Collaborative Research: Core Support for Future Earth International Global Change Research

该项目支持美国未来地球秘书处。未来地球利用全球科学界的见解和能力来解决全球问题，如气候变暖和日益不稳定，以及生物多样性和生态系统服务的迅速丧失。“未来地球”项目的基础是认识到，现代全球变化的挑战需要协调的研究工作，汇集世界上最好的自然、社会、行为和工程科学研究人员，并将这些研究人员与广泛的利益相关者机构和社区的需求和能力联系起来。秘书处领导和共同领导核心职能，包括研究能力、网络和能力、信息技术和通信。此外，美国全球中心领导未来地球全球工作的发展和增长，并指导未来地球的许多核心全球倡议，包括旗舰能力建设计划，通信产品和协作数据平台。未来地球通过推动美国和世界各地的全球变化科学，为科学界提供关键服务，支持从基础学科研究到跨学科研究的全方位研究模式。通过连接跨地理和学科的研究，该项目支持新的，综合的科学思想的出现。通过提升科学成果的传播和影响力，并将这些成果与企业、政府和民间社会的支持者联系起来，未来地球的工作支持了世界各地的决策。它还将美国研究人员与全球变化研究领域的国际领先学者组成的庞大且快速增长的网络联系起来，并提供直接获取新知识和倡议的途径。这项工作包括在美国和世界各地建立广泛的沟通能力，例如建立可持续发展研究和创新大会，这是第一次将全球变化研究和创新社区聚集在一起的全球会议。未来地球美国全球中心还建立了合作伙伴关系，通过实习计划培养和多样化下一代全球变化研究人员。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 project supports the US Secretariat of Future Earth. Future Earth harnesses the insights and capacity of the global scientific community to address global problems, like a warming and increasingly unstable climate, and a rapid loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The Future Earth effort is based on the recognition that modern global change challenges require coordinated research efforts bringing together the world's best researchers in the natural, social, behavioral, and engineering sciences, and connecting these researchers with the needs and capacities embedded within a wide range of stakeholder institutions and communities. The Secretariat leads and co-leads core functions that include research enabling, networks and capacity, information technology, and communications. In addition, the US Global Hub leads the evolution and growth of Future Earth’s global efforts and directs many of Future Earth’s core global initiatives, including a flagship capacity building program, communications products, and collaborative data-platforms.Future Earth provides a critical service to the science community by advancing global change science in the US and around the world, and by supporting the full range of research modalities from fundamental disciplinary research to transdisciplinary research. By connecting research across geography and discipline, the project supports the emergence of novel, integrative scientific ideas. By elevating the spread and impact of scientific results and connecting these results with constituencies in business, government, and civil society, Future Earth’s work supports decision making around the world. It also connects US researchers with a vast and rapidly growing network of leading international scholars in global change research and provides direct access to new knowledge and initiatives. This work includes a broad range of communication capacities in the US and around the world, like the establishment of the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress, the first global convening that brings the global change research and innovation communities together, on an annual basis. The Future Earth US Global Hub has also established partnerships to build and diversify the next generation of global change researchers through an internship program.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.