Study of Environmental Arctic Change: Supporting goals and implementation through enhanced planning, assessment of past activities and coordination with international efforts

北极环境变化研究综合研究成果，促进跨学科和机构之间的北极科学，协调国家北极环境科学计划，促进跨尺度研究活动的整合，从规划过程开始就纳入利益相关者的关注，为北极利益相关者，政策制定者，帮助他们应对北极环境变化，并在国际和全球变化研究计划中代表美国北极环境变化科学界。实现这些目标有赖于一系列协调、规划和评估活动。该项目将通过在北极快速变化和机构和社会层面迫切需要信息的时期领导北极项目来提供这些信息。在联合国气候变化框架公约的主持下，该项目将通过科学指导委员会的领导和联合国气候变化框架公约伙伴机构、主要国家和国际计划以及重要利益攸关方的参与，支持一系列活动，这些活动的目标是：（1）战略规划;（2）评估和实施;（3）协调;（4）交流。它们通过建立一个框架，促进在一系列学科中开展先进的跨领域研究，从而推动科学发现和创新。对过去研究和协调活动的评估以及对跨学科、综合北极科学（未发表的）进展的交流将吸引研究界的参与，并带来新的发现和见解。跨学科和国际研究活动加强协调所产生的协同作用将导致对总体研究问题的新观点，而这些问题反过来又可能导致新的发现。更广泛的影响：该项目活动帮助美国研究界和北极圈伙伴机构制定协调和有效的应对措施，以应对与北极环境和社会经济快速变化相关的挑战和机遇。特别是，该项目致力于支持北极地区的努力，提供科学基础，帮助社会了解和应对迅速变化的北极，从而通过了解北极环境变化来做出决策。

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) synthesizes research findings and promotes arctic science across disciplines and among agencies, coordinates national arctic environmental science programs and facilitates integration of research activities across scales with stakeholder concerns incorporated from the start of the planning process, provides information resources to arctic stakeholders, policy-makers, and the public to help them respond to arctic environmental change, and represents the U.S. arctic environmental change science community in international and global change research initiatives. Meeting these goals relies on a range of coordination, planning and assessment activities. This project will provide these through leadership of the SEARCH program in a time of rapid Arctic change and urgent information needs at the agency and societal level. Under the auspices of SEARCH, this project will support a range of activities targeting (1) strategic planning, (2) assessment and implementation, (3) coordination and (4) communication through leadership of the Science Steering Committee and engagement of SEARCH partner agencies, key national and international programs and important stakeholders.While the proposed activities do not comprise any scientific research as such, they serve to advance scientific discovery and innovation by building a framework that fosters advanced, cross-cutting research in a range of disciplines. Assessments of past research and coordination activities as well as communication of (unpublished) advances in interdisciplinary, integrated Arctic science will engage the research community and lead to new findings and insights. Synergy derived from enhanced coordination of cross-disciplinary and international research activities will lead to new perspectives on overarching research questions which in turn are likely to lead to new discoveries.Broader impacts: The project activities help the US research community and SEARCH partner agencies in developing a coordinated and effective response to the challenges and opportunities associated with rapid arctic environmental and socio-economic change. In particular, the project works to support the SEARCH effort in providing a scientific foundation to help society understand and respond to a rapidly changing Arctic, leading to decision-making informed by an understanding of arctic environmental change.