Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Coastal OceAn SusTainability in Changing Climate

该奖项为参与由55个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛发起的全球变化研究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的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法来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，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，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，伙伴机构共同提供支持，培养全球跨学科研究团队，以解决海洋可持续性方面的关键问题，包括保护和可持续利用海洋、海洋和海洋资源以促进可持续发展。这一复杂的挑战要求项目采用综合、跨学科和跨部门的方法，将自然科学和社会科学以及政策制定者、资源管理者、行业、公民和其他社会伙伴结合起来。该奖项为美国研究人员与至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟合作提供支持，以增加我们对加速可持续利用海洋和尽量减少全球变化影响所需的复杂联系和途径的认识。该项目的重点是沿海海洋在持续和预计的气候变率和变化影响下的可持续性。该项目通过整合沿海海洋的自然和社会领域，并跟踪变化将如何影响今天和未来的使用和基础设施，解决气候变化和人类活动增加对沿海地区的各种影响。该项目将侧重于人类对海洋生态系统的影响比较大、海平面变化大、波浪和浪涌对海岸侵蚀的影响越来越大、沿海水文循环加剧的沿海地区。这种综合的跨学科研究方法将确保为沿海地区提供与社会相关的建议和环境友好型商业解决方案。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。

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. The project centers on the sustainability of the coastal ocean under the impacts of ongoing and projected climate variability and change. The project addresses the various impacts of climate change and increased human activity on coastal zones by integrating the natural and social domains of the coastal ocean and tracking how changes will affect the use and the infrastructure of today and in the future. The project will focus on coastal areas where human impact on marine ecosystems is relatively high, sea level varies, and there are increasing impacts of waves and surges on coastal erosion and intensified coastal hydrological cycles. This integrated, transdisciplinary research approach will ensure the development of society-relevant recommendations and environmentally friendly business solutions for ocean coastal areas.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.