IGERT: Polar Environmental Change

IGERT：极地环境变化

• 批准号: 0801490
• 负责人: Ross Virginia
• 金额: $ 292.47万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Polar; Environmental; Change

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the development of an interdisciplinary graduate program in polar sciences and engineering by merging expertise and facilities from Dartmouth College with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and institutions in Greenland. The purpose of this program is to train doctoral students to have an interdisciplinary view of polar systems and to understand the social and ethical implications of their research. Broader impacts include training and research focused on the components of polar systems that respond to and contribute to rapid environmental change, including the cryosphere (glacial ice, snow, and sea ice systems) and the biogeochemical linkages between plants, soils, and animals. The core curriculum includes an Introduction to Polar Systems and a second course on Sustainability Science, Policy and Ethics that will train students to frame research questions that will have relevance to Arctic residents and policy by using perspectives from western science and traditional ecological knowledge. Depending on their research interests, students will be trained during the Greenland Field Seminar in either terrestrial ecosystem or cryosphere dynamics, followed by instruction in the human dimensions of Arctic change in Nuuk, the site of the University of Greenland and the Inuit Circumpolar Council. IGERT students will receive continuing interdisciplinary training through a seminar series and other related events on polar science and policy organized with the Dickey Center Institute of Arctic Studies, a workshop on preparing grant proposals, an annual program evaluation and research symposium, cross-IGERT activities, and opportunities for specialized training at other institutions or field sites. A special effort will be made to engage with Native American students. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖通过将达特茅斯学院的专业知识和设施与美国陆军冷漠地区研究与工程实验室和格陵兰岛的机构合并，支持了极地科学和工程跨学科研究生计划的发展。该计划的目的是培训博士学生对极地系统的跨学科观点，并了解其研究的社会和道德意义。更广泛的影响包括培训和研究，这些培训和研究集中在极性系统的组成部分，这些系统对环境变化的反应并有助于快速的环境变化，包括Cryosphere（冰川冰，雪和海冰系统）以​​及植物，土壤和动物之间的生物地球化学联系。核心课程包括对极地系统的简介以及有关可持续性科学，政策和道德的第二课程，这些课程将培训学生通过使用西方科学和传统生态知识的观点来构建与北极居民和政策相关的研究问题。根据他们的研究兴趣，将在陆地生态系统或Cryosphere Dynamics的Greenland Field研讨会上接受培训，然后在Nuuk，Greenland University Nuuk，Inuit Circumpolor Council的北极变化层面上进行教学。 IGERT学生将通过研讨会系列以及与Dickey Center Arctic研究所组织的《极地科学和政策》的其他相关活动，进行持续的跨学科培训，有关准备赠款建议的研讨会，年度计划评估和研究研讨会，跨学科活动，交叉活动以及其他机构或现场现场的专业培训的机会。要与美国原住民学生互动。 IGERT是一项旨在应对美国博士学位的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，所选学科的深刻知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在肥沃的环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训的新模型来促进研究生教育的文化变革，以超越传统学科界限的合作研究。