Who We Are
The Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) builds awareness, partnerships, opportunities, and resources for collaboration and knowledge exchange within, between, and beyond the research projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s NNA Initiative. The office builds capacity in early career researchers and provides unique opportunities to inspire and engage a wide audience toward a more holistic understanding of the Arctic—its natural environment, built environment, and cultures and communities.
Recent News
NNA-CO at AGU26: ED33D - Arctic Education and Outreach: Effective Ways of Engaging Diverse Learners in Arctic Science I Poster
The changing polar environments have created important scientific and societal concerns in the polar regions. In this session, we will share effective approaches, frameworks and examples of how to promote a broad understanding and awareness of the changing Arctic and related societal implications for the region and beyond. The session will highlight effective strategies to inspire communities and learners in both formal and informal learning contexts. We also invite papers on effective ways of engaging communities, co-designing educational and outreach activities, and fostering intergenerational or cross-cultural learning through Arctic Indigenous knowledge, science, and observations.
Learn More
NNA-CO at AGU26: SY11C - Co-creation of Knowledge for Actionable Science: Good Practices and Emerging Methodologies I Poster
Co-creation of knowledge is a process driven by community needs and priorities, encompassing values, imagination, and inspirations with the outcomes expanded beyond merely scientific results. It is necessary for a better understanding of place-based processes amid rapid change, meaningful engagement of researchers with communities, stakeholders, and rightsholders to create actionable science. This session invites scholars and practitioners to share their experience and identify good practices of collaboration in identification of research needs, alignment of community priorities and scholarly expertise, engagement through project implementation, finding solutions, and making decisions for collective benefit. Of particular interest are the methods of participatory research, convergence of different ways of knowing, and addressing power balances. We encourage submissions that discuss work in progress, successes and failures, and how we can overcome obstacles together. The session is intended to learn from Indigenous and local…
Learn More
NNA-CO at AGU26: SY13A - Co-creation of Knowledge for Actionable Science: Good Practices and Emerging Methodologies I Oral
Co-creation of knowledge is a process driven by community needs and priorities, encompassing values, imagination, and inspirations with the outcomes expanded beyond merely scientific results. It is necessary for a better understanding of place-based processes amid rapid change, meaningful engagement of researchers with communities, stakeholders, and rightsholders to create actionable science. This session invites scholars and practitioners to share their experience and identify good practices of collaboration in identification of research needs, alignment of community priorities and scholarly expertise, engagement through project implementation, finding solutions, and making decisions for collective benefit. Of particular interest are the methods of participatory research, convergence of different ways of knowing, and addressing power balances. We encourage submissions that discuss work in progress, successes and failures, and how we can overcome obstacles together. The session is intended to learn from Indigenous and local…
Learn More
NNA-CO at AGU26: SY14A - Co-creation of Knowledge for Actionable Science: Good Practices and Emerging Methodologies III Oral
Co-creation of knowledge is a process driven by community needs and priorities, encompassing values, imagination, and inspirations with the outcomes expanded beyond merely scientific results. It is necessary for a better understanding of place-based processes amid rapid change, meaningful engagement of researchers with communities, stakeholders, and rightsholders to create actionable science. This session invites scholars and practitioners to share their experience and identify good practices of collaboration in identification of research needs, alignment of community priorities and scholarly expertise, engagement through project implementation, finding solutions, and making decisions for collective benefit. Of particular interest are the methods of participatory research, convergence of different ways of knowing, and addressing power balances. We encourage submissions that discuss work in progress, successes and failures, and how we can overcome obstacles together. The session is intended to learn from Indigenous and local…
Learn More
NNA-CO at AGU26: ED42A - Arctic Education and Outreach: Effective Ways of Engaging Diverse Learners in Arctic Science II Oral
The changing polar environments have created important scientific and societal concerns in the polar regions. In this session, we will share effective approaches, frameworks and examples of how to promote a broad understanding and awareness of the changing Arctic and related societal implications for the region and beyond. The session will highlight effective strategies to inspire communities and learners in both formal and informal learning contexts. We also invite papers on effective ways of engaging communities, co-designing educational and outreach activities, and fostering intergenerational or cross-cultural learning through Arctic Indigenous knowledge, science, and observations.
Learn More
