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

9987612斯图尔特·费舍尔-亚利桑那州立大学IGERT：城市生态学综合研究生教育和研究培训这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持建立城市生态学教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。城市生态学是一项相对较新的努力，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这个领域。城市不仅是人类重要的生态系统，也是生态研究的优秀实验室。亚利桑那州中部-凤凰城长期生态研究项目是美国国家科学基金会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成熟的研究基础设施。培训将建立在强调合作和团队合作的协作模式上。研究员可以在生命科学、地球科学和社会科学的六个核心部门获得学位，并将参加强调学科之间整合的团队研究、课程和研讨会。论文将是综合的和多学科的，将包括一个实质性的合作组成部分，超出了学生的家庭学科。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培养一种新型的科学家，他们比以往更广泛，更灵活，更善于合作，更善于将科学与社会问题联系起来。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能的博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第三年，奖项将颁发给19个机构，这些机构的项目涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一特殊奖项的智力焦点在于生物科学、地球科学、教育和人力资源理事会。

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.