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International Research Experience on Pollinators in a Changing World

变化世界中传粉媒介的国际研究经验

基本信息

批准号：
1952470
负责人：
Margarita Lopez-Uribe
金额：
$ 30万
依托单位：
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1952470&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
International Research Experience Pollinators Changing

项目摘要

Pollinators are critical for plant reproduction and the maintenance of healthy natural and managed ecosystems. Solutions to the ongoing pollinator population decline around the globe requires the development of research that involves cross-countries collaborations among interdisciplinary groups of scientists. This IRES project will engage five U.S. undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in STEM to spend eight weeks in Colombia or Peru conducting research on how abiotic stressors impact plant-pollinator interactions. Students will utilize interdisciplinary approaches in ecology, physiology, climate science, and ecohydrology to develop projects that will facilitate the acquisition of new and useful information about timely research topics on pollinators in a changing world. This program specifically pursues a training partnership involving mentors and students from Colombia, Peru, and US universities, while field work will take place in hyperdiverse tropical countries where plant-pollinator interactions remain understudied. Students will address biological research questions about pollinator responses to air pollutants, temperature gradients, crop drought, and flooding while using cutting-edge technological approaches to address the research questions. Teams of biology and engineering students will be grouped by their topics of interest. Students will participate in professional development activities to prepare them for careers involving convergent research. Research outputs of this program will have direct implications for the conservation of biological diversity and the livelihoods of people in Latin American where many crops rely on insect pollinators that are poorly studied. Last, this IRES research experience will significantly contribute to the training of the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists who will lead solutions to global problems such as those currently experienced by declining populations of insect pollinators.This ten-week undergraduate research program offers students a unique opportunity to investigate how different abiotic factors and their interactions impact plant-pollinator interactions in tropical areas. Students in the program, with guidance from faculty advisers from U.S., Colombian, and Peruvian universities, will undertake an interdisciplinary scientific exploration, generating and testing hypotheses, analyzing data, and communicating research findings, including scientific and policy-relevant implications, to other scientists and the public. Students will use emerging technologies and advanced data analysis and visualization methods to investigate the ecological responses of plants and pollinators in mountainous regions of Colombia and Peru, areas that are undergoing accelerated environmental changes related to atmospheric warming. Each project will be led by a pair of biology and engineering students who will work together with mentors on multidisciplinary approaches to develop research activities, for example, tracking bee foraging using mini-transponders and linking it to impacts of ozone concentration on bee physiology and behavior. The multidisciplinary nature of projects will push the frontiers of knowledge and methodological approaches to this topic. Specifically, students will investigate the in situ movement patterns of foraging pollinators, effects of drought and flood stress on plant-pollinator interactions, and the latitudinal variation of pollinator thermal tolerance. Students will communicate their results via oral and written reports, building their communication skills and disseminating research findings to scientific and non-scientific audiences. Students can also communicate research results in videos or podcasts for television broadcast and social media in both English and Spanish.This program will recruit US students from universities and colleges where research opportunities for undergraduates are limited, exposing them to career opportunities in ecology, entomology, plant science, electrical and environmental engineering, ecohydrology, and climate science. We will emphasize recruitment of females and other groups that are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Students in this program will be working in Latin American, where local students have different cultural backgrounds and levels of opportunities to engage in research. Noteworthy elements of this program include (1) multidisciplinary research approaches combining expertise in life and physical sciences and engineering, (2) training in the development and use of audiovisuals to broaden communication of research results, and (3) the partnering of students and mentors from underrepresented groups in STEM.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.

传粉者对植物繁殖和维持健康的自然和管理的生态系统至关重要。要解决地球仪上传粉者数量持续下降的问题，就需要开展跨学科科学家群体之间的跨国合作研究。这个IRES项目将吸引来自STEM代表性不足群体的五名美国本科生在哥伦比亚或秘鲁度过八周时间，研究非生物压力如何影响植物-传粉者的相互作用。学生将利用生态学，生理学，气候科学和生态水文学的跨学科方法来开发项目，这些项目将有助于在不断变化的世界中获取有关传粉者的及时研究主题的新的有用信息。该计划特别追求培训伙伴关系，涉及来自哥伦比亚，秘鲁和美国大学的导师和学生，而实地工作将在植物-传粉者相互作用仍然研究不足的高度多样化的热带国家进行。学生将解决有关传粉者对空气污染物，温度梯度，作物干旱和洪水的反应的生物学研究问题，同时使用尖端技术方法来解决研究问题。生物学和工程学学生的团队将根据他们感兴趣的主题进行分组。学生将参加专业发展活动，为他们的职业生涯做好准备，涉及融合研究。该计划的研究成果将对拉丁美洲生物多样性的保护和人民的生计产生直接影响，因为许多作物依赖于昆虫授粉者，而这些昆虫授粉者的研究很少。最后，这个IRES研究经验将大大有助于下一代跨学科科学家的培训，他们将领导解决全球性问题，如目前昆虫传粉者数量下降所经历的问题。这个为期十周的本科研究计划为学生提供了一个独特的机会，调查不同的非生物因素及其相互作用如何影响热带地区植物传粉者的相互作用。该项目的学生在来自美国，哥伦比亚大学和秘鲁大学将进行跨学科的科学探索，生成和测试假设，分析数据，并向其他科学家和公众传达研究成果，包括科学和政策相关的影响。学生将使用新兴技术和先进的数据分析和可视化方法来调查哥伦比亚和秘鲁山区植物和传粉者的生态反应，这些地区正在经历与大气变暖有关的加速环境变化。每个项目将由一对生物学和工程学学生领导，他们将与多学科方法的导师一起开展研究活动，例如，使用微型转发器跟踪蜜蜂觅食，并将其与臭氧浓度对蜜蜂生理和行为的影响联系起来。项目的多学科性质将推动这一专题的知识和方法的前沿。具体来说，学生将调查觅食传粉者的原位运动模式，干旱和洪水胁迫对植物传粉者相互作用的影响，以及传粉者耐热性的纬度变化。学生将通过口头和书面报告交流他们的研究结果，培养他们的沟通技巧，并向科学和非科学受众传播研究成果。学生还可以通过英语和西班牙语的视频或播客在电视广播和社交媒体上交流研究成果。该计划将从本科生研究机会有限的大学和学院招募美国学生，使他们能够在生态学，昆虫学，植物科学，电气和环境工程，生态水文学和气候科学方面获得就业机会。我们将强调招聘女性和其他在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域代表性不足的群体。该计划的学生将在拉丁美洲工作，当地学生有不同的文化背景和从事研究的机会。该计划值得注意的内容包括：（1）结合生命和物理科学与工程专业知识的多学科研究方法，（2）开发和使用视听材料的培训，以扩大研究成果的交流，以及（3）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用评估的支持，基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。