IGERT: Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change (A2C2)

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖促进了博士的跨学科培训。气候变化是21世纪人类社会和生态系统服务可持续性面临的最大挑战之一。智力优势：该计划通过培训学生进行跨自然科学和社会科学的跨学科合作研究，并从他们的研究中制定创新的政策和管理解决方案，以促进应对突发气候变化的恢复力和适应能力，来应对突发气候变化的挑战。研究主题侧重于社会面临的三大挑战：全球安全的威胁，生态系统服务的减少和社会系统的适应。该计划的新培训要素包括跨学科合作研究项目，以及与国际，联邦和州机构以及私营部门组织的政策和管理实习。更广泛的影响：气候突然变化的风险在全球普遍存在，包括环境难民人数增加和争夺资源的政治冲突。确定如何预测、避免和管理气候突变最近被确定为全球可持续发展面临的五大挑战之一。IGERT奖旨在培养下一代科学家，以应对这些环境和社会挑战。为了促进未来多元化科学劳动力的招聘，所有IGERT学员将与来自代表性不足群体的K-12学生开展外联活动。该计划还通过研究合作以及国外实习经验培养了强大的国际视野。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在应对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。该计划旨在为研究生教育和培训建立新的模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境，并让学生了解研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award facilitates the interdisciplinary training of Ph.D. natural and social scientists in adaptation to abrupt climate change, one of the greatest challenges to the sustainability of human society and ecosystem services in the 21st century. Intellectual Merit: This program meets the challenge of abrupt climate change by training students to conduct collaborative, interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences, and to develop innovative policy and management solutions from their research that fosters resilience and adaptation in response to abrupt climate change. Research themes focus on three major challenges that society faces with abrupt climate change: threats to global security, reductions in ecosystem services, and adaptation in social systems. Novel training elements of this program include a collaborative interdisciplinary research project, and a policy and management internship with organizations that span international, federal and state agencies, as well as the private sector. Broader Impacts: The risks of abrupt climate change are globally pervasive and include increased numbers of environmental refugees and political conflicts over resources. Determining how to anticipate, avoid, and manage abrupt climate change was recently identified as one of the five grand challenges to global sustainability. This IGERT award trains the next generation of scientists to meet these environmental and social challenges. To promote future recruitment of a diverse science workforce, all IGERT trainees will conduct outreach activities with K-12 students from underrepresented groups. The program also fosters a strong international perspective through research collaborations as well as internship experiences abroad.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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.