IGERT: Coasts and Communities - Natural and Human Systems in Urbanizing Environments

IGERT：海岸和社区 - 城市化环境中的自然和人类系统

• 批准号: 1249946
• 负责人: Robert Chen
• 金额: $ 309.98万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Boston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1249946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Coasts; Communities; Natural; Human

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award prepares Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts Boston with the skills to understand the interactions between natural and human systems and to develop appropriate policy solutions for urban and urbanizing environments. By emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and communication, this program aims to enable trainees to apply their innovative and sustainable solutions across geographical, political, and economic contexts. Intellectual Merit: This program aims to increase understanding of the ways in which human activities impact coastal systems as well as the ways in which changes in coastal ecosystems affect human systems. Trainees will conduct research both in the Boston Harbor watersheds and in the Horn of Africa, in order to assess and address the environmental risks that emerge when natural and human systems interact. The program will engage four Ph.D. programs at the University of Massachusetts Boston ? environmental science, environmental biology, global governance and human security, and organizations and social change ? in the study of these two world regions. Broader Impacts: This traineeship will promote environmental stewardship and innovation on a global scale by supporting comparative research in the Horn of Africa and in Boston. Trainees will learn from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives as they become effective problem solvers of complex global environmental issues. Additionally, as a minority-serving institution, the University of Massachusetts Boston will attract underrepresented students to this program.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.

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖准备博士学位。该项目旨在帮助马萨诸塞州波士顿大学的学生了解自然和人类系统之间的相互作用，并为城市和城市化环境制定适当的政策解决方案。通过强调跨学科的合作和交流，该计划旨在使学员能够在地理，政治和经济背景下应用他们的创新和可持续解决方案。 智力优势：该计划旨在增加对人类活动影响沿海系统的方式以及沿海生态系统变化影响人类系统的方式的了解。学员将在波士顿港流域和非洲之角进行研究，以评估和解决自然和人类系统相互作用时出现的环境风险。该项目将聘请四名博士马萨诸塞州波士顿大学的课程吗环境科学、环境生物学、全球治理和人类安全，以及组织和社会变革？对这两个地区的研究。更广泛的影响：这一培训将通过支持非洲之角和波士顿的比较研究，在全球范围内促进环境管理和创新。学员将从不同的学科和角度学习，因为他们成为复杂的全球环境问题的有效解决问题的人。此外，作为一个少数民族服务机构，马萨诸塞州波士顿大学将吸引代表性不足的学生到这个程序。IGERT是一个全国性的计划，旨在满足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。