Award Abstract # 2126798
Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic

NSF Org: RISE
Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER)
Recipient: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
Initial Amendment Date: August 1, 2021
Latest Amendment Date: August 1, 2021
Award Number: 2126798
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Kendra McLauchlan
kmclauch@nsf.gov
 (703)292-2217
RISE
 Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER)
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: January 1, 2022
End Date: December 31, 2026 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $171,942.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $171,942.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2021 = $171,942.00
History of Investigator:
  • Desheng Liu (Principal Investigator)
    liu.738@osu.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Ohio State University
1960 KENNY RD
COLUMBUS
OH  US  43210-1016
(614)688-8735
Sponsor Congressional District: 03
Primary Place of Performance: Ohio State University
Office of Sponsored Programs
Columbus
OH  US  43210-1016
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
03
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): DLWBSLWAJWR1
Parent UEI: MN4MDDMN8529
NSF Program(s): NNA-Navigating the New Arctic
Primary Program Source: 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 5294, 102Z, 072Z, 5939
Program Element Code(s): 104Y00
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.050

ABSTRACT

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 areas: Arctic Residents, Data and Observation, Forecasting, Global Impact, and Resilient Infrastructure.

Seasonality shifts, thawing permafrost, and the occurrence of extreme weather conditions in the Arctic today have led to cascading effects in the natural and human worlds. Plants and animals are changing their seasonality and ranging patterns. These changes put increased pressure on livelihoods of peoples of the North, whose dependence on the natural world is tied to weather and seasonality. Globalization, such as the growing presence of industrial and urban centers, also impacts the Arctic tundra and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples as never before. By considering impacts of multiple climatic and socioeconomic drivers on the functioning of an increasingly industrialized Arctic region, this project crystalizes processes that are or represent potential threats to the well-being of Arctic communities relying on reindeer herding economy. This project co-produces knowledge with various stakeholders representing the Indigenous community, regional government, and industry sectors. The project links numerous disciplines and provides training opportunities for the next generation of scientists as well as broader exposure via an inter-institutional course-forum and public outreach events.

The goal of this project is to understand how the natural, social, and built environment systems within a tundra region are linked in their responses to stressors. This project examines how (1) tall vegetation impacts animals and reindeer herders, and feedback mechanisms conditioned on human activities; (2) changing snowpack influences food webs and animal population dynamics, and alters decision-making by reindeer herders and other stakeholders; (3) the built environment affects the reindeer herding system, as well as interactions between industrial workers and indigenous people and perceptions of the environment by these groups; and (4) reindeer management, social institutions, and markets for reindeer products affect community resilience, indigenous traditions and practices, and landscape structure. The Yamal region of Russia is an ideal site as it spans four of the five Arctic bioclimatic subzones and has an unprecedented large-scale survey of Yamal in the late 1980s as well as voluminous Soviet-era anthropological research on reindeer herders. This project works with regional stakeholders to test hypotheses of multi-system responses to changes in summer and winter heating, growing presence of industrial activities, and increasing social complexities in peoples of the North.

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.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Celis, Gerardo and Ungar, Peter and Sokolov, Aleksandr and Sokolova, Natalia and Böhner, Hanna and Liu, Desheng and Gilg, Olivier and Fufachev, Ivan and Pokrovskaya, Olga and Ims, Rolf Anker and Zhou, Wenbo and Morris, Dan and Ehrich, Dorothee "A versatile, semi-automated image analysis workflow for time-lapse camera trap image classification" Ecological Informatics , v.81 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102578 Citation Details
Ivanov, Valeriy Y and Ungar, Peter S and Ziker, John P and Abdulmanova, Svetlana and Celis, Gerardo and Dixon, Andrew and Ehrich, Dorothee and Fufachev, Ivan and Gilg, Olivier and Heskel, Mary and Liu, Desheng and MaciasFauria, Marc and Mazepa, Valeriy a "A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic" Earth's Future , v.12 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004157 Citation Details
Wang, Jian and Liu, Desheng "Deciphering the Biophysical Impact of Permafrost Greening on Summer Surface Offset" Earth's Future , v.12 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004077 Citation Details
Wang, Jian and Liu, Desheng "Larger diurnal temperature range undermined later autumn leaf senescence with warming in Europe" Global Ecology and Biogeography , v.32 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13674 Citation Details
Wang, Jian and Liu, Desheng "Models overestimate ecosystem water use efficiency for northern permafrost regions" Agricultural and Forest Meteorology , v.339 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109594 Citation Details
Zhou, Wenbo and Zhang, Liujing and Sheshukov, Aleksey and Wang, Jingfeng and Zhu, Modi and Sargsyan, Khachik and Xu, Donghui and Liu, Desheng and Zhang, Tianqi and Mazepa, Valeriy and Sokolov, Alexandr and Valdayskikh, Victor and Ivanov, Valeriy "Ground Heat Flux Reconstruction Using Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification Machinery and Surrogate Modeling" Earth and Space Science , v.11 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003435 Citation Details

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