Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Ecosystem Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard

该奖项为参与一个由55个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织联盟，专注于支持以跨学科方法应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的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研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体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。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的主题进行出色的研究，最好是通过多国方法来解决，同时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，合作机构为关注快速变化的北极的复原力的研究项目提供了支持。由科学家和利益攸关方组成的综合小组将探讨北极复原力、理解和行动的关键领域。学术和非学术知识系统的这种合作构成了一种跨学科的方法，不仅将促进对北极复原力基本原理的了解，而且还将刺激行动，为决策提供信息，并转化为复原力的解决方案。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中进行合作提供支持，财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成。SVALUR项目旨在通过重点建立对北冰洋挪威北部斯瓦尔巴特群岛环境的认识，推动对北极当前变化的复原力建设和适应。捕捉环境变化的长期监测方案越来越普遍，但此类倡议通常捕捉高度具体的参数，而且大多覆盖相对较短的时间段。对生活、工作和探索北极部分地区的人们的环境了解是多方面的、相关的，而且往往涉及更长的时间段。然而，与科学监测相比，这种知识很少被利用，从而阻碍了在环境迅速变化的北极地区通过机构产生整体知识。该项目将详细了解生活、工作和/或探索北极斯瓦尔巴群岛不同地区的人们所经历的环境变化。这些信息将与环境监测数据在重叠、错配和可能的协同作用方面进行比较。这些结果将有助于为长期环境变化提供有价值的整体见解，以及当前的监测项目如何对人们的生活体验变得更加敏感，并优化它们与生活在北极和访问北极的人们的相关性。整个区域瞬息万变的程度越来越高，这意味着发展基于叙述的理解可以补充科学监测的方式是紧迫的。SVALUR将开发全面和共同拥有的研究方法，对当代和未来几代人的福祉至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 for research projects that focus on Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Arctic. Integrated teams of scientists and stakeholders will address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience. 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. The SVALUR project seeks to advance resilience building and adaptation to current changes in the Arctic by focusing on the creation of knowledge of the environment in the archipelago of Svalbard, situated north of Norway in the Arctic ocean. The prevalence of long-term monitoring programs to capture environmental change is increasing, but such initiatives typically capture highly specific parameters and mostly cover relatively short periods of time. Environmental understanding of people living, working and exploring parts of the Arctic is multifaceted, relational and often concerns much longer time periods. However, compared with scientific monitoring, such knowledge is rarely utilized, thus hindering holistic knowledge generation with agency in arctic areas subject to rapid environmental change. The project will capture detailed understanding of environmental change experienced by people living, working and/or exploring different parts of High Arctic Svalbard. This information will be compared environmental monitoring data, in terms of overlap, mismatch and possible synergies. The results will help provide valuable, holistic insights into long-term environmental change and how current monitoring programs can become more sensitive to people’s lived experiences and optimize their relevance to people living in and visiting the Arctic. Increasing levels of transience throughout the region mean that developing ways in which narrative-based understanding can complement scientific monitoring are pressing. SVALUR will develop research methods that are holistic and co-owned, and vital for the well-being of both current and future generations.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.