Collaborative Research: Research, Synthesis, and Knowledge Transfer in a Changing Arctic: Science Support for the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)

北极正在经历急剧和加速的环境变化，对地方、区域和全球范围产生影响。提高对北极环境现状和未来可能状况的认识，对于包括北极居民、私营部门、机构和决策者在内的广泛利益攸关方都很重要。为了向决策者发展和传达这种理解，需要一个跨学科的研究计划，与利益相关者合作，为利益相关者的问题提供基于科学的答案，而北极环境变化研究（北极环境变化研究）正好能够发挥这一作用。该项目将建立一个支助结构，使科学和技术研究所能够满足科学界和各机构的需要。新的研究协调结构将协调科学，在科学和利益相关者之间交流知识和工具，推动科学综合，并将科学家和利益相关者联系起来，以回答有关北极变化的问题。新的结构将确保其活动具有社会效益，并促进研究结果和信息需求的双向交流。拟议的活动包括知识交流研讨会，以促进利益攸关方和科学家之间的联网，利益攸关方将参与其他综合研究活动和大小会议。一系列以“北极未来2050”为主题的活动将以帮助决策者规划未来的方式构建科学发现。所有这些活动将导致开发研究产品，解决社会优先事项，并有助于为政策提供信息。北极研究中心将促进研究，以应对科学优先事项和利益攸关方关于复杂的北极变化的问题。该项目将提高认识，推进预测，并探索北极海冰变化的后果;记录和提高近地表永久冻土退化将如何影响北极和全球系统的认识;并改善未来陆地冰损失及其对海平面影响的预测。另一个总体目标是分析这些北极环境变化的社会和政策影响，并将开展一系列活动，以整合所有专题目标的调查结果。实现这些目标的方法是：促进跨学科、跨规模和跨机构的研究;推进数据、模型产出和专家预测的科学综合;建立促进效率和科学发现的人员和研究团体网络;开发对利益攸关方和决策者有用的工具;加强研究协调。

The Arctic is undergoing dramatic, accelerating environmental change, resulting in impacts on local, regional and global scales. Improved understanding of the present and probable future state of the arctic environment is important for a wide range of stakeholders, including arctic residents, the private sector, agencies and decision-makers. To develop and convey this understanding to decision makers, an interdisciplinary research program is needed that engages with stakeholders to provide science-based answers to stakeholder questions, and the Study of Arctic Environmental Change (SEARCH) is well positioned to serve this function. This project will build a support structure to enable SEARCH to serve the needs of the scientific community and agencies. The new research coordination structure will coordinate science, exchange knowledge and tools between science and stakeholders, drive scientific syntheses, and connect scientists and stakeholders to answer questions about arctic change. The new structure will ensure that its activities have societal benefit, and foster two-way communication of research findings and information needs. Proposed activities include knowledge exchange workshops that will facilitate networking between stakeholders and scientists, and stakeholders will be included in other synthesis research activities, meetings and conferences. A set of activities focused on the theme "Arctic Futures 2050" will frame scientific findings in a way that can help decision-makers plan for the future. All of these activities will lead to development of research products that address societal priorities and can help inform policy. SEARCH will facilitate research in response to scientific priorities and stakeholder questions about complex arctic change. This project will improve understanding, advance prediction, and explore the consequences of changing arctic sea ice; document and improve understanding of how degradation of near-surface permafrost will affect arctic and global systems; and improve predictions of future land-ice loss and its impacts on sea level. An additional overarching goal will be to analyze societal and policy implications of these arctic environmental changes, and a set of activities will be undertaken to integrate findings across all the thematic goals. These goals will be achieved by facilitating research across disciplines, scales and among agencies; advancing scientific synthesis of data, model output and expert projections; creating networks of people and research groups that promote efficiencies and scientific discovery; developing tools useful to stakeholders and decision-makers; and enhancing research coordination.