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 Meinekepropopals编号：1611880奖基金会为2016财年生物学生物学研究奖学金提供资金，跨学科研究使用生物学馆藏支持研究和培训计划的研究和培训计划，以采用该研究员采取变革性挑战的生物学挑战。该研究金的研究计划的标题是“使用博物馆标本来探索气候变化是否增加了对森林的害虫损害增加”。该奖学金的房东机构是哥本哈根大学，赞助科学家是Aimee Classen和Nathan Sanders。该项目解决了人类驱动的气候变化如何影响损害人类依赖植物物种的草食动物物种的基本问题。全球气候变化已经导致昆虫食草动物的爆发频率更高。然而，关于慢性，非爆发的草食动物对气候的反应如何，鲜为人知。特别是，关于居民，在生命的持续时间内生活在植物上的居民知之甚少，并且历史上没有对植物造成或轻微破坏植物。慢性食草动物及其损害通常在植物园标本上或在博物馆中保存的植物标本上无意中保存下来。该研究员利用北欧广阔的森林树标本收集了几个世纪和整个欧洲的慢性草食性。她还使用现有的公民科学平台来扩展该项目，以从北美和澳大利亚标本中收集相同的数据。由于该研究员的研究有助于理解气候如何影响害虫，因此它还将告知害虫损害在我们依赖的其他系统（包括农业）中可能会发生变化。该研究员正在以四种关键方式扩展她的科学培训：（1）将她的研究计划扩展到包括国际（欧洲）网站，（2）使用她在论文研究中使用的建模框架，但在更大的时空规模上，（3）培养国际合作者网络，以及（4）创建和执行独特的国际公民科学项目，以生成占有占用的占有笼状数据。该项目允许公众参与全球变革研究，并在此过程中促进了两项美国公民科学努力，自然和您的野生生活的笔记之间的联系，以及一个全球著名的欧洲研究机构，哥本哈根大学。该研究员正在为公民科学家（例如在线，交互式地图和图形）创建产品，这些产品使公众能够与数据互动。借助您的野生生活，该研究员正在设计和评估我们的广告工作，以最大程度地提高生物学中代表性不足的群体的参与。