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

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（BelmontForum）发起的全球变化研究的14国倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的高层组织。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。它旨在通过协调和调动国际资源，加快国际环境研究的交付，消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为他们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，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，合作机构为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提供了支持，为应对这些挑战和机遇创新新的可持续性科学理论和方法，并为实现可持续北极环境的决策提供支持。该奖项为美国研究人员提供合作支持，该合作由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和最终用户（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。ARCTIC-ERA联合了来自美国、法国和俄罗斯的核心专家团队。该项目的目标是在当前和项目条件下解决人类福祉和可持续利用北极基础设施和资源的关键方面。该项目旨在分析关键数据，以帮助制定建议，使沿海住区和港口、运输、渔业、石油和天然气开采适应目前和未来的变化并减轻其负面影响，并确定与“北极开放”有关的新机会。除了出版物和报告外，该项目的成果还将通过研究人员、决策者和最终用户之间的一系列对话进行传播。这些对话将侧重于共同设计和共同制作选项。

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.