Establishment of a Statewide Environmental Sciences Education and Research Training Program in Nevada

在内华达州建立全州环境科学教育和研究培训计划

• 批准号: 9553361
• 负责人: George Taylor
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-01-01 至 1998-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9553361&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishment; Statewide; Environmental; Sciences; Education

9553361 Taylor The University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN) will develop an education and research tpaining program in the environmental sciences that is integrated and system-wide, with an emphasis on linking the disciplines of environmental chemistry, environmental biology, ecology, and human health. This interdisciplinary area of emphasis within the environmental sciences is an important initiative because the State of Nevada is experiencing an unparalleled rate of population growth (5% per year over the last four years), which is far in excess of all other states. In addition, the increases are confined to the urban centers in Las Vegas (Clark County), Reno and Sparks (Washoe County) and Carson City. The net effect of this growth over the last four decades has been to transform the state from a predominantly rural to a largely urban environment. The rate of transformation is unprecedented, and the consequences for human health and natural resources are just beginning to be recognized. The current effort will stimulate the development of a cohesive statewide program to address the relationship between quality of the environment and the health of human populations and natural resources in Nevada. The program calls for the following: (1) to develop a system-wide infrastructure for graduate education and training in the environmental sciences because none of the UCCSN units have the depth and breadth to individually develop a program of excellence; (2) to develop a research infrastructure to encourage UCCSN faculty and graduate students to devote more of their competitive research to the environmental sciences by linking basic and mission-oriented research and emphasizing priority problems in the state of Nevada; and (3) to develop a training and networking infrastructure in Nevada to inform and educate the population on issues in the environmental sciences, focusing on linking the educational and research expertise in the UCCSN with bus iness interests in the public and private sector. These three platforms of the infrastructure will be implemented through the Graduate Program of Environmental Sciences and Health (ES&H) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR); this program is part of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESE) at UNR. The ES&H program will be aggressively expanded to include faculty and graduate students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), leading to eventual full partnership. This will be the first example of a system-wide degree and training program within UCCSN and will serve as a template by which other systemic graduate programs in the sciences and engineering can be developed in the future.

9553361泰勒内华达州大学和社区学院系统(UCCSN)将制定一个环境科学教育和研究计划，该计划是综合的和全系统的，重点是将环境化学、环境生物学、生态学和人类健康的学科联系起来。环境科学中的这一跨学科重点领域是一项重要的倡议，因为内华达州正在经历前所未有的人口增长速度(过去四年中每年增长5%)，远远超过其他所有州。此外，涨幅仅限于拉斯维加斯(克拉克县)、雷诺和斯帕克斯(瓦肖县)以及卡森市的市中心。过去40年这种增长的净效果是将该州从以农村为主的环境转变为以城市为主的环境。转型的速度是史无前例的，对人类健康和自然资源的影响才刚刚开始被认识到。目前的努力将推动制定一项具有凝聚力的全州计划，以解决内华达州环境质量与人类人口和自然资源健康之间的关系。该计划要求：(1)发展全系统的环境科学研究生教育和培训基础设施，因为UCCSN没有一个单位有足够的深度和广度单独制定一项卓越的计划；(2)发展研究基础设施，通过将基础研究和面向任务的研究联系起来，并强调内华达州的优先问题，鼓励UCCSN的教职员工和研究生将更多的竞争性研究投入环境科学；以及(3)在内华达州建立培训和网络基础设施，就环境科学问题向民众提供信息和教育，重点是将UCCSN的教育和研究专门知识与公共和私营部门的公共利益联系起来。这三个基础设施平台将通过内华达大学雷诺分校(UNR)的环境科学与健康研究生项目(ES&amp；H)实施；该项目是UNR环境科学与工程中心(CESE)的一部分。ES&amp；H项目将积极扩展，将内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校(UNLV)的教职员工和研究生包括在内，最终实现全面合作。这将是UCCSN内全系统学位和培训计划的第一个例子，并将成为未来开发其他科学和工程系统研究生计划的模板。