Participatory Water Science and Resistance to Extractivism

土著环境正义运动越来越多地使用公民科学进行环境监测。该项目研究了作为CS的一部分，EJ运动如何战略性地纳入水科学以产生新的知识，以及纳入水科学是否和如何塑造土著水保卫者的前景和能力，以应对对土著社区健康、生计和领土的潜在威胁。这一参与性项目是一名政治人类学家、一名生物系统工程师、一名环境化学家、一名医学地理学家、土著社区组织和政府以及相关非政府组织以及社区科学家之间的合作。将进行访谈，以研究土著EJ运动如何利用水科学不仅解决发展问题，而且还塑造运动参与者的知识、道德和技能。该项目支持社区获取水科学和环境地图，开发培训社区科学家的协作方法，提供大量研究生培训，组织当地会议，并与环保主义者、学者、专业人士、政府机构和国际观众分享研究结果。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。

Indigenous environmental justice (EJ) movements increasingly use citizen science (CS) for environmental monitoring. This project examines how as part of CS, EJ movements strategically incorporate water science to produce new knowledge, and whether and how the incorporation of water science shapes the outlooks and capacities of Indigenous water defenders to address potential threats to Indigenous communities’ health, livelihoods, and territories.This participatory project is a collaboration between a political anthropologist, a biosystems engineer, an environmental chemist, a medical geographer, Indigenous community organizations and governments and allied-NGOs, as well as community scientists. Interviews will be conducted to examine how Indigenous EJ movements use water science to not only address development, but to also shape the knowledge, ethics, and skills of movement participants. The project supports community access to water science and environmental mapping, develops a collaborative methodology for training community scientists, provides substantial graduate student training, organizes local meetings and conferences, and shares findings with environmentalists, academics, professionals, government agencies, and international audiences.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.