NNA Track 1: Understanding the Changing Natural-Built Landscape in an Arctic Community: An integrated sensor network in Utqiagvik, Alaska

NNA 轨道 1：了解北极社区不断变化的自然景观：阿拉斯加乌特恰维克的集成传感器网络

• 批准号: 2022639
• 负责人: Howard Epstein
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022639&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Track; Understanding; Changing; Natural

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 addressing interactions among social systems, natural environment, and built environment in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents, Data and Observation, Education, and Resilient Infrastructure.Arctic communities face many challenges as they grow and develop in the context of a rapidly changing environment. These challenges include coastal erosion, permafrost thaw, and ecosystem change. Arctic cities need to prepare for critical decisions in the future, which traditional scientific approaches alone are unable to address adequately. Instead, an interdisciplinary, community-based approach is necessary. Utqiagvik, the northernmost urban center in Alaska, is facing many of these common challenges and provides a model for other Arctic cities. This project is developing and deploying a network of environmental sensors collecting continuous information over a five-year period in terrestrial and aquatic locations within the community of Utqiagvik. Community members are deeply involved in the planning process for placement of the sensors, ongoing maintenance, and interpretation of the data. The education component of the project is extensive, providing training opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, two postdoctoral scholars, and community members in Utqiagvik. The sensor network yields an unprecedented dataset for examining the interactive effects of the natural and built environments. This project is improving the health and economic well-being of Utqiagvik and other North Slope Borough villages in Alaska.This research investigates two essential challenges for the Arctic city of Utqiagvik, Alaska: i) the impacts of existing community infrastructure practices on the surrounding tundra, coastal, and lagoon landscapes within and around the city, and ii) the impacts of a changing environment on the design and future planning of community infrastructure and buildings. The project has four broad objectives. First, community members and scientists are working together to plan and deploy an integrated sensor network in four target areas of the city. Second, environmental data are being used to assess how the infrastructure of the city interacts with the surrounding air, ground, and water. Third, this knowledge is informing management of infrastructure and planning initiatives for Utqiagvik, and is useful for other Arctic communities as well. Finally, the process of co-production of knowledge among researchers and community members is being studied to better understand how these relationships can successfully build and maintain equitable sharing of knowledge and benefits for the residents of Utqiagvik. The ultimate goal of the project is to understand how the natural and built environments interact with social systems in an Arctic city.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。该奖项通过解决以下NNA焦点领域中的社会系统，自然环境和建筑环境之间的互动来实现这一目标的一部分：北极居民，数据和观察，教育以及韧性的基础设施。阿尔克社区在快速变化的环境的环境中面临许多挑战。这些挑战包括沿海侵蚀，多年冻结融化和生态系统变化。 北极城市将来需要为关键决策做准备，仅传统的科学方法就无法充分解决。相反，必须采用跨学科的基于社区的方法。阿拉斯加最北部城市中心Utqiagvik面临着许多共同的挑战，并为其他北极城市提供了模型。该项目正在开发和部署一个环境传感器网络，该网络在UTQIAGVIK社区内的陆地和水生位置的五年内收集连续信息。社区成员深入参与了放置传感器，持续维护和数据解释的计划过程。该项目的教育部分是广泛的，为大学生，研究生，两名博士后学者和UTQIAGVIK社区成员提供了培训机会。传感器网络产生了一个前所未有的数据集，用于检查自然和建筑环境的互动效果。该项目正在改善阿拉斯加的Utqiagvik和其他北坡自治区的健康和经济福祉。这项研究调查了阿拉斯加北极城市Utqiagvik的两个基本挑战：i）现有社区基础架构实践对周围环境和周围环境的影响以及II范围内以及II）的影响社区基础设施和建筑物。该项目有四个广泛的目标。首先，社区成员和科学家正在共同计划和部署城市四个目标区域的集成传感器网络。其次，环境数据用于评估城市的基础设施如何与周围空气，地面和水相互作用。第三，这些知识是为UTQIAGVIK的基础设施和计划计划的管理提供信息，并且对其他北极社区也很有用。最后，正在研究研究人员和社区成员之间知识的共同生产过程，以更好地了解这些关系如何成功地建立和维持UTQIAGVIK居民的知识和利益的公平共享。该项目的最终目标是了解自然和建筑环境如何与北极城市中的社会系统互动。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优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来获得支持的。