EAGER: NESCent Ambassador Program

该奖项支持由国家进化综合中心(NESCent)开发的一项新的国际推广计划，称为NESCent大使计划。该计划将为美国科学家提供一个新的职业发展机会，同时向世界各地发展中地区服务不足的科学界促进合成进化研究。NESCent大使将领导短期课程和研讨会，提供一对一和小组咨询，并参与其他以进化科学和信息学为主题的教育和外联活动。大使职位将同时提高美国科学家在世界各地生物多样性丰富、可以作为进化研究关键地点的地区的研究能力。NESCent大使计划将为包括博士后研究员在内的美国科学家提供新颖和有价值的培训和职业发展机会，同时成为未来创新国际推广计划的新模式。值得注意的是，它还将允许美国科学家建立国际合作者网络，这对早期职业科学家来说尤其关键。该计划将向国际上传统上服务不足的科学受众广泛传播进化信息学工具、资源和方法。最后，但重要的是，它将作为向国际受众介绍和推广综合研究的概念和实践的一种手段。

This award supports a new, international outreach program, developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), called the NESCent Ambassador Program. The program will provide a novel professional development opportunity for U.S. based scientists, while promoting synthetic evolutionary research to underserved scientific communities in developing regions throughout the world. NESCent Ambassadors will lead short courses and workshops, provide one-on-one and small group consulting and engage in other education and outreach activities focusing on topics of evolutionary science and informatics. Ambassadorships will simultaneously improve research capabilities for US scientists in areas throughout the world that are rich in biodiversity and that could serve as key locations for evolution research. The NESCent Ambassador program will provide novel and valuable training and professional development opportunities for U.S. based scientists, including postdoctoral fellows, while serving as a new model for future innovative international outreach programs. Significantly, it will also allow U.S.-based scientists to build international networks of collaborators, an opportunity that is particularly critical for early career scientists. This program will widely disseminate evolutionary informatics tools, resources and methods to an international, traditionally underserved scientific audience. Lastly, but importantly, it will serve as a means of introducing and promoting the concepts and practices of synthesis research to an international audience.