NRT: Graduate Climate Adaptation Research that Enhances Education and Responsiveness of science at the management-policy interface (Grad-CAREER)

气候变化是21世纪科学和社会面临的重大挑战。在美国西部，气候变化增加了干旱和火灾的威胁。这种威胁既需要新的基于科学的信息，也需要由科学家、管理人员、决策者和其他公民组成的有效团队，他们可以利用这些信息来解决问题。这项授予犹他州立大学的国家科学基金会研究培训生（NRT）奖将培养下一代适应气候变化的科学家，以满足这些重要需求。该项目预计将培养80名硕士和博士研究生，其中包括28名受资助的学员，他们来自自然科学、物理科学、社会科学、工程和数学。该项目将为STEM毕业生的职业生涯做好准备，将科学与管理和政策相结合，以理解和适应不断变化的气候，并将为适应气候变化的方式提供新的基于科学的理解。该项目将在8个系和5个学院开设9个硕士学位和8个博士学位，创建一个气候适应科学专业。培训计划强调跨学科研究，整合信息学、建模、沟通、领导力、项目管理、风险评估、不确定性决策和跨学科团队合作等方面的培训。项目研究将促进对变化的水文气候（干旱和洪水）、火灾制度（频率、燃烧面积和严重程度）、土地覆盖（范围转移和入侵）、社会和经济影响以及潜在适应的理解。该项目将研究、教学和实际经验紧密结合，并将促进科学家、联邦、州和地方土地管理者、政策制定者、受训人员和公民利益相关者之间的合作。学员将在政府、行业或非政府组织合作伙伴完成为期一年的研究工作室实习，并将学员嵌入到创造可操作科学的循环中。其他新颖的元素是个性化的交流计划和短期课程支持的研究型课程。项目团队将测试教育元素的模型，以更好地为未来的STEM劳动力做好准备，以应对越来越多的跨学科研究、管理、教育和政策相关的职业，包括数据密集型技术的应用、基于云的协作、与不同受众的沟通以及项目管理。对该项目及其要素的全面评估将为研究生STEM教育的最佳实践提供信息。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训新模式。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。

Climate change is a major 21st-century challenge for science and society. In the American West, changing climate is increasing the threats of drought and fire. Such threats require both new science-based information and effective teams of scientists, managers, policy-makers and other citizens who can use that information to solve problems. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Utah State University will train the next generation of climate adaptation scientists to meet those important needs. The project anticipates training eighty (80) MS and PhD students, including twenty-eight (28) funded trainees, from the natural, physical, and social sciences, engineering, and mathematics. This project will prepare STEM graduates for careers that integrate science with management and policy to understand and adapt to changing climate and will provide new science-based understanding of ways to adapt to changing climate. This project will create a Climate Adaptation Science specialization within nine MS and eight PhD degrees, offered in eight departments and five colleges. The training program emphasizes interdisciplinary research and integrates training in informatics, modeling, communication, leadership, project management, risk assessment, decision-making under uncertainty, and interdisciplinary teamwork. Project research will advance understanding of changing hydroclimate (drought and flood), fire regimes (frequency, area burned, and severity), land cover (range shifts and invasions), social and economic effects, and potential adaptations. The project closely integrates research, instruction, and real-world experience and will foster collaborations among scientists, federal, state, and local land managers, policy-makers, trainees, and citizen stakeholders. Trainees will complete a novel two-part internship with a government, industry, or NGO partner that brackets a year-long research studio and embeds trainees in a cycle of creating actionable science. Other novel elements are an individualized communication plan and research-based curriculum supported with short-courses. The project team will test models for educational elements to better prepare the future STEM workforce for an increasing variety of interdisciplinary research, management, educational, and policy-related careers, including application of data-intensive techniques, cloud-based collaboration, communication with diverse audiences, and project management. Comprehensive assessments of the program and its elements will inform best practices in graduate STEM education. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative 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.