RaMP: Research opportunities and access for diverse scientists (ROADs) in extreme dryland environments

RaMP：极端旱地环境中不同科学家的研究机会和途径（ROAD）

• 批准号: 2319855
• 负责人: Elizabeth Walsh
• 金额: $ 299.9万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319855&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RaMP; Research; opportunities; access; diverse

This project establishes ROADs (Research Opportunities and Access for Diverse Scientists) to STEM careers aimed at postbaccalaureates who had limited opportunity for research experience as undergraduates. It will provide the next generation of global change scientists with transformative research training and professional development, and embed them within a diverse professional network. Postbaccalaureates will engage in cutting-edge science spanning questions focused on dryland environments of the Arctic and deserts. These understudied environments are often identified as being the most sensitive to climate variability, land use change, and other human activities. Many of these changes have a capacity to alter the Earth System within the lifetime of our trainees and can be tackled only by training the next generation of global change biologists in these ecosystems. Participants will become data-savvy global change scientists, strong collaborators, effective communicators, and interdisciplinary leaders of the future.Postbaccalaureates engage in research focusing on identifying biological and biogeochemical responses of dryland environments of the Arctic and deserts to global change at multiple levels of biological organization from genes to macrosystems, while having an extensive support team of mentors and peers. A year-round research project with UTEP and other academic or other professional mentors will be in two focal areas: (1) populations and species [mal]-adaptation to rapidly changing environments, and (2) shifting ranges of dryland species and communities. Other programmatic components include professional development workshops and seminars, and network events to ensure a successful transition of ROADs trainees to graduate school or STEM positions in government or industry. Network partners include representatives from academic institutions, government agencies, industry, and education. Trainees will also benefit from peer mentoring to help them navigate research activities, mentor-mentee relationships and post-program plans, including graduate school or positions in industry, agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The project mentors will serve as a model approach focused on the postbaccalaureate experience for other Minority Serving Institutions to support a diverse next generation of STEM professionals.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.

该项目为 STEM 职业建立了 ROAD（多元化科学家的研究机会和途径），目标对象是本科生研究经验机会有限的学士后。它将为下一代全球变化科学家提供变革性研究培训和专业发展，并将他们嵌入多元化的专业网络中。学士学位后学生将从事涉及北极和沙漠旱地环境问题的尖端科学。这些未被充分研究的环境通常被认为对气候变化、土地利用变化和其他人类活动最敏感。其中许多变化有能力在我们的学员的一生中改变地球系统，并且只能通过在这些生态系统中培训下一代全球变化生物学家来解决。参与者将成为精通数据的全球变化科学家、强有力的合作者、有效的沟通者和未来的跨学科领导者。学士后从事的研究重点是确定北极和沙漠旱地环境在多个生物层面对全球变化的生物和生物地球化学反应。从基因到宏观系统的组织，同时拥有由导师和同行组成的广泛支持团队。与 UTEP 和其他学术或其他专业导师合作的全年研究项目将集中在两个重点领域：(1) 种群和物种对快速变化环境的适应，以及 (2) 旱地物种和群落范围的变化。其他计划组成部分包括专业发展研讨会和研讨会以及网络活动，以确保 ROAD 学员成功过渡到研究生院或政府或行业的 STEM 职位。网络合作伙伴包括来自学术机构、政府机构、工业界和教育界的代表。学员还将受益于同行指导，帮助他们掌握研究活动、导师与学员的关系以及项目后计划，包括研究生院或行业、机构和非政府组织的职位。项目导师将作为一个模型方法，重点关注其他少数族裔服务机构的学士学位后经验，以支持多样化的下一代 STEM 专业人员。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和能力进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。