Collaborative Research: NNA Incubator: Improving Culturally Sensitive Energy Strategies in the Arctic Residential Buildings with the Co-Production of Knowledge Framework

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。这项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。该奖项通过解决以下NNA重点领域的社会系统和建筑环境之间的相互作用来实现这一目标：北极居民和弹性基础设施。北极大部分地区的气候特点是漫长寒冷的冬季和短暂凉爽的夏季。全球气候变化正在改变北极气候，导致气温升高，冰雪融化速度加快。这些变化给阿拉斯加原住民社区住宅建筑的可持续运营带来了独特的挑战，因为这些建筑往往由于隔热材料不足、热桥和空气泄漏而能源效率低下。除了不适当的建筑条件外，阿拉斯加的能源和电力价格往往高于其他48个州的平均价格，从而给阿拉斯加原住民社区带来了额外的挑战。这个NNA孵化器项目的总体目标是与阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾地区两个土著社区的合作伙伴和利益相关者合作，探索共同生产知识框架的设计、开发和实施，以提高北极地区住宅建筑的能源效率。为了实现这一目标，项目研究团队建议调查阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾地区住宅建筑中社会文化因素、建筑设计/施工策略、建筑能源效率和气候之间的关系。该项目的成功完成将通过开发和实施共同生产的知识框架来造福社会，该框架可用于识别和设计解决方案，以提高北极地区住宅建筑的能源效率。通过学生教育和培训，包括爱荷华州立大学的一名研究生的指导，将为社会带来额外的好处。为了设计和开发改善阿拉斯加土著社区住宅建筑能源效率的解决方案，从研究开始就让这些社区和相关利益相关者参与到共同生产的知识框架中至关重要。在这个NNA孵化器项目中，首席研究员（pi）提议与阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾地区的两个土著社区和利益相关者合作，目标是建立互惠和信任的关系，以推进共同生产知识框架的设计和实施，以提高北极地区住宅建筑的能源效率。拟议研究的具体目标是：(1)调查社会文化因素以何种方式影响阿拉斯加土著社区的住房建设和能源使用；(2)评估社会文化因素和气候因素对住宅建筑建设的影响，并评估节能住宅建筑建设的主要障碍；(3)评估社会文化因素和气候如何影响住宅建筑设计和能源使用模式，并提取能源分析的关键因素；(4)通过建模和模拟了解和预测阿拉斯加未来气候变化如何影响住宅建筑的能源使用。通过整合有针对性的需求评估研究、研讨会以及建模和模拟研究的结果，项目研究小组希望确定与阿拉斯加土著社区独特文化背景和遗产相关的北极住宅建筑中与能源使用相关的关键特征。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。

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 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 addressing interactions among social systems and built environments in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents and Resilient Infrastructure.The climate in much of the Arctic is characterized by long cold winters and short cool summers. Global climate change is shifting the Arctic climate by raising temperatures and melting snow and ice at an increasing rate. These changes are causing unique challenges to the sustainable operation of residential buildings in Alaska Native communities as these buildings are often energy inefficient due to inadequate insulation, thermal bridges, and air leakage. In addition to inadequate building conditions, energy and electricity prices in Alaska are often higher than the average prices in the lower 48 States, thereby causing additional challenges to Alaska Native communities. The overarching goal of this NNA Incubator project is to explore the design, development, and implementation of a co-production of knowledge framework to improve residential building energy efficiency in Arctic regions in collaboration with partners and stakeholders from two Indigenous communities from the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. To advance this goal, the project research team proposes to investigate the relationships between socio-cultural factors, building design/construction strategies, building energy efficiency, and climate in residential buildings from the target Alaska Bristol Bay region of study. The successful completion of this project will benefit society through the development and implementation of a co-production of knowledge framework that could be used to identify and design solutions to improve residential building energy efficiency in Arctic regions. Additional benefits to society will be achieved through student education and training including the mentoring of one graduate student at Iowa State University. To design and develop solutions for improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings of Indigenous communities in Alaska, it is critical to engage these communities and relevant stakeholders from the beginning of the research within a co-production of knowledge framework. In this NNA Incubator project, the Principal Investigators (PIs) propose to engage with two Indigenous communities and stakeholders in the Alaska Bristol Bay region with the goal of building reciprocal and trustful relationships to advance the design and implementation of a co-production of knowledge framework to improve residential building energy efficiency in Arctic regions. The specific objectives of the proposed research are to (1) investigate in what ways socio-cultural components impact housing construction and energy usage in Alaska Indigenous communities; (2) evaluate how socio-cultural components and climate affect residential building construction, and assess the main barriers to energy efficient residential building construction; (3) assess how socio-cultural components and climate affect residential building design and energy use patterns, and extract critical factors for energy analysis, and (4) understand and predict how future climate change in Alaska might affect energy usage in residential buildings using modeling and simulations. By integrating targeted need assessment studies, workshops, and the results of modeling and simulation studies, the project research team hopes to identify critical energy-usage-related features in Arctic residential buildings associated with the unique cultural background and heritage of Alaska Indigenous communities.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.