Focused CoPe: Strengthening Resilience of Manoomin, the Sentinel Species of the Great Lakes, with Data-Science Supported Seventh Generation Stewardship

土著社区受到土地开发(例如采矿、伐木、石油/天然气管道)和气候变化威胁的影响不成比例。极端天气事件、海水变暖和栖息地的迅速丧失降低了这些社区获取、维护和利用马努明(Ojibwe单词，意为野生水稻)等沿海资源的能力。Manoomin生长在沿海湿地，其范围已大大减少，这使得理解、保护和恢复Manoomin栖息地成为五大湖面临的一个关键挑战。Manoomin将沿海湿地的物理和生态问题与生活在这些海岸的人们的精神、社会和生存问题联系在一起，并作为人与海岸线之间的接口。这个重点中心将发展网络、科学、教育和社区基金会，通过将部落、政府、自然资源保护者和研究人员聚集在马努明周围，作为奥吉布文化和生计的支柱，以及作为了解和保护五大湖沿海湿地的关键哨兵物种，确保五大湖第七代的可持续性和弹性。这一重点中心将使用一种全面的、跨学科的方法来解决导致西五大湖区域范围内人口数量下降的相互关联的人类、沿海和气候变化问题。该中心将提高测量、理解和预测沿海湿地生态系统变化的科学能力，将重点放在作为重要哨兵物种的马鲁明上。与原住民和社区的直接伙伴关系将确认地方对沿海土地、水和生态系统的主权，并为社区、部落、国家、州和地区各级的复原力决策提供信息。该中心将通过社区参与、知识联合制作和培训来自该地区目前代表性不足的社区的新一代科学家和领导人，提高沿海社区的能力。该中心能够对沿海湿地过程进行四个主题的基础研究：1)遥感和数据科学网络基础设施将本地和遥感与数据科学方法相结合，以加深对沿海湿地的了解。这一专题将提供数据支持其他专题：2)自然和环境过程将揭示湿地系统的基本过程，重点是水、沉积物和污染物在人工生态系统中的综合影响；3)治理、社会和人的方面将调查指导决策的治理系统以及人的复原力的社会和人方面。4)社区参与、沟通和教育将加强大学研究人员、政府、部落实体和保护组织之间的关系，同时为土著学生创造新的教育机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Native communities are disproportionately affected by threats of land development (e.g., mining, logging, oil/gas pipelines) and climate change. Extreme weather events, warming waters, and rapid habitat loss reduce the ability of these communities to access, maintain, and use coastal resources such as Manoomin (Ojibwe word for wild rice). Manoomin grows in coastal wetlands, and its range has decreased considerably, making understanding, conservation, and restoration of manoomin habitat a critical challenge for the Great Lakes. Manoomin ties the physical and ecological issues of coastal wetlands to the spiritual, social, and subsistence issues of the people who have lived on these coasts, and acts as an interface between people and coastlines. This Focused Hub will develop cyber, scientific, educational, and community foundations to ensure 7th generation sustainability and resilience of the Great Lakes by bringing together tribes, government, conservationists, and researchers around Manoomin as a pillar of Ojibwe culture and livelihood, and as a keystone sentinel species for understanding and conserving Great Lakes coastal wetlands. This Focused Hub will use a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to untangle the interconnected human, coastal, and climate change issues causing region-wide manoomin decline in the Western Great Lakes. The Hub will advance scientific capacity to measure, understand, and predict changes in coastal wetland ecosystems, focusing on manoomin as a vital sentinel species. Direct partnerships with Native Nations and Communities will affirm local sovereignty over coastal land, water, and ecosystems, and inform resilience decisions at community, tribal, national, state, and regional levels. The Hub will increase coastal community capacity through community engagement, knowledge co-production, and training a new generation of scientists and leaders from currently underrepresented communities in the region. The Hub enables basic research on coastal wetlands processes across four Themes: 1) Sensing and Data Science Cyberinfrastructure will combine local and remote sensing with Data Science approaches to develop a deeper understanding of coastal wetlands. This theme will provide data to support the other Themes: 2) Physical and Environmental Processes will unravel the fundamental processes that underlie wetland systems, focusing on the combined effects of water, sediments, and contaminants in manoomin ecosystems, 3) Governance, Social, and Human Dimensions will investigate the governance systems that guide decision-making and the social and human dimensions of manoomin resilience. 4) Community Engagement, Communication, and Education will strengthen relationships between university researchers, government, tribal entities, and conservation organizations while building novel educational opportunities for Indigenous students.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.