Collaborative Proposal: DISCCRS: Interdisciplinary Leadership Training for Early-Career Climate Scholars

气候变化研究的发展（DISCCRS）的论文倡议是一个领导力计划，培训和装备来自所有研究领域的早期职业科学家的关键知识，技能和工具，以建立或加强跨学科的方法在他们的职业生涯。 DISCCRS的核心是一年一度的为期一周的研讨会，汇集了几十名科学家的小组，他们最近获得了博士学位，并在跨学科气候变化研究领域建立了科学导师。 DISCCRS的目标是建立一个气候学者网络，代表美国人口，并与全球同行社区保持良好联系。 参与是通过竞争性的申请过程。 选择有利于申请人谁计划从事跨学科的研究生涯中的任何主题内或相关的气候变化，包括其影响和解决方案。 虽然重点是美国-除了美国的研究人员外，来自其他国家的一些申请人也可能被邀请参加，他们对了解美国的研究企业和与美国研究人员联系感兴趣。 在每次研讨会期间，一群来自自然科学和社会科学的新学者与他们的同行和领先的科学家会面，发展跨学科的合议关系，从众多学科和角度了解前沿的气候研究，并收集有关跨学科领导力和专业发展的见解。 研讨会学者获得未来跨学科研究所需的基础关系，知识和技能。DISCCRS倡议还包括维护一个公共访问网站（可访问http://disccrs.org）。 本网站包含一个国际博士。论文登记处与气候变化相关的论文摘要已在DISCCRS注册。 该网站成立于2002年，已载有近1 000份提交的摘要，以完全可检索的电子格式提供。 DISCCRS网站还包括职业发展资源、研讨会应用说明和报告。 每周通讯分发气候研究新闻，资源，会议和工作公告，以及其他感兴趣的信息，以跨学科的早期职业学者与气候变化，影响和解决方案的兴趣。DISCCRS计划培训科学家的早期职业成功战略，同时促进来自美国和其他地方众多学科和机构的气候科学家的大学网络的发展，这些科学家可以成为下一代高质量跨学科气候变化研究的领导者。 DISCCRS旨在促进与政策相关的研究，同时促进对气候变化及其影响的基本科学认识，向公众传播这些知识，并产生精心设计的政策选择供美国和国际层面的政策制定者考虑。

The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS) is a leadership program that trains and equips early-career scientists from all areas of study with the critical knowledge, skills, and tools to establish or strengthen interdisciplinary approaches in their career. The core of DISCCRS is an annual week-long symposium that brings together small groups of a few dozen scientists who recently earned doctoral degrees with established scientific mentors in the world of interdisciplinary climate-change research. The goal of DISCCRS is to create a network of climate scholars that is representative of the U.S. population and is well connected with their global peer community. Participation is through a competitive application process. Selection favors applicants who plan to engage in interdisciplinary research careers in any subject within or relevant to climate change, including its impacts and solutions. While the emphasis is on the U.S.-based researchers, a few applicants from other countries who demonstrate an interest in learning about the U.S. research enterprise and connecting with U.S. researchers may also be invited to participate. During each symposium, a cohort of new scholars from the natural and social sciences meet their peers and leading scientists to develop interdisciplinary collegial relationships, learn about cutting-edge climate research from numerous disciplines and perspectives, and gather insights about interdisciplinary leadership and professional development. Symposium scholars receive the foundational relationships, knowledge, and skills needed for future interdisciplinary research.The DISCCRS initiative also includes maintenance of a public-access website (accessible at http://disccrs.org). This site contains an international Ph.D. dissertation registry with abstracts of dissertations related to climate change that have been registered with DISCCRS. Established in 2002, the site already contains nearly 1,000 submitted abstracts presented in a fully searchable electronic format. The DISCCRS site also includes career-development resources, symposium application instructions, and reports. A weekly newsletter distributes climate research news, resources, meeting and job announcements, and other information of interest to interdisciplinary early-career scholars with interests in climate change, impacts, and solutions. The DISCCRS initiative trains scientists in strategies for early-career success while fostering development of a collegial network of climate scientists from numerous disciplines and institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere who can be leaders in the next generations of top-quality interdisciplinary climate-change research. DISCCRS seeks to promote policy-relevant research that can simultaneously promote basic scientific understanding of climate change and its impacts, the dissemination of that knowledge to the public, and the generation of carefully designed policy options for consideration by policy makers in the U.S. and at the international level.