IRES Track I: At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles

该项目将通过对加勒比海巴布达岛（安提瓜巴布达）不同文化视野的研究，为IRES学生提供身临其境的现场和实验室体验。该项目将支持3组6名研究生。主要目标是评估文化遗址和收集基线数据，以便继续监测。巴布达的文化和环境遗产相对未受破坏，但现在受到大天气的威胁，开发商在灾难后（在这种情况下，飓风伊尔玛）急于从最脆弱的社会经济状态中的社区要求财产权。除了对巴布达的考古遗址进行初步研究外，该项目还将制定各种方法，以便在面临旅游业发展和严重风暴破坏的情况下，制定由社区驱动的文化遗产保护战略。此外，该项目将产生有意义的奖学金感兴趣的那些在文化资源管理，科学教育，并向公众传播研究工作。除了向Barbudan利益相关者和受飓风Irma影响的政策制定者报告调查结果外，该项目还将培训学生跨学科方法，跨文化沟通实践，他们在全球经济中作为研究人员的道德角色，以及如何发展和保持协作工作。加勒比的小岛屿发展中国家，如巴布达，易受气候变化的影响。当代海平面上升的破坏性影响和飓风活动日益频繁的大气候模式的变化对该区域的自然、经济和社会文化景观产生了重大影响。学生将从跨学科的角度探索longue durée，从加勒比地区的第一个人到今天，所以当他们进入他们选择的人类学/考古学子领域时，他们更好地准备解决人类世前所未有的影响。拟议中的项目将在安提瓜和巴布达小安的列斯群岛进行36个月。将有3组6名研究生收集数据，用于单独监督的研究，这些研究将从夏季田野季节持续到学年。学生们将积极参与为期四周的实地考察，并通过美国和国际导师进行为期四周的在线队列建设活动和学习。导师将与学生在整个一年的参与工作。学生研究人员将在巴布达研究中心（BRC）进行为期四周的实地工作，这是在巴布达建立的第一个非营利性科学研究设施。BRC致力于通过当地利益相关者和国际跨学科学者的合作研究和教育举措来保护和保护遗产和环境。该中心在自然科学、社会科学、人文科学、艺术、传统生态知识和公民科学之间架起桥梁，开展发现和创新对话，努力支持巴布达的文化和环境完整性。区域中心通过许可证制度接待国际研究人员，确保对巴布达研究的所有权。Reg Murphy博士将负责安提瓜和巴布达的国际合作。出发前，学生将参加队列建设活动和研讨会，为实地考察做好准备。而在巴布达，学生将收集现场数据使用各种方法从生物考古学，动物考古学，地质考古学，考古学，历史考古学，摄影测量学和关键博物馆研究。BRC的研究人员和PI/Co-PI将作为该领域学生的导师，每个学生都专注于一个特定的项目，并在指定的子领域拥有专业知识。一旦学生完成了他们的实地考察，回到自己的家机构，他们将与PI/Co-PI在学术和非正式环境中传播他们的研究。最终，学生将学习如何考古研究通知环境和文化遗产政策及其真实的世界的影响和应用。该项目将促进BRC和美国机构之间的研究伙伴关系，并与K-12学校合作，展示研究如何支持那些寻求解决环境挑战和社会问题的人的行动。该项目由国际学生研究经验计划和刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF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 project will provide immersive field and laboratory experiences to IRES students through the study of different cultural horizons on the Caribbean island of Barbuda (of the nation Antigua & Barbuda). This project will support 3 cohorts of 6 graduate students. The primary objective is to assess cultural heritage sites and gather base-line data for continued monitoring. Barbuda cultural and environmental heritage sites had been relatively unspoiled but are now under threat from big weather and developers rushing in post disaster (in this case, Hurricane Irma) to claim property rights from communities in their most vulnerable socio economic state. In addition to producing primary research on archaeological sites in Barbuda, the project will develop methodologies for community-driven strategies for cultural heritage preservation in the face of tourism development and severe storm damage. Additionally, this project will generate meaningful scholarship of interest to those working in cultural resource management, science education, and communicating research to public audiences. Beyond reporting findings to Barbudan stakeholders and policy makers affected by the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the project will train students in interdisciplinary methodologies, cross-cultural communication practices, their ethical role as researchers in a global economy, and how to develop and maintain collaborative work. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean, such as Barbuda, are vulnerable to the effects of climatic change. The damaging impacts of contemporary sea-level rise and changing big weather patterns of increasing hurricane activity have had a significant influence on the region’s physical, economic and socio-cultural landscapes. Students will explore the longue durée from a transdisciplinary viewpoint, from the first peopling of the Caribbean to the present day, so as they move into their chosen anthropological/archaeological subfields they are better prepared to address the unprecedented effects of the Anthropocene using a holistic perspective. The proposed project will run for 36 months in the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, Lesser Antilles. There will be 3 cohorts of 6 graduate students collecting data for individually supervised research that will continue from the summer field season into the academic year. The students will be actively involved for four weeks in the field and four weeks of online cohort building activities and learning via zoom with US and international mentors. Mentors will work with the students throughout their year of participation. Student researchers will be hosted for their four week field work at the Barbuda Research Complex (BRC), the first non-profit scientific research facility to be established in Barbuda. BRC is committed to preservation and conservation of heritage and the environment through collaborative research and educational initiatives by local stakeholders and international interdisciplinary scholars. BRC bridges natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and citizen science in a dialogue of discovery and innovation striving to support Barbuda’s cultural and environmental integrity. BRC ensures ownership of research on Barbuda by hosting international researchers through a permit system. Dr. Reg Murphy will head the international collaboration in Antigua and Barbuda. Prior to departure, students will participate in cohort building activities and workshops to prepare them for fieldwork. While in Barbuda, students will collect field data using a variety of methodologies from Bioarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, Archaeomalacology, Historical Archaeology, Photogrammetry and Critical Museum Studies. BRC researchers and PI/Co- PIs will act as mentors for students in the field with each student focusing on a specific project with their specializations/expertise in the named subfields. Once students have finished their fieldwork and returned to their home institutions, they will work with PI/Co-PIs to disseminate their research in academic and informal settings. Ultimately, students will learn how archaeological research informs environmental and cultural heritage policy and its real world impacts and applications. The project will facilitate research partnerships between BRC and US institutions and collaborate with K-12 schools to demonstrate how research can support the actions of those seeking to address environmental challenges and social issues.This project is jointly funded by the International Research Experience for Students program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.