NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2014

NSF生物学博士后研究金将联合收割机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，并要求制定计划，扩大科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与。 该奖学金推动NSF努力使现在和未来的STEM劳动力多样化。这项奖学金雅各布Allgeier支持研究，以衡量，监测和改善目前的努力，以保护濒危鲑鱼在太平洋西北部和其他地方的可持续发展工作提供工具。该研究金的主办机构是华盛顿大学，赞助科学家是丹尼尔Schindler博士（华盛顿大学）和Chris Jordan（NOAA，西北渔业中心）。 研究员的培训目标是学习预测生态系统功能和人口可持续性以及有效衡量河流恢复的尖端建模技术。 一项扩大参与的计划包括一个针对八年级学生的外展计划，其中包括在科学领域代表性不足的群体，这些群体涉及人类、生态系统和可持续性之间的联系。一个互动网站允许学生跟踪从海洋到产卵场的洄游鱼类;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。恢复退化的栖息地是一个重要的国家目标，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。 目前在整个哥伦比亚河流域对濒危鲑鱼物种的恢复工作占美国所有河流的88%。本研究利用动物运动来评估生态系统功能和栖息地特征之间的反馈恢复。现有的数据集的空间上明确的个体鱼类运动行为的两个濒危鲑鱼超过150,000个人跨流在不同阶段的恢复正在被用来开发人口模型和定量指标，用于评估流域恢复效果。 该研究有望通过空间动态将种群、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.