3rd Collaborative Research Network Program (CRN3)

美洲全球变化研究所（IAI）是一个国际条约组织，旨在协调和促进与美洲全球变化有关的科学研究。该研究所有一个不断发展的科学议程，确定了美洲科学界已经确定的特定研究领域。科学议程是对美国全球变化研究计划研究重点的补充。这笔拨款支持美国对IAI合作研究计划（CRN3）第三轮的贡献。该计划支持10-12个区域研究网络，解决与区域相关的全球变化问题，促进对全球变化现象及其社会经济影响的理解。所有的项目都是高度跨学科的。每个网络包括来自至少四个IAI成员国（阿根廷、玻利维亚、巴西、加拿大、哥斯达黎加、智利、哥伦比亚、古巴、多米尼加共和国、危地马拉、厄瓜多尔、牙买加、墨西哥、巴拿马、巴拉圭、秘鲁、乌拉圭、美国和委内瑞拉）机构的首席研究员和联合研究员。这些网络是根据使用同行评审系统对提交的技术价值进行评估的提案选择的。作为美国资助的一个条件，这项研究的结果将通过一个电子数据和信息系统提供给美国科学界。国际原子能机构从其他缔约方获得对其活动的额外支持。这种额外支持的形式包括直接向国际原子能机构预算捐款、实物捐款或在提交提案时以调查员工资、运输时间、计算机时间、后勤支助等形式作出的实物捐款认捐。该计划是综合的，以协作的方式涉及自然科学和社会科学，并寻求对全球变化问题提供合理的科学理解，以支持该地区的可持续发展。CRN3促进应用科学，重点关注在以前的IAI项目中尚未处理或尚未（充分）探索的新兴问题和主题。CRN计划将多国和多学科的研究人员团队聚集在一起，开展任何一个国家或机构都无法单独开展的区域一级研究项目。参与机构的集体研究能力是巨大的，使参与以全球变化为重点的多国和多学科项目的全新结构成为可能。个别项目的成果有助于发展和加强区域应对全球变化的能力。该计划为记录、理解和预测地球系统的变化提供了科学基础，特别是促进在政策和决策中充分利用科学信息。CRN3在研究生和研究生教育以及加强机构基础设施方面包括一个强有力的能力建设组成部分，并且还促进来自全球变化研究界欠发达国家的科学家的参与。CRN的第一轮和第二轮表明，项目的跨国组成部分为来自美洲各地的顶尖研究人员、学生、决策者和机构之间的对话和交流提供了绝佳的机会，在许多情况下，这导致了伙伴关系的持续和发展，远远超出了CRN1和CRN2项目的结束。CRN3还促进与其他区域和/或国际项目和计划的伙伴关系。在第一轮CRN中，这些联系不仅在协调相关努力方面非常有效，而且作为向非常广泛的受众分发CRN科学成果的媒介也非常有效。CRN3的综合将通过为科学界提供的技术综合和为政策和决策者提供的非技术综合来完成。第二种综合是IAI向研究人员、教育工作者、学生、资源和产业管理者、决策者和公众传达科学信息、模型和结论的战略的一部分。

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) is an international treaty organization, created to coordinate and promote scientific research related to global change in the Americas. The Institute has an evolving Science Agenda identifying particular areas for research that have been defined by the scientific community of the Americas. The Science Agenda is complementary to the research priorities of the US Global Change Research Program. This grant supports the US contribution to the third round of the IAI Collaborative Research Program (CRN3). The program support 10-12 regional research networks addressing global change issues of regional relevance that advance the understanding of global change phenomena and their socio-economic impacts. All projects are highly interdisciplinary. Each network involves Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators from institutions in at least four IAI member countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela). The networks were selected on the basis of submitted proposals evaluated for technical merit using a peer-review system. Results from this research will be available to the US scientific community, as a condition of US funding, through an electronic data and information system. The IAI receives additional support for its activities from the other Parties. This additional support takes the form of direct contributions to the IAI Budget, in-kind contributions, or in-kind contribution pledges made at the time of proposal submission in the form of investigator salaries, ship-time, computer time, logistical support, etc. The program is integrative, involving the natural and the social sciences in a collaborative way and seeking to provide sound scientific understanding of global change issues in support of sustainable development in the region. CRN3 promotes applied science with a focus on emerging issues and themes that have not been dealt with under previous IAI programs or that are not yet (fully) explored. The CRN program brings together multinational and multidisciplinary teams of researchers to carry out regional-level research projects that no one country or institution could carry out individually. The collective research capacity of the participating institutions is huge, making possible an entirely new structure for participation in multinational and multidisciplinary projects focused on global change. The outcomes of the individual projects contribute to the development and strengthening of regional capacity to deal with global change. The program provides a scientific basis for documenting, understanding and projecting changes in the Earth system, and specifically to facilitate the full use of scientific information in policy and decision making. CRN3 includes a strong capacity building component in terms of graduate and post-graduate education and enhancement of institutional infrastructure, and also promotes the participation of scientists from countries with less developed global change research communities. The first and second rounds of CRN showed that the multinational component of the projects provides an excellent opportunity for dialogue and exchanges among top researchers, students, decision makers and institutions from across the Americas, which in many cases led to partnerships that lasted and evolved far beyond the end of the individual CRN1 and CRN2 projects. CRN3 also promotes partnerships with other regional and/or international projects and programs. Under the first rounds of CRN, those linkages were very effective not only in terms of coordination of associated efforts, but also as a medium to distribute the results of CRN science to a very broad audience. The synthesis of CRN3 will be done through a technical synthesis for the scientific community and a non-technical synthesis for policy and decisions makers. This second synthesis is part of the IAI's strategy of communicating scientific information, models, and conclusions to and among researchers, educators, students, resource and industrial managers, policy makers and the public.