Ph.D. Training Program in Coastal Ocean Processes

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校(UCSB)非常适合沿海海洋过程的综合性和多学科研究生培训计划。包括4名物理/光学海洋学家、4名生物海洋学家和2名化学/古海洋学家在内的10名教员已经建立了卓有成效的合作记录，他们正在为5个研究生培训职位寻求支助。第六名学生将由大学提供的等额资金支持。培训计划将强调两个对我们理解沿海海洋至关重要的跨学科领域，这两个领域是：1)生物光学、光适应和沿海初级生产和水柱光学特性的遥感(5名教员)；2)沿海水文和水柱过程的时空变异性及其对沉积在沉积物中的长期气候记录的影响(8名教员)。学生将由两名教师共同赞助，以促进跨学科的论文项目，并将接受最先进的技术培训，包括卫星成像和遥感、海洋系泊仪器、生物光学、计算机建模，以及现代同位素地球化学、微生物学和化学技术。将通过与2个支线机构(位于长滩的加州州立大学莫斯·兰丁海洋实验室)建立联系，并在参与的教员中提供3名女性导师，为招募女性和少数族裔学生提供便利。

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is ideally suited for an integrative and multidisciplinary graduate training program in coastal ocean processes. Ten faculty including 4 physical/optical oceanographers, 4 biological oceanographers and 2 chemical/paleooceanographers who already have an established record of productive collaboration are seeking support for 5 graduate traineeships. A sixth student will be supported by matching funds from the University. The training program will emphasize two highly interdisciplinary areas crucial to our understanding of the coastal ocean made possible by UCSB's unique location and research expertise; 1) bio-optics, photoadaptation, and remote sensing of coastal primary production and water column optical properties (5 faculty) and 2) spatial and temporal variability in coastal hydrography and water column processes and their impact on the long-term climate record deposited in the sediments (8 faculty). Students will be co-sponsored by two faculty to foster interdisciplinary thesis projects and will received training in state-of-the-art technologies including satellite imaging and remote sensing, ocean mooring instrumentation, bio-optics, computer modeling, and modern isotope geochemical, microbiological and chemical techniques. Recruitment of women and minority students will be facilitated by liaisons with 2 feeder institutions, (Moss Landing Marine Lab, California State University at Long Beach) and by the availability of 3 women mentors among the participating faculty.