IGERT: Global-Local Interactions: Resilience and Adaption of Social-Ecological Systems in a Rapidly Changing North

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训计划(IGERT)支持将社会科学和自然科学相结合的研究生培训，并考虑跨越时间和空间尺度的变化动态。阿拉斯加和北极圈是培训学者研究社会生态系统动态的合适地点，因为它们的气候、文化和社会经济变化的速度很快。该IGERT的课程和研究为学生准备复原力理论、脆弱性分析和可持续发展科学的理论和应用基础。这次更新是在阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校(UAF)以前IGERT的基础上进行的，增加了：(1)注重全球与地方的联系，这些联系塑造了所有规模的可持续性；(2)与UAF乡村校园的衔接计划使阿拉斯加土著学生更容易获得这一博士课程；以及(3)为研究生提供参加国际极地年活动的机会。IGERT建立了新的机构伙伴关系，并培训了一支新的学者队伍，他们具有应对可持续发展的复杂挑战的跨学科技能。这些学者将通过他们在缓解和适应方面整合知识和向政策制定者提供信息的技能为社会做出贡献。该IGERT大力支持阿拉斯加原住民博士在这一领域的培训，这些博士需要担任大学教师、研究人员、教育工作者和社区领袖。这一国际地球年是美国对国际极地年的贡献，它通过建立一个研究生项目联盟，重点关注北方的社会生态恢复能力。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在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。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) supports graduate training that integrates social and natural sciences and considers the dynamics of change across temporal and spatial scales. Alaska and the Circumpolar North are appropriate places to train scholars to research the dynamics of social-ecological systems because of their pronounced rates of climatic, cultural and socio-economic change. The curriculum and research of this IGERT prepares students in the theoretical and applied underpinnings of resilience theory, vulnerability analysis, and sustainability science. This renewal builds on the previous IGERT at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) by adding: (1) a focus on global-local linkages that shape sustainability at all scales, (2) a bridging program with UAF rural campuses makes this PhD program more accessible to Alaska Native students, and (3) opportunities for graduate students to participate in activities of the International Polar Year. This IGERT establishes new institutional partnerships and trains a new cadre of scholars who have the interdisciplinary skills to address the complex challenges of sustainability. These scholars will contribute to society through their skills in integrating knowledge and informing policy makers in mitigation and adaptation. This IGERT strongly supports the training of Alaska Native PhDs in this area who are needed to serve as university faculty, researchers, educators, and community leaders. This IGERT represents a US contribution to the International Polar Year through the establishment of a consortium of graduate programs with a focus on northern social-ecological resilience. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, 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 innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.