The ACTION Project

Alaska Coastal Cooperative for Co-producing Transformative Ideas and Opportunities in the North

The goals of the Alaska Coastal Cooperative will be realized through the ACTION project. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), ACTION grew out of existing partnerships with rural communities responding to increasing climate-driven coastal hazards and environmental change.

Our work will honor relationship-building, uncertainty, humility, and listening to discover innovative pathways to coastal resilience.

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Focus areas

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Build a communication network

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Explore new ways of thinking about change

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Build technical capacity in communities

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Monitor coastal environmental change

ACTION objectives

Build a network of community research leads who can exchange knowledge and experiences of coastal hazards, build cross-region response capacity, and facilitate co-learning.

Build on existing community capacities around coastal change through new courses co-developed with communities and University of Alaska regional campuses.

Connect emerging coastal hazards to decisions and policies by working with communities to engage with decision makers to better address needs and target policy.

Document household-level impacts of change on health and wellbeing to engage more deeply with values, places, and people.

Enhance knowledge exchange and advance co-produced research on a cruise aboard the R/V Sikuliaq, bringing together community partners, researchers, and educators to exchange knowledge and co-deploy hydrographic equipment.

Address gaps in coastal monitoring and ocean observing through hydrographic surveys and co-deployment of ocean moorings, wave buoys, and water level gauges that provide data for hazard models and timely forecasts to improve community response.

ACTION is part of Navigating the New Arctic

Navigating the New Arctic  (NNA) is an NSF initiative that tackles convergent scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic, which are needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe.

The total award on the ACTION project, including logistics support, is $13.9 million.

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ACTION partner communities

  • Atka (Atxˆaxˆ)
  • Chignik Intertribal Coalition (Chignik Bay, Chignik Lagoon (Nanwarnaq), Chignik Lake (Igyaraq), Perryville, Ivanof Bay)
  • Gambell (Sivuqaq)
  • Hooper Bay (Naparyaarmiut)
  • Nelson Lagoon (Niilsanam Alĝuudaa)
  • Point Lay (Kali)
  • St. Paul (Tanaxˆ Amixˆ)
  • Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada

Collaborators

  • Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Coastal Hazard Program
  • Alaska Ocean Observing System
  • Alaskanist Stories
  • Arizona State University
  • Axiom Data Science
  • Bristol Bay Native Corporation
  • Center for Alaska Native Health Research
  • Deltares USA
  • Goldstream Group
  • Hohonu
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Natural Resources Canada
  • St. Lawrence University
  • University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
  • UAF Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab
  • UAF Bristol Bay and Nome Campuses
  • UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
  • UAF College of Indigenous Studies (CIS)
  • UAF International Arctic Research Center
  • UAF Institute of Northern Engineering
  • UIC Science
  • University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls
  • University of Texas El Paso
  • University of Victoria
  • US Geological Survey (USGS)