A Proposal for Annual Doctoral Student Participatory Workshops on Climate and Energy Decision Making

年度博士生参与气候与能源决策研讨会的提案

• 批准号: 2013896
• 负责人: M Granger Morgan
• 金额: $ 25.13万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 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: 2020-11-15 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Proposal; Annual; Doctoral; Student; Participatory

Developing effective solutions to problems in climate and energy decision making often requires the convergence of deep natural science and engineering analysis with the tools and insights of modern behavioral social science, and legal and regulatory analysis. This grant supports an annual workshop open to PhD students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and faculty who are working at such an interface. The award provides a forum in which participants can present and discuss their work, including early ideas, and receive constructive feedback from senior investigators experienced in such interdisciplinary research and education. There are few other forums that allow for such an exchange of ideas and for this type of pedagogy, in which senior and junior researchers “roll up their sleeves” and work collectively to solve some of the world’s most complex problems. A key motivation for the forum is to assist doctoral students and early career researchers in forming professional connections with others who work at the interfaces between key disciplines. The workshops serve as an incubator for professionals who are committed to an interdisciplinary approach to solving some of the world's most pressing problems.The annual workshops supported by this grant build on the foundation created over the course of 25 years through a sequence of three NSF cooperative agreements that have supported distributed research centers involving investigators across North America and Europe working on issues of global change, energy and climate. Those centers have run annual meetings that have been small enough to allow meaningful interaction among the participants. Senior researchers—skilled at applying knowledge from the physical and social sciences to sensibly deploy technological solutions to wicked problems—have nurtured an inter-disciplinary perspective in junior scholars in these meetings. Through an annual call, this award continues those meetings, opening them up to a much wider group of participants. Roughly a dozen senior advisors from academia, industry, and environmental NGOs serve as an advisory board, vetting proposals to participate, attending the workshop, and providing detailed feedback. Many faculty and PhD students may secure resources to attend on their own, but support from the award is used to offer modest travel funds for those who cannot.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.

为气候和能源决策中的问题制定有效的解决方案通常需要将深入的自然科学和工程分析与现代行为社会科学以及法律和监管分析的工具和见解相结合。 这笔赠款支持向博士生、博士后研究员和在这种界面上工作的教师开放的年度研讨会。该奖项提供了一个论坛，参与者可以在其中展示和讨论他们的工作，包括早期想法，并从在此类跨学科研究和教育方面经验丰富的高级研究人员那里获得建设性反馈。很少有其他论坛能够允许这样的思想交流和这种类型的教学法，在其中高级和初级研究人员“卷起袖子”并共同努力解决一些世界上最复杂的问题。该论坛的一个主要动机是帮助博士生和早期职业研究人员与在关键学科交叉领域工作的其他人建立专业联系。这些研讨会是致力于采用跨学科方法解决世界上一些最紧迫问题的专业人士的孵化器。这笔赠款支持的年度研讨会建立在 25 年来通过一系列 NSF 合作协议创建的基础上，这些协议支持分布式研究中心，涉及北美和欧洲研究全球变化、能源和气候问题的研究人员。这些中心举办的年度会议规模足够小，可以让参与者之间进行有意义的互动。资深研究人员擅长运用自然科学和社会科学知识，明智地部署技术解决方案来解决棘手问题，在这些会议上培养了初级学者的跨学科视角。 通过年度电话会议，该奖项继续这些会议，向更广泛的参与者开放。来自学术界、工业界和环境非政府组织的大约十几名高级顾问担任顾问委员会，审查参与提案、参加研讨会并提供详细反馈。许多教师和博士生可能会获得自己参加的资源，但该奖项的支持用于为那些无法参加的人提供适度的旅行资金。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。