NRT-INFEWS: Training in Theory and Application of Cross-scale Resilience in Agriculturally Dominated Social Ecological Systems

NRT-INFEWS：农业主导的社会生态系统跨尺度恢复力理论与应用培训

• 批准号: 1735362
• 负责人: Craig Allen
• 金额: $ 299.89万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735362&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; INFEWS; Training; Theory; Application

This National Science Foundation Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of Nebraska - Lincoln establishes a new graduate training program that focuses on understanding the resilience of agricultural systems. Nebraska's agricultural system in the Platte River Basin is of economic, social and natural value; but the river basin's ability to resist damage from outside threats (e.g. pollution, pests, draught) and recover rapidly is unknown. This training program at the University of Nebraska will examine resilience of agricultural landscapes through the disciplines of agronomy, natural resources, computer sciences, engineering and public policy. The program anticipates training 25 PhD and 25 MS students, including 23 funded trainees, from natural resources, environmental science, agronomy, entomology, plant sciences, geosciences, biosystems engineering, computer science, and public policy. Trainees will engage with external partners from the agricultural industry, government agencies, and other organizations that have an interest and stake in maintaining productive agricultural systems. This broad graduate training will help develop a workforce and agricultural industry better capable of managing future demands on food, energy, and water systems. This NRT program will focus on understanding aspects of resilience in water-stressed and energy-demanding agricultural landscapes and will utilize resilience and panarchy theory, adaptive management, novel sensing technologies and modeling, and policy interventions. Such interdisciplinary training is rare in graduate programs in the United States, but is vital to prepare the next generation of natural resource scientists, producers, managers, engineers, and policymakers so they may respond to the challenges created by increasing demands for diminishing and interconnected resources, and the need to maintain and build resilience in stressed watersheds. This NRT program will serve as the innovative foundation for a permanent interdisciplinary graduate program in the resilience of agro-ecosystems. The program will ensure that students, academic programs, government agencies, and the private sector engage in building and preserving natural and agricultural ecosystems to meet local and global demands for water, clean energy, food, and ecosystem services. Graduate student research will focus on the complex and intertwined ecological, technical, and societal systems involved in managing resources in the 21st century, particularly in complex landscapes managed for agricultural production. Further, the program will help develop innovative tools for data collection, analysis, and synthesis to support management and restoration decisions in agricultural systems. 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 comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. This proposal is co-funded by the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), the Division for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (ECR) program, and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). AGEP funds research and the development, implementation, and investigation of models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement of historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM and/or STEM education research. The ECR program (NSF 15-509) of fundamental research in STEM education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. EHR seeks proposals that will help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following focal areas: STEM learning, STEM learning environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in STEM. EPSCoR co-funds projects that advance excellence in science and engineering research and education.  Fostering sustainable increases in research, education, and training capacity and competitiveness within EPSCoR jurisdictions will enable EPSCoR participants to have increased engagement in areas supported by the NSF.

这项授予内布拉斯加-林肯大学的国家科学基金会培训(NRT)奖建立了一个新的研究生培训计划，重点是了解农业系统的弹性。内布拉斯加州普拉特河流域的农业系统具有经济、社会和自然价值；但该流域抵御外部威胁(如污染、虫害、干旱)的破坏并迅速恢复的能力尚不清楚。内布拉斯加大学的这项培训计划将通过农学、自然资源、计算机科学、工程学和公共政策等学科来研究农业景观的弹性。该项目预计将培训25名博士生和25名硕士研究生，其中包括23名资助的实习生，他们来自自然资源、环境科学、农学、昆虫学、植物科学、地球科学、生物系统工程、计算机科学和公共政策。受训者将与来自农业行业、政府机构和其他组织的外部合作伙伴接触，这些组织对维持生产性农业系统感兴趣和有利害关系。这种广泛的研究生培训将有助于发展劳动力和农业，使其能够更好地管理未来对食品、能源和水系统的需求。这项NRT计划将侧重于了解水资源紧张和能源需求旺盛的农业景观中复原力的各个方面，并将利用复原力和泛政府理论、适应性管理、新的传感技术和建模以及政策干预。这种跨学科培训在美国的研究生课程中很少见，但对于培养下一代自然资源科学家、生产者、管理者、工程师和政策制定者至关重要，以便他们能够应对对日益减少和相互关联的资源的日益增长的需求带来的挑战，以及在紧张的分水岭中保持和建立韧性的需要。该NRT项目将作为农业生态系统复原力的永久跨学科研究生项目的创新基础。该计划将确保学生、学术项目、政府机构和私营部门参与建设和保护自然和农业生态系统，以满足当地和全球对水、清洁能源、食品和生态系统服务的需求。研究生研究的重点是21世纪涉及资源管理的复杂和相互交织的生态、技术和社会系统，特别是在为农业生产管理的复杂景观中。此外，该计划将帮助开发数据收集、分析和综合的创新工具，以支持农业系统的管理和恢复决策。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革意义的STEM研究生教育培训模式。Traineesship Track致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合培训模式，在高度优先的跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。这项提议由研究生教育和教授联盟(AGEP)、教育和人力资源部(EHR)核心研究计划(ECR)和既定的激励竞争性研究计划(EPSCoR)共同资助。AGEP资助STEM和/或STEM教育研究中历史上代表性不足的少数群体(URM)的研究以及开发、实施和调查模式，以改变博士教育的论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升。STEM教育基础研究的ECR计划(NSF 15-509)为关键的研究领域提供资金，这些领域是基本的、广泛的和持久的。EHR寻求的建议将有助于综合、建立和/或扩大以下重点领域的研究基础：STEM学习、STEM学习环境、STEM劳动力发展和扩大STEM的参与。EPSCoR共同资助在科学和工程研究和教育方面促进卓越的项目。在EPSCoR管辖范围内促进研究、教育和培训能力和竞争力的可持续增长将使EPSCoR参与者能够更多地参与NSF支持的领域。

项目成果

Beyond Inventories: Emergence of a New Era in Rangeland Monitoring

超越库存：牧场监测新时代的出现

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2020.06.009
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Rangeland Ecology & Management
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Jones, Matthew O.;Naugle, David E.;Twidwell, Dirac;Uden, Daniel R.;Maestas, Jeremy D.;Allred, Brady W.
• 通讯作者: Allred, Brady W.

Socioecological Determinants of Drought Impacts and Coping Strategies for Ranching Operations in the Great Plains

大平原干旱影响的社会生态决定因素和牧场经营应对策略

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2019.01.002
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Rangeland Ecology & Management
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Haigh, Tonya R.;Schacht, Walt;Knutson, Cody L.;Smart, Alexander J.;Volesky, Jerry;Allen, Craig;Hayes, Michael;Burbach, Mark
• 通讯作者: Burbach, Mark

Recoupling fire and grazing reduces wildland fuel loads on rangelands

火灾和放牧的重新结合减少了牧场上荒地的燃料负荷

• DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2578
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Ecosphere
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Starns, Heath D.;Fuhlendorf, Samuel D.;Elmore, R. Dwayne;Twidwell, Dirac;Thacker, Eric T.;Hovick, Torre J.;Luttbeg, Barney
• 通讯作者: Luttbeg, Barney

Exploring the Role of Relational Practices in Water Governance Using a Game-Based Approach

使用基于游戏的方法探索关系实践在水治理中的作用

• DOI: 10.3390/w10030346
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Water
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Magnuszewski, Piotr;Królikowska, Karolina;Koch, Anna;Pająk, Michal;Allen, Craig;Chraibi, Victoria;Giri, Anil;Haak, Danielle;Hart, Noelle;Hellman, Michelle
• 通讯作者: Hellman, Michelle

Social partners and temperature jointly affect morning foraging activity of small birds in winter

社会伙伴和温度共同影响冬季小鸟的早晨觅食活动

• DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa134
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Behavioral Ecology
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Madsen, Anastasia E;Vander Meiden, Laura N;Shizuka, Daizaburo
• 通讯作者: Shizuka, Daizaburo