EAGER: Field Computational Ecology Course

EAGER：现场计算生态学课程

• 批准号: 1152895
• 负责人: Tanya Berger-Wolf
• 金额: $ 7.58万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1152895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Field; Computational; Ecology; Course

This project will address the "frontier problem-solving" aspect missing in interdisciplinary research, and create a model of a course where experts from several disciplines collaborate on a complex project, particularly a field project. Today's science is increasingly an interdisciplinary endeavor, with researchers from several disciplines collaborating on a project. Yes, current graduate (and undergraduate) education is discipline-centered, with few opportunities for team projects, especially from outside the field. As a result, students are unprepared for the realities of cutting edge research. This problem is starting to be addressed by many institutions in a variety of ways. This work will design a highly integrated interdisciplinary field course, centered around computational and field biology research. The proposed course will be offered by the University of Illinois - Chicago, Princeton, and University of Nairobi where graduate students in biology (primarily ecology and evolutionary biology) and engineering (primarily in computer science and bioinformatics) work with faculty in both disciplines to learn how to ask questions, frame hypotheses and understand how and why the disciplines and cultures do this differently. Fieldwork will be conducted in Kenya.

该项目将解决跨学科研究中缺少的“前沿问题解决”方面，并创建一个课程模型，其中来自多个学科的专家在一个复杂的项目上进行合作，特别是实地项目。今天的科学越来越多地是一个跨学科的奋进，从几个学科的研究人员合作的项目。是的，目前的研究生（和本科）教育是以学科为中心的，很少有机会进行团队项目，特别是来自该领域以外的项目。因此，学生们对前沿研究的现实没有做好准备。许多机构开始以各种方式解决这一问题。这项工作将设计一个高度集成的跨学科领域的课程，围绕计算和现场生物学研究。拟议的课程将由伊利诺伊大学-芝加哥，普林斯顿大学和内罗毕大学提供，生物学（主要是生态学和进化生物学）和工程学（主要是计算机科学和生物信息学）的研究生与这两个学科的教师合作，学习如何提出问题，构建假设，并了解学科和文化如何以及为什么这样做。实地工作将在肯尼亚进行。