Caring for the Thunderbird's Nest: Geophysical and Machine Learning solutions to characterize and monitor inequitable Exposures to Ground and Air Pollution with Fort William First Nation

照顾雷鸟巢：利用地球物理和机器学习解决方案来描述和监测威廉堡原住民对地面和空气污染的不公平暴露

• 批准号: CCSIF-2022-00116
• 负责人: Kirali, Ozan
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: College & Community Social Innovation Fund
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=756453
• 关键词: Caring; Thunderbird; Nest; Geophysical; Machine

Via this College and Community Social Innovation project, Humber College will partner with the Fort William First Nation (FWFN) and researchers from the University of Toronto on "Caring for the Thunderbird's Nest: Geophysical and Machine Learning solutions to characterize and monitor inequitable Exposures to Ground and Air Pollution."The project will address a health and environmental crisis in the FWFN community - a cluster of leukemia in very young community members who spent time in childhood in an area with over a century of industrial development, including pulp and paper, metallurgy, coal-fired power, rail, chemical plants, contaminated dredge, industrial disposal sites, fuelling stations and other industries. The community has noted that children under five who spent time in a residential area adjacent to the industrial lands were most likely to experience this atypically young-onset of leukemia. The industrial lands have been subject to Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) paid for by the government and industry as part of comprehensive land claim processes. Despite dozens of ESAs over several decades, FWFNs leadership does not have relevant information in a format that is useful for the community to make decisions. They also do not trust the reporting practices of the liable parties who have been obliged by law to finance the ESAs. This project will work in a nest of collaboration with FWFN in a model of integrated knowledge translation - researchers and community learning together. The goals of this interdisciplinary collaboration are five-fold: 1) work in an ethic of care and reciprocity with FWFN and the land; 2) fully assess the industrial area to characterize it and identify prevention, management and remediation methods of the polluted sites; 3) co-produce culturally appropriate and accessible information to enable informed local decision-making now and in the future; 4) create pathways of ethical engagement with Indigenous community-driven research agendas for engineering students, enabling FWFN to become a "go-to, go through" community for student training on complex environmental problem solving, and 5) building a culturally safe nest to develop community capacity and mentor Indigenous students in environmental engineering and interdisciplinary studies in an Indigenous community setting.

通过这个学院和社区社会创新项目，亨伯学院将与威廉堡第一民族(Fort William First Nation，FWFN)和多伦多大学(University Of Toronto)的研究人员合作，研究“关爱雷鸟巢：地球物理和机器学习解决方案，以表征和监测不公平的地面和空气污染暴露”。该项目将解决FWFN社区的健康和环境危机--年轻社区成员的白血病聚集性，他们童年时曾在一个拥有一个多世纪工业发展的地区度过，包括纸浆和造纸、冶金、燃煤发电、铁路、化工厂、受污染的疏浚、工业处理场、加油站和其他行业。社区已经注意到，在靠近工业用地的居民区度过一段时间的五岁以下儿童最有可能经历这种非典型的年轻白血病发作。作为全面土地申领程序的一部分，工业用地已接受由政府和行业支付的环境场地评估(ESA)。尽管几十年来签署了数十份ESA，但FWFN领导层没有对社区决策有用的相关信息。他们也不信任法律规定有义务为特别服务协议提供资金的责任方的报告做法。该项目将与FWFN合作，以整合知识翻译的模式--研究人员和社区学习一起工作。这种跨学科合作的目标有五个方面：1)本着关爱和互惠的原则，与FWFN和土地合作；2)全面评估工业区，以确定其特点，并确定污染场地的预防、管理和补救方法；3)共同制作文化上合适和可获得的信息，使现在和未来能够做出明智的地方决策；4)为工程学学生创建与土著社区驱动的研究议程进行伦理接触的途径，使FWFN成为学生在解决复杂环境问题方面接受培训的“首选”社区，以及5)建立一个文化安全的巢穴，以发展社区能力，并在土著社区环境中指导土著学生进行环境工程和跨学科研究。