Collaborative Research Belmont Forum: VULnerability of Populations under Extreme Scenarios

该奖项为参与一个由六国倡议通过贝尔蒙论坛进行全球变化研究的竞争性项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙论坛是一个由全球主要和新兴的全球环境变化研究资助者S组成的团体。其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环境研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴组织都为本国的研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种方法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的主题的优秀研究，最好是通过多国方法来解决，因为认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。六个伙伴组织在合作研究行动中共同为利用强有力的跨学科方法研究山区气候、环境和相关社会变化的研究项目提供支持。该奖项支持美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴联盟中开展合作，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户(例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业)聚集在一起。该项目寻求使用来自摩洛哥、喀麦隆、南非、中国、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁、玻利维亚和巴西的化石、古代和现代DNA样本以及建模技术来调查山脉生态系统在过去21 000年中如何变化，并建立可用于不同山脉生态系统的脆弱性指数。这些信息将有助于理解社会和生态变化可能如何影响这些地区的粮食安全。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a six-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner organization provides funding for researchers from their country 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.Working together in a Collaborative Research Action, the six partner organizations have provided support for research projects that utilize a strong inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to examine climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in a consortium of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that brings together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). This project seeks to use fossils, ancient and modern DNA samples from Morocco, Cameroon, South Africa, China, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, and modeling techniques to investigate how ecosystems in mountain ranges have changed over the past 21,000 years and to establish an index of vulnerability which can be used across different mountain ecosystems. This information will contribute to an understanding of how social and ecological changes may impact food security in these regions.