Circle of Knowledge on Climate, Weather and Environmental Change: A Community-based Research Project with the Koyukon Athabascan Communities along the Koyukuk River in Alaska

这项SGER提案是在阿拉斯加Koyukuk河（Huslia, Hughes, Koyukuk, Alatna, Alakaket）沿线共同开发一个基于社区的研究项目“知识圈：气候，天气和环境变化”。拟议的研究适合SGER，因为它是“未经测试和新颖想法的初步工作”，也是“对新兴研究的冒险”。传统知识是社会科学中一个新兴的研究概念，不仅在社会科学家中，而且在自然科学家中也有发展新的思维方式的潜力。北极社会科学计划资助了几个项目，收集和确定传统的环境、气候和社会关系概念，但这些项目中很少有科学家和社区共同开发的，比如这里提出的。对于科学家来说，在阿拉斯加原住民社区进行研究之前，建立稳固的社会关系、告知人们并获得他们的同意总是很重要的。这是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的《北极研究行为原则》（Principals for Conduct of Research in Arctic）中明确阐述的原则。这个提议的独特之处在于，PI不仅与任何科学研究项目取得联系并获得同意，这对任何科学研究项目的成功都至关重要，在政治上被授权的阿拉斯加土著社区中更是如此，而且她从研究的概念和设计上就咨询了阿拉斯加土著社区。此外，拟议的SGER将为PI未来在一个几乎没有研究项目的地区的研究奠定基础，阿拉斯加内陆的Koyukon Athabascan人。

ABSTRACTSGER PI Shannon McNeeleyUCARThis SGER proposal is to co-develop a community based research project "Circle of Knowledge: Climate, Weather and Environmental Change" along the Koyukuk River (Huslia, Hughes, Koyukuk, Alatna, Alakaket), Alaska. The proposed research is appropriate for a SGER as it is "preliminary work on untested and novel ideas," as well as "a venture into emerging research." Traditional knowledge is an emerging research concept in the social sciences that has the potential for developing new ways of thinking not only among social scientists but natural scientists as well. The Arctic Social Sciences Program has funded several projects collecting and identifying traditional concepts of the environment, climate and social relations, but few of these projects were co-developed between scientists and communities, such as proposed here.It is always important for scientist to make solid social relationships and inform people and gain consent prior to undertaking research in Alaska Native communities. This is a well-stated principle in the NSF's "Principals for Conduct of Research in the Arctic." What is unique about this proposal is that the PI is not only making contacts and receiving consent crucial to the success of any scientific research project and all the more crucial among politically empowered Alaska Native communities, but she is consulting Alaska Native communities about the research from its very conception and design. In addition, the proposed SGER will lay the groundwork for future research by the PI in a region that has few research project, the Interior of Alaska among the Koyukon Athabascan people.