NRT-NNA: Convergent Arctic Research Perspectives and Education (CARPE)

气候变化对自然和人类系统的连锁影响在北极比在地球上任何其他地方都更为明显。气温上升速度是全球平均速度的两倍。海冰急剧减少，冰川和冰盖质量显著减少，永久冻土迅速融化，影响了北极人民和生态系统的日常活动和福祉。许多最深刻的变化是由于季节性的变化——文化、生物、物理和化学事件发生的时间——尤其是春季和秋季的性质和时间。要解决北极地区季节性变化对生态系统、建筑环境和人类社区的影响，需要许多学科的融合，这些学科能够认识到气候变化带来的相互关联的挑战。这项授予新罕布什尔大学（UNH）的国家科学基金会研究实习（NRT）奖将培训研究生使用趋同研究框架来调查和理解季节性变化对北极自然和人类系统的相互交织的影响。该项目将培养自然科学、社会科学和工程领域的10名硕士研究生和30名博士研究生，其中包括20名受资助的博士研究生。连接北极研究视角和教育（CARPE） NRT旨在培养下一代专业人士，利用融合研究框架，以尊重土著社区的观点，解决北极季节性变化的复杂社会生态挑战。主要目标是培养研究生及其指导教师设计和开展聚焦于北极自然和人类系统季节性变化影响的融合研究项目，同时建设与北极土著社区和当地利益相关者接触的能力。CARPE将培养学员从事学术和非学术事业，以应对气候变化带来的巨大挑战和对社会的连锁影响。此外，该项目还将通过整合融合的研究方法，让学生为与土著和其他社区伙伴建立互惠的研究项目做好准备，从而改变新罕布什尔大学的研究生培训。因此，他们将更好地为社会关注的职业做好准备。CARPE学员将参加的项目内容包括课程，为开展面向不断变化的北极的研究提供理论和实践基础；跨学科小组研究项目；与外部合作伙伴合作，以解决方案为重点的实习；与各种受众进行沟通培训；以及在与土著和当地人民建立关系方面的道德培训。掌握知识和技能的证据将通过综合报告、个人和团队演讲、对讲习班、会议、社区讨论和外展活动的贡献、完成一个趋同研究项目以及外部评估来评估。此外，每个学生将在CARPE期间起草和完善个人发展计划，并得到他们的导师和CARPE领导层的输入和指导。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训新模式。该项目致力于通过创新、循证、适应不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模式，在高优先级跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项由NSF十大创意之一的新北极导航（NNA）项目共同资助。NNA支持以下项目：应对快速变化的北极地区的汇合性科学挑战，授权新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正规和非正规教育，并在适当情况下整合知识的联合生产。这个奖项与这些目标是一致的。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 cascading impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are more evident in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth. Temperatures are rising twice as fast as the global average. Dramatic sea ice reductions, significant glacier and ice sheet mass loss, and rapidly thawing permafrost impact Arctic peoples’ and ecosystems’ daily activities and well-being. Many of the most profound changes result from shifts in seasonality—the timing of cultural, biological, physical, and chemical events—especially the nature and timing of spring and autumn. Addressing how changing seasonality across the Arctic affects ecosystems, the built environment, and human communities requires the convergence of many disciplines capable of recognizing the interlinked challenges posed by climate change. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) will train graduate students to use a convergence research framework to investigate and understand the interwoven impacts of changing seasonality on Arctic natural and human systems. The program will train 10 M.S. and 30 Ph.D. students, including 20 funded Ph.D. trainees, from the natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering.The Connecting Arctic Research Perspectives and Education (CARPE) NRT aims to train the next generation of professionals to tackle the complex socio-ecological challenges of changing seasonality in the Arctic using a convergence research framework imbued with a perspective that respects the viewpoints of indigenous communities. The primary objectives are to train graduate students and their faculty advisors to design and conduct convergence research projects focused on the impact of changing seasonality in the Arctic natural and human systems while building capacity to engage with Arctic Indigenous communities and local stakeholders. CARPE will prepare the trainees to pursue academic and non-academic careers to address grand challenges posed by a changing climate and the cascading impacts on society. In addition, the program will transform graduate training at UNH by integrating convergent approaches to research and preparing students to build reciprocal research programs with Indigenous and other community partners. Hence, they will be better equipped for societally-focused careers. CARPE trainees will participate in program elements including coursework providing the theoretical and practical foundations for conducting research oriented toward a changing Arctic; transdisciplinary group research projects; collaborative, solutions-focused internships with external partners; communication training for engaging with a variety of audiences; and ethics training in building relationships with Indigenous and local peoples. Evidence of mastery of knowledge and skills will be assessed via synthesis reports, individual and team presentations, contributions to workshops, conferences, community discussions, and outreach events, completion of a convergent research project, and via external evaluation. In addition, each student will draft and refine an Individual Development Plan throughout their time in CARPE, with input and guidance from their mentors and CARPE leadership.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.Co-funding for this award is being provided by Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA supports projects that address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic, empower new research partnerships, diversify the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhance efforts in formal and informal education, and integrate the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award aligns with those goals.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.