Graduate Research Traineeship - Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology Limnology and the Integration of Lake and Stream Ecology

华盛顿大学和威斯康星-麦迪逊分校在淡水生态系统研究方面提出了一个合作的、综合的研究生培训计划。该计划将强调由NSF赞助的研讨会(淡水势在必行)确定的重要问题。这次研讨会的启示指出，淡水生态已经被分割成独立的项目，例如湖泊、湿地、地下水或溪流。这减少了处理淡水科学面临的复杂问题所需的合成技能。我们的目标是培养能够跨越环境梯度和智力障碍的科学家，他们在湖泊和溪流或河流中的研究之间存在障碍。这些人现在占据了认识论梯度的两端。我们结合了两个优秀节目的资源。强调湖泊的研究是在大学湖泊研究中心进行的。威斯康星州，而STREAMS的基础是在大学的河滨研究中心。华盛顿。每个学生都将在每所大学接受培训；一半的学生将从每所大学获得学位。每所大学都提供高级机会奖学金和其他元素，将受训人员的数量从5人增加到7人。受训人员将加入教师、博士后研究人员和研究生的活跃研究社区。这两个中心都完全投入使用，一直以来都有来自国家、国家和私人来源的研究支持。设施和基础设施得到充分发展，以支持将溪流和湖泊生态整合在一起的学生研究。

The Universities of Washington and Wisconsin-Madison propose a collaborative, integrated graduate training program in the study of freshwater ecosystems. The program will emphasize important issues identified by an NSF-sponsored workshop (The Freshwater Imperative). Revelations from this workshop point out that freshwater ecology has become fragmented into separated programs, e.g., lakes, wetlands, groundwater, or streams. This has reduced synthetic skills needed to deal with the complex issues that face freshwater science. Our goal is to created scientists who can work across environmental gradients and intellectual barriers between studies in lakes and those in streams or rivers. Those now occupy the ends of the epistemological gradient. We combined resources of two excellent programs. That emphasizing lakes is based in the Center for Limnology, Univ. Wisconsin, while that for streams is based in Center for Streamside Studies, Univ. Washington. Each student will train at each University; half will receive their degree from each. Each University is contributing Advanced Opportunity Fellowships and other elements to increase the number of trainees from 5 to 7. Trainees will join active research communities of faculty, post doctoral researchers and graduate students. Both centers are fully operational with a continuing history of research support from state, national and private sources. Facilities and infrastructure are fully developed in support of student research that will integrate stream and lake ecology.