Conference: Convergence Approaches to Arctic Coasts

北极正在经历快速的环境变化，这对几代人赖以维系北极人民和生态系统的自然环境、建筑环境和社会制度提出了挑战。这些变化在北极沿海系统中表现得非常明显。关于北极海岸系统的新研究得到了新北极航行(NNA)计划和海岸线与人(COP)计划的支持。然而，需要在这些北极沿海项目和新视角之间进行协调和综合，才能充分了解这些快速变化。项目组将召开一次北极海岸研讨会，将几个大型的、汇聚在一起的研究项目团队、土著和当地社区成员以及专注于北极海岸的决策者聚集在一起。北极海岸研讨会的目标是将不同群体的人聚集在一起，交流有关沿海灾害影响的知识和信息，加强协作网络，并提供切实的产品，支持社区的优先事项，并取得单一研讨会以外的成果。研讨会将编写一份报告，内容包括：(1)加强多个群体之间的知识交流，以促进有效的沟通和合作；(2)确定和记录解决北极环境变化引起的自然/社会/工程问题的关键战略；(3)建立协作团队，确定社区成员优先考虑的共同研究主题；(4)确定北极沿海社区学生的教育需求、挑战和机会。最终，北极海岸研讨会有助于实现NNA的目标，即从当地到国际范围增强新的研究伙伴关系，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知识的共同创造。这一奖项反映了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。

The Arctic is experiencing rapid environmental changes that present challenges to the natural environment, built environment, and social systems that have sustained Arctic peoples and ecosystems for generations. These changes are strongly evident in Arctic coastal systems. New research on Arctic coastal systems has been supported through both the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program and the Coastlines and People (CoPe) program. However, coordination and synthesis among these Arctic coastal projects and new perspectives are needed to fully understand these rapid changes. The project team will convene an Arctic Coasts workshop to bring together several large, convergent research project teams, Indigenous and local community members, and decision makers focused on Arctic coasts. The goal of the Arctic Coasts workshop is to bring together a diverse set of people to exchange knowledge and information about coastal hazard impacts, enhance collaborative networks, and deliver tangible products that support community priorities and lead to outcomes beyond the single workshop. The workshop will produce a report that: (1) enhances knowledge exchange across multiple groups for effective communication and collaboration; (2) identifies and documents key strategies to address natural/social/engineering issues resulting from environmental changes in the Arctic; (3) builds collaborative teams and identifies convergent research topics prioritized by community members; and (4) identifies educational needs, challenges, and opportunities for students in Arctic coastal communities. Ultimately, the Arctic Coasts workshop contributes to the NNA goal of empowering new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifying the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhancing efforts in formal and informal education, and integrating the co-production of knowledge where appropriate.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.