Community Workshops for Synthesis Studies of the Pan-Arctic/Earth System

北极是地球系统的一个组成部分，多种相互作用将其自然领域和社会领域联系在一起。越来越多的证据表明，北极正经历着全球气候变化的迅速和扩大的特征，而且该地区本身可能成为地球动力学的一个关键油门。正在进行的关于北极系统如何连接在一起以及其环境对变化有多敏感的评估仍然高度不确定。我们已经进入了一个环境管理必须面对区域、整个生物群落和泛北极挑战的时代。因此，围绕北极系统变化的科学和政策问题是高度交织在一起的，跨学科的，构成了一个典型的综合挑战。理解这一挑战需要开发一个合作研究框架，不仅可以提高我们对北极系统的理解，还可以促进北极耦合系统的跨学科科学，将科学与政策联系起来，教育下一代学生，并使北极研究与公众相关。这一奖项将支持开始这一进程的努力。该奖项的目标是通过正式的、以社区为基础的规划练习设计一个北极综合合作实验室概念，该概念将使用一系列四个研讨会来确定有助于系统级北极研究的可处理的核心科学问题。讲习班还将评估与北极研究界正在进行的活动的联系，探索建模、数据和观测资产的准备情况，并确定在政策制定领域和其他教育活动中应用系统级思维的机会。讨论还将集中于这种合作伙伴关系的适当结构和职能。这四个研讨会将汇集不同北极学科研究选区的成员，并为一份战略报告提供投入，该报告将作为社区设计的北极系统综合研究议程和支持合作的潜在路线图。最终，这将推动研究界采取的方法，并帮助将研究工作与社会需求结合起来。

The Arctic is an integral part of the Earth system where multiple interactions unite its natural and social domains. The Arctic's significance derives from growing evidence that it is experiencing rapid and amplified signatures of global climate change and that the region could itself be a critical throttle on planetary dynamics. Ongoing assessments of how the Arctic system is wired-together and how sensitive its environment is to change remain highly uncertain. We have entered an era when environmental management must confront regional, whole biome, and pan-Arctic challenges. Consequently, the science and policy issues surrounding Arctic system change are highly intertwined, interdisciplinary and constitute a quintessential synthesis challenge. Understanding this challenge requires the development of a collaborative research framework that can not only improve our understanding of the Arctic system, but also promote interdisciplinary science on Arctic coupled systems, connect science with policy, educate the next generation of students and make Arctic research relevant to the public. This award will support an effort to begin that process.The goals of this award are to design an Arctic Synthesis Collaboratory concept through a formal, community-based planning exercise, which will use a series of four workshops to identify tractable core science questions that contribute to systems-level Arctic research. The workshops will also assess linkages to ongoing activities within the Arctic research community, explore the readiness of modeling, data and observatory assets, and identify opportunities to apply systems-level thinking in the policy-formulation realm and in other educational activities. Discussion would also focus on the appropriate structure and function for such a collaboratory partnership. These four workshops will bring together members of different Arctic disciplinary research constituencies and provide input to a strategic report that will serve as a potential roadmap for a community-designed Arctic systems synthesis research agenda and supporting collaboratory. Ultimately this should advance the approach taken by the research community and help align research efforts with societal needs.