NRT-DESE: Risk and uncertainty quantification in marine science

NRT-DESE：海洋科学的风险和不确定性量化海洋是地球上最后的广阔边疆，是气候和生产力的主要驱动力，也是人类和野生动物的重要资源。管理海洋资源需要科学家和管理者无缝合作，以了解人类活动自上而下的影响和气候变化对海洋系统自下而上的影响。俄勒冈州立大学（OSU）的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）项目将培养新一代自然资源科学家和管理人员，他们将把数学、统计学和计算机科学与环境和社会科学结合起来，研究、保护和管理海洋系统。该培训计划预计将培养61（61）名硕士和博士研究生，包括30（30）名受资助的学员，在跨学科研究小组中使用大型和不断扩展的数据资源研究用户启发的问题。有了强大的分析工具，他们将最有能力跟踪和研究人类活动自上而下的影响和气候变化对海洋系统自下而上的影响。除了填补目前海洋科学和管理方面的教育缺口外，俄勒冈州立大学NRT项目还促进：1)一个变革性和可扩展的新海洋科学和政策研究生辅修课程，教学生量化和沟通基于数据的模型预测和政策情景的风险和不确定性；2)发现控制海洋系统对气候变化和人类压力响应的机制；3)发展以证据为基础的实践，以招聘、培训和留住多样化的研究生，并将他们安置在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的一系列成功职业生涯中。通过技术课程、交流研讨会、国内和国际实习、利益相关者参与、同行指导和参与跨学科研究项目，俄勒冈州立大学NRT学员将学习大数据科学、风险和不确定性量化、交流和可持续性。他们将学习工具和技术，以帮助社区通过变化管理资源，并在灾难发生时迅速恢复。根据学习目标，培训和研究将把以下方面的新发展联系起来：风险和不确定性的数学和统计量化、新型传感器产生的海洋系统复杂和大型数据集，以及影响海洋系统和受海洋系统影响的利益攸关方的外联和参与。此外，通过实习培养的具有不同专业知识的学生将在合作解决由利益相关者确定的复杂气候和政策问题时，利用彼此强大的学科知识和技能。这些合作的最终目标是在面对变化和不确定性时设计管理解决方案。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模式。通过创新、循证、适应不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模式，培训项目致力于在高优先级跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。这项工作在一定程度上得到了研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划的支持。AGEP致力于增加未被充分代表的少数民族（urm）的数量，进入并完成STEM研究生教育和博士后培训，以达到代表可用群体的水平。AGEP计划支持研究生教育和博士后培训的创新模式和标准的开发、实施、研究和传播，旨在提高URM的参与、准备和成功。

NRT-DESE: Risk and Uncertainty Quantification in Marine ScienceThe ocean is the last great frontier on Earth, a major driver of climate and productivity, and a critical resource for humans and wildlife. Managing ocean resources requires scientists and managers to work seamlessly to understand the top-down effects of human actions and the bottom-up effects of climate-change on the ocean system. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) project at Oregon State University (OSU) will prepare a new generation of natural resource scientists and managers who will combine mathematics, statistics, and computer science with environmental and social sciences to study, protect, and manage ocean systems. This traineeship program anticipates preparing sixty-one (61) MS and PhD students, including thirty (30) funded trainees, to work in transdisciplinary research groups on user-inspired problems using large and ever-expanding data resources. With powerful analytical tools, they will be best equipped to track and study the top-down effects of human actions and the bottom-up effects of climate change on the ocean system. Besides fulfilling current educational gaps in marine science and management, this OSU NRT program promotes: 1) a transformative and scalable new marine science and policy graduate minor that teaches students to quantify and communicate risk and uncertainty of data-based model forecasts and policy scenarios; 2) the discovery of mechanisms that control the response of marine systems to climate change and human pressures; 3) the development of evidence-based practices for recruiting, training, and retaining diverse graduate students and for placing them into a range of successful careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Through a combination of technical coursework, communication workshops, national and international internships, stakeholder engagement, peer mentoring, and involvement in transdisciplinary research projects, OSU NRT trainees will learn about the science of big data, risk and uncertainty quantification and communication and sustainability. They will learn tools and techniques to assist communities in managing resources through change and to recover quickly in the event of a disaster. In line with the learning objectives, the training and research will link new developments in mathematical and statistical quantification of risk and uncertainty, complex and large datasets on marine systems emerging from novel sensors, and outreach and engagement of stakeholders who affect, and are affected by, ocean systems. In addition, students with diverse expertise, developed through internships, will leverage each other's strong disciplinary knowledge and skills as they collaborate to address complex stakeholder-identified climate and policy problems. These collaborations will have the ultimate goal of devising management solutions in the face of change and uncertainty. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through the comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.This work is supported, in part, by the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. AGEP is committed to the national goal of increasing the numbers of underrepresented minorities (URMs), entering and completing STEM graduate education and postdoctoral training to levels representative of the available pool. The AGEP program supports the development, implementation, study, and dissemination of innovative models and standards of graduate education and postdoctoral training that are designed to improve URM participation, preparation, and success.