IGERT - Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Society

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持全球变化、海洋生态系统和社会方面的研究生培训。该项目将把斯克里普斯海洋研究所的广泛气候研究与加州大学圣地亚哥分校其他院系的经济、法律、商业、政策和历史观点、美国国家海洋和大气管理局西南渔业科学中心的基于管理的研究以及非营利的环境法研究所结合起来。通过将全球变化的物理科学与经济行为和社会后果的分析联系起来，该项目将使学生能够制定决策和沟通策略，以应对全球挑战。主要研究主题有：从科学、经济、法律和政治角度分析温室气体驱动因素对全球变化的影响；温度、海平面、径流和海洋酸化变化对生态系统的影响；人口失调的社会影响、人类健康、渔业的可持续性、跨国法律问题以及对旅游业的影响；以及对公众认知、传播策略和公共政策的影响。这些主题将通过跨学科的“过程研究”结合起来，在这些研究中，研究团队将专业知识带到气候科学与全球变化的社会范围之间的接口问题上。过程研究集中在研究合作存在和主要主题融合的地理区域。教育模式包括密集的跨学科暑期课程；开设新课程，引导学生组成跨学科团队，作为论文研究的一部分；在谈判、道德和管理责任方面进行指导；学生在非学术环境中应用所学知识的实习；还有一个职业研讨会，让学生接触到其他职业。这种研究生教育方法促进了全球变化研究的整合，重点是生物、社会、经济和政治问题，以及海洋资源管理和保护。该计划进一步致力于在日益复杂的社会中扩大多样性和增加研究生就业机会。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，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。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports graduate training in global change, marine ecosystems, and society. The project will combine the extensive climate research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography with the economic, legal, business, policy and historical perspectives of other University of California San Diego departments, the management-based research of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and the non-profit Environmental Law Institute. By linking the physical science of global change to the analysis of economic behavior and social consequences, this project will empower students to develop strategies for decision-making and communication to address global challenges. Major research themes are: global change effects of greenhouse gas drivers from the scientific, economic, legal and political perspectives; ecosystem impacts of changes in temperature, sea level, runoff, and ocean acidification; societal impacts of population dislocations, human health, sustainability of fisheries, transnational legal issues and impacts on tourism; and impact on public perception, communications strategies and public policy. These themes will be united by interdisciplinary "process studies" in which research teams bring expertise to problems at the interface between climate science and the societal extent of global change. Process studies are focused in geographic areas where research collaborations exist and where major themes coalesce. The educational model includes an intensive interdisciplinary summer course; a new course to guide students to form interdisciplinary teams as part of their thesis research; coaching in negotiation, ethics, and management responsibilities; internships where students apply their knowledge in non-academic settings; and a career seminar that exposes students to alternative professions. This approach to graduate education facilitates integration of global change research that is focused on biological, social, economic, and political issues, marine resource management and conservation. The program is further dedicated to the expansion of diversity and increasing opportunities for post-graduate employment in an ever more complex society. 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.