Coordination and Participation: US-UK Joint Workshop on Arctic Research

协调与参与：美英北极研究联合研讨会

• 批准号: 1237438
• 负责人: Larry Hinzman
• 金额: $ 10.94万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237438&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Coordination; Participation; US; UK; Joint

This proposal is for travel support to approximately 25 U.S. participants to the US-UK Joint Workshop on Arctic Research to be held at Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK in 2012. The workshop will build on significant new investments in arctic research made by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through its Arctic Research Programme. The workshop will enable U.S. investigators to discuss common areas of interest, potential collaborations, and opportunities for sharing logistical resources with their UK colleagues. Participants will be selected by a committee based upon their expected contributions to the subject and their experience in relevant research themes, disciplinary balance and geographical location. U.S. participants are anticipated to be familiar with the goals of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change SEARCH. SEARCH is in the process of developing an updated set of scientific goals for the next five years, which currently include: improving understanding and prediction of sea ice changes and the consequences for ecosystems, human activities, and climate; understanding the consequences of the loss of shallow permafrost on arctic and global systems; improving predictions of future land?]ice loss and impacts on sea level; and analyzing societal and policy implications of arctic environmental change. NERC is developing a program focused on four linked scientific objectives, detailed in its science plan (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/arctic/documents/arctic-science-plan.pdf): understanding and attributing the current rapid changes in the Arctic; quantifying processes leading to Arctic methane and carbon dioxide release; reducing uncertainty in Arctic climate and associated regional biogeochemistry predictions; and assessing the likely risks of submarine hazards associated with rapid Arctic climate change. This proposal will facilitate international collaboration and furtherance of the two national initiatives to study change in the Arctic.

该提案是为2012年在英国剑桥市克莱尔学院举行的US-UK联合研究研讨会的大约25名美国参与者的旅行支持。英国自然环境研究委员会（NERC）通过其北极研究计划。该研讨会将使美国调查人员能够讨论感兴趣的共同领域，潜在的合作以及与英国同事共享后勤资源的机会。参与者将根据委员会对主题的预期贡献以及他们在相关研究主题，纪律平衡和地理位置的经验中选出。预计美国参与者会熟悉环境北极变化搜索研究的目标。搜索是在未来五年内开发一组更新的科学目标的过程，其中包括：提高对海冰变化的理解和预测以及对生态系统，人类活动和气候的后果；了解北极和全球系统浅冻土丧失的后果；改善对未来土地的预测吗？]冰损失和对海平面的影响；并分析北极环境变化的社会和政策影响。 NERC正在开发一项针对四个链接科学目标的计划，该计划在其科学计划（http://www.nerc.ac.ac.uk/research/programmes/arctic/arctic/arctic/arctic-science-plan.pdf）中详细介绍：理解和归因当前的北极快速变化；量化导致北极甲烷和二氧化碳释放的过程；减少北极气候和相关区域生物地球化学预测的不确定性；并评估与快速北极气候变化有关的潜艇危害的可能风险。该提案将促进国际合作，并促进两项国家研究北极变革的倡议。