NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2014

美国国家科学基金会生物学博士后奖学金将研究和培训相结合，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，扩大在科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与。这些奖学金将推动美国国家科学基金会在现在和未来实现STEM劳动力多样化的努力。这项奖学金授予雅各布·奥尔盖尔（Jacob Allgeier），旨在支持研究测量、监测和改进目前保护太平洋西北地区濒危鲑鱼的努力，并为其他地方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dr。丹尼尔·辛德勒（华盛顿大学）和克里斯·乔丹（美国国家海洋和大气管理局西北渔业中心）。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测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面向八年级学生的拓展项目，包括在人类、生态系统和可持续性科学领域代表性不足的群体。一个互动网站允许学生追踪从海洋到产卵地的洄游鱼类；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。恢复退化的生境是一个关键的国家目标，因为它直接影响到渔业、木材、娱乐等重要生态系统服务的可持续性。目前，哥伦比亚河流域的濒危鲑鱼物种恢复工作占美国所有河流恢复工作的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。现有的两种濒危鲑鱼超过15万个体在不同恢复阶段跨溪流的空间显性个体运动行为数据集被用于开发种群模型和定量指标，以评估流域恢复效果。该研究有望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成果应用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.