计具有复原力、参与性和适应性的治理框架；以及4)促进劳动力发展和将农村社区与大学联系起来的教育活动，以提高部落组织的技术能力。行动伙伴关系将通过强调共同创造知识来设计和调整沿海灾害问题，从而实现这些目标。解决办法将以当地的土著知识、工程和科学方法和成果为基础，并通过集体谈判和共同学习的经验共同创造。预计社区、社会和自然科学知识共同产生的理解将建立信任，并导致更公平和更有力的治理成果，以及对当前和正在出现的环境动态的技术回应。这种方法是迭代的，因为它是联合制作的，所以突破了趋同科学的界限。该项目设想将基于地点的、现有的和新的生物地球物理知识相结合，将导致新的理解和建模框架以及科学知情的解决方案，增加与社区和决策者的相关性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This 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 addressing interactions among social systems, natural environment, and built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Data and Observation, Education, Forecasting, Global Impact, and Resilient Infrastructure. Erosion, flooding, permafrost thaw, and the fastest climate-driven temperature increases in the world are resulting in rapid and sometimes catastrophic shifts in environmental conditions for Arctic coastal communities. The immediacy of the problem was felt when Typhoon Merbok entered the Bering Sea in 2022, intensifying existing coastal hazards, emergency response challenges, and vulnerability to extreme events. Environmental changes outpace existing governance mechanisms, including economic and relocation strategies, aimed at disaster relief and protection. Solutions must suit cultural context, foster Indigenous self-determination, and engage communities as equal partners and knowledge holders. The ACTION (Alaska Coastal Cooperative for Co-producing Transformative Ideas and Opportunities in the North) project is a commitment to science-informed problem solving that is process-based and grounded in actionable community-driven science and education. The project grows out of existing partnerships among eight Indigenous Arctic coastal communities, which are responding to increasing climate-driven coastal hazards and environmental change, and academic researchers, who are studying these processes. The project will develop and implement an innovative, strength-based community approach to coastal resilience that advances convergence science and observing, identifies community priorities, informs adaptation, integrates existing knowledge, and improves communication across multiple stakeholder groups to effectively respond to a rapidly changing Arctic. ACTION will 1) analyze existing local and regional communication networks and synthesize best practices, facilitate knowledge exchange, and innovate networking; 2) advance place-based coastal hazard assessments, observing, and forecasting; 3) design resilient, participatory, and adaptive governance frameworks by advancing knowledge co-production and social-ecological-technological modeling; and 4) facilitate workforce development and education activities linking rural communities with universities to enhance technical capacity within Tribal organizations. ACTION partnerships will achieve these objectives by emphasizing the co-production of knowledge to design and reframe coastal hazard problems. Solutions will be grounded in place-based Indigenous knowledge, engineering and scientific methods and outcomes, and co-created through collectively negotiated and co-learned experiences. It is anticipated that co-generated understanding across community, social and natural science knowledge will build trust and lead to more equitable and robust governance outcomes, technical responses to current and emerging environmental dynamics. The approach is iterative, and because it is co-produced, pushes the boundaries of convergence science. The project envisions that combining place-based, existing, and new biogeophysical knowledge will lead to new understanding and modeling frameworks and science-informed solutions, increasing relevance for communities and decision-makers.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.