Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Pacific Ocean Pathways in Support of Sustainable Development: An Integrated Approach

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。这种办法有助于有效地利用国家资源，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。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中进行合作提供支持，财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成。这些小组将建立跨学科网络，以开发可持续发展途径的创新解决方案，并寻求评估经济、技术、机构与环境、气候、生物多样性和人类福祉之间的积极和消极相互联系，以了解通向可持续世界的潜在途径。该项目寻求建立具有成本效益、高效和可持续的跨学科进程、方法和网络，以帮助太平洋岛屿的利益攸关方、科学家、公职人员和公民分享实现环境可持续性的共同目标和行动。该项目将建立一个以斐济和新喀里多尼亚两个试点为重点的网络。该项目将研究气候变化和其他压力因素对海洋环境和生态系统服务的影响。该小组将调查这些影响对环境、社会和经济的影响，为未来的发展和可持续的海洋管理制定可持续和相辅相成的道路。这些试点地点将建立框架和方法，并作为适用和适应其他感兴趣的太平洋岛国的指南。PACPATH将整合广泛的现有数据集，生成新的数据集，并开发新的、与当地相关的产品，这些产品将依赖于免费可用的资源，例如哥白尼海洋服务。该奖项反映了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. 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 teams will establish transdisciplinary networks to develop innovative solutions for sustainable development pathways and seek to assess the positive and negative inter-linkages between the economy, technology, institutions with the environment, climate, biodiversity, and human well-being to understand potential pathways to a sustainable world.This project seeks to establish cost-effective, efficient, and sustainable transdisciplinary processes, methods and networks to assist stakeholders, scientists, public officers and citizens of the Pacific Islands to share common objectives and actions to achieve environmental sustainability. The project will build a network focusing on two pilot sites, Fiji and New Caledonia. The project will examine the impacts of climate change and other stressors on the ocean environment and ecosystem services. The team will investigate the consequences of these impacts on the environment, society, and economy, to develop sustainable and complementary pathways for future development and sustainable ocean stewardship. These pilot sites will create the framework and methodology and serve as a guide for application and adaptation to other interested Pacific Island Countries. PACPATH will integrate a broad range of existing data sets, generate new data sets, and develop new, locally relevant products that will rely on freely available sources such as from the Copernicus Marine Service.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.