Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Ecological and Economic impacts of the intensification of EXtreme Events in the Benguela Upwelling System (EXEBUS)

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。这一方法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题的出色研究，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办法。该项目将侧重于位于南部非洲大陆三大洋流交汇处的独特地理位置的本格拉上升流系统。巴士是世界上最具生产力的海洋生态系统之一，直接支持南非、纳米比亚和安哥拉人民以及非洲大陆内陆许多人的生计和福祉。该项目将通过综合生态系统评估，评估大气和海洋系统中的极端事件如何影响研究区域的生态、社会、治理和宏观经济系统。将由国际研究人员、从业人员、私营部门和民间社会代表组成的跨学科联盟进行的评估，将为理解这一动态系统的变化、应用和宣传这些研究结果的重要性带来独特和互补的视角。该小组将确定自然和人为地球物理、生物、治理、社会经济特征和现象的作用、变化趋势和变化范围，以及与之相关的极端因素。这些成果将用于产生各种成果，包括指标制定、风险评估、环境预测和子孙后代的经验。这些成果将使基于生态系统的管理框架的开发在该地区得到应用。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.This project will focus on the Benguela Upwelling System (BUS) located in a unique geographical location at the conjunction of three major ocean currents in the southern African continent. The BUS is one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world, and directly supports the livelihoods and wellbeing of people in South Africa, Namibia, and Angola as well as many people of the interior of the African continent. The project will assess how extreme events in the atmosphere and ocean systems impact the ecological, sociological, governance, and macroeconomic systems of the study area through an integrated ecosystem assessment. The assessment to be undertaken by a transdisciplinary consortium of international researchers, practitioners, and representatives of the private sector and civil society will bring unique and complementary perspectives for both understanding the changes in this dynamic system, applying, and communicating the importance of these findings. The team will ascertain the roles of, trends in, and range of variability and the associated extremities of natural and anthropogenic geophysical, biological, governance, socio-economic features and phenomena. These results will be used to produce a variety of outcomes including indicator development, risk assessments, and environmental forecasting and experiences of future generations. These outcomes will enable the development of an Ecosystem-Based Management framework for application in the region.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.