US Government Support for IAI Core Budget 2018-2023

美洲全球变化研究所（IAI）是一个国际条约组织，美国是其合作伙伴。它的建立是为了协调和促进与美洲全球变化有关的科学研究，并建立该地区的科学能力，此外还促进跨国界的全球变化科学合作与协调。IAI支持广泛的长期合作研究网络，增加对全球变化影响美洲的跨学科和跨学科研究的使用。研究所还为成员编写培训材料，以促进跨学科和国际边界研究的整合。作为其办公室职能的一部分，IAI帮助支持科学家/社区/决策者的互动以及跨学科科学研究项目的共同设计和开发，以帮助更好地理解困扰美洲国家的复杂问题，这些问题涉及全球变化导致的物理-化学-人类-生态系统相关挑战。这些问题的解决办法涉及解决不同利益攸关方的需求，使其成果可用于制定有效的、以科学为基础的政策，为地方社区和/或国家和区域和/或跨境利益服务。在这方面，为了响应由美国各地的国家组成的管理机构，确定IAI每个资助期的议程，美洲全球变化研究所将继续支持其合作研究网络项目，并将分析和公布建立跨学科和跨学科团队的最佳实践，这些团队可以解决以问题为重点的研究。这项工作的更广泛影响包括促进美洲各国科学家、研究小组和国家之间的国际合作；编写教育和培训材料，以便有效地创建跨学科科学研究项目，解决与全球变化有关的紧迫问题；鼓励采用开放数据和数据共享做法；并使科研成果的产生对当地社区以及政策和决策者有用。其他影响包括一个积极的学生教育项目和其他项目，其中包括关于科学外交和科学到政策过程的讲习班。美洲全球变化研究所是一个拥有不断发展的科学议程的机构，它的理事机构由美洲的19个国家组成，定期确定科学议程。它的科学议程是对美国全球变化研究计划研究重点的补充。该奖励包括IAI理事会工作人员的工资和管理办公室以及与伙伴国家及其研究协调网络互动的旅费。它还包括顾问服务；计算机、网络和互联网服务；通信;以及IAI出版预算的一部分。IAI的活动还得到了组成其管理委员会的每个国家的会费的支持。该组织的主要目标是：(1)促进影响美洲的全球变化方面的跨学科研究的区域合作；(2)实现单个国家或机构无法进行的区域规模研究；(3)建设科学能力，提高本地区各国的科学技术能力和研究基础设施；(4)促进研究小组和国家之间科学数据的标准化、收集、分析和交换。在未来五年中，IAI还将努力与其他对全球变化科学和政策感兴趣的全球变化组织建立伙伴关系。作为其使命的一部分，在2014年至2018年期间，IAI帮助协调了17个多国间和跨学科的全球变化研究合作，涉及15个伙伴国家90个机构的100多名研究人员。它的使命是协助该区域的科学界发展一种协作方式，提供对全球变化问题的坚实科学理解，以支持该区域的可持续发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) is an international treaty organization, of which the US is a partner. It was created to coordinate and promote scientific research related to global change in the Americas and to build scientific capacity in the region in addition to fostering collaboration and coordination of science on global change across national boundaries. The IAI supports extensive long-term collaborative research networks that increase use of inter- and transdisciplinary research on global change as it impacts the Americas. The Institute also develops training materials for constituents to foster the integration of research across disciplinary and international boundaries. As part of its office functions, the IAI helps support scientist/community/policy maker interactions and the co-design and development of interdisciplinary scientific research projects to help better understand complex problems plaguing nations in the Americas that involve physico-chemical-human-ecosystem related challenges resulting from global change, the solutions of which involve addressing the needs of diverse stakeholders such that the results can be used in the development of effective science-based policies that serve local communities and/or national and regional and/or cross-border interests. In this regard and in response to its governing body of nations from across the Americans that define IAI's agenda for each funding period, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research will continue to support its collaborative research network programs and will also analyze and make public best practices for establishing inter- and transdisciplinary, intersectional teams that can tackle problem-focused research. Broader impacts of the work include the fostering of international collaboration between and among scientists, research groups, and countries across the Americas; creating educational and training materials for effective creation of transdisciplinary scientific research projects that address pressing issues related to global change; encouraging the adoption of open data and data sharing practices; and enabling the production of scientific research results useful to local communities as well as policy- and decision-makers. Other impacts include an aggressive educational program for students and others that includes workshops on science diplomacy and the science-to-policy process. The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research is an office that has an evolving science agenda that is determined, on a regular basis, by its governing body, which is comprised of 19 countries across the Americas. Its science agenda is complementary to the research priorities of the US Global Change Research Program. The award covers IAI Directorate staff salaries and travel costs for administering the office and for interacting with partner states and its research coordination networks. It also covers consultant services; computing, web, and internet services; communications; and part of the IAI publication budget. IAI activities are also supported by membership fees from each of the countries making up its governing board. The main goals of the organization are to: (1) promote regional cooperation for interdisciplinary research on aspects of global change affecting the Americas; (2) enable regional scale research which cannot be pursued by any individual country or institution; (3) build science capacity and improve the scientific and technical capabilities and research infrastructure of the States in the region; and (4) foster standardization, collection, analysis, and exchange of scientific data between research groups and countries. Over the next five years, IAI will also work to build partnerships with other global change organizations with interests in global change science and policy. As part of its mission, between 2014 and 2018, IAI helped coordinate 17 multi-country inter- and transdisciplinary global change research collaborations involving over 100 investigators in 90 institutions in 15 partner countries. Its mission is to assist the scientific community in the region to developing a collaborative way of providing solid scientific understandings of global change issues in support of sustainable development in the region.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.