Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Arctic Wetlands Ecosystems - Resilience through Restoration & Stewardship

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。 AWERRS（北极湿地生态系统-通过恢复和管理实现复原力）项目旨在通过关注影响北极湿地生态系统的人类活动，应对在快速变化的北极地区建立复原力的挑战。 该项目将支持和帮助社区加强其参与湿地恢复和管理的能力。 在局部范围内，湿地缓冲强降水和融雪，过滤和储存水。它们为生物多样性提供了至关重要的生境，为候鸟提供了筑巢和繁殖区，为鱼类提供了产卵区。因此，它们支持传统的生计活动，包括驯鹿饲养、狩猎和捕鱼、其他文化和娱乐活动以及旅游业。鲜为人知的是，完整的湿地储存了惊人数量的全球碳。虽然湿地仅占地球陆地面积的3%，但据估计，湿地储存了世界陆地碳的20%-这是地球上最大的区域碳储存。确定和测试加强当地社区和其他行为体参与北极湿地生态系统恢复和管理的方法，有助于通过共同参与提高社区的复原力-并通过改善湿地生态系统的可持续性所带来的生态系统服务效益这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力价值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 AWERRS (Arctic Wetlands Ecosystems - Resilience through Restoration and Stewardship) project seeks to address the challenge of building resilience in a rapidly changing Arctic by focusing on human activities that impact Arctic wetlands ecosystems. The project will support and help communities to strengthen their capacity to engage in wetlands restoration and stewardship. At a local scale, wetlands buffer heavy precipitation and snowmelt and filter and store water. They provide crucial habitat for biodiversity, providing nesting and breeding areas for migratory bird species and spawning areas for fish species. As such, they support traditional livelihoods activities including reindeer husbandry, hunting and fishing, other cultural and recreational activities, and tourism. Less widely known is that intact wetlands store a stunning amount of global carbon. While they make up only about 3% of the Earth's land area, wetlands store an estimated 20% of the worlds terrestrial carbon – the largest regional store of carbon on the planet. Identifying and testing approaches for strengthening the engagement of local communities and other actors in the restoration and stewardship of Arctic wetlands ecosystems helps increase community resilience though shared engagement - and through the ecosystem service benefits derived from improving wetlands ecosystems' resilienceThis 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.