Collaborative Research Belmont Forum: Ecological Calendars and Climate Adaptation in the Pamirs

该奖项为参与一个由六国倡议通过贝尔蒙论坛进行全球变化研究的竞争性项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙论坛是一个由全球主要和新兴的全球环境变化研究资助者S组成的团体。其目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴组织都为本国的研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种方法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的主题的优秀研究，最好是通过多国方法来解决，因为认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。六个伙伴组织在合作研究行动中共同为利用强有力的跨学科方法研究山区气候、环境和相关社会变化的研究项目提供支持。该奖项支持美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴联盟中开展合作，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户(例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业)聚集在一起。帕米尔高原的生态日历和气候适应(ECCAP)联合了来自美国、意大利、中国、德国和吉尔吉斯共和国的研究人员。该项目的目标是通过将土著知识与气候和物候数据的科学分析结合起来，重新校准帕米尔山脉的历史和现有生态日历。通过这样做，该项目将有助于帕米里社区预测和应对日益不一致的天气模式的能力。ECCAP将与帕米尔山脉的土著社区进行参与性行动研究，并通过将土著生态知识与科学相结合来开发和测试新的生态日历。将通过编制日历的代际转移和适应课程以及利用生态日历建设地方规模气候变化预测能力的国际会议来传播新知识。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a six-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. 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 organization provides funding for researchers from their country 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 a Collaborative Research Action, the six partner organizations have provided support for research projects that utilize a strong inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to examine climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in a consortium of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that brings together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Ecological Calendars and Climate Adaptation in the Pamirs (ECCAP) unites researchers from the United States, Italy, China, Germany, and the Kyrgyz Republic. The goal of the project is to recalibrate historical and existing ecological calendars from the Pamir Mountains by integrating indigenous knowledge with scientific analyses of climate and phenological data. By doing this, the project will contribute to the capacity of Pamiri communities to anticipate and respond to increasingly inconsistent weather patterns. ECCAP will conduct participatory action research with indigenous communities in the Pamir Mountains, and develop and test new ecological calendars by integrating indigenous ecological knowledge with science. New knowledge will be disseminated through the development of a curriculum for inter-generational transfer and adaptation of calendars, as well as an international conference on the use of ecological calendars for building anticipatory capacity for climate change at local scales.