Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: ARCTIC-ERA: ARCTIC climate change and its impact on Environment, infrastructures and Resource Availability

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This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitivelyselected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the BelmontForum. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emergingfunders of global environmental change research and international science councils. Itaims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgentlyneeded to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizinginternational resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researcherswithin a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. Thisapproach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellentresearch 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 haveprovided support for research projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems,datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in theArctic region, to innovate new sustainability science theory and approaches to thesechallenges and opportunities, and support decision-making towards a sustainable Arcticenvironment. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate inconsortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries andthat bring together natural scientists, social scientists and end users (e.g., policymakers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry).ARCTIC-ERA unites a core team of experts from the United States, France and Russia.The goal of the project is to address critical aspects of human well-being andsustainable use of Arctic infrastructure and resources under current and projectedconditions. This projects seeks to analyze critical data that will help developrecommendations on adaptation of coastal settlements and ports, transportation,fishery, oil and gas exploitation to the ongoing and future changes and mitigation of theirnegative effects, and to identify new opportunities associated with the "Opening of theArctic". In addition to publications and presentations, the results of the project will bedisseminated through a series of dialogues between the researchers, decision makers,and end-users. These dialogues will focus on co-design and co-production of options.