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Collaborative Research: Integrated Training for Continental Ecology (ITCE): Bridging Scales and Systems with Isotopes

合作研究：大陆生态学综合培训（ITCE）：用同位素桥接尺度和系统

基本信息

批准号：
1241286
负责人：
Gabriel Bowen
金额：
$ 213.49万
依托单位：
University of Utah
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-06-01 至 2018-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1241286&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Integrated Training Continental

项目摘要

Providing innovative approaches in graduate and postdoctoral training that encompass emerging opportunities in continental ecology is the critical focus of this project. Thirty-two faculty from nearly two dozen universities will combine efforts to develop such a training program that addresses ecological challenges at regional to continental scales. The approach will include the integration of stable isotopes with other datasets and computer models. Stable isotopes play a critical role in evaluating scalable temporal and spatial data streams and allow underlying processes and patterns to be identified and quantified across scales of space and time. Key themes to be addressed include gas exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere, animal migration, ecohydrology, and pathways of photosynthesis and consequences for animal diets. The project includes four elements of training across the participating universities: (1) multidisciplinary and multi-university instruction through two week lecture and laboratory courses, with the first focusing on principles and practices and the second on linking isotopes, processes and patterns, modeling, and scaling; (2) extended hands on training after the courses, where graduate students will obtain additional training and expand their theses through visits and collaborations with course instructors at other universities; (3) inter-university postdoctoral training, focusing on modeling and syntheses across the thematic research areas of migration, carbon cycle, water cycle, and disturbance; and (4) developing, integrating, and disseminating over the web databases, data analysis tools, and training modules to be used by others. Training of cohorts will be sustained through workshops in advance of major scientific meetings and participation with postdocs at the host institutions. Students will also organize sessions at national meetings as a component of their professional development.This project will provide training and network building opportunities to more than 150 graduate students and postdocs over five years, preparing future generations of ecologists to use existing and new isotopic data streams from regional to continental scale ecology programs. Recruitment will emphasize diversity and inclusion of women and members of underrepresented groups in these opportunities. Teaching modules and web products developed by the instructors will be incorporated into courses at their respective home institutions. Data and model synthesis efforts will greatly increase the accessibility of existing large scale isotopic datasets and data analysis tools within and beyond the ecological research community to further help develop the discipline of macrosystem biology. A formal evaluation framework will guide the improvement of our data and educational products in each of the five years of this project.

该项目的重点是在研究生和博士后培训中提供包含大陆生态学新兴机会的创新方法。来自近两打大学的三十二名教师将共同努力开发这样一个培训计划，以应对区域到大陆范围内的生态挑战。该方法将包括稳定同位素与其他数据集和计算机模型的集成。稳定同位素在评估可扩展的时空数据流方面发挥着关键作用，并允许跨空间和时间尺度识别和量化底层过程和模式。需要解决的关键主题包括生态系统和大气之间的气体交换、动物迁徙、生态水文学、光合作用途径和对动物饮食的影响。该项目包括参与大学培训的四个要素：（1）通过为期两周的讲座和实验室课程进行多学科和多大学教学，第一个重点是原理和实践，第二个重点是同位素、过程和模式、建模和缩放的联系；（2）课程结束后的延伸实践培训，研究生将通过与其他大学的课程导师的访问和合作来获得额外的培训并扩展他们的论文；（3）校际博士后培训，重点关注迁移、碳循环、水循环和扰动等专题研究领域的建模和综合； (4) 开发、集成和传播网络数据库、数据分析工具和培训模块以供他人使用。将通过重大科学会议之前的研讨会以及主办机构的博士后参与来持续进行队列培训。学生还将在全国会议上组织会议，作为其专业发展的一部分。该项目将在五年内为 150 多名研究生和博士后提供培训和网络建设机会，为未来几代生态学家使用从区域到大陆规模的生态项目中的现有和新的同位素数据流做好准备。招聘将强调女性和代表性不足群体成员在这些机会中的多样性和包容性。讲师开发的教学模块和网络产品将纳入各自所在机构的课程中。数据和模型综合工作将大大增加生态研究界内外现有大规模同位素数据集和数据分析工具的可访问性，以进一步帮助发展宏观系统生物学学科。正式的评估框架将指导我们在该项目五年中每年的数据和教育产品的改进。