NNA Track 1: Innovations in Energy Technologies and Empowerment in Arctic Fishing Communities

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。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，并整合知识的共同生产。这个奖项部分实现了这一目标。寒冷的北极条件，夏季24小时的阳光加上冬季24小时的黑暗，以及一年中大部分时间结冰的海洋海岸线，威胁着北极社区的生存。这些社区目前完全依赖昂贵的化石燃料来满足他们的能源需求。能源成本、渔业和环境的变化以及一个年轻的自治国家政府的共同影响，目前正以各种方式威胁着长期以来以该地区为家的人们的文化和生活方式。该项目发现了可持续的技术创新，并为不断变化的北极地区的小社区确定了一条可实现且负担得起的未来之路。该研究确定、创建、测试并展示了适用于寒冷、恶劣的北极条件的尖端和下一代能源技术系统，例如，包括适用于极地条件的下一代电池、太阳能和风能技术以及海洋热泵。这些发现将被发表，以便这些发现将被广泛使用。与北极地区的青年和学校的教育活动将提供基于探究的实践活动，以学习可再生能源系统，这在美国的学校也很有用。学习活动将有助于提高学生追求社区或四年制大学技术导向职业所需的自信心。可持续的技术解决方案也将使中纬度地区的偏远社区受益。可负担得起的可再生能源的可用性将使文化得以延续，促进健康和安全，并加强社区的复原力。由利益相关者的价值观和目标驱动的一种迭代的、基于系统的方法正在被用来确定依赖渔业获取食物和收入的北极社区所面临的能源和渔业相关研究需求。该项目是由当地渔民向达特茅斯学院的一位教授发出的邀请发起的，代表了利益相关者驱动的科学，并在社区成员和学术界之间进行知识联产。教师、研究生和本科生在这个项目中的研究将产生与任务相关的见解和原型，并将使确定强大和有弹性的适应策略成为可能。工程师、科学家、学生、狩猎渔民、公用事业管理者、地方政府代表和市民将合作解决该地区具有挑战性的跨学科问题，因为该地区对环境变化的规划和适应还没有到位。应对气候变化问题的方式将包括能源自给自足，确定一条可实现的、可持续的道路，建设一个有复原力的未来，并促进在不断变化的条件下进行工程能力建设。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. The 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, and integrates the co-production of knowledge. This award fulfills part of that aim. Cold Arctic conditions, twenty-four-hour summer sunlight combined with twenty-four-hour winter darkness, and a frozen ocean coastline for much of the year are threatening survival of Arctic communities. These communities currently rely entirely on expensive fossil fuels for their energy needs. The joint impacts of energy cost, changes in fisheries and the environment, and a young self-rule national government are intertwined in ways that are currently threatening the culture and lifestyles of people who have long called the region home. This project discovers sustainable technological innovations and identifies an achievable and affordable pathway to the future for small communities in a changing Arctic. The research identifies, creates, tests, and demonstrates cutting-edge and next-generation energy technology systems suited to cold, harsh Arctic conditions, including, for example, next-generation batteries, solar and wind technologies for polar conditions, and ocean-linked heat pumps. The discoveries will be published so that the findings will be widely available. Educational activities with the youth and schools in the Arctic will provide inquiry-based, hands-on activities for learning about renewable energy systems that are also useful in schools in the U.S. The learning activities will contribute to self-confidence needed by students to pursue community or four-year college programs for technology-oriented careers. Sustainable technological solutions will also benefit remote communities in the mid-latitudes. Availability of affordable renewable energy will enable cultural continuity, enhance health and safety, and strengthen community resilience. An iterative, systems-based approach that is driven by stakeholder values and objectives is being used to define energy and fishery-related research needs faced by Arctic communities who rely on fishing for their food and income. Initiated by an invitation from local fishers to a Dartmouth professor, this project represents stakeholder-driven science with knowledge co-generation between community members and academics. Research by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in this project will produce mission-relevant insights and prototypes and will enable identification of robust and resilient adaptation strategies. Engineers, scientists, students, hunter-fishers, utility managers, local government representatives, and citizens will collaborate to address challenging interdisciplinary problems in this region where planning and adaptation to environmental change is not already in place. Issues of adaptation will be pursued in ways that embrace energy self-reliance, identify an achievable and sustainable pathway to a resilient future, and contribute to capacity-building for engineering in changing conditions.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.