NNA Collaboratory: Collaborative Research: ACTION - Alaska Coastal Cooperative for Co-producing Transformative Ideas and Opportunities in the North

新北极航行（NNA）是NSF的十大创意之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的趋同科学挑战。这项研究是必要的，以告知国家，更大的地区和地球仪的经济，安全和恢复力。NNA授权从地方到国际规模的新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正规和非正规教育的努力，并在适当的情况下整合知识的共同生产。该奖项通过解决以下NNA重点领域的社会系统，自然环境和建筑环境之间的相互作用实现了这一目标的一部分：北极居民，数据和观测，教育，预测，全球影响和弹性基础设施。侵蚀、洪水、永久冻土融化和世界上最快的气候驱动的温度上升正在导致北极沿海社区环境条件的迅速甚至是灾难性的变化。2022年，当台风Merbok进入白令海时，人们感受到了问题的紧迫性，加剧了现有的沿海灾害，应急响应挑战和对极端事件的脆弱性。环境变化的速度超过了现有的治理机制，包括旨在救灾和保护的经济和搬迁战略。解决方案必须适合文化背景，促进土著自决，并使社区成为平等的伙伴和知识拥有者。行动（阿拉斯加沿海合作，共同生产变革的想法和机会在北方）项目是一个承诺，以科学为基础的问题解决是基于过程和接地可操作的社区驱动的科学和教育。该项目源于八个土著北极沿海社区之间的现有伙伴关系，这些社区正在应对日益增加的气候驱动的沿海灾害和环境变化，以及正在研究这些过程的学术研究人员。该项目将开发和实施一种创新的、基于实力的社区方法，以提高沿海地区的复原力，促进融合科学和观测，确定社区优先事项，为适应提供信息，整合现有知识，并改善多个利益攸关方群体之间的沟通，以有效应对迅速变化的北极。行动将1）分析现有的地方和区域通信网络，并综合最佳实践，促进知识交流，创新网络; 2）推进基于地点的沿海灾害评估，观测和预测; 3）通过推进知识共同生产和社会生态技术建模，设计弹性，参与性和适应性治理框架; 4）促进劳动力发展和教育活动，将农村社区与大学联系起来，以提高部落组织的技术能力。行动伙伴关系将通过强调共同产生知识来设计和重新确定沿海灾害问题来实现这些目标。解决方案将立足于当地的土著知识、工程和科学方法和成果，并通过集体谈判和共同学习经验共同创造。预计共同产生的对社区、社会和自然科学知识的理解将建立信任，并导致更公平和更有力的治理成果，以及对当前和新出现的环境动态的技术回应。这种方法是迭代的，因为它是共同制作的，所以推动了融合科学的边界。该项目的设想是，将基于地点的、现有的和新的地球物理知识相结合，将导致新的理解和建模框架以及科学知情的解决方案，增加对社区和决策者的相关性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region, and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems, natural environment, and built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Data and Observation, Education, Forecasting, Global Impact, and Resilient Infrastructure. Erosion, flooding, permafrost thaw, and the fastest climate-driven temperature increases in the world are resulting in rapid and sometimes catastrophic shifts in environmental conditions for Arctic coastal communities. The immediacy of the problem was felt when Typhoon Merbok entered the Bering Sea in 2022, intensifying existing coastal hazards, emergency response challenges, and vulnerability to extreme events. Environmental changes outpace existing governance mechanisms, including economic and relocation strategies, aimed at disaster relief and protection. Solutions must suit cultural context, foster Indigenous self-determination, and engage communities as equal partners and knowledge holders. The ACTION (Alaska Coastal Cooperative for Co-producing Transformative Ideas and Opportunities in the North) project is a commitment to science-informed problem solving that is process-based and grounded in actionable community-driven science and education. The project grows out of existing partnerships among eight Indigenous Arctic coastal communities, which are responding to increasing climate-driven coastal hazards and environmental change, and academic researchers, who are studying these processes. The project will develop and implement an innovative, strength-based community approach to coastal resilience that advances convergence science and observing, identifies community priorities, informs adaptation, integrates existing knowledge, and improves communication across multiple stakeholder groups to effectively respond to a rapidly changing Arctic. ACTION will 1) analyze existing local and regional communication networks and synthesize best practices, facilitate knowledge exchange, and innovate networking; 2) advance place-based coastal hazard assessments, observing, and forecasting; 3) design resilient, participatory, and adaptive governance frameworks by advancing knowledge co-production and social-ecological-technological modeling; and 4) facilitate workforce development and education activities linking rural communities with universities to enhance technical capacity within Tribal organizations. ACTION partnerships will achieve these objectives by emphasizing the co-production of knowledge to design and reframe coastal hazard problems. Solutions will be grounded in place-based Indigenous knowledge, engineering and scientific methods and outcomes, and co-created through collectively negotiated and co-learned experiences. It is anticipated that co-generated understanding across community, social and natural science knowledge will build trust and lead to more equitable and robust governance outcomes, technical responses to current and emerging environmental dynamics. The approach is iterative, and because it is co-produced, pushes the boundaries of convergence science. The project envisions that combining place-based, existing, and new biogeophysical knowledge will lead to new understanding and modeling frameworks and science-informed solutions, increasing relevance for communities and decision-makers.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.