IRES: Behavioral Ecology Research Training in Australia

IRES：澳大利亚行为生态学研究培训

• 批准号: 1460048
• 负责人: Jordan Karubian
• 金额: $ 24.94万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460048&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Behavioral; Ecology; Research; Training

IRES 1460048 ABSTRACT (KARUBIAN, TULANE UNIVERSITY)NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONInternational collaborations are becoming increasingly important in scientific research, but students and young researchers from the US face significant barriers to establishing productive research collaborations with international colleagues. This in turn limits the competitiveness of the US to conduct top-level science. This IRES project is designed to help meet these challenges by providing students and young researchers with opportunities for international training early in their educational and professional trajectories. This three-year project will support a total of 21 undergraduate and graduate students from three US institutions for research training and cultural experiences in Australia. The students will work with the U.S. PIs and Australian researchers on how dynamic environmental factors influence the social structure, behavior, and fitness of small songbirds in an understudied environment?dry forests -outside Brisbane. The project will provide technical training in modern integrative behavioral ecology methods, and will build the capacity of IRES students to work with foreign collaborators in the future. IRES students will also use a range of dissemination modalities, including professional presentations at conferences, peer-reviewed journal publications, video, and internet productions, to increase interest in international research among US university students, K-12 students, and the general public. Participants will receive intensive mentoring before, during, and after their international experience from both U.S. and Australian senior researchers. The project will broaden access to international STEM research by actively recruiting and retaining students from under-represented groups. In doing so, it will fulfill the IRES program goals of educating a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of performing in an international research environment. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThis IRES project is designed to educate a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of excelling in an international research environment. It will achieve this goal by providing individuals with opportunities for international training early in their educational and professional trajectories, with a focus on students in groups that are traditionally under-represented in STEM. The three-year project will provide a total of 21 undergraduate and graduate students from three US institutions with international research training and cultural experiences in Australia. The students will work with the U.S. PIs and Australian researchers on how dynamic environmental factors influence the social structure, behavior, and fitness of small songbirds in an understudied environment?dry sclerophyll forests outside Brisbane. IRES students will leverage a NSF-funded automated telemetry system and existing research by PIs and Australian hosts on the study site to produce high tier, student-led publications. In doing so, this project will train a cadre of undergraduate and graduate students and motivate these students to pursue scientific research careers with an international focus, thus contributing to the U.S. scientific workforce and making a significant contribution to STEM education for under-represented groups.

IRES 1460048 摘要（卡鲁比安，杜兰大学）非技术描述国际合作在科学研究中变得越来越重要，但来自美国的学生和年轻研究人员在与国际同事建立富有成效的研究合作方面面临重大障碍。这反过来又限制了美国开展顶级科学研究的竞争力。 IRES 项目旨在通过为学生和年轻研究人员在教育和职业生涯早期提供国际培训的机会来帮助应对这些挑战。这个为期三年的项目将支持来自三个美国机构的总共 21 名本科生和研究生到澳大利亚进行研究培训和文化体验。学生们将与美国 PI 和澳大利亚研究人员合作，研究动态环境因素如何影响布里斯班郊外干燥森林中未被充分研究的环境中小型鸣禽的社会结构、行为和健康。该项目将提供现代综合行为生态学方法的技术培训，并将培养 IRES 学生未来与外国合作者合作的能力。 IRES 学生还将利用一系列传播方式，包括会议上的专业演讲、同行评审的期刊出版物、视频和互联网作品，以提高美国大学生、K-12 学生和公众对国际研究的兴趣。参与者将在获得国际经验之前、期间和之后接受来自美国和澳大利亚高级研究人员的密集指导。该项目将通过积极招募和留住代表性不足群体的学生，拓宽国际 STEM 研究的机会。在此过程中，它将实现 IRES 计划的目标，即培养一支能够在国际研究环境中发挥作用的全球参与的科学和工程队伍。技术描述该 IRES 项目旨在培养能够在国际研究环境中脱颖而出的全球科学和工程人员。它将通过为个人在其教育和职业轨迹早期提供国际培训机会来实现这一目标，重点关注传统上在 STEM 中代表性不足的群体中的学生。这个为期三年的项目将为来自美国三所院校的总共21名本科生和研究生提供在澳大利亚进行国际研究培训和文化体验的机会。学生们将与美国 PI 和澳大利亚研究人员合作，研究动态环境因素如何影响布里斯班郊外干燥硬叶林中小鸣禽的社会结构、行为和健康状况。 IRES 学生将利用 NSF 资助的自动遥测系统以及 PI 和澳大利亚主办方在研究网站上的现有研究来制作由学生主导的高级出版物。在此过程中，该项目将培养一批本科生和研究生，并激励这些学生从事具有国际视野的科学研究职业，从而为美国科学劳动力做出贡献，并为弱势群体的 STEM 教育做出重大贡献。