NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2014

NSF生物学博士后奖学金将研究和培训部分结合起来，为年轻科学家在生物学领域的职业生涯做好准备，并要求制定一项计划，扩大科学和工程领域代表性不足群体的参与。这些奖学金推动了NSF现在和未来使STEM劳动力多样化的努力。雅各布·奥尔吉尔的这笔奖学金支持研究，以衡量、监测和改进当前保护太平洋西北部濒危三文鱼的努力，并为其他地区的可持续发展努力提供工具。该奖学金的主办机构是华盛顿大学，赞助科学家是丹尼尔·辛德勒博士(华盛顿大学)和克里斯·乔丹博士(NOAA，西北渔业中心)。该研究员的培训目标是学习尖端建模技术，以预测生态系统功能和人口可持续性，并有效测量河流恢复。一项扩大参与的计划包括一项针对八年级学生的外联计划，其中包括在科学领域中代表不足的群体，这些群体涉及人类、生态系统和可持续发展之间的联系。一个互动网站允许学生跟踪从海洋到产卵场的迁徙鱼类；个人课堂教学模块允许学生发现影响鲑鱼生命周期的各种因素。恢复退化的栖息地代表着一个关键的国家目标，因为它对重要生态系统服务的可持续性有直接影响，例如渔业、木材、娱乐。目前，哥伦比亚河流域濒危鲑鱼物种的修复工作占美国河流修复工作的88%左右。这项研究通过将生态系统功能和栖息地特征之间的反馈联系起来，使用动物运动来评估恢复。两种濒危鲑鱼在不同恢复阶段的150,000多个个体在不同恢复阶段的空间上明确的个体鱼类运动行为的现有数据集正被用来制定种群模型和量化指标，以评估流域恢复的效果。这项研究承诺通过空间动力学将种群、群落和生态系统生态学联系起来，并通过加强对个体变异的生态后果的理解来推进生态学理论。社会影响包括将研究结果落实到整个哥伦比亚河流域应用的适应性管理框架中。

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biology combine research and training components to prepare young scientists for careers in biology and require a plan to broaden participation of groups under-represented in science and engineering. The fellowships advance NSF efforts to diversify the STEM workforce now and in the future. This fellowship to Jacob Allgeier supports research to measure, monitor, and improve current efforts to protect endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest and provide tools for sustainability efforts elsewhere. The host institution for the fellowship is the University of Washington, and the sponsoring scientists are Drs. Daniel Schindler (University of Washington) and Chris Jordan (NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Center). Training goals for the Fellow are to learn cutting-edge modeling techniques for predicting ecosystem function and population sustainability and measuring effectively river restoration. A plan to broaden participation consists of an outreach program for eighth grade students including groups under-represented in science about the connections between humans, ecosystems, and sustainability. An interactive website permits students to track migrating fish from ocean to spawning grounds; and personal in-classroom teaching modules allow the students to discover the various factors that impact salmon lifecycles.Restoring degraded habitat represents a critical national goal as it has direct consequences for the sustainability of important ecosystem services, for example, fisheries, timber, recreation. Current restoration efforts for endangered salmonid species throughout the Columbia River Basin account for ~88% of all U.S. river restorations. This research uses animal movement to assess restoration by linking feedbacks between ecosystem function and habitat characteristics. Existing datasets of spatially explicit individual fish movement behavior of more than 150,000 individuals of two endangered salmonids across streams at various stages of restoration are being used to develop population models and quantitative metrics for assessing watershed restoration efficacy. The research promises to link population, community and ecosystem ecology through spatial dynamics and advance ecological theory by enhancing understanding of the ecological consequences of individual variation. Societal impacts include implementing the research findings into the adaptive management framework being applied throughout the Columbia River basin.