Descripción del proyecto
Las repercusiones del cambio climático en los ecosistemas árticos
El cambio climático afecta a los ecosistemas árticos más que a cualquier otro ecosistema. El calentamiento global permite que el carbono atmosférico almacenado en los suelos árticos durante millones de años se escape en forma de CO2 y de CH4, un potente gas de efecto invernadero. Los científicos deben determinar cuánto carbono podría llegar a liberarse y sus repercusiones sobre el cambio climático. El emplazamiento del centro de investigación ForHot (Islandia) ofrece un gradiente de calentamiento de la temperatura edáfica geotérmicamente controlado, lo cual permite evaluar los efectos del aumento de la temperatura en los procesos de los ecosistemas árticos. El proyecto FutureArctic, financiado con fondos europeos, formará a investigadores noveles para que generen un «ecosistema de cosas». El proyecto utilizará el aprendizaje automático a fin de analizar grandes flujos de datos medioambientales de alto rendimiento mediante la instalación de un «ecosistema de cosas» pionero en el centro de investigación ForHot.
Objetivo
"Climate change will affect Arctic ecosystems more than any other ecosystem worldwide, with temperature increases expected up to 4-6°C. While this is threatening the integrity and biodiversity of the ecosystems in itself, the larger ecosystem feedbacks triggered by this change are even more worrisome. During millions of years, atmospheric carbon has been stored in the Arctic soils. With warming, the carbon can rapidly escape the soils in the form of CO2 and (even worse) the strong greenhouse agent CH4.
Despite decades of research, scientists still struggle to unveil the scale of this carbon exchange, and especially how it will interact with climate change. An overarching question remains: how much carbon will potentially escape the Arctic in the future climate, and how will this affect climate change?
FutureArctic embeds this research challenge directly in an inter-sectoral training initiative for early stage researchers, that aims to form “ecosystem-of-things” scientists and engineers at the ForHot site. The FORHOT site in Iceland offers a geothermally controlled soil temperature warming gradient, to study how Arctic ecosystem processes are affected by temperature increases as expected through climate change.
FutureArctic aims to pave the way for generalized permanently connected data acquisition systems for key environmental variables and processes. We will initiate a new machine-learning approach to analyse large high-throughput environmental data-streams, through installing a pioneer ""ecosystem-of-things"" at the ForHot site.
FutureArctic will thus channel, building on a timely project in the ForHot area, an important evolution to machine-assisted environmental fundamental research. This is achieved through the dedicated training of researchers with profiles at the inter-sectoral edge of computer science, artificial intelligence, environmental science (both experimental and modelling), scoial sciences and sensor engineering and communication.
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Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciences
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
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