IGERT: Coasts and Communities - Natural and Human Systems in Urbanizing Environments

IGERT：海岸和社区 - 城市化环境中的自然和人类系统

• 批准号: 1249946
• 负责人: Robert Chen
• 金额: $ 309.98万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Boston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1249946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Coasts; Communities; Natural; Human

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award prepares Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts Boston with the skills to understand the interactions between natural and human systems and to develop appropriate policy solutions for urban and urbanizing environments. By emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and communication, this program aims to enable trainees to apply their innovative and sustainable solutions across geographical, political, and economic contexts. Intellectual Merit: This program aims to increase understanding of the ways in which human activities impact coastal systems as well as the ways in which changes in coastal ecosystems affect human systems. Trainees will conduct research both in the Boston Harbor watersheds and in the Horn of Africa, in order to assess and address the environmental risks that emerge when natural and human systems interact. The program will engage four Ph.D. programs at the University of Massachusetts Boston ? environmental science, environmental biology, global governance and human security, and organizations and social change ? in the study of these two world regions. Broader Impacts: This traineeship will promote environmental stewardship and innovation on a global scale by supporting comparative research in the Horn of Africa and in Boston. Trainees will learn from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives as they become effective problem solvers of complex global environmental issues. Additionally, as a minority-serving institution, the University of Massachusetts Boston will attract underrepresented students to this program.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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.

这项综合研究生教育和研究实习生（IGERT）奖旨在准备博士学位。马萨诸塞大学波士顿大学的学生具有了解自然系统和人类系统之间的相互作用，并为城市和城市化环境开发适当的政策解决方案。通过强调跨学科的合作和沟通，该计划旨在使学员能够在地理，政治和经济环境中运用其创新和可持续的解决方案。 知识分子的优点：该计划旨在提高人们对人类活动影响沿海体系的方式以及沿海生态系统变化影响人类系统的方式的理解。学员将在波士顿港口流域和非洲角进行研究，以评估和解决自然和人类系统相互作用时出现的环境风险。该计划将聘请四个博士学位。马萨诸塞大学波士顿大学的课程？环境科学，环境生物学，全球治理和人类安全，组织与社会变革？在研究这两个世界地区。更广泛的影响：该学员将通过支持非洲之角和波士顿的比较研究来促进全球范围内的环境管理和创新。随着学员成为复杂的全球环境问题的有效问题解决者，学员将从各种各样的学科和观点中学习。此外，作为一家少数族裔的机构，马萨诸塞大学波士顿大学将吸引代表性不足的学生参加该计划。Igert是一项NSF范围的计划，旨在应对教育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。该计划旨在在肥沃的环境中建立新的模型，用于超越传统纪律界限的合作研究，并吸引学生理解研究的过程转化为以社会利益的创新过程。