Collaborative Research: GCR: Developing Integrated Agroecological Renewable Energy Systems through Convergent Research

合作研究：GCR：通过融合研究开发综合农业生态可再生能源系统

• 批准号: 2317983
• 负责人: Raul Cal
• 金额: $ 159.83万
• 依托单位: Portland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GCR; Developing; Integrated

The deployment of renewable energy systems across landscapes in the U.S. - expected to advance the transition from national reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy - brings with it questions of competing land uses, effects on soil and water systems, and implications for local communities. This project advances the frontiers of science by forging a convergent research paradigm that not only deeply integrates disciplinary modes of thinking from otherwise siloed fields, but also incorporates the values, knowledge, and priorities of Indigenous communities, demonstrating the potential of communities underrepresented in STEM to contribute to convergent research that can address society’s most urgent problems. The project's convergent framework integrates Indigenous knowledge and priorities into a promising but nascent field that explores how wind and solar power can be embedded into agricultural systems. Participating disciplines include engineering, Native American studies, geography, and biology. This convergence research addresses food, energy and other environmental planning priorities through deep engagement with Indigenous communities in North America. Positioned to contribute to the nascent body of research on the integration of solar and wind energy into agricultural and other environmental systems, this project focuses on the co-design of integrated agroecological renewable systems (IARES) to emphasize the multifaceted goals that may be achieved beyond or in synergy with crop and energy production. To this end, the project 1) Demonstrates the potential of convergent research that involves significant community participation in research to shape the technologies guiding a renewable energy transition such to better serve groups underrepresented in scientific research; 2) Highlights the interconnectedness of socio-cultural, technical, and environmental systems; 3) Incorporates Indigenous communities as co-producers of the knowledge necessary to create integrated food-energy-water systems that build resilient soil systems and protect culturally significant ecosystem services, while providing insight into the nascent fields of agrivoltaics/agriwind, and 4) Advances an understanding of how convergent research can blend Indigenous and scientific knowledge, to develop paths towards environmentally and socially sustainable systems. The broader impacts include: 1) Transformative training opportunities for graduate students and PIs in community-based convergent research; 2) Deep engagement with historically marginalized groups that includes Indigenous community researchers in research on the principles of integrated agroecological renewable systems and positions their work to shape this emerging subfield; 3) Creation of communities of practice emerging from convergent research that integrate Indigenous community researchers and biophysical and social scientists; 4) Creation of “living labs,” in which the public, including Indigenous community members and regional leaders, can visit to learn about integrated agroecological renewable systems and convergent research processes in real time.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.

在美国跨景观之间的可再生能源系统的部署 - 预计将推进从国家对化石燃料的依赖到可再生能源的过渡 - 带来了有关土地使用，对土壤和水系统的影响以及对当地社区的影响的问题。该项目通过锻造收敛的研究范式来推动科学领域的前沿，该研究范式不仅深入融合了其他孤立的领域的思维方式，而且还结合了土著社区的价值观，知识和优先级，这证明了在STEM中代表性不足的社区潜力，从而为社会最紧迫的问题促成了融合研究的贡献。该项目的收敛框架将土著知识和优先事项纳入了一个诺言，但新生的领域探讨了如何将风能和太阳能嵌入农业系统中。参与学科包括工程，美洲原住民研究，地理和生物学。这项融合研究通过与北美土著社区的深入互动来解决食品，能源和其他环境计划的重点。该项目有助于促进关于太阳能和风能整合到农业和其他环境系统中的新兴研究，该项目着重于综合农业生态可再生系统（IARES）的共同设计，以强调可以实现与农作物和能源生产相结合或与农作物和能源生产相关联的多方面目标。为此，项目1）展示了融合研究的潜力，涉及社区参与研究的大量参与，以塑造指导可再生能源过渡的技术，以便更好地服务于科学研究中代表性不足的群体； 2）强调社会文化，技术和环境系统的相互联系； 3）将土著社区作为共同制作者的共同制作者，以创建综合食品能量水系统，以建立有弹性的土壤系统并保护具有文化意义的生态系统服务，同时提供对Agrivoltaics/Agriwind的新生领域的见识，以及4）对融合融合的知识的理解，以融合了社会知识和科学的知识，以融合了融合的知识，从而融合了融合的知识。更广泛的影响包括：1）研究生的变革性培训机会和基于社区的融合研究中的PI； 2）与历史上边缘化的群体的深入互动，包括土著社区研究人员研究综合农业生态可再生系统的原理，并将其工作定位以塑造这一新兴子领域； 3）建立了从融合研究的融合研究中产生的实践社区，这些研究整合了土著社区研究人员以及生物物理和社会科学家； 4）创建“生活实验室”，其中包括土著社区成员和区域领导者在内的公众可以实时了解综合的农业生态可再生系统和融合研究过程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是珍贵的支持。