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OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | March 10, 2023 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | March 10, 2023 |
| Award Number: | 2246368 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Liam Frink
lfrink@nsf.gov (703)292-0000 OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | March 15, 2023 |
| End Date: | February 29, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $77,062.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $77,062.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
834 LINCOLN ST SITKA AK US 99835-7650 (907)747-8878 |
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834 LINCOLN ST #200 SITKA AK US 99835-7650 |
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| NSF Program(s): | ASSP-Arctic Social Science |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.078 |
ABSTRACT
This workshop brings multiple COVID-19 research teams from across the U.S. to Alaska to share findings, synthesize results, and enhance planning and messaging efforts for future pandemics. The workshop will provide opportunities to compare data collection and analytic methods, develop new collaborations, and present research findings. Working together, workshop participants will synthesize research across disciplinary lines, addressing pandemic responses in Alaska communities with vast differences in culture, economics, infrastructure, and geography. By amplifying the results of funded projects, the workshop will advance understanding of pandemic responses, strengthen research capacity in Alaska, and foster convergent approaches to societal challenges.
Outputs of the workshop include a peer-reviewed publication in an international journal that synthesizes the approaches, findings, and recommendations developed collaboratively by the research teams; a series of public outreach activities, and science communication training for participants. Together, these activities will generate an interdisciplinary network of researchers across the state, deliver accessible science to the research community and the general public, and elevate the visibility of Arctic research on community health and well-being.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
This project organized a workshop comprised of researchers examining the impacts of COVID-19 on the Circumpolar North. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Arctic Social Sciences Program at NSF has awarded many RAPID grants dedicated to the study of the pandemic in the North. These projects investigated topics such as food security, vaccine uptake, government responses, delayed care, and housing from community-centered, Indigenous, and pan-Arctic perspectives. This diverse set of studies presented a unique opportunity for the research groups to learn from one another. The purpose of the workshop was to take advantage of the opportunity to learn from one another, and more pressingly, to identify the primary threats to the Arctic and its people in post-pandemic years. The workshop also sought to encourage new collaborations and produce new research questions to strengthen pandemic inquiry in the region.
We successfully brought together over 30 researchers and community partners in April 2023 to have a 2-day conference and workshop in Sitka, Alaska. It was held in the Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Tribal Community house and a public keynote address was given by Dr. Anne Zink, the Chief Medical Officer of the Alaska Department of Health. The keynote was very well attended by the residents of Sitka.
During the conference, we heard 14 presentations from the attendees on social science-focused COVID-19 research they performed over the previous 2-3 years. Presentations were filmed and are available online. Attendees came from all over Alaska, including Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau, and Buckland, but many also came from the lower 48 from Missouri, California, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia; two researchers were able to come from Canada, one from Manitoba and another from Nunavut. Talks were delivered in small sessions that could be viewed by all other workshop attendees, after which each set of authors/presenters sat on a panel for general research discussions. In the afternoon sessions, we facilitated more in-depth discussion with specific prompts related to elevating essential issues in interdisciplinary pandemic research and generating new research questions and interdisciplinary connections. A manuscript describing the findings of the workshop will be submitted for publication in the summer of 2024.
Last Modified: 06/24/2024
Modified by: Ron A Heintz
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