Infrastructure via Science and Technology Enhanced Partnerships III

通过科技加强基础设施建设 III

• 批准号: 1101342
• 负责人: Ragan Callaway
• 金额: $ 2000万
• 依托单位: Montana University System Office
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1101342&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Infrastructure; via; Science; Technology; Enhanced

This RII award to Montana EPSCoR will build a coordinated research program linking microbiology, ecology, and climatology to understand the dynamics of the processes that govern how an ecosystem responds to climate change. Through this interdisciplinary and ecosystem-centric approach, the program will provide an innovative model that is both regionally relevant and nationally significant, while capitalizing on the unique resources and scientific strengths in Montana. The funded participants include Montana University System (MUS), University of Montana (UM), and seven tribal colleges: Blackfeet Community College, Fort Peck Community College, Little Big Horn College, Stone Child College, Fort Belknap College, Fort Peck Community College, and Salish Koontenai College.This project will form a single statewide umbrella institute, the Montana University System Consortium for Ecosystem Research and Education (MtCERE), which will build on past EPSCoR investments to acquire new talent in targeted scientific areas, establish shared research facilities, and develop an integrated education, diversity, and outreach program. Intellectual MeritThe proposed MT EPSCoR research program aims to link microbial ecology, systems ecology, and climatology to investigate the multi-scale processes that govern ecosystem responses to climate change. In particular, researchers will examine how physical and biotic processes, operating at multiple scales, interact to govern ecosystem structure and function and the influence of climate change on these systems. The project has identified three focal areas to study: 1) feedback between microbial dynamics and ecosystem processes; 2) linkages among landscape patterns and ecosystem processes; and 3) impacts of multi-scale interactions and specific vulnerabilities of species and ecosystems to climate change. The project will involve interdisciplinary experimentation, observation, modeling, and iterative data-model comparisons in four benchmark Montana ecosystems, including the Crown of the Continent, High Plains, Upper Missouri, and Greater Yellowstone. Broader ImpactsThe research outcomes will have strong relevance to a broad set of research fields, both within Montana and nationally. The project has an extensive diversity plan to enhance math and science success for Native American undergraduate students and other underrepresented groups, improve core environmental sciences education at Tribal Colleges, support accelerated math preparation for Tribal College students, and increase the number of Native American Ph.D. students in environmental sciences. Workforce development efforts include research partnerships, teaching-the-teacher programs, pre-college student opportunities, team-centered research internships and mentoring, and new approaches for science communication to promote Montana?s connection to science and provide the state?s rural and underrepresented populations. In addition, the project plans to take advantage of Montana?s unique natural areas, including Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, to have extensive external engagement with the general public.

蒙大拿州EPSCoR的RII奖将建立一个协调的研究计划，将微生物学，生态学和气候学联系起来，以了解管理生态系统如何应对气候变化的过程的动态。通过这种跨学科和以生态系统为中心的方法，该计划将提供一个创新的模式，既具有区域相关性，又具有全国意义，同时利用蒙大拿州独特的资源和科学优势。受资助的参与者包括蒙大拿大学系统（MUS），蒙大拿大学（UM）和七所部落学院：黑脚社区学院、佩克堡社区学院、小大角学院、石童学院、贝尔纳普堡学院、佩克堡社区学院和萨利希·孔特奈学院。该项目将形成一个单一的全州范围的伞形学院，蒙大拿大学系统生态系统研究和教育联盟（MtCERE），将在过去的EPSCoR投资的基础上，在目标科学领域获得新的人才，建立共享的研究设施，并发展综合教育，多样性，和外展计划建议的MT EPSCoR研究计划旨在将微生物生态学，系统生态学和气候学联系起来，以研究管理生态系统对气候变化反应的多尺度过程。特别是，研究人员将研究物理和生物过程如何在多个尺度上运作，相互作用以管理生态系统的结构和功能以及气候变化对这些系统的影响。该项目确定了三个重点研究领域：（1）微生物动力学与生态系统过程之间的反馈;（2）景观格局与生态系统过程之间的联系;（3）多尺度相互作用的影响以及物种和生态系统对气候变化的具体脆弱性。 该项目将涉及跨学科的实验，观察，建模和迭代数据模型比较在四个基准蒙大拿州生态系统，包括大陆，高平原，上密苏里州，大黄石皇冠。更广泛的影响研究成果将有很强的相关性，以广泛的研究领域，无论是在蒙大拿州和全国。该项目有一个广泛的多样性计划，以提高数学和科学的成功为美洲原住民本科生和其他代表性不足的群体，提高核心环境科学教育在部落学院，支持加速数学准备部落学院的学生，并增加美洲原住民博士的数量。环境科学专业的学生。劳动力发展工作包括研究伙伴关系，教师教学计划，大学预科学生的机会，以团队为中心的研究实习和指导，以及科学传播的新方法，以促进蒙大拿州？与科学的联系，并提供国家？农村和代表性不足的人口。此外，该项目计划利用蒙大拿州？美国独特的自然区域，包括黄石公园和冰川国家公园，与公众进行广泛的外部接触。