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

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖为马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校的博士生提供了理解自然和人类系统之间相互作用的技能，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，该项目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的解决方案。智力价值：该项目旨在加深对人类活动对沿海系统的影响方式以及沿海生态系统变化对人类系统的影响方式的理解。受训人员将在波士顿港流域和非洲之角进行研究，以评估和解决自然系统和人类系统相互作用时出现的环境风险。该项目将招收马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校的四个博士项目。环境科学、环境生物学、全球治理与人类安全、组织与社会变革？在这两个世界区域的研究。更广泛的影响：通过支持非洲之角和波士顿的比较研究，该实习项目将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，成为复杂的全球环境问题的有效解决者。此外，作为一所少数族裔服务机构，马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校将吸引代表性不足的学生参加这个项目。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，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。该项目旨在建立研究生教育和培训的新模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，让学生了解研究转化为社会效益创新的过程。

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.