NNA Planning: Collaborative Research: A holistic approach to monitoring abrupt environmental shifts in the Kluane Lake region

NNA 规划：合作研究：监测克鲁恩湖地区环境突变的整体方法

• 批准号: 2306067
• 负责人: Salli Dymond
• 金额: $ 6.74万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNA; Planning; Collaborative; Research; holistic

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).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 social systems, and addresses important societal challenges, builds significant educational opportunities, and engages internationally and with local and Indigenous communities. Rapidly changing Arctic conditions necessitate multi-perspective approaches to creating new knowledge and engaging communities that are most affected by these changes. Thus, planning and co-producing effective Arctic research is needed, results of which will inform social and ecological security on a national, and global scale. The Kluane Lake Region in the Yukon Territory has recently experienced many abrupt environmental shifts. In 2016, the retreating Kaskawulsh Glacier cut off flow from Lhù’ààn Mân (Kluane Lake), effectively removing one of the largest water inputs to the lake. Additionally, recent insect outbreaks have harmed nearby forests, and warming climate regimes have shifted winter ice formation and snowpack development. While these compounding environmental changes will have drastic impacts to the ecosystem for decades to come, their impacts on the local communities will be more rapid. While these ecological impacts have been observed by formal research communities, it is also critical to work closely with local communities to understand their perspectives on critical research questions and natural resource concerns. Thus, the research team works with local communities like the Kluane First Nations and Champagne and Aishihik First Nation, as co-producers of research questions and design. This convergence research team is co-creating research questions, seeking questions that are relevant and generalizable to the Kluane Lake region specifically, the Yukon generally, and broadly at a pan-Arctic scale. Research questions are being identified by incorporating the experiences and local knowledge of communities. Specifically, planning activities center around a community liaison employed by the project with credibility in the communities around the lake, with two kick-off scoping trips (research team), and then a community-driven workshop to identify gaps in current understanding and existing methodologies to develop: 1) a citizen-science monitoring program to generate reliable and consistent data for climate and lake conditions; 2) compilations of datasets, databases, and tools for accessibility and integration into educational offerings; and 3) knowledge of community acceptance and perspectives on new technologies and data tools. Researchers are employing a mixed methods triangulation approach during the co-production process, via assembly of existing quantitative data, key informant interviews, and structured and unstructured qualitative data collection during the workshop. Researchers will then expand the team to include gaps in expertise, based on final co-produced research questions. Finally, the research team is involving underrepresented students from multiple institutions in the planning process, so they may see how a hybrid model of knowledge co-production (traditional and westernized view of knowledge) takes place.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公共法117-2）。对新北极（NNA）的努力是NSF的10个大想法之一。 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。它融合了自然环境和社会系统的各个方面，并提出了重要的社会挑战，建立了重要的教育机会，并在国际上以及当地和土著社区的参与。快速变化的北极条件必要的多观点方法来创造新知识和吸引最大程度地受这些变化影响的社区。需要计划和共同制定有效的北极研究，结果将为国家和全球规模提供社会和生态安全。育空地区的Kluane湖地区最近经历了许多突然的环境转变。 2016年，撤退的Kaskawalsh冰川从Lhù’à -nmân（Kluane Lake）切断了流量，有效地消除了湖泊最大的水投入之一。此外，最近的昆虫暴发在森林附近受到了伤害，温暖的气候状况改变了冬季冰形成和积雪的发展。尽管这些复杂的环境变化将对生态系统产生巨大影响，但它们对当地社区的影响将更加迅速。尽管正式的研究社区已经观察到了这些生态影响，但与当地社区紧密合作，了解他们对关键研究问题和自然资源问题的看法也至关重要。这是研究小组与Kluane First Nations和Champagne和Aishihik First Nation等当地社区合作，作为研究问题和设计的联合制作人。这个融合研究团队正在共同提出研究问题，寻求与克鲁恩湖地区相关且可以推广的问题，这些问题通常是育空地区，通常是在泛北极规模的。通过纳入社区的经验和当地知识来确定研究问题。具体而言，规划活动集中在该项目携带的社区联络处，在湖泊周围的社区中具有信誉，两次开球范围（研究团队），然后是一个社区驱动的研讨会，以确定当前理解和现有方法中的差距：1）公民科学的监测计划，以生成可靠和一致的气候和湖泊条件的可靠和一致的数据； 2）数据集，数据库和工具的汇编，用于可访问性和集成到教育产品中； 3）了解社区接受以及有关新技术和数据工具的观点。研究人员在联合制作过程中采用混合方法三角剖分方法，通过汇编现有的定量数据，关键的线人访谈以及研讨会期间的结构化和非结构化的定性数据收集。然后，研究人员将根据最终共同制作的研究问题扩大团队以包括专业知识的差距。最后，研究团队在计划过程中涉及来自多个机构的代表性不足的学生，因此他们可以看到如何进行知识共同生产的混合模型（传统和西化知识观点）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估CRITERIA CRITERIA。