Abstract
This paper celebrates Professor Yongqi GAO’s significant achievement in the field of interdisciplinary studies within the context of his final research project Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient Sustainable Societies - ARCPATH (https://www.svs.is/en/projects/finished-projects/arcpath). The disciplines represented in the project are related to climatology, anthropology, marine biology, economics, and the broad spectrum of social-ecological studies. Team members were drawn from the Nordic countries, Russia, China, the United States, and Canada. The project was transdisciplinary as well as interdisciplinary as it included collaboration with local knowledge holders. ARCPATH made significant contributions to Arctic research through an improved understanding of the mechanisms that drive climate variability in the Arctic. In tandem with this research, a combination of historical investigations and social, economic, and marine biological fieldwork was carried out for the project study areas of Iceland, Greenland, Norway, and the surrounding seas, with a focus on the joint use of ocean and sea-ice data as well as social-ecological drivers. ARCPATH was able to provide an improved framework for predicting the near-term variation of Arctic climate on spatial scales relevant to society, as well as evaluating possible related changes in socioeconomic realms. In summary, through the integration of information from several different disciplines and research approaches, ARCPATH served to create new and valuable knowledge on crucial issues, thus providing new pathways to action for Arctic communities.
摘要
本文是为了纪念郜永祺教授在其生前领导的最后一个跨学科研究项目“北极气候预测:通往具有复原力的可持续社会之路”(ARCPATH; https://www.svs.is/en/projects/finished-projects/arcpath)中取得的重大成就。该项目涵盖的学科涉及气候学、人类学、海洋生物学、经济学和广泛的社会生态学;团队成员来自北欧、俄罗斯、中国、美国和加拿大。ARCPATH是一个多学科融合且跨学科研究项目,它包括了与本土知识和土著文化持有者以及利益相关者的合作。 通过提高对驱动北极气候变化机制的认识,ARCPATH项目为北极研究做出了重大贡献。通过重点联合利用海洋、海冰数据以及社会生态驱动因素,该项目针对冰岛、格陵兰岛、挪威和周边海域进行了历史调查研究,并围绕社会、经济和海洋生物学等领域开展了实地考察工作。ARCPATH能够提供一个改进的框架,可用于预测北极气候在与社会相关的空间尺度上的近期变化,并可用于评估社会经济领域可能发生的相关变化。总之,通过整合来自多个不同学科和研究方法的信息,ARCPATH 致力于围绕关键问题创造新的、有价值的知识,从而为北极社区提供新的行动路径。
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We thank all our ARCPATH colleagues, students, post-doctoral fellows, international partners, members of our Advisory Board, and, last but not least, our colleagues in our research communities who willingly shared their local knowledge, with special thanks to Pâviârak JAKOBSEN and Ruth and Johan AAQQII†. We gratefully acknowledge the support for all the projects mentioned here, first and foremost, the NordForsk-funded Nordic Centre of Excellence project (Award 766654) Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH); National Science Foundation Award 212786 Synthesizing Historical Sea-Ice Records to Constrain and Understand Great Sea-Ice Anomalies (ICEHIST) PI Martin MILES, Co-PI Astrid OGILVIE; American-Scandinavian Foundation Award Whales and Ice: Marine-mammal subsistence use in times of famine in Iceland ca. A.D. 1600–1900 (ICEWHALE), PI Astrid OGILVIE; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Award 435-2018-0194 Northern Knowledge for Resilience, Sustainable Environments and Adaptation in Coastal Communities (NORSEACC), PI Leslie KING, Co-PI, Astrid OGILVIE; Toward Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies (JUSTNORTH). EU H2020 (https://www.svs.is/en/projects/ongoing-projects/justnorth-2020-2023); INTO THE OCEANIC by Elizabeth OGILVIE and Robert PAGE (https://www.intotheoceanic.org/introduction); Proxy Assimilation for Reconstructing Climate and Improving Model (PARCIM) funded by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, led by François COUNILLON, PI Noel KEENLYSIDE; Accelerated Arctic and Tibetan Plateau Warming: Processes and Combined Impact on Eurasian Climate (COMBINED), Research Council of Norway (Grant No. 328935), Led by Noel KEENLYSIDE; Arven etter Nansen programme (the Nansen Legacy Project), Research Council of Norway (Grant No. 276730), PI Noel KEENLYSIDE; Bjerknes Climate Prediction Unit, funded by Trond Mohn Foundation (Grant BFS2018TMT01) Centre for Research-based Innovation Climate Futures, Research Council of Norway (Grant No. 309562), PIs Noel KEENLYSIDE, François COUNILLON; Developing and Advancing Seasonal Predictability of Arctic Sea Ice (4ICE), Research Council of Norway (Grant No. 254765), PI François COUNILLON; Tropical and South Atlantic Climate-Based Marine Ecosystem Prediction for Sustainable Management (TRIATLAS) European Union Horizon 2020 (Grant No. 817578), led by Noel KEENLYSIDE, PI François COUNILLON; Impetus4Change, European Union Horizon Europe (Grant No. 101081555), PIs Noel KEENLYSIDE, François COUNILLON; Laboratory for Climate Predictability, Russian Mega-grant funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Agreement No. 075-15-2021-577), led by Noel KEENLYSIDE, PI Segey GULEV; Rapid Arctic Environmental Changes: Implications for Well-Being, Resilience and Evolution of Arctic Communities (RACE), Belmont Forum (RCN Grant No. 312017), PIs Sergey GULEV and Noel KEENLYSIDE. We also thank the anonymous reviewers of this paper for their constructive suggestions for improvements.
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This paper is a contribution to the special topic on Ocean, Sea Ice and Northern Hemisphere Climate: In remembrance of Professor Yongqi Gao’s Key Contributions.
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Ogilvie, A.E.J., King, L.A., Keenlyside, N. et al. Recent Ventures in Interdisciplinary Arctic Research: The ARCPATH Project. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 41, 1559–1568 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-3333-x
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