International Research Fellowship Program: Advancing Academe: A Multidimensional Investigation of Geography in the Americas\(AAMIGA)

0601745 Solis国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行9至24个月的研究。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并利用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件。该奖项将支持美国地理学家协会(AAG)Patricia Solis博士为期12个月的研究奖学金，与Rodrigo Tarte博士在巴拿马巴拿马城的知识之城合作。NSF的地理和区域科学计划为该项目提供了部分支持。作为全球化社会中知识的生产者，科学家和学者必须应对日益相互联系的世界，这促使包括NSF在内的以研究为导向的组织推动国际研究合作(IRC)，以此作为建设智力和提高竞争力的手段。尽管国际合作中心的重要性日益得到广泛的认可，但令人惊讶的是，很少有系统的研究来衡量其范围、评估其空间模式、考虑特定地点的背景或阐明地方-国家-区域合作层面之间的联系。这些文献还忽略了纪律专业协会对促进生产性IRC的影响。因此，该项目的总体目标是通过对美洲地理的多层面研究，系统和全面地调查美洲区域中心的动态。成果将被广泛传播，并由索利斯博士的总部机构美国地理学家协会在回国后使用，以促进学术地理学在我们日益相互联系的世界中的学术和发展影响。具体目标是：1)在美国、加拿大、中美洲和加勒比地区以及南美洲的地理学家之间发现、阐述和交流IRC；2)探索IRC活动的具体地点背景；以及3)评估专业协会在促进IRC方面的作用。Solis博士的技术方法是一种系统、综合的混合方法，包括部门调查、学者问卷、使用地理信息系统(GIS)进行空间分析以了解IRC的区域模式、案例研究，包括通过历史研究、访谈、焦点小组和参与者观察收集的数据，以及有效性评估方法。作为对IRC地理学的严谨原创研究，该项目本身被设计为一项合作的国际研究努力。外国主办机构知识之城代表着美洲最杰出的国际合作中心之一。通过一个地区一个学科的多维视角对IRC进行的调查，可以为理解其他领域和NSF国际项目提供一个模式。该项目纳入了最终将促进IRC的要素和方法，包括该地区参与者的积极参与，以促进能力建设、成果和交付成果，以共同造福说西班牙语的美国地理学者，以及AAG参与实施调查结果。

0601745SolisThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct nine to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will support a twelve-month research fellowship by Dr. Patricia Solis, Association of American Geographers (AAG,) to work with Dr. Rodrigo Tarte at the City of Knowledge in Panama City, Panama. Partial support for this project is provided by NSF's Geography and Regional Sciences Program.As producers of knowledge in a globalized society, scientists and scholars must reckon with an increasingly interconnected world, prompting research-oriented organizations including the NSF to promote international research collaboration (IRC) as a means to build intellectual capacity and increase competitiveness. Despite widespread recognition of the increasing importance of IRC, there have been surprisingly few systematic studies that measure its extent, assess its spatial patterns, account for place-specific context, or articulate connections among local-national-regional dimensions of collaboration. The literature also overlooks the influence that disciplinary professional societies exert toward facilitating productive IRC. Thus the overall goal of the project is to systematically and holistically investigate the dynamics of IRC through a multi-dimensional study of geography in the Americas. Results will be broadly disseminated and used by the Association of American Geographers, Dr. Solis' home institution, upon return, to advance the intellectual and developmental impact of academic geography in our increasingly interconnected world. Specific objectives are: 1) To discover, articulate and communicate IRC among geographers in the US, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America; 2) To explore place-specific contexts of IRC activities; and 3) To assess the role of the professional society for facilitating IRC. Dr. Solis' technical approach is a systematic, integrated mixed-methodology including departmental surveys, scholar questionnaires, spatial analysis using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to understand regional patterns of IRC, a case study comprising data gathered through historical research, interviews, focus groups and participant observation, and effectiveness evaluation methods. As a rigorous, original study of IRC in geography, the project itself is designed as a collaborative international research endeavour. The foreign host institution, the City of Knowledge, represents one of the most outstanding centers for international collaboration in the Americas. This investigation of IRC through a multi-dimensional perspective of one discipline in one region can provide a model for understanding other fields and for NSF international programs. The project incorporates elements and methods that will ultimately facilitate IRC, including active engagement of participants from the region to promote capacity building, outcomes and deliverables to collaterally benefit US Spanish-speaking geography scholars, and involvement of the AAG to implement findings.