Collaborative Research-HIARC: Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic. Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems, and Societies

该奖项为参加一个项目的美国研究人员提供支持，该项目是由14个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛就全球变化研究开展的一项倡议竞争性选择的。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个高层次的世界集团？全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。 这一方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国方法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案，在这一合作研究行动中，伙伴机构为利用现有北极观测系统的研究项目提供了支持，该项目旨在利用数据集和模型来评估北极地区关键的可持续性挑战和机遇，创新新的可持续性科学理论和方法来应对这些挑战和机遇，并支持可持续北极环境的决策。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，并将自然科学家，社会科学家和最终用户（例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）。 北极地区的人为热岛？区域气候、生态系统和社会未来之窗（HIARC）汇集了来自挪威、俄罗斯和美国的国际团队。该团队代表了气候，社会，政治，生物医学和通信科学的专业知识。这个多元化的小组将调查北极地区的城市热岛，特别是评估生态系统和社会如何适应城市地区温暖的微气候。HIARC将使用高分辨率的现场数据、卫星图像、带有生物生产力指数的气候数据和其他来源，以便记录和预测城市热岛造成的环境变化。调查员将与一组选定的最终用户合作并向其报告，此外还将通过传统平台和网络平台传播调查结果。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support for research projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region, to innovate new sustainability science theory and approaches to these challenges and opportunities, and support decision-making towards a sustainable Arctic environment. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and end users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic ? Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems and Societies (HIARC) brings together an international team from Norway, Russia, and the United States. The team represents expertise in the climate, societal, political, biomedical, and communication sciences. This diverse group will investigate urban heat islands in the arctic, specifically evaluating how ecosystems and societies adapt to the warmer micro-climates in urban areas. HIARC will use high-resolution in-situ data, satellite imagery, climate data with biological productivity indices, and other sources in order to document and predict environmental changes due to urban heat islands. The investigators will work with and report to a select group of end-users, in addition to disseminating their results through traditional and web-based platforms.