NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2018

2018 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金

• 批准号: 1811400
• 负责人: Roxanne Beltran
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Beltran Roxanne S
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1811400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Biology; FY

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2018, Broadening Participation of Groups Under-represented in Biology. The fellowship supports a research and training plan for the Fellow that will increase the participation of groups underrepresented in biology. The Fellow will characterize the navigation and diving abilities of northern elephant seal pups. Three months after birth these young animals begin their first migration, learning to navigate and forage without any parental instruction. Despite exhibiting the farthest independent migration of any mammal, it is unknown how these seals find their way, or their way home, in a seemingly featureless ocean. In the next 100 years, increases in sea surface temperature and decreases in primary productivity are expected in the North Pacific Ocean. These changes are expected to affect northern elephant seals by shifting their critical foraging habitat northward by 1,000km and deeper in the water column. Thus, it is important to determine whether elephant seal navigation and diving are genetically passed on from mother to daughter and if so, how that might limit their adaptive capacities to predicted climate change. The Fellow will work with sponsoring scientist Dr. Daniel Costa from the University of California Santa Cruz to analyze existing and newly-collected tracking and diving data from mother elephant seals and their female pups. Using a novel simulation model, the Fellow will predict the impacts of climate change on a predator with top-down ecosystem control. In these ways, the Fellow will be trained in cutting-edge biologging and computational techniques and will obtain professional development opportunities in science communication. Animal navigation is an intriguing field that provides an ideal basis for teaching students key concepts in behavior, ecology, and evolution. By incorporating results into high school biology learning modules, the Fellow will gain valuable teaching skills. Research findings will also be communicated with docents and visitors at the A?o Nuevo State Park research site in collaboration with the State Park PORTS distance learning program. Finally, the Fellow will provide hands-on research experience to undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on broadening the participation of underrepresented minorities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该行动为2018财年的生物学生物学奖学金提供了一项NSF博士后研究奖学金，扩大了人数不足的生物学的参与。奖学金支持该研究员的研究和培训计划，这将增加生物学中代表性不足的群体的参与。该研究员将表征北象密封幼犬的导航和潜水能力。出生后三个月，这些年轻动物开始了他们的第一次迁移，在没有任何父母指导的情况下学习觅食和觅食。尽管展示了任何哺乳动物的最远的独立迁移，但这些印章如何在看似毫无特色的海洋中找到自己的方式或回家的路。在接下来的100年中，北太平洋的海面温度升高和一级生产率的降低。这些变化有望通过将其关键的觅食栖息地向北移动1,000公里，并在水柱中更深地将其关键的觅食栖息地转移到北部大象密封中。因此，重要的是要确定大象密封导航和潜水是否在遗传上从母亲到女儿传递，如果是这样，这可能如何将其自适应能力限制在预测气候变化上。该研究员将与加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁斯分校的资助科学家丹尼尔·科斯塔（Daniel Costa）博士合作，分析来自母象海豹及其女幼崽的现有和新收获的跟踪和潜水数据。使用新颖的模拟模型，该研究员将预测气候变化对具有自上而下的生态系统控制的捕食者的影响。通过这些方式，研究员将接受尖端的生物学和计算技术的培训，并将获得科学沟通方面的专业发展机会。动物导航是一个有趣的领域，为教学学生在行为，生态和进化方面提供关键概念提供了理想的基础。通过将结果纳入高中生物学学习模块中，该研究员将获得宝贵的教学技能。研究发现还将与州立公园港口远程学习计划合作，在A？最后，这位研究员将为本科和研究生提供动手研究经验，重点是扩大代表性不足的少数群体的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。