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

北极正在经历戏剧性的、加速的环境变化，对地方、区域和全球范围产生影响。对包括北极居民、私营部门、机构和决策者在内的广泛利益攸关方来说，更好地了解北极环境的现状和可能的未来状况是很重要的。为了发展这一理解并将其传达给决策者，需要一个与利益攸关方接触的跨学科研究计划，为利益攸关方问题提供以科学为基础的答案，而北极环境变化研究(SEARE)处于很好的地位，可以发挥这一作用。该项目将建立一个支持结构，使搜索能够服务于科学界和机构的需求。新的研究协调结构将协调科学，在科学和利益攸关方之间交流知识和工具，推动科学合成，并将科学家和利益攸关方联系起来，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，并促进研究成果和信息需求的双向交流。拟议的活动包括举办知识交流讲习班，以促进利益攸关方和科学家之间的联系，并将利益攸关方纳入其他综合研究活动、会议和大会。围绕“北极期货2050”这一主题开展的一系列活动将以有助于决策者规划未来的方式构建科学发现框架。所有这些活动都将导致研究产品的开发，以解决社会优先事项，并有助于为政策提供信息。搜索将促进研究，以回应科学优先事项和利益相关者关于复杂北极变化的问题。该项目将提高对北极海冰变化的认识、改进预测和探索其后果；记录和提高对近地表永久冻土退化将如何影响北极和全球系统的理解；并改进对未来陆地冰损失及其对海平面的影响的预测。另一个首要目标是分析这些北极环境变化对社会和政策的影响，并将开展一系列活动，综合所有专题目标的调查结果。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：促进跨学科、规模和机构间的研究；促进数据、模型产出和专家预测的科学合成；建立促进效率和科学发现的人员和研究小组网络；开发对利益攸关方和决策者有用的工具；以及加强研究协调。

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.