Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Biosphere and Land Use Exchanges with Groundwater and soils in Earth system Models (BLUEGEM)

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的9国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超过55个国家的研究资助组织组成的联盟，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。该奖项为美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作提供支持。研究小组将努力确定可持续的途径，以帮助减轻对自然资源日益增加的前所未有的压力，这些资源相互作用，为社会提供可持续的生命支持系统和基本利益，如粮食生产和水的质量和数量。将评价土地管理和城市化变化的影响，以制定可持续土壤和地下水管理备选办法，帮助建立和维持可持续的陆地生态系统。该项目旨在探索地下水、灌溉和气候在人类世（1900-2100）期间的演变，以更好地了解它们的相互依存关系，预测它们的潜在变化，并确定可能的社会后果。该小组将评估这些因素，以确定水资源、粮食安全、生物多样性、人类福祉和社会经济活动方面的可持续途径。该团队将结合生物物理和社会系统的先进数值模拟，以及与利益相关者的参与式方法，以建立全球和区域气候、水资源、生物圈和土壤碳库的相互作用和灌溉的指纹。项目结果将提供更好的全球和区域气候、水资源、生物圈和土壤碳库预测，充分考虑地下水灌溉和地下水-土壤水分相互作用的影响。该小组将整合当地和区域的知识和专业知识以及社会经济数据，以完善最先进的气候预测中使用的土地利用和灌溉方案，并探索可持续关键区域管理的途径。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 9-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations representing over 55 countries 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 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 research teams will work to identify sustainable pathways to help alleviate the increasing and unprecedented pressure on the natural resources that interact to provide sustainable life support systems and essential benefits to societies such as food production and water quality and quantity. The impacts of changes in land management and urbanization will be evaluated to develop sustainable soils and groundwater management options that will help create and maintain sustainable terrestrial ecosystems. The project seeks to explore the evolution of groundwater, irrigation, and climate during the Anthropocene (1900-2100), to better understand their interdependencies, foresee their potential changes, and identify possible social consequences. The team will assess these factors to identify sustainable pathways with respect to water resources, food security, biodiversity, and human well-being and socio-economic activities. The team will combine advanced numerical modeling of biophysical and social systems, as well as participatory methods with stakeholders, to address establish the fingerprint of interactions and irrigation on global and regional climate, water resources, biosphere, and soil carbon pools. The project results will provide improved projections of global and regional climate, water resources, biosphere and soil carbon pools, fully taking into account the influence of groundwater irrigation and groundwater-soil moisture interactions. The team will Integrate local and regional knowledge and expertise as well as socio-economic data to refine the land use and irrigation scenarios used in state-of-the-art climate projections and to explore pathways for sustainable critical zone management.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.