IGERT Formal Proposal: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training in Urban Ecology

9987612 Stuart Fisher - Arizona State UniversityIGERT：城市生态学的综合研究生教育和研究培训这一综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在城市生态学的教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划的建立。城市生态学是一项相对较新的奋进，因此研究员将有无与伦比的机会与不同的教师，学生和博士后群体一起定义该领域。城市不仅是人类重要的生态系统，也是生态研究的绝佳实验室。亚利桑那州中部-凤凰城长期生态研究项目是NSF LTER网络中仅有的两个城市站点之一，为前沿、多学科研究和研究生培训提供了一个既定的研究基础设施。培训将建立在强调合作和团队精神的协作模式基础上。研究员可以在生命，地球和社会科学的六个核心部门获得学位，并将参加团队研究，课程和研讨会，强调学科之间的整合。论文将是综合性和多学科的，并将包括超出学生的家庭学科的实质性合作组成部分。总的来说，这些活动将提供广泛适用于公共和私营部门以及学术界职业的技能。该计划的主要目标是教育一种新的科学家谁是更广泛，更灵活，更具协作性，更善于将科学和社会问题联系起来比以往任何时候。IGERT是一个全国科学基金会范围内的计划，旨在满足教育博士的挑战。科学家和工程师与多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能所需的未来的职业需求。 该计划旨在通过建立新的，创新的研究生教育和培训模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境。在该计划的第三年，该奖项将颁发给19个机构，这些机构的计划涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这个特殊奖项的知识焦点在于生物科学，地球科学，教育和人力资源局。

9987612Stuart Fisher - Arizona State UniversityIGERT: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training in Urban EcologyThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in urban ecology. Urban ecology is a relatively new endeavor, thus fellows will have unparalleled opportunity to define the field with a diverse group of faculty members, students, and postdocs. Cities are not only important ecosystems to humans but are excellent laboratories for ecological research. The Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project, one of only two urban sites in the NSF's LTER network, provides an established research infrastructure for frontier, multidisciplinary research and graduate training. Training will be built on a collaborative model emphasizing cooperation and teamwork. Fellows may earn degrees in six core departments in the life, earth, and social sciences and will participate in team research, courses, and seminars that emphasize integration among disciplines. Dissertations will be integrative and multidisciplinary and will include a substantial collaborative component beyond the student's home discipline. Collectively, these activities will afford skills that should be broadly applicable to careers in public and private sectors and in academia. The main objective of the program is to educate a new kind of scientist who is broader, more flexible, more collaborative, and more adept at linking science and social issues than heretofore.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Biological Sciences, Geosciences, and Education and Human Resources.