Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Pan-Arctic Options: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability

该奖项支持美国研究人员参与一个由14个国家组成的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选择的项目。这一多边倡议旨在支持利用现有北极观测系统、数据集和模型评估北极地区关键的可持续性挑战和机遇的研究项目，创新应对这些挑战和机遇的可持续性科学新理论和方法，并支持实现可持续北极环境的决策。申请的资金将用于支持美国参与者在财团中进行合作，财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户(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。来自其他国家的参与者通过其国家资助组织获得资助。北冰洋正在经历环境状态的变化，人类活动不断扩大，从商业航运和能源开发到船舶旅游。因此，在土著人民的参与下，北极和非北极国家已开始制定国家和国际管理制度，以处理北冰洋新出现的问题、影响和资源。在任何情况下，在面临政治和财政限制的情况下执行协议都将面临挑战。“泛北极备选方案--北极沿海-海洋可持续性的整体一体化”是以国际、跨学科和包容的方式设计的，涉及与目前资助的项目进行具有成本效益的合作，以促进政府和行业的决策者做出明智的决策。核心团队包括来自加拿大、中国、法国、挪威、俄罗斯和美国的自然和社会科学家，他们将整合文献收集、地理空间数据和利益相关者的观点。这一综合决策支持工具将使用户参与共同设计和共同制作北冰洋可持续基础设施发展所需的政策和已建成要素的备选方案。泛北极备选方案的一个独特的观测贡献将是分析从2009年起从极地轨道卫星收集的北冰洋船舶交通的自动识别系统数据。结果将通过期刊(如《科学》、《自然》)和书籍以及在年度场所(如北极边界、北极圈)以及涉及国家地理学会和谷歌海洋计划的2016年北极考察峰会上促进对话的非常规方法传播。这一全面项目的管理将由一个指导委员会和一个国际咨询委员会负责，该委员会由全球思想领袖和组织(如北极监测和评估方案)参与，为北冰洋在泛北极范围内的可持续发展作出贡献。

This award supports U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. This multilateral initiative is designed to support 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. The funds requested will be used to support U.S. participants 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 research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Participants from other countries are funded through their national funding organizations. The Arctic Ocean is experiencing an environmental state-change with expanding human activities ranging from commercial shipping and energy development to ship-based tourism. Accordingly, with involvement of indigenous peoples, Arctic and non-Arctic states have begun to develop national and international management regimes to address emerging issues, impacts and resources in the Arctic Ocean. In every case, there will be challenges to implement agreements in the face of political and financial constraints. "Pan-Arctic Options - Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability" is designed in an international, interdisciplinary and inclusive manner, involving cost-effective collaboration with currently funded projects to contribute to informed decision-making by policy makers from government and industry. The core team includes natural and social scientists from Canada, China, France, Norway, Russia and the United States who will integrate document collections, geospatial data and stakeholder perspectives. This integrated decision-support tool will involve users in the co-design and co-production of options for both policy and built elements that are needed together for sustainable infrastructure development in the Arctic Ocean. A unique observational contribution from Pan-Arctic Options will be the analysis of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data of ship traffic across the Arctic Ocean collected from polar-orbiting satellites from 2009 forward. Results will be disseminated via journals (e.g., Science, Nature) and books as well as less-conventional methods involving facilitated dialogues in annual venues (e.g., Arctic Frontiers, Arctic Circle) and in the 2016 Arctic Expedition Summit involving the National Geographic Society and Google Ocean program. Management of this holistic project will be in the hands of a Steering Committee and an international Advisory Board involving global thought leaders and organizations (e.g., Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme), contributing to Arctic Ocean sustainability on a pan-Arctic scale.