Caring for the Thunderbird's Nest: Geophysical and Machine Learning solutions to characterize and monitor inequitable Exposures to Ground and Air Pollution with Fort William First Nation

通过这个学院和社区社会创新项目，亨伯学院将与威廉堡第一民族（FWFN）和多伦多大学的研究人员合作，研究“照顾雷鸟的巢：地球物理和机器学习解决方案，以表征和监测不公平的地面和空气污染暴露。“该项目将解决FWFN社区的健康和环境危机--一群非常年轻的社区成员患白血病，他们在一个工业发展超过世纪的地区度过了童年，包括纸浆和造纸、冶金、燃煤发电、铁路、化工厂、受污染的疏浚、工业处置场、加油站和其他行业。社区注意到，在工业用地附近的居民区生活的五岁以下儿童最有可能患上这种恶性白血病。工业用地已接受政府和工业界支付的环境现场评估（ESA），作为全面土地要求程序的一部分。尽管几十年来有几十个ESA，但FWFN的领导层并没有以一种对社区决策有用的格式提供相关信息。他们也不相信法律规定有义务为欧空局提供资金的责任方的报告做法。该项目将与FWFN合作，建立一个综合知识翻译模型-研究人员和社区共同学习。这一跨学科合作的目标有五个方面：1）本着关怀和互惠的道德与斐济妇女阵线和土地合作; 2）充分评估工业区，以确定其特点，并确定污染场地的预防、管理和补救方法; 3）共同制作文化上适当和可获得的信息，以便现在和将来能够做出知情的地方决策; 4）为工程专业学生创造与土著社区驱动的研究议程进行道德接触的途径，使FWFN成为一个“去，通过”社区，为学生提供解决复杂环境问题的培训，和5）建立一个文化上安全的巢穴，以发展社区能力，并指导土著学生进行环境工程和跨学科研究在原住民社区的背景下。

Via this College and Community Social Innovation project, Humber College will partner with the Fort William First Nation (FWFN) and researchers from the University of Toronto on "Caring for the Thunderbird's Nest: Geophysical and Machine Learning solutions to characterize and monitor inequitable Exposures to Ground and Air Pollution."The project will address a health and environmental crisis in the FWFN community - a cluster of leukemia in very young community members who spent time in childhood in an area with over a century of industrial development, including pulp and paper, metallurgy, coal-fired power, rail, chemical plants, contaminated dredge, industrial disposal sites, fuelling stations and other industries. The community has noted that children under five who spent time in a residential area adjacent to the industrial lands were most likely to experience this atypically young-onset of leukemia. The industrial lands have been subject to Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) paid for by the government and industry as part of comprehensive land claim processes. Despite dozens of ESAs over several decades, FWFNs leadership does not have relevant information in a format that is useful for the community to make decisions. They also do not trust the reporting practices of the liable parties who have been obliged by law to finance the ESAs. This project will work in a nest of collaboration with FWFN in a model of integrated knowledge translation - researchers and community learning together. The goals of this interdisciplinary collaboration are five-fold: 1) work in an ethic of care and reciprocity with FWFN and the land; 2) fully assess the industrial area to characterize it and identify prevention, management and remediation methods of the polluted sites; 3) co-produce culturally appropriate and accessible information to enable informed local decision-making now and in the future; 4) create pathways of ethical engagement with Indigenous community-driven research agendas for engineering students, enabling FWFN to become a "go-to, go through" community for student training on complex environmental problem solving, and 5) building a culturally safe nest to develop community capacity and mentor Indigenous students in environmental engineering and interdisciplinary studies in an Indigenous community setting.