Development of a NSF-ARCSS Program for Investigating Russian Arctic Land-Shelf Environmental Systems (RASE)

OPP-9526071先前题为“确定北极陆架相互作用的研究重点”的研讨会的Forman建议将与该奖项一起实施。北极冰架是调节全球气候的水和冰流动的关键区域，而这些流动部分受到流入北冰洋的淡水径流的控制。将召开一个由美国科学家参加的研讨会，撰写一份科学计划，以实施一项全球变化研究项目，研究俄罗斯北极地区的人类适应和陆架生物地球化学通量。该科学计划将在俄罗斯的第二次研讨会上提出，以便与俄罗斯科学家就可能在合作的国际研究计划中实现的研究优先事项达成共识。由这些研讨会产生的合作研究项目将为美国科学家进入环北极的大部分地区提供便利，这些地区以前是西方研究全球变化过程的研究人员无法进入的。

ABSTRACT OPP-9526071 Forman Recommendations of an earlier workshop entitled "Defining Research Priorities for Arctic Land-Shelf Interactions" will be implemented with this award. The arctic shelves are critical areas for the flux of water and ice that modulate the global climate and those fluxes are controlled partly by the freshwater runoff into the Arctic Ocean. A workshop of U.S. scientists will be convened to write a science plan for implementation of a global change research program addressing human adaptions and land-shelf biogeochemical fluxes in the Russian arctic. The science plan will be presented at a second workshop in Russia in order to achieve a consensus with Russian scientists on the research priorities that may be achieved in a collaborative, international research program. The collaborative research program resulting from these workshops will facilitate access for U.S. scientists to a vast part of the circumarctic that has previously been inaccessible to western researchers studying global change processes.