Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: From Nunavik to Iceland: Climate, Human and Culture through time across the coastal (sub)Arctic North Atlantic (NICH-Arctic)

该奖项为参与由55个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛发起的全球变化研究项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它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，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，合作机构为研究项目提供了支持，重点关注快速变化的北极的复原力。科学家和利益攸关方组成的综合团队将解决北极复原力理解和行动的关键领域。这种学术和非学术知识系统的合作构成了一种跨学科的方法，不仅可以促进对北极复原力基本原理的理解，还可以促进行动，为决策提供信息，并转化为复原力的解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。该项目旨在探索和评估亚北极至北极沿海地区的环境和人类复原力和脆弱性。该项目将重点关注气候条件和海冰变化较大的地区，这些变化对通过航行和文化社区的生计的可达性起着至关重要的作用。亚北极和北极地区不同文化的继承说明了自大约4500年前通过阿拉斯加和9至10世纪的北欧海的早期迁徙以来，对恶劣天气条件、气候变化、海洋和海冰不稳定以及生态压力的广泛适应策略。为了更好地了解变化对这些人口的影响，该项目将把地质、历史和仪器记录与文化习俗的叙述信息和北欧环境的表征结合起来，通过文献来了解海冰、气候和植被的自然变化；当地人口对其栖息地的适应；以及当地和地区外人口对自然环境的文化表现和看法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international 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 focus on Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Arctic. Integrated teams of scientists and stakeholders will address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience. 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. This project seeks to explore and assess environmental and human resilience and vulnerability in sub-Arctic to Arctic coastal regions over time. The project will focus on areas where climate conditions and sea ice have shown large variations and where these variations play a vital role in accessibility through navigation and livelihood of the cultural communities. The succession of different cultures within the sub-Arctic and Arctic regions illustrates a wide range of adaptative strategies to harsh weather conditions, climatic variations, ocean and sea-ice instabilities and ecological stresses since early migrations via Alaska about 4500 years ago and the Nordic Seas in the 9th to 10th centuries. To better understand the impact of change on these populations over time, the project will combine geological, historical and instrumental records with narrative information from cultural practices and the representations of Nordic environments through the literature to understand the natural variability of sea ice, climate and vegetation; adaptation of local human populations to their habitat; and cultural representation and perceptions of the natural environments by local and outside-of-the-region populations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.