Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Ecosystem Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：了解高北极地区的复原力和长期生态系统变化：来自斯瓦尔巴群岛的基于叙述的分析

• 批准号: 2020126
• 负责人: Astrid Ogilvie
• 金额: $ 29.2万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020126&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Understanding

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. The SVALUR project seeks to advance resilience building and adaptation to current changes in the Arctic by focusing on the creation of knowledge of the environment in the archipelago of Svalbard, situated north of Norway in the Arctic ocean. The prevalence of long-term monitoring programs to capture environmental change is increasing, but such initiatives typically capture highly specific parameters and mostly cover relatively short periods of time. Environmental understanding of people living, working and exploring parts of the Arctic is multifaceted, relational and often concerns much longer time periods. However, compared with scientific monitoring, such knowledge is rarely utilized, thus hindering holistic knowledge generation with agency in arctic areas subject to rapid environmental change. The project will capture detailed understanding of environmental change experienced by people living, working and/or exploring different parts of High Arctic Svalbard. This information will be compared environmental monitoring data, in terms of overlap, mismatch and possible synergies. The results will help provide valuable, holistic insights into long-term environmental change and how current monitoring programs can become more sensitive to people’s lived experiences and optimize their relevance to people living in and visiting the Arctic. Increasing levels of transience throughout the region mean that developing ways in which narrative-based understanding can complement scientific monitoring are pressing. SVALUR will develop research methods that are holistic and co-owned, and vital for the well-being of both current and future generations.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.

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。SVALUR项目旨在通过专注于创建位于挪威北部北冰洋的斯瓦尔巴群岛的环境知识，推进恢复力建设和适应北极当前的变化。为捕捉环境变化而开展的长期监测项目越来越普遍，但这类项目通常只捕捉高度具体的参数，而且大多覆盖相对较短的时间。人们对北极部分地区的生活、工作和探索的环境理解是多方面的、相互关联的，而且往往涉及更长的时间。然而，与科学监测相比，这些知识很少得到利用，从而阻碍了在环境迅速变化的北极地区与机构一起产生整体知识。该项目将详细了解生活、工作和/或探索高北极斯瓦尔巴群岛不同地区的人们所经历的环境变化。这些资料将在重叠、不匹配和可能的协同作用方面与环境监测数据进行比较。研究结果将有助于为长期环境变化提供有价值的、全面的见解，以及当前的监测项目如何对人们的生活经历更加敏感，并优化它们与生活和访问北极的人们的相关性。整个区域的瞬变现象日益严重，这意味着迫切需要发展以叙事为基础的理解方式来补充科学监测。SVALUR将开发整体和共同拥有的研究方法，对当代和后代的福祉至关重要。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。