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

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究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由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，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，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这项合作研究行动中，合作机构共同努力，为关注快速变化的北极地区的复原力的研究项目提供支持。 由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体系的合作构成了一种跨学科的方法，不仅可以促进对北极恢复力基本原理的理解，还可以激励行动，为决策提供信息，并转化为恢复力的解决方案。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 SVALUR项目旨在通过重点创建位于挪威北部北冰洋的斯瓦尔巴群岛的环境知识，促进北极地区的复原力建设和适应当前的变化。为捕捉环境变化而开展的长期监测方案越来越普遍，但此类举措通常捕捉高度具体的参数，而且大多覆盖相对较短的时间段。对生活、工作和探索北极部分地区的人们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，这种知识很少得到利用，从而阻碍了在环境迅速变化的北极地区与机构一起形成全面的知识。 该项目将详细了解人们生活，工作和/或探索高北极斯瓦尔巴群岛不同地区所经历的环境变化。 这一信息将与环境监测数据在重叠、不匹配和可能的协同作用方面进行比较。 研究结果将有助于提供有价值的，全面的见解，长期的环境变化，以及目前的监测计划如何能够变得更加敏感的人的生活经验，并优化其相关性的人生活在和访问北极。整个区域的瞬变程度越来越高，这意味着迫切需要制定方法，使基于叙述的理解能够补充科学监测。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NSF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. 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.