Collaborative Research: A Workshop to Draft the Implementation Plan for the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) Initiative - Winnipeg, October 2010

北极快速过渡倡议(ART)的目标是更好地理解陆地-海洋-大气系统中多方面的气候过程。该倡议是对上一次国际北极研究规划会议(ICARP)的响应，该会议确定了整个北极系统科学综合活动的必要性。随后，ART计划建立，分为两个阶段。第一阶段于2010年初完成，起草了一项科学计划，这是在阿拉斯加费尔班克斯国际北极研究中心举办的为期三天的研讨会的成果。研讨会汇集了来自9个县的50多名科学家，概述了在ART倡议范围内需要考虑的优先事项。该科学计划已提交给北极科学委员会(AOSB)，并得到国际北极科学委员会(IASC)在格陵兰努克举行的年度会议上的批准。随着科学计划的编写、审查和更广泛的北极科学界的认可，倡议的第二阶段现在可以开始。一个研讨会将于10月18日至20日在加拿大温尼伯的淡水研究所举行，以根据科学计划中确定的研究优先事项起草实施计划。执行计划将侧重于与海洋系统的联系，包括陆海门户、陆架海和深海的贡献。还将探索一系列时间尺度，从古气候到目前在北极观察到的快速变化。与科学计划一样，实施工作将几乎完全由来自五个不同国家(美国、加拿大、挪威、德国和瑞典)的早期职业科学家组织和执行，使ART倡议成为一项独特的国际努力。

The goal of the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) Initiative is to betterunderstand multifaceted climate processes across the land-ocean-atmospheresystem. The Initiative began in response to the last InternationalConference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP), which identified the needfor synthesis activities across Arctic system science. Subsequently, theART program was established and has two phases. The first phase wascompleted in early 2010 with the drafting of a science plan that was theproduct of a three day workshop hosted at the International Arctic ResearchCenter in Fairbanks, Alaska. The workshop brought together more than 50scientists from nine counties to outline the priorities to be consideredwithin the ART Initiative. The science plan was presented to the ArcticOcean Science Board (AOSB) and endorsed by the International Arctic ScienceCommittee (IASC) during their annual meeting in Nuuk, Greenland. With thescience plan written, vetted and endorsed by the broader Arctic sciencecommunity phase two of the Initiative can now begin. A workshop will beheld at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg Canada from October 18 - 20thto draft an implementation plan based on the research priorities identifiedin the science plan. The implementation plan will focus on linkages withinthe marine system, including contributions from land-ocean gateways, shelfseas, and the deep ocean. A range of time scales will also be explored, fromPaleoclimates to the rapid change currently being observed in the Arctic.As with the science plan, the implementation effort will be organized andexecuted almost entirely by early career scientists from five differentnations (U.S., Canada, Norway, Germany, and Sweden) making the ARTInitiative a unique international effort.