NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Meq unguvatkarput (water is our livelihood) - building community resilience for the future

NNA 研究：合作研究：Meq unguvatkarput（水是我们的生计）——建设未来社区的复原力

• 批准号: 2220561
• 负责人: Christopher Maio
• 金额: $ 90万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220561&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Research; Collaborative; Meq; unguvatkarput

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This 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, Education, Forecasting, Data and Observations, and Resilient Infrastructure. Coastal delta communities are among the most vulnerable to climate change, causing most communities to wonder what their lands and waterways will look like in decades to come. State of Alaska reports identify villages of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta as underserved with respect to basic government services and highlight areas threatened by sea level rise, coastal erosion, flooding, and permafrost degradation. Likewise, communities and traditional ways of life are threatened by sea level rise, salinization, and storm surge because of the low elevation of the delta. Additionally, the decrease in duration and extent of coastal sea ice has contributed to greater storm impacts increasing the vulnerability of the YK Delta to coastal hazards. These changes are forcing Alaskan Native communities to face new realities in their day-to-day lives. Changes in the water cycle driven by climate change are generating risks to health, sanitation, and infrastructure. Populations living in rural villages in the YK Delta region experience challenges in the quality, accessibility, and reliability of drinking water and sanitation services. These effects are exacerbated by changes in climate and water budgets that are increasingly influencing water cycles in the Arctic. As communities, like Kongiganak and Mekoryuk navigate the changing Arctic together, it is essential to chart a course that holistically considers the physical and human dimensions of these new realities.This research will: evaluate near-term and far-term prospects of providing safe, affordable, resilient, and locally acceptable drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene services in the context of environmental change (erosion, permafrost thaw, and flood hazards); measure, quantify, and model rates of landscape change and altered hydrology caused by rising sea level and the collapse of permafrost across the built environment and landscapes used for traditional livelihoods; utilize new baseline hydrographic data collected with community partners through bathymetric surveys, water level gauges, and coastal wave buoys to develop high-resolution 3D hydrodynamic models of storm surge flooding delivering predictive flood hazard maps and workflows for other communities; develop the first estimates of water/sanitation-related coping costs for rural Alaskan communities and quantify benefits/costs of various water/sanitation-service delivery models under different landscape and climate scenarios; co-develop community-based monitoring programs that allow for determination of how current rates of environmental change compare to historical trends and Indigenous Knowledge observations. We will document effective convergent workflows/co-production techniques to be applied broadly in the YK Delta and beyond where the same challenges of rapid climate change are playing out.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.

航行新北极 (NNA) 是 NSF 的 10 大创意之一。 NNA 项目解决快速变化的北极地区的融合科学挑战。这项北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和全球的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。 NNA 授权从地方到国际范围内的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正规和非正规教育的努力，并在适当的情况下整合知识的共同生产。该奖项通过解决以下 NNA 重点领域的社会系统、自然环境和建筑环境之间的相互作用来实现该目标的一部分：北极居民、教育、预测、数据和观测以及弹性基础设施。沿海三角洲社区是最容易受到气候变化影响的社区之一，导致大多数社区想知道未来几十年他们的土地和水道会是什么样子。阿拉斯加州报告指出，育空-库斯科奎姆 (YK) 三角洲的村庄在基本政府服务方面服务不足，并强调了受到海平面上升、海岸侵蚀、洪水和永久冻土退化威胁的地区。同样，由于三角洲海拔较低，社区和传统生活方式也受到海平面上升、盐碱化和风暴潮的威胁。此外，沿海海冰持续时间和范围的减少导致风暴影响更大，增加了 YK 三角洲对沿海灾害的脆弱性。这些变化迫使阿拉斯加原住民社区在日常生活中面对新的现实。气候变化导致的水循环变化正在给健康、卫生和基础设施带来风险。居住在 YK 三角洲地区农村的居民在饮用水和卫生服务的质量、可及性和可靠性方面面临着挑战。气候和水预算的变化对北极水循环的影响越来越大，从而加剧了这些影响。 当 Kongiganak 和 Mekoryuk 等社区共同应对不断变化的北极时，有必要制定一条全面考虑这些新现实的物理和人类维度的路线。这项研究将： 评估提供安全、可靠的服务的近期和远期前景。在环境变化（侵蚀、永久冻土融化和洪水灾害）的背景下，提供负担​​得起的、有弹性的、当地可接受的饮用水、环境卫生和个人卫生服务；测量、量化和模拟由于海平面上升和永久冻土崩塌造成的景观变化和水文变化的速率，影响建筑环境和用于传统生计的景观；利用与社区合作伙伴通过测深、水位计和沿海波浪浮标收集的新基线水文数据，开发风暴潮洪水的高分辨率 3D 水动力模型，为其他社区提供预测洪水灾害地图和工作流程；对阿拉斯加农村社区与水/卫生设施相关的应对成本进行初步估计，并量化不同景观和气候情景下各种水/卫生服务提供模式的效益/成本；共同制定基于社区的监测计划，以便确定当前环境变化率与历史趋势和土著知识观察结果的比较。我们将记录有效的融合工作流程/联合生产技术，以在 YK 三角洲及其他地区广泛应用，这些地区也面临着快速气候变化的同样挑战。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。