NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2016

2016 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金

基本信息

批准号：
1611880
负责人：
Emily Meineke
金额：
$ 17.71万
依托单位：
Meineke Emily K
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Fellowship Award
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1611880&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Biology FY

项目摘要

Postdoctoral Fellow: Emily MeinekeProposal number: 1611880This award funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2016, Interdisciplinary Research Using Biological Collections The fellowship supports a research and training plan for the Fellow to take transformative approaches to grand challenges in biology that employ biological collections in highly innovative ways. The title of the research plan for this fellowship to Emily Meineke is "Using museum specimens to explore if climate change has increased insect pest damage to forests." The host institution for this fellowship is the University of Copenhagen, and the sponsoring scientists are Aimee Classen and Nathan Sanders. This project addresses the fundamental question of how climate change driven by humans affect herbivore species that damage plant species on which humans rely. Global climate change has already led to higher outbreak frequencies in insect herbivores. However, less is known about how chronic, non-outbreak herbivores respond to climate. In particular, little is known about resident, native insects that live on plants for the duration of their lives and historically have caused no or minor damage to plants. Chronic herbivores and their damage are often unintentionally preserved on or in herbarium specimens, i.e. plant specimens preserved in museums. The Fellow is using herbarium specimens to track chronic herbivory over centuries and across Europe, taking advantage of northern Europe's expansive collection of forest tree specimens. She is also expanding this project using an existing citizen science platform to collect this same data from North American and Australian specimens. Because the Fellow's research contributes to the understanding of how climate has affected insect pests, it will also inform how insect pest damage might change in other systems on which we depend, including agriculture. The Fellow is expanding her scientific training in four key ways: (1) expanding her research program to include international (European) sites, (2) using modeling frameworks she used in her dissertation research but over much larger scales of space and time, (3) cultivating an international network of collaborators, and (4) creating and executing a unique, international citizen science project that generates continental-scale data. This project allows the public to participate in global change research and, in doing so, fosters connections between two US citizen science efforts, Notes from Nature and Your Wild Life, and a globally renowned European research institution, the University of Copenhagen. The Fellow is creating products for citizen scientist, such as online, interactive maps and figure, which allow the public to interact with data. With Your Wild Life, the Fellow is designing and evaluating our advertising efforts to maximize participation by groups underrepresented in biology.

博士后研究员：Emily Meineke提案编号：1611880该奖项资助 2016 财年 NSF 生物学博士后研究奖学金，利用生物收藏品进行跨学科研究该奖学金支持研究员的研究和培训计划，以采取变革性方法应对利用生物收藏品的生物学领域的重大挑战以高度创新的方式。艾米丽·梅内克 (Emily Meineke) 的这项研究计划的标题是“利用博物馆标本探索气候变化是否增加了森林害虫的破坏”。该奖学金的主办机构是哥本哈根大学，赞助科学家是艾米·克拉森和内森·桑德斯。该项目解决了人类驱动的气候变化如何影响食草动物物种的基本问题，这些物种损害了人类赖以生存的植物物种。全球气候变化已经导致食草昆虫的爆发频率更高。然而，人们对长期、非疫情的食草动物如何对气候做出反应知之甚少。特别是，人们对那些终生生活在植物上、历史上对植物没有造成或轻微损害的本地昆虫知之甚少。慢性食草动物及其损害常常无意中保存在植物标本馆标本上或标本中，即保存在博物馆中的植物标本。该研究员利用北欧广泛收集的森林树木标本，利用植物标本室追踪整个欧洲几个世纪以来的长期食草行为。她还利用现有的公民科学平台来扩展该项目，从北美和澳大利亚的标本中收集相同的数据。由于该研究员的研究有助于了解气候如何影响害虫，它还将告知害虫损害可能如何改变我们赖以生存的其他系统，包括农业。该研究员正在通过四个关键方式扩展她的科学培训：（1）扩展她的研究计划以包括国际（欧洲）站点，（2）使用她在论文研究中使用的建模框架，但在更大的空间和时间范围内，（ 3）培养国际合作者网络，以及（4）创建并执行一个独特的国际公民科学项目，生成大陆规模的数据。该项目使公众能够参与全球变化研究，并以此促进美国两项公民科学工作“自然笔记”和“你的野生动物”与全球知名的欧洲研究机构哥本哈根大学之间的联系。该研究员正在为公民科学家创建产品，例如在线交互式地图和图形，使公众能够与数据进行交互。在《你的野生生活》中，该研究员正在设计和评估我们的广告工作，以最大限度地提高生物学领域代表性不足的群体的参与度。