Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Arctic Community Resilience to Boreal Environmental Change: Assessing Risks from Fire and Disease (ACRoBEAR)

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关课题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，伙伴机构共同努力，为培养全球自然科学跨学科研究团队提供支持。来自地球仪各地的科学家（包括气候科学家）、卫生和社会科学家以及利益攸关方，以增进对气候、环境和卫生途径的了解，保护和促进健康。这些项目将为气候变化和变异性对健康的影响提供重要的新认识：1）食物的质量/数量，2）长期暴露于热量和湿度的增加/变化，3）一系列传染病的分布和发病率的变化以及新病原体的出现。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，支持他们在由至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，以增加我们对气候、环境和健康之间复杂联系和途径的了解，以帮助解决社会面临的复杂挑战。 该项目旨在预测和了解北极地区野火空气污染和病媒传播疾病的健康风险，以及该地区社区对这些风险的复原力和适应性。 该项目的重点是一个关键的挑战，因为近几十年来北极迅速变暖，大约是全球平均气温上升速度的两倍，导致该环境迅速变化。 北极受到前所未有的火灾活动的影响，导致高纬度城镇的空气质量不健康。这些地区病媒传播疾病的发生率也随着温度和湿度的迅速变化而变化。火灾活动也通过改变病媒及其宿主的生境条件影响这种疾病的风险。 该项目将侧重于整合卫星和实地观测、建模、健康数据、社区知识和利益攸关方对话，以了解社区的复原力和应对这些不断变化的风险的能力。 该奖项反映了NSF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。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium 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 this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support to foster global transdisciplinary research teams of natural (including climate), health and social scientists and stakeholders from across the globe to improve understanding of climate, environment and health pathways to protect and promote health. The projects will provide crucial new understanding into the health implications arising from the impacts of climate change and variability on; 1) the quality/quantity of food, 2) chronic exposure to increases/changes in heat and humidity and 3) changes in the distribution and incidence of a range of infectious diseases and emergence of novel pathogens. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries to increase our knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways between the climate, environment and health to help solve complex challenges that face societies. This project seeks to predict and understand health risks from wildfire air pollution and vector-borne disease in the Arctic, and the resilience and adaptability of communities across the region to these risks. This project focuses on a critical challenge as the Arctic has warmed rapidly over recent decades, at around twice the rate of global mean temperature increases, resulting in rapid changes to this environment. The Arctic has been affected by unprecedented fire activity, leading to unhealthy air quality in high latitude towns and cities. Vector-borne disease occurrence in these regions is also changing in response to rapid changes in temperature and moisture. The fire activity is also affecting this disease risk by altering the habitat conditions for vectors and their hosts. The project will focus on integrating satellite and in-situ observations, modelling, health data, and community knowledge and stakeholder dialogue to understand community resilience and response to these changing risks. This information will help communities address environmental, social, and governance challenges in the most rapidly warming region of the planet.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.