NNA Track 2: Coming Together to Learn

新北极航行（NNA）是NSF的十大创意之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的趋同科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和地球仪的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA授权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。这个奖项实现了这个目标的一部分。 北极生态系统正在以远远超过几代北极土著居民生活记忆的速度发生变化，从而对当地乃至全球产生影响。这项创新的规划补助金以合作科学为中心，结合了土著价值观，文化习俗和框架，以创新奖学金的新形式，为社会最紧迫的挑战提供信息。该项目团队和合作伙伴将开发以科学中的土著方法为中心的协作学习过程，推进导航新北极倡议的关键目标-“知识的共同生产”。这一概念反映在项目的名称中，Atautchikkun Ilitchisukluta，来自因纽特语，意思是“一起学习”。“这种方法为建立负责任、道德和有意的关系奠定了基础，融合了土著和西方的知识和科学，共同构思如何最适当地解决北极最紧迫的问题和需求，从而为实施提供了路线图未来的融合研究。该框架旨在作为发展其他北极研究活动的蓝图。该项目借鉴并加强了土著和非土著大学科学家，土著部落和组织，国际合作者和社区之间的现有关系，在美国和加拿大北极的博福特海地区。项目团队和合作伙伴将进行一个有意识的、合作性的为期一年的规划过程，以设计一个为期多天的学习活动，可能在阿拉斯加的乌特恰格维克（前巴罗）举办。这一规划进程和学习活动的目标是：（1）加强必要的关系，以跨越边界，共同提出研究问题和项目设计，解决北极社区及其沿海生态系统面临的关键变化;（2）发展一个共享的相互尊重的知识共同生产和共同生产的进程，创建一个中心概念模型，该模型将成为新北极导航轨道1提案的核心;（3）通过包容和指导土著青年作为下一代科学家和社区领袖，为相互学习提供空间。该项目的参与者将跨越许多边界的深层次专业知识联系起来，包括：土著和西方知识体系;社会，自然和工程科学;美国，加拿大、因纽特人、因纽特人国家;老年人和青年。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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. Arctic ecosystems are transforming at rates that far exceed generations of living memory of Arctic Indigenous residents, resulting in local-to-global impacts. This innovative planning grant centers on collaborative science that incorporates Indigenous values, cultural practices, and frameworks to innovate new forms of scholarship to inform society's most pressing challenges. This project team and partners will develop collaborative learning processes that will center on Indigenous approaches in the sciences, advancing a key goal of the Navigating the New Arctic initiative - the "co-production of knowledge." This concept is reflected in the project's title, Atautchikkun Ilitchisukluta, from the Inupiaq language meaning "coming together to learn." This approach sets the stage for building responsible, ethical, and intentional relationships merging both Indigenous and western knowledge and science, co-conceiving how to most appropriately address the Arctic's most pressing questions and needs, and thus providing a roadmap towards the implementation of future convergence research. This framework is intended to serve as a blueprint for developing other Arctic research activities. This project draws upon and strengthens existing relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous university scientists, Indigenous Tribes and organizations, international collaborators, and communities in the Beaufort Sea regions of the U.S. and Canadian Arctic. The project team and partners will undertake an intentional and collaborative year-long planning process to design a multi-day learning event, likely to be hosted in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Goals of this planning process and learning event are to: (1) Strengthen the relationships necessary for crossing boundaries to co-produce research questions and a project design, which address key changes facing Arctic communities and their coastal ecosystems; (2) Develop a shared mutually respectful process of knowledge co-production and co-create a central conceptual model that will form the centerpiece of a Navigating the New Arctic Track 1 proposal; (3) Provide space for mutual learning through the inclusion and mentorship of Indigenous youth as the next generation of scientists and community leaders. Participants in this project will link deep levels of expertise that span many boundaries, including: Indigenous and western knowledge systems; social, natural, and engineering sciences; U.S., Canadian, Inupiaq, Inuvialuit nations; elders and youth.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.