In 2017, NSF released a Dear Colleague Letter calling for converging Research Coordination Networks (RCN) and Workshop proposal addressing four Big Ideas: Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), The Quantum Leap (QL), Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (HTF), and Navigating the New Arctic (NNA). The projects funded for NNA are described below.

Research Coordination Networks

• Award #1745499, Convergence NNA: Networking Indigenous Arctic and U.S. Southwest Communities on Knowledge Co-Production in Data Sciences. Noor Jehan Johnson, University of Colorado
  
  
• Award #1745369, Transdisciplinary Research Network to Identify Challenges and Solutions for Permafrost Coastal Erosion and Socioecological Impacts. Ming Xiao, Pennsylvania State University
  
  
• Award #1745508, ANCHOR - Arctic Network for Coastal Community Hazards, Observations, and Integrated Research. Thomas Ravens, University of Alaska-Anchorage

Workshops

• Award #1744417, Adaptive Capacity & Resilience in the New Arctic: Identifying Pathways to Equitable, Desirable Outcomes for People and Nature through Convergence. Craig Allen, University of Nebraska
  
  
• Award #1744410, Understanding Future Systems of Transportation in Arctic Regions. David Wettergreen, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  
• Award #1744346, Preparing for a Northwest Passage: the Role of New England in Navigating the New Arctic. Katherine Duderstadt, University of New Hampshire