NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop: Coastal Biocultural Restoration as a Nexus for Innovation

这笔拨款将支持在夏威夷举办的虚拟融合研讨会，汇集土著和传统社区、来自不同领域的科学家、非营利组织、企业、政府、更重要的是，根据土著人民和传统社区的土地和资源管理实践，在重建人类与沿海生态系统关系的持续合作努力中，开发项目理念并确定以使用为灵感的研究和应用的优先事项。研讨会包含四个分主题：抗洪能力、技术支持的沿海和水道观测和数据管理、可持续经济发展以及土著人民在STEM和资源管理方面的高等教育。研讨会上提出的项目理念将有可能有利于沿海社区的备灾、经济以及农村和土著人民在STEM教育方面的成功。研讨会的参与者将通过一系列会议来构思和描述正在进行的沿海生物文化恢复工作可能产生的成果。创意应以研究为支撑，具有前沿/新兴/创新的性质，填补现有沿海生物文化修复活动的空白，或扩大/扩大/利用沿海生物文化修复的成果，以产生更大的社会或环境影响，并可能来自不同行业/学科的应用和/或需要跨部门合作。土著文化是生物文化，这意味着它们是作为社会生态系统的一部分在历史上发展起来的，并且已经形成了关于如何可持续地管理地方和区域资源的世代的、基于观察的知识。应用、放大和扩展土著生态知识可以帮助解决我们在21世纪面临的复杂环境危机。此外，世界各地的土著和传统社区保持了对传统领土的可持续管理，或正在努力恢复传统领土，创建生物文化恢复区，为自然资源管理、弹性设计、数据驱动决策的计算和网络系统、再生经济发展以及包容和公平的高等教育或土著人民的劳动力培训提供了机会。沿海生物文化恢复尤其具有影响力，因为海岸和水道形成了具有生态和经济重要性的边界地带，在这些地带开展的工作可以为新兴的沿海和渔业管理技术、地球科学的科学进步以及减缓海平面上升提供信息。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。

This grant will support a virtual convergence workshop hosted from Hawaiʻi that brings together Indigenous and traditional communities, scientists from diverse fields, nonprofits, businesses, government, and more to develop project ideas and define priorities for use-inspired research and application coming out of ongoing collaborative efforts at rebuilding human relationships with coastal ecosystems based on the land and resource management practices of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities. The workshop contains four subtopics: resilience to flooding, tech-enabled coastal and waterway observation and data management, sustainable economic development, and higher education for Indigenous peoples in STEM and resource management. The project ideas developed in the workshop will have the potential to benefit coastal communities’ disaster preparedness, economies, and success in STEM education for rural and Indigenous peoples.Participants in the workshop will be facilitated through a series of meetings to ideate and describe possible deliverables growing out of ongoing coastal biocultural restoration efforts. Ideas should be backed by research, cutting edge/emerging/innovative by nature, fill gaps in existing coastal biocultural restoration activities or amplify/scale/leverage the results of coastal biocultural restoration for greater social or environmental impact, and may come from applications in different industries/disciplines and/or require collaboration across sectors. Indigenous cultures are biocultural, meaning they developed historically as part of social-ecological systems and have developed generational, observation-based knowledge of how to manage local and regional resources sustainably. Applying, amplifying, and scaling Indigenous ecological knowledge can help address the compounding environmental crises we face in the 21st century. Furthermore, Indigenous and traditional communities around the world have maintained sustainable management of or are working to restore traditional territories, creating biocultural restoration zones that offer opportunities to unlock innovations in natural resource management, resilience design, computational and network systems for data-driven decision-making, regenerative economic development, and inclusive and equitable higher education or workforce training for Indigenous peoples. In particular, coastal biocultural restoration is impactful because coasts and waterways form boundary zones of ecological and economic importance, and work in these zones can inform emerging coastal and fisheries management technologies, scientific progress in the geosciences, and sea level rise mitigation.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.