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

该奖项为参与一个由55个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的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联盟，专注于支持以跨学科方法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，加速开展最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体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，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好是通过多国办法来解决，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减缓珊瑚漂白。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区实施。研究地点包括冲绳的Onna-Son，夏威夷的Kaneohe Bay和法国的Mayotte。研究结果将有助于衡量海洋酸化对海洋生态系统的影响，并将总结减轻海洋酸化影响的缓解措施。这项工作对于提供信息以帮助全球科学家了解海洋酸化的不同因素至关重要。海洋酸化被认为是许多地区正在出现的威胁。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.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.