NNA Track 2: Collaborative Research: Interaction Between Coastal and Riverine Processes and the Built Environment in Coastal Arctic Communities

NNA 轨道 2：合作研究：沿海和河流过程与北极沿海社区建筑环境之间的相互作用

• 批准号: 2022568
• 负责人: Emily Eidam
• 金额: $ 6.88万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022568&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Track; Collaborative; Research; Interaction

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, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by supporting planning activities with clear potential to develop novel, leading edge research ideas and approaches to address NNA goals. It integrates aspects of the natural environment and built environment, addresses important societal challenges, and engages with local communities.Alaskan communities and their built environment are affected by permafrost thaw, coastal and river erosion, flooding, and other natural processes altered or accelerated by environmental changes. Arctic coastal communities in particular face compound threats from riverbank erosion, permafrost thaw, and increasing coastal storm impacts. As data collection campaigns in the Arctic are costly and often limited to periods of the year when weather affords access to sites of interest, significant gaps in data and information can result. This NNA planning grant employs workshops designed to discover gaps in knowledge and develop associated research questions and hypotheses to address issues affecting coastal Arctic communities in Alaska. It identifies novel strategies for making targeted measurements in these challenging environments. This project also facilitates development of ideas for novel but feasible long-term data collection and monitoring strategies that encourage and rely upon local community engagement. Additionally, this project aids the development of a new multi- and interdisciplinary research team to open pathways towards future research efforts.This NNA planning grant synthesizes and develops key research questions related to the interaction between coastal and riverine processes and the built environment in the coastal Arctic region in the context of environmental change. This research project is positioned at the nexus between the sciences of the natural and built environments and includes co-production of knowledge with local Arctic communities, as it identifies effective data collection and monitoring strategies to answer these questions, pinpoints expertise needed to assemble a diverse and interdisciplinary research team to address these questions, and engages Alaskan Arctic coastal communities and stakeholders to develop a feasible, sustainable, and impactful research strategy. These goals are achieved through two workshops that include researchers, federal and state agency stakeholders, and community stakeholders, as well as a diverse representation of domestic and international experts, early career researchers, and students. This project engages local community stakeholders into all aspects of the project to learn about and incorporate their knowledge and needs. The project plans to disseminate research findings widely as it assembles a core research team for future steps into research on Arctic coastal communities.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，加强了正规和非正式教育方面的努力，并在适当的情况下整合了知识的共同生产。该奖项通过支持规划活动具有明确的潜力来开发新颖的，领先的研究思想和方法来解决NNA目标，从而实现了这一目标的一部分。它整合了自然环境和建筑环境的各个方面，应对重要的社会挑战，并与当地社区接触。阿拉斯加社区及其建筑环境受到永久冻结，沿海和河流侵蚀，洪水的影响，洪水泛滥以及其他自然过程，以及其他自然环境会因环境变化而改变或加速。北极沿海社区尤其面临河岸侵蚀，多年冻结融化和沿海风暴影响不断增加的复合威胁。由于北极的数据收集活动昂贵，而且通常仅限于一年中天气可访问感兴趣的地点的时期，因此可能会导致数据和信息差距。这项NNA计划赠款采用了研讨会，旨在发现知识的差距，并提出相关的研究问题和假设，以解决影响阿拉斯加沿海北极社区的问题。它确定了在这些具有挑战性的环境中进行有针对性测量的新型策略。该项目还促进了为鼓励和依靠当地社区参与的新颖但可行的长期数据收集和监测策略的思想的发展。此外，该项目有助于开发一个新的多学科研究团队，以打开通往未来研究工作的途径。此NNA计划拨款综合并提出了与沿海和河流过程与沿海北极地区建筑环境之间相互作用有关的关键研究问题。 This research project is positioned at the nexus between the sciences of the natural and built environments and includes co-production of knowledge with local Arctic communities, as it identifies effective data collection and monitoring strategies to answer these questions, pinpoints expertise needed to assemble a diverse and interdisciplinary research team to address these questions, and engages Alaskan Arctic coastal communities and stakeholders to develop a feasible, sustainable, and impactful research strategy.这些目标是通过两个研讨会来实现的，包括研究人员，联邦和州的利益相关者以及社区利益相关者，以及国内外专家，早期职业研究人员和学生的各种代表。该项目使当地社区利益相关者参与该项目的各个方面，以了解和纳入他们的知识和需求。该项目计划在核心研究团队组装核心研究团队中为北极沿海社区进行研究的核心研究团队而广泛传播研究结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估来支持的。