IPY: Establishing a Legacy for International Collaboration Investigating Ecological Consequences of Arctic Climate Change

IPY：为研究北极气候变化的生态后果的国际合作建立遗产

• 批准号: 0732168
• 负责人: Eric Post
• 金额: $ 8.59万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0732168&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IPY; Establishing; Legacy; International; Collaboration

Funding was provided to Pennsylvania State University to support for a one-year residence for Dr. Eric Post at the Danish Ministry of Environment during the International Polar Year. In Denmark, Dr. Post will coordinate his ecological research at Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland with research conducted by Danish colleagues at Zackenberg, Northeast Greenland. This collaborative research seeks to understand fundamental aspects of the ecology of Arctic organisms and how they are responding to environmental change. The PI's residence at the Danish Ministry of Environment will promote formal collaboration, the development of infrastructure, and data-sharing that will foster deeper understanding of Arctic ecology and the likely effects of climate change. Specific focus will be given to comparisons and contrasts between the interaction between plants and animals at high- and low-Arctic sites. The funding also will be used to formalize the exchange of students and post-doctoral fellows studying ecology at Kangerlussuaq (Pennsylvania State) and at Zackenberg laboratory (Danish Ministry of Environment). The collaborative effort will integrate research from the low-Arctic site (Kangerlussuaq) and the high-Arctic site (Zackenberg) with three foci: (1) individual- and species-level responses to climatic warming (how to the sequences of life history events of individuals respond to warming in high and low-Arctic communities); (2) community-level response to climatic warming (integrating long-term observations of the timing of biological processes and changes in that timing to determine whether responses to warming differ according to trophic level and between the high- and low Arctic); and (3) ecosystem-level response to climatic warming (investigating the role of plant-animal interactions in vegetation response to climatic warming in low- and high-Arctic environments).The funding will foster international mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; establish the infrastructure for long-term, international scientific collaboration in Greenland; and enhance public awareness of Arctic ecology and threats posed by global warming.

向宾夕法尼亚州立大学提供资金，支持埃里克·波斯特博士在国际极地年期间在丹麦环境部进行为期一年的驻留。在丹麦，波斯特博士将协调他在西格陵兰岛康克鲁斯瓦格的生态研究与丹麦同事在格陵兰岛东北部扎肯伯格进行的研究。这项合作研究旨在了解北极生物生态的基本方面，以及它们如何应对环境变化。PI在丹麦环境部的驻地将促进正式合作、基础设施的发展和数据共享，从而加深对北极生态和气候变化可能产生的影响的了解。具体的重点将放在比较和对比在高北极和低北极地区植物和动物之间的相互作用。这笔资金还将用于正式交换在康克鲁斯瓦克（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）和扎肯伯格实验室（丹麦环境部）研究生态学的学生和博士后。该合作项目将整合低北极地区（Kangerlussuaq）和高北极地区（Zackenberg）的研究，重点关注三个方面：(1)个体和物种对气候变暖的响应（个体的生活史事件序列如何响应高北极和低北极社区的变暖）；(2)社区对气候变暖的响应（综合生物过程时间和时间变化的长期观测，以确定对变暖的响应是否因营养水平和北极高、低地区而异）；(3)生态系统水平对气候变暖的响应（研究植物-动物相互作用在低北极和高北极环境下植被对气候变暖的响应中的作用）。该基金将用于培养研究生和博士后的国际指导；在格陵兰建立长期国际科学合作的基础设施；提高公众对北极生态和全球变暖威胁的认识。