| NSF Org: |
OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | May 13, 2015 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | March 10, 2022 |
| Award Number: | 1424042 |
| Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Erica Hill
OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | May 15, 2015 |
| End Date: | April 30, 2023 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $944,583.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $1,075,045.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2016 = $327,272.00 FY 2017 = $458,726.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
2145 N TANANA LOOP FAIRBANKS AK US 99775-0001 (907)474-7301 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
909 Koyukuk Dr., 008 WRRB Fairbanks AK US 99775-7880 |
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Performance Congressional District: |
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| NSF Program(s): |
ASSP-Arctic Social Science, Polar Cyberinfrastructure |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.078 |
ABSTRACT
Colonialism and environmental change threaten the overall survival of Indigenous Arctic people. They must continually innovate and adopt new strategies for social persistence, adaptation and transformation. The goal of the Community Adaptation project is to discover indigenous patterns of adaptive and resilient responses to critical situations through an exchange of knowledge between members of two arctic communities in Alaska and Siberia. The project aims to: 1) develop and implement a fieldwork course and knowledge exchange with indigenous youth, community members and leaders from Alaska and Siberia; 2) conduct two fieldwork exchanges in Alaska and Siberia with indigenous community collaborators; 3) develop a comparative model of social resilience and community sustainability that describes how diverse communities in the Arctic are coping, adapting, and transforming as a result of changing social and environmental conditions; and 4) establish an innovative methodology for engaging arctic indigenous community members in collaborative research.
The study will be the first to engage indigenous community members from Alaska and Siberia in a collaborative exchange and discovery process as part of a research design utilizing innovative indigenous research methodologies. The study adds a critical new perspective to resilience theory that takes into account the transformative capacity of indigenous peoples and communities. The proposed study aims to impact the international indigenous and scientific communities by broadening the inclusion of underrepresented minorities in research, and more effectively engaging indigenous communities and peoples as part of research collaborations.
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Community Adaptations and Indigenous Knowledge Sharing in Alaska and Siberia, is a project that builds on a long-term collaboration between two Indigenous social science researchers working in two different regions of the Arctic to address sociocultural and ecological distress from a community constructed resilience and adaptation framework. This project engaged community members as co-researchers in a process of Indigenous knowledge co-production that involved a series of exchanges and workshops bringing together youth, leaders, and Elders from Yupik communities in southwest Alaska and Eveny communities in northeast Siberia. Project outcomes include: 1) Indigenous communities are positioned as the drivers of the research questions and are included in the research at all stages. 2) Development of novel methods including Indigenous peer-observation of ethnographic research and Indigenous knowledge co-production. 3) Delivery of Indigenous knowledge exchanges resulting in the co-production of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) models and frameworks of resilience and adaptation. 4) Integration of two sets of culturally and environmentally specific Indigenous knowledge, with findings producing new insights for understanding the latest social and environmental transformations. Ultimately, this project increased in the number of Indigenous people involved in research, and as part of scientific teams exploring the human impacts and social responses to the changing conditions in the Arctic. Increased representation and engagement of Arctic Indigenous experts on the forefronts of a rapidly changing ecology will have broader impacts for all of the world’s most vulnerable peoples living in areas highly impacted by climate change.
Last Modified: 11/08/2023
Modified by: Stacy M Rasmus
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