IGERT: Novel ecosystems, rapid change, and no-analog conditions: the future of biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖培养了下一代跨学科科学家，以设计面对新环境的生物多样性保护策略，并开发了一个关于生物多样性保护的经验式学习、参与式学术和以问题为中心的研究的综合计划。智力优势：人类现在是地球上占主导地位的生物地理、进化和气候力量。随着我们更快地改变环境，新的气候条件正在出现，这些条件在历史上是前所未有的，新的生态系统正在蓬勃发展，人们正在创造新的土地利用模式和人口、经济和政治现实。该计划将支持一个实践社区，在这个社区中，社会科学家、气候学家、生态学家、计算机科学家、遗传学家、经济学家、统计学家、遥感专家和其他人在跨学科团队中合作，为未来在新环境中保护生物多样性找到解决方案。广泛影响：该IGERT奖通过整合研究和经验学习，通过建立和加强威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校内部各学科之间的合作，以及与政府、保护组织和国外的合作伙伴，促进发现和理解。参与式研究方法将确保广泛传播研究成果，从而增进科学理解和社会效益。一套新的研究生研讨会将培训学生如何合作，如何与更广泛的受众沟通，以及如何整合研究和教育。来自机构和社区的持续反馈将确保结果与州和国家层面的政策制定相关，项目要素已设计为与现有的校内外组织合作，吸引来自代表性不足群体的学生。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在建立新的研究生教育和培训模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造一个肥沃的环境，并让学生了解将研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award trains the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists to design biodiversity conservation strategies in the face of novel environments, and develops an integrative program of experiential learning, engaged scholarship, and problem-focused research on biodiversity conservation.Intellectual Merit: Humans are now the dominant biogeographic, evolutionary, and climatic force on Earth. As we change the environment ever more rapidly, new climate conditions are emerging that have no historical analogs, novel ecosystems are flourishing, and people are creating new land use patterns and demographic, economic, and political realities. This program will support a community of practice in which social scientists, climatologists, ecologists, computer scientists, geneticists, economists, statisticians, remote sensing specialists and others collaborate in interdisciplinary teams to find solutions for future biodiversity conservation in novel environments.Broader Impacts: This IGERT award advances discovery and understanding by integrating research and experiential learning, and by establishing and strengthening collaborations among disciplines within UW-Madison, and with partners in government, conservation organizations, and abroad. A participatory research approach will ensure broad dissemination of findings, thereby enhancing scientific understanding and social benefits. A suite of new graduate seminars will train students in collaborating, and in communicating with broader audiences, and in integrating research and education. Continuing feedback from agencies and communities will ensure that results are relevant for policy formulation at both state and national levels, and program elements have been designed to engage students from underrepresented groups in partnership with existing on- and off-campus organizations.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.