Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Evaluation, Mitigation, and Adaptation of Impacts of Ocean Acidification to Marine Ecosystems

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。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法，该项目将定量评估同时养殖珊瑚和海藻的影响，以努力减少海洋酸化和珊瑚漂白。该项目将评估这种做法是否是一种具有可量化效益的可行干预措施，以及这种做法是否有可能在其他珊瑚礁地点实施。研究地点包括Onna-son、冲绳、卡内奥赫湾、夏威夷和法国马约特。 研究结果将有助于衡量海洋酸化对海洋生态系统的影响，并将提供减少海洋酸化影响的减缓措施摘要。这项工作是至关重要的，提供信息，以帮助地球仪各地的科学家了解海洋酸化的不同元素，这被认为是一个新出现的威胁在许多地区。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.The project will quantitatively evaluate the impact of culturing corals and seaweed together in an effort to reduce ocean acidification and mitigate coral bleaching. This project will assess whether this practice is a feasible intervention with quantifiable benefits, and whether this approach has potential to be implemented in other coral reef locations. The study sites include Onna-son, Okinawa, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and Mayotte, France. The results will help in measuring the impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and will provide a summary of mitigation measures to reduce the ocean acidification impacts. The work is critical in providing information to assist scientists around the globe to understand different elements of ocean acidification which is considered to be an emerging threat in many regions.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.