Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Pan-Arctic Options: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability

该奖项支持美国研究人员参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的全球变化研究14国倡议竞争性选拔的项目。这一多边倡议旨在支持利用现有的北极观测系统、数据集和模型来评估北极地区关键的可持续性挑战和机遇的研究项目，创新新的可持续性科学理论和方法来应对这些挑战和机遇，并支持对可持续北极环境的决策。所要求的资金将用于支持美国参与者在财团中进行合作，该财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和研究用户（如决策者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）聚集在一起。其他国家的参与者通过其国家资助组织获得资助。随着人类活动的扩大，从商业航运和能源开发到船舶旅游，北冰洋正在经历一场环境状态的变化。因此，在土著人民的参与下，北极和非北极国家已经开始制定国家和国际管理制度，以解决北冰洋新出现的问题、影响和资源。在任何情况下，面对政治和财政限制，执行协定都将面临挑战。“泛北极选择-北极海岸-海洋可持续发展的整体整合”以国际、跨学科和包容性的方式设计，涉及与当前资助项目的成本效益合作，以促进政府和行业决策者的知情决策。核心团队包括来自加拿大、中国、法国、挪威、俄罗斯和美国的自然和社会科学家，他们将整合文件收集、地理空间数据和利益相关者的观点。这一综合决策支持工具将让用户参与共同设计和共同生产北冰洋可持续基础设施发展所需的政策和建筑要素的备选方案。泛北极方案的一项独特观测贡献将是分析自2009年以来由极轨卫星收集的横跨北冰洋的船舶交通自动识别系统（AIS）数据。研究结果将通过期刊（如《科学》、《自然》）和书籍，以及非常规的方式进行传播，包括在年度场所（如《北极前沿》、《北极圈》）和2016年由国家地理学会和谷歌海洋项目参与的北极探险峰会上进行促进对话。这一整体项目的管理将由一个指导委员会和国际咨询委员会负责，该委员会包括全球思想领袖和组织（例如北极监测和评估方案），在泛北极范围内促进北冰洋的可持续性。

This award supports U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. This multilateral initiative is designed to support research projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region, to innovate new sustainability science theory and approaches to these challenges and opportunities, and support decision-making towards a sustainable Arctic environment. The funds requested will be used to support U.S. participants to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and research users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). Participants from other countries are funded through their national funding organizations. The Arctic Ocean is experiencing an environmental state-change with expanding human activities ranging from commercial shipping and energy development to ship-based tourism. Accordingly, with involvement of indigenous peoples, Arctic and non-Arctic states have begun to develop national and international management regimes to address emerging issues, impacts and resources in the Arctic Ocean. In every case, there will be challenges to implement agreements in the face of political and financial constraints. "Pan-Arctic Options - Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability" is designed in an international, interdisciplinary and inclusive manner, involving cost-effective collaboration with currently funded projects to contribute to informed decision-making by policy makers from government and industry. The core team includes natural and social scientists from Canada, China, France, Norway, Russia and the United States who will integrate document collections, geospatial data and stakeholder perspectives. This integrated decision-support tool will involve users in the co-design and co-production of options for both policy and built elements that are needed together for sustainable infrastructure development in the Arctic Ocean. A unique observational contribution from Pan-Arctic Options will be the analysis of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data of ship traffic across the Arctic Ocean collected from polar-orbiting satellites from 2009 forward. Results will be disseminated via journals (e.g., Science, Nature) and books as well as less-conventional methods involving facilitated dialogues in annual venues (e.g., Arctic Frontiers, Arctic Circle) and in the 2016 Arctic Expedition Summit involving the National Geographic Society and Google Ocean program. Management of this holistic project will be in the hands of a Steering Committee and an international Advisory Board involving global thought leaders and organizations (e.g., Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme), contributing to Arctic Ocean sustainability on a pan-Arctic scale.