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辛-麦迪逊大学在淡水生态系统研究方面提出了一项合作的综合研究生培训计划。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，淡水生态已经变得支离破碎，变成了独立的项目，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综合技能。我们的目标是培养能够跨越环境梯度和湖泊研究与溪流或河流研究之间的智力障碍的科学家。这些现在占据了认识论梯度的两端。我们结合了两个优秀项目的资源。强调湖泊的是威斯康星大学湖沼学中心的研究，而强调溪流的是华盛顿大学河滨研究中心的研究。每个学生将在每所大学接受培训；其中一半将从这两所学校获得学位。每所大学都提供高级机会奖学金和其他因素，以将受训人数从5人增加到7人。受训者将加入活跃的教师、博士后研究人员和研究生研究社区。这两个中心都是全面运作的，并拥有从州、国家和私人来源获得研究支持的持续历史。设施和基础设施得到充分发展，以支持学生的研究，将溪流和湖泊生态结合起来。

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.