Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Marine Arctic Resilience, Adaptations and Transformations

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，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这项合作研究行动中，合作机构共同努力，为关注快速变化的北极地区的复原力的研究项目提供支持。 由科学家和利益攸关方组成的综合团队将解决北极复原力理解和行动的关键领域。这种学术和非学术知识体系的合作构成了一种跨学科的方法，不仅可以促进对北极恢复力基本原理的理解，还可以激励行动，为决策提供信息，并转化为恢复力的解决方案。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 海洋北极复原力，适应和转变（马拉特）项目将重点关注北极海洋食物网，这些食物网正在以前所未有的速度发生变化，以了解物种将如何适应，新的生态配置将如何出现，以及依赖海洋资源的社区将如何科普变化。该项目将整合模型、当地知识和比较案例研究，以评估北极海洋食物网对气候和捕捞压力的适应能力，以及社区如何适应或转变这些变化。该项目将使用自然科学和社会科学的方法和理论，并综合地方社区、国家政府机构和多边机构的观点，所有这些观点都侧重于可持续渔业。 具体而言，马拉特项目将利用食物网模型、当地生态知识和比较案例研究，评估北极海洋食物网对气候变化和捕捞压力的适应能力。 该项目将：1）生成通用的北极海洋食物网模型; 2）开发以加拿大努纳武特剑桥湾的北极红点鲑和阿拉斯加的鲑鱼为重点的案例研究; 3）探索土著地方和科学知识如何为渔业共同管理提供信息;以及4）开发评估北极社区相对于海洋环境变化的适应能力的工具。 该项目将扩大《北极复原力报告》先前的努力，通过提供关于北极海洋食物网如何变化的见解，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估来支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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 Marine Arctic Resilience, Adaptations and Transformations (MARAT) project will focus on Arctic marine food webs, which are changing at unprecedented rates to understand how species will adapt, how new ecological configurations will emerge, and how communities dependent on marine resources will cope with change. This project will integrate models, local knowledge, and comparative case studies to assess the resilience of Arctic marine food webs to climate and fishing pressures, and how communities adapt or transform to such changes. The project will use methods and theories from the natural and social sciences, as well as integrating perspectives from local communities, national governmental agencies and multilateral institutions all focused on sustainable fisheries. Specifically, the MARAT project will employ food web models, local ecological knowledge, and comparative case studies to evaluate the resilience of Arctic marine food webs to climate change and fishing pressures. The project will: 1) generate a generic Arctic marine food web model; 2) develop case studies focused on Arctic char in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, and salmon in Alaska; 3) explore how Indigenous local and scientific knowledge inform fisheries co-management; and 4) develop tools to assess the adaptive capacities of Arctic communities relative to changes in marine environments. This project will expand previous efforts of the Arctic Resilience Report to upscale the resilience assessment of the Arctic by providing insights on how marine food webs are changing in the Arctic, and what opportunities and challenges they pose to governing agencies and local communities depending on marine ecosystem services.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.