Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Global Change Impact on Vulnerable Carbon Reservoirs: Carbon Sequestration and emissions in soils and waters from the Arctic to the Equator

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的9国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超过55个国家的研究资助组织组成的联盟，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。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。研究小组将努力确定可持续的途径，以帮助减轻对自然资源日益增加的前所未有的压力，这些资源相互作用，为社会提供可持续的生命支持系统和基本利益，如粮食生产和水的质量和数量。将评价土地管理和城市化变化的影响，以制定可持续土壤和地下水管理备选办法，帮助建立和维持可持续的陆地生态系统。该项目将侧重于了解地球关键地带对环境、社会和经济驱动因素的长期反应。临界带是指岩石、土壤、水、空气和生物之间复杂的相互作用调节自然栖息地并决定维持生命资源的可用性的异质近地表环境。该项目将重点关注中非西部的热带社会生态系统，以及西伯利亚西部低地的北极和亚北极地区。这些地区现在越来越多地受到全球变化加速的影响，土壤和地下水系统的退化是可预测的，这可能导致大量温室气体排放，并从陆地向海洋输出大量碳和营养物质。该项目将创建一个关于气候变化、土地利用/覆盖、碳循环和土壤、地表水和地下水可持续性的业务研究和创新框架，以改善从地方到区域范围内的土壤、地表水和地下水知识、管理和政策。研究小组将与相关利益攸关方合作，制定和实施该项目的成果，以提高对土壤、水、气候变化、碳循环和关键地带、河流和湖泊地下水的可持续性以及与其退化有关的威胁的认识。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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 9-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations representing over 55 countries 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. 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 research teams will work to identify sustainable pathways to help alleviate the increasing and unprecedented pressure on the natural resources that interact to provide sustainable life support systems and essential benefits to societies such as food production and water quality and quantity. The impacts of changes in land management and urbanization will be evaluated to develop sustainable soils and groundwater management options that will help create and maintain sustainable terrestrial ecosystems. This project will focus on understanding the long-term response of the Earth’s Critical Zone to environmental, societal and economic drivers. The Critical Zone is the heterogeneous, near surface environment where complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources. This project will focus on the tropical socio-ecosystems of Western Central Africa, and the Arctic and sub-arctic zones of the Western Siberian Lowlands. These regions are now increasingly impacted by accelerated global changes with the predictable degradation of soil and groundwater systems, which could potentially lead to huge emissions of greenhouse gases and to vast carbon and nutrient exports from land to oceans. The project will create an operational research and innovation framework on climate change, land use/cover, carbon cycle and soils, surface water, and groundwater sustainability, to improve soil, surface and groundwater knowledge, management, and policy from the local to regional scale. The research team will work with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement the results of the project to raise awareness of soil, water, climate change, carbon cycle and sustainability of Critical Zone and river and lake groundwater, and threats related to their degradation.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.