RII Track-1: Interface of Change: Building Collaborations to Assess Harvested and Farmed Marine Species Prioritized by Gulf of Alaska Communities Facing Environmental Shifts

在北纬发生的气候驱动的变化正在对阿拉斯加产生重大影响，包括大范围的冰川衰退、永久冻土融化以及水文系统的变化，从而影响到沿海流域。气候变化的影响正在对阿拉斯加沿海地区产生重大影响，包括阿拉斯加湾。改变的界面(IOC)项目将在阿拉斯加各地社区共同开发的、受使用启发的海藻、贝类和海水养殖研究方面建立能力。国际奥委会团队与一大批合作者一起，计划利用遥感、建模、环境数据、现场调查以及实验室和现场实验来了解和量化该地区淡水和材料出口的变化。国际奥委会更广泛的影响活动包括让阿拉斯加不同的沿海社区(包括阿拉斯加原住民社区)参与包容性的、以地点为基础的、正式和非正式的STEM活动，并促进与国际奥委会活动和调查结果相关的创业精神。海委会将由阿拉斯加州费尔班克斯大学与阿拉斯加安克雷奇大学和阿拉斯加东南大学合作管理。海委会寻求1)建立合作研究能力，以评估气候引起的变化对高纬度沿海社区重要的海洋资源的影响；以及2)产生环境数据和基于网络的工具，为可持续野生捕捞和养殖海洋物种的适应性社区解决方案提供信息。为了实现这些目标，国际奥委会的研究人员将解决传统海藻收割机对最佳收获时机和位置的担忧，以及冰川流量增加对海藻收获的影响。国际奥委会团队将表征受陆地和海洋影响的环境参数，以确定它们对双壳类分布、丰度和生理的影响，并与当地社区协商选定地点。国际奥委会小组将通过融合当地和传统知识、气候科学、遥感、生态水文学、沿海水文学和渔业生物学的多学科方法，确定鱼类种群和渔业社区如何应对环境变化。该小组将与自给自足的收割机和农民接触，以确定社区使用海洋物种的变化。国际奥委会团队将利用现有的收获调查，总结每个研究地区的最新收获数据，并确定随着时间的推移而发生的关键变化。研究工作与教育、劳动力发展和多元化计划很好地结合在一起，这些计划涵盖了学术、部落、联邦、州和私营部门。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。

Climate-driven changes occurring in northern latitudes are having major effects on Alaska, including widespread glacial recession, thawing permafrost, and changes in hydrologic regimes, thus affecting coastal watersheds. The impacts from climate change are significantly impacting coastal Alaska, including the Gulf of Alaska. The Interface of Change (IoC) project will build capacity in community co-developed, use-inspired research on seaweeds, shellfish, and mariculture across Alaska. The IoC team, along with an extensive group of collaborators, plans to use remote sensing, modeling, environmental data, field surveys, and lab and field experiments to understand and quantify changes to freshwater and material export in the region. The broader impacts activities of IoC include engaging diverse, coastal communities in Alaska (including Alaska Native communities) in inclusive, place-based, formal and informal STEM activities and fostering entrepreneurship connected to IoC activities and findings. IoC will be administered by the University of Alaska Fairbanks in collaboration with University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Alaska Southeast.IoC seeks to 1) build collaborative research capacity to assess the impact of climate-induced changes on marine resources important to high-latitude coastal communities; and 2) generate environmental data and web-based tools to inform adaptive community solutions to sustainably wild-harvest and farm marine species. To achieve these goals, IoC researchers will address traditional seaweed harvesters' concerns regarding optimal harvest-timing and location, and the effects of increased glacial discharge on seaweed harvest. The IoC team will characterize land- and ocean-influenced environmental parameters to determine their impact on bivalve distribution, abundance, and physiology at sites selected in consultation with local communities. The IoC team will determine how fish populations and fishing communities are responding to environmental change through a multidisciplinary approach incorporating local and traditional knowledge, climate science, remote sensing, ecohydrology, coastal hydrology, and fisheries biology. The team will engage with both subsistence harvesters and farmers to characterize changes to community use of marine species. The IoC team will leverage existing harvest surveys, summarize the most recent harvest data in each study region, and identify key changes over time. Research efforts are well integrated with education, workforce development, and diversity plans that span academic, Tribal, federal, state, and private sectors.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.