NRT-INFEWS: Landscape-U, Impactful partnerships among graduate students and managers for regenerative landscape design

由于自然干扰、养分污染、能源转换、土地利用和城市化的速度和幅度加快，多个部门的景观正在积累压力。对这些环境的管理必须集中处理这些过程，认识到系统开发的巨大时间尺度，并将重点放在解决方案上。这项授予宾夕法尼亚州立大学的国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖提供了生态学、自然资源管理的人文层面以及农业与发展方面的跨学科培训机会，同时培训下一代学者和实践者熟练地跨越学科界限，与利益相关者合作，共同创造解决这些挑战的方案。切萨皮克湾流域内的景观梯度体现了全球相互关联的粮食-能源-水系统面临的挑战，并为发展强有力的科学-管理伙伴关系提供了机会。该项目预计将培训60(60)名MS和博士生，其中包括35(35)名资助的来自生态学、自然资源、农业与发展及相关学科的博士生。需要新的大学-社会伙伴关系模式来寻找解决景观尺度上紧迫的食物-能源-水问题的解决方案。通过迎新、基础课程、科学交流培训、实习、实验室轮换、社区建设和外展活动，与现有的大学间研究生学位课程紧密结合，学员将拥有必要的信心、技能和专业网络，以在地方、地区和全球范围内应对紧迫的社会挑战。学生研究案例研究将探索景观随时间的变化，可能包括：(1)关键地带过程(包括地质模板)对水文模式的影响以及随后关于食物和能源系统的决定，(2)以考古证据为基础的人类在潮间带系统中纠缠的深刻历史，表明切萨皮克湾美洲原住民可持续地捕捞牡蛎，从而为可持续恢复提供重要的基线，以及(3)能源变化，其中许多起源于切萨皮克湾分水岭。培训的重点是研究生教育的跨学科能力，重点是再生解决方案、生态设计和规划，以及作为分析单位的景观，以此来连接不同规模的食物-能源-水系统。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。该计划致力于通过创新的、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实习生模式，在高度优先的跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Landscapes are accumulating stresses across multiple sectors due to accelerations in the pace and magnitude of natural disturbances, nutrient pollution, energy transformations, land use, and urbanization. Management of these landscapes must necessarily address these processes collectively, recognizing the vast timescales of systems' development, and focus on solutions. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to The Pennsylvania State University provides interdisciplinary training opportunities in ecology, human dimensions of natural resource management, and agriculture and development, while training the next generation of scholar-practitioners to deftly cross disciplinary boundaries and work in partnership with stakeholders to co-create solutions to these challenges. Landscape gradients within the Chesapeake Bay watershed exemplify the challenges facing linked food-energy-water systems globally and provide opportunities for developing strong science-management partnerships. The project anticipates training sixty (60) MS and PhD students, including thirty-five (35) funded doctoral trainees from ecology, natural resources, agriculture and development, and related disciplines.New models of university-society partnerships are needed to find solutions to pressing food-energy-water problems at landscape scales. Through an orientation, foundational coursework, science communication training, internships, lab rotations, and community-building and outreach events, carefully aligned along existing intercollege graduate degree programs, trainees will have the confidence, skills, and professional networks necessary to have an impact on pressing societal challenges at local, regional, and global scales. Student-research case studies will explore landscape change across time, and may include: (1) the influence of critical zone processes (including the geological template) on hydrology patterns and subsequent decisions about food and energy systems, (2) the deep history of human entanglements in intertidal systems, based on archaeological evidence, that indicates sustainable oyster harvesting by Native Americans in the Chesapeake Bay, thus providing important baselines for sustainable restoration, and (3) energy transformations, many of which originated in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The traineeship focuses on transdisciplinary competencies for graduate education through an emphasis on regenerative solutions, ecological design and planning, and landscapes as the unit of analysis for linking food-energy-water systems across scales. 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 program 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 award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.