Collaborative Research: NNA Track 1: Sustainably Navigating Arctic Pollution Through Engaging Communities (SNAP-TEC)

合作研究：NNA 第 1 轨道：通过社区参与可持续应对北极污染 (SNAP-TEC)

• 批准号: 1927778
• 负责人: Rodney Weber
• 金额: $ 34.99万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NNA; Track; Sustainably; Collaborative; Research; NNA; Track; Sustainably

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic 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, and integrates the co-production of knowledge. This award fulfills part of that aim.The cold and dark wintertime conditions of the Arctic lead to frequent poor air quality episodes linked to local emissions along with temperature inversions that trap pollutants in the areas where people live. Infrastructure planning such as energy generation and industrial activities along with residential choices of heating fuels such as wood, fuel oil or others are critical aspects of this problem. Residents spend the majority of their time indoors during wintertime, so most exposure to pollutants occurs indoors. From this background, fundamental knowledge gaps were identified in: outdoor/indoor air transport, indoor pollution sources such as leaky heating appliances, and chemical transformation of pollutants under these Arctic conditions. These gaps must be closed to understand the impacts of air pollution on Arctic communities and improve community health. Sustainably Navigating Arctic Pollution -- Through Engaging Communities (SNAP-TEC) focuses on improving understanding of wintertime Arctic outdoor and indoor air pollution. Discussions with community members will assist researchers in identifying local concerns regarding air quality and in designing appropriate sustainable development frameworks with the goal of improving air quality for Arctic peoples. To investigate wintertime Arctic air pollution issues at the intersection of the natural and built environments and social systems, SNAP-TEC uses a convergence approach that starts with a community engagement process to build a research and co-generation of knowledge program that has direct impacts on the community. This project has grown out of organizing efforts under the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project activity "air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies" (PACES) and the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) project, which have documented knowledge gaps in this area (see the ALPACA whitepaper, readily available online). SNAP-TEC brings together a multi-disciplinary team to investigate this problem, with the center focus being a wintertime field campaign in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the scientific and social issues surrounding poor air quality can serve as a case study to inform practice and policy in similar cities and villages across the broader Arctic region. The resulting knowledge of pollution sources and chemistry, housing and pollution control technology, and social aspects can assist New Arctic communities to plan appropriate solutions that work for residents. Local and Indigenous peoples are most likely to be affected by Arctic development, so our community engagement process will include local Fairbanks residents and Alaska Native community members. The project measures indoor and outdoor air quality using state-of-the art instrumentation to advance fundamental understanding of air pollution sources and chemical processes under cold and dark conditions, indoor/outdoor air exchange and physicochemical changes to pollutants upon warming to indoor conditions, sulfur oxidation chemistry, and toxicity of air pollution. The field program is combined with community meetings, public participation in scientific data collection (a.k.a. citizen science, using inexpensive air-quality sensor monitoring) and a survey to assess public understanding of air quality, trust in science, perceived risk and uncertainty, and support for air quality policies. The SNAP-TEC research team involves a diverse group of natural and social scientists and engineers with extensive student involvement to address the problem. Through the international PACES organization, lessons learned from this investigation will be extended to an international pan-Arctic context through identification of fundamental processes and best practices, informing Arctic development and future studies.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.

NSF的10个大创意之一是导航新北极（NNA）。 NNA项目应对北极快速变化的融合科学挑战。需要进行北极研究，以告知国家，较大地区和全球的经济，安全和弹性。 NNA赋予从本地量表到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，并整合了知识的共同生产。该奖项实现了这一目标的一部分。北极的寒冷和黑暗的冬季条件导致与当地排放相关的空气质量发作经常差，以及在人们居住地区捕获污染物的温度反转。基础设施规划，例如能源生产和工业活动，以及木材，燃油或其他燃料等供暖燃料的住宅选择是该问题的关键方面。在冬季，居民将大部分时间都花在室内，因此大多数接触污染物都会在室内发生。从这种背景中，在以下基本知识差距中确定了：室外/室内航空运输，室内污染源，例如泄漏的加热设备，以及在这些北极条件下污染物的化学转化。 这些差距必须封闭，以了解空气污染对北极社区的影响并改善社区健康。通过参与社区（SNAP-TEC）可持续导航北极污染，重点是提高对冬季北极室外和室内空气污染的了解。与社区成员的讨论将协助研究人员确定当地对空气质量的关注，并设计适当的可持续发展框架，目的是改善北极人民的空气质量。为了调查自然和建筑环境和社会系统交集的冬季北极空气污染问题，SNAP-TEC使用一种融合方法，该方法始于社区参与过程，以建立对社区有直接影响的知识计划的研究和共同生成。该项目已从国际全球大气化学（IGAC）项目活动“北极中的空气污染：气候，环境和社会”（节奏）和阿拉斯加分层污染与化学分析（羊Alpaca）项目的组织活动中发展出来，这些项目记录了该领域的知识差距（请参阅该领域的知识差距（请参阅Alpaca Whitepaper，在线上可用）。 Snap-tec汇集了一个多学科团队来调查这个问题，中心重点是阿拉斯加费尔班克斯的冬季野外运动，围绕空气质量差的科学和社会问题可以作为案例研究，以告知整个北极地区的类似城市和村庄的实践和政策。污染源和化学，住房和污染控制技术以及社会方面的最终知识可以帮助新的北极社区计划适合居民使用的适当解决方案。地方和土著人民最有可能受北极发展的影响，因此我们的社区参与过程将包括当地的费尔班克斯居民和阿拉斯加土著社区成员。该项目使用最先进的仪器来衡量室内和室外空气质量，以在寒冷和黑暗的条件下，室内/室外空气交换以及对室内状况的变暖，硫酸氧化化学和空气污染的毒性，对污染物的污染源和化学过程进行基本了解。该现场计划与社区会议，公众参与科学数据收集（又称公民科学，使用廉价的空气质量传感器监控）以及一项调查，以评估公众对空气质量，对科学的信任，感知的风险和不确定性以及对空气质量政策的支持。 SNAP-TEC研究团队涉及各种各样的自然和社会科学家和工程师，他们参与了广泛的学生参与，以解决该问题。通过国际节奏组织，通过识别基本过程和最佳实践，向北极发展和未来的研究介绍，从这项调查中学到的教训将扩展到国际泛北极背景。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响，通过评估来审查Criteria。