Workshop: Leading Arctic Convergence Research with the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Irvine, CA - Fall 2019

该项目的目标是开发和执行一个研讨会，以提高自然，物理，工程和社会科学家之间的能力，以开发与北极相关的跨学科，融合研究项目，这些项目与社会和行为科学密切相关。加州大学欧文分校（University of California, Irvine）召集了来自美国各地不同STEM领域的学者，他们希望按照美国国家科学基金会（NSF）导航新北极（NNA）大构想的设想，开展与北极环境变化相关的融合研究。讲习班提供培训活动，以加强它们这样做的能力，使社会科学和行为科学深入结合，并使地方和土著社区参与公平合作，共同生产知识。通过这样做，该项目扩大了对融合研究中跨学科整合的理解，这将广泛地加强与北极相关的融合研究理论和实践。研讨会的预期结果将是提高准备以社会和行为科学为主导的提案的能力，这些提案与国家科学基金会的NNA大理念的目标和目标保持一致并有力地推进。参加者包括以前在北极进行过或没有进行过研究的学者。讲习班的重点是促进研究北极变化对北极以外全球其他地区的影响，以及北极变化对生活在北极的人们的影响。越来越多的文献指出，需要在研究框架中深度整合社会、自然/物理和工程科学，以解决与全球环境变化相关的日益复杂、“邪恶”的问题。然而，这种整合往往难以实现，跨学科整合研究的障碍仍然存在。本次研讨会有三个主要目标：1)如何在北极趋同研究中整合社会科学和行为科学理论，并发展严格的社会科学方法；2)如何与包括土著社区在内的当地社区合作，并将传统/土著生态知识纳入北极环境变化研究；3)如何将设计融合研究框架的最佳实践和流程纳入北极研究项目的规划和执行中，包括跨学科知识整合战略、大学-社区合作伙伴关系以共同生产和利用知识，以及处理和整合不同类型数据和分析所需的（网络）研究基础设施。项目资金将支持约55名个人的现场参与，其中包括多达10名演讲者/主持人，研讨会会议将通过Zoom进行网络直播，以方便可能无法前往尔湾的其他人的虚拟参与。研讨会的会议记录将被记录下来，并将与研讨会报告以及通过两个公共数字平台（NSF北极数据中心和实验与协作人种学平台）生成的其他资源材料一起广泛提供。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。

The goal of this project is to develop and execute a workshop that will enhance capacity among natural, physical, engineering, and social scientists to develop transdisciplinary, convergence research projects related to the Arctic that are deeply engaged with social and behavioral science. The University of California, Irvine convenes scholars from diverse STEM fields across the United States who wish to undertake convergence research related to environmental change in the Arctic as envisioned in NSF's Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Big Idea. The workshop offers training activities to enhance their capacity to do so in a manner that deeply integrates the social and behavioral sciences and engages local and indigenous communities in equitable collaborations for the co-production of knowledge. In so doing, the project expands understanding of interdisciplinary integration in convergence research in ways that will broadly enhance convergence research theory and practice as it relates to the Arctic. An intended outcome of the workshop will be an enhancement of capacity to prepare social and behavioral science-led proposals that align with and robustly advance the goals and objectives of NSF's NNA Big Idea. Participants includes scholars who both have and have not previously conducted research in the Arctic. The workshop focuses on stimulating research on the impact of the changing Arctic on the rest of the globe outside the Arctic as well as on the impact of the changing Arctic on people who live in the Arctic.A growing body of literature points to the need for deep integration of the social, natural/physical, and engineering sciences in research frameworks to address increasingly complex, "wicked" problems associated with global environmental change. Yet, such integration is often difficult to accomplish, and obstacles to interdisciplinary integration in research remain. The proposed workshop addresses three key objectives: 1) How to integrate social and behavioral science theory and develop rigorous social science methodologies in Arctic convergence research; 2) How to engage and work with local communities, including indigenous communities, and integrate traditional/indigenous ecological knowledge into Arctic environmental change research; 3) How to incorporate best practices and processes for designing convergence research frameworks in the planning and execution of Arctic research projects, including strategies of cross-disciplinary knowledge integration, university-community partnerships for co- production and utilization of knowledge, and (cyber)research infrastructure needed to work with and integrate different kinds of data and analysis. Project funds will support the onsite participation of approximately 55 individuals, including up to 10 speakers/facilitators, and the workshop sessions will be webcast via Zoom to facilitate the virtual participation of others who may be unable to travel to Irvine. Workshop proceedings will be recorded, and transcriptions will be made broadly available along with a workshop report, and other resource materials generated via two public digital platforms, the NSF Arctic Data Center and the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography.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.