IGERT: Polar Environmental Change

IGERT：极地环境变化

• 批准号: 0801490
• 负责人: Ross Virginia
• 金额: $ 292.47万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801490&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Polar; Environmental; Change

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the development of an interdisciplinary graduate program in polar sciences and engineering by merging expertise and facilities from Dartmouth College with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and institutions in Greenland. The purpose of this program is to train doctoral students to have an interdisciplinary view of polar systems and to understand the social and ethical implications of their research. Broader impacts include training and research focused on the components of polar systems that respond to and contribute to rapid environmental change, including the cryosphere (glacial ice, snow, and sea ice systems) and the biogeochemical linkages between plants, soils, and animals. The core curriculum includes an Introduction to Polar Systems and a second course on Sustainability Science, Policy and Ethics that will train students to frame research questions that will have relevance to Arctic residents and policy by using perspectives from western science and traditional ecological knowledge. Depending on their research interests, students will be trained during the Greenland Field Seminar in either terrestrial ecosystem or cryosphere dynamics, followed by instruction in the human dimensions of Arctic change in Nuuk, the site of the University of Greenland and the Inuit Circumpolar Council. IGERT students will receive continuing interdisciplinary training through a seminar series and other related events on polar science and policy organized with the Dickey Center Institute of Arctic Studies, a workshop on preparing grant proposals, an annual program evaluation and research symposium, cross-IGERT activities, and opportunities for specialized training at other institutions or field sites. A special effort will be made to engage with Native American students. 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.

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖通过将达特茅斯学院的专业知识和设施与美国陆军寒冷地区研究和工程实验室以及格陵兰岛的机构合并，支持极地科学和工程跨学科研究生课程的发展。该计划的目的是培养博士生有极地系统的跨学科观点，并了解他们的研究的社会和伦理影响。更广泛的影响包括培训和研究，重点是极地系统的组成部分，这些组成部分对迅速的环境变化作出反应并起作用，包括冰冻圈（冰川冰、雪和海冰系统）以及植物、土壤和动物之间的生态地球化学联系。核心课程包括极地系统介绍和可持续发展科学，政策和道德的第二门课程，将培养学生通过使用西方科学和传统生态知识的观点来构建与北极居民和政策相关的研究问题。根据学生的研究兴趣，他们将在格陵兰实地研讨会期间接受陆地生态系统或冰冻圈动力学方面的培训，然后在格陵兰大学和因努伊特人北极圈理事会所在地努克讲授北极变化对人的影响。IGERT学生将通过研讨会系列和极地科学和政策与北极研究的迪基中心研究所组织的其他相关活动，准备拨款建议，年度计划评估和研究研讨会，跨IGERT活动，以及在其他机构或现场进行专业培训的机会，接受持续的跨学科培训。一个特别的努力将与美国原住民学生接触。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划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促进研究生教育的文化变革。