IGERT: Regional Resilience and Adaptation: Planning for Change

这一IGERT奖项是针对区域复原力和适应能力(RR&A)的跨学科研究生培训项目。人类面临的主要挑战之一是，在影响生态系统和社会结构和功能的所有主要力量迅速变化的情况下，保持地球生态系统和社会的可取特征。RR&Amp；A项目旨在培训博士水平的学者、政策制定者和管理人员，以综合的方式解决这些问题。该计划将生态学、经济学、人类学、气候动力学和哲学的工具和方法整合到一个系统框架中，以了解区域系统的运行。它强调高纬度生态系统，在那里，当前的管理问题需要应用对这些学科的综合理解。这一研究生培训计划将培训新一代科学家，使他们能够将自然科学和社会科学的观点结合起来，解决对区域系统的基本理解，并将这种理解应用于管理问题。其目标是培养在一个或多个学科有良好基础，但在一系列自然科学和社会科学方面有理解和研究经验的科学家。该计划将为阿拉斯加大学的研究生和其他大学注册的学生提供培训。它提供课程作业和研讨会计划，将生态学、经济学和人类学整合到一个系统建模框架中，并在每个学生所在学科之外的领域提供教师指导和实习机会。该计划强调通过与阿拉斯加美洲原住民社区以及管理者、企业和保护团体的广泛参与来进行跨文化交流。IGERT是一个NSF范围的计划，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景以及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，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第四年，22个机构被授予奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一具体奖项的知识焦点位于极地方案办公室和地球科学、社会、行为和经济科学以及教育和人力资源主管部门。

This IGERT award is for an interdisciplinary graduate-training program in regional resilience and adaptation (RR&A). One of the major challenges facing humanity is to sustain the desirable features of Earth's ecosystems and society at a time of rapid changes in all of the major forces that shape the structure and functioning of ecosystems and society. The RR&A program seeks to train Ph.D.-level scholars, policy-makers, and managers to address these questions in an integrated fashion. The program integrates the tools and approaches of ecology, economics, anthropology, climate dynamics, and philosophy in a systems framework to understand the functioning of regional systems. It emphasize high-latitude ecosystems, where current management issues require an application of the integrated understanding of these disciplines. This graduate-training program will train a new generation of scientists to integrate the perspectives of natural and social sciences in addressing both the basic understanding of regional systems and the application of this understanding to management issues. The goal is to train scientists that are well-grounded in one or more disciplines but have an understanding and research experience in a range of natural and social sciences. The program will provide training to graduate students from the University of Alaska and students enrolled in other universities. It provides course work and a seminar program that integrates ecology, economics, and anthropology in a systems-modeling framework and provides faculty mentorship and internships in areas outside of each student's parent discipline. The program emphasizes cross-cultural communication through heavy involvement with the Alaskan Native American community and with managers, businesses, and conservation groups.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 fourth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-two 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 Office of Polar Programs and the Directorates for Geosciences; Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; and Education and Human Resources.