Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Marine Research and Innovation for a Sustainable management of Coasts and Oceans (MARISCO)

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，支持对具有全球意义的主题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国方法加以解决，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，为培养全球跨学科研究团队提供支持，以解决海洋可持续性方面的关键问题，包括，养护和可持续利用海洋和海洋资源以促进可持续发展。 这一复杂的挑战要求这些项目采用综合、跨学科和跨部门的方法，并将自然科学和社会科学以及决策者、资源管理者、行业、公民和其他社会伙伴聚集在一起。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，以支持他们与来自至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟进行合作，以增加我们对加速可持续利用海洋和最大限度地减少全球变化影响所需的复杂联系和途径的了解。 该项目的重点是开发、合并和综合跨学科的全球知识，以了解人类行为对沿海和海洋可持续性的影响，并制定有效管理的战略和工具。将利用自然科学和社会科学专门知识进行沿海海洋生态系统的数据分析和模型开发，目的是确定生物多样性变化和自然对人类的贡献的不同方面的反馈回路。该项目将开发、合并和综合跨学科的全球知识，以了解人类行为对沿海和海洋可持续性的影响，并制定有效管理的战略和工具。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 to address critical issues in ocean sustainability including, conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. This complex challenge required that the projects utilized integrated, transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches and bring together natural and social sciences as well as policymakers, resource managers, industries, citizens and other societal partners. 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 needed to accelerate sustainable use of oceans and minimize the effects from global change. This project focuses on developing, merging and synthesizing transdisciplinary, global knowledge for understanding the consequences of human actions for coastal and ocean sustainability and produce strategies and tools for effective management. Data analysis and model development of coastal marine ecosystems will be conducted utilizing both natural and social science expertise with the goal of defining the feedback loops within different aspects of biodiversity change and Nature’s Contributions to People. This project will develop, merge and synthesize transdisciplinary, global knowledge for understanding the consequences of human actions for coastal and ocean sustainability and produce strategies and tools for effective management.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.