Collaborative Research: GP-GO: Climate Leaders Academy: a professional development opportunity in the geosciences

气候变化是我们这个时代最紧迫的社会挑战，接受高等教育的学生需要新的培训和技能，为他们在职业生涯和全球公民中领导气候解决方案做好准备。地球科学是气候领导的核心，但要使地球科学对政策解决方案作出有意义的贡献，对一系列学科的了解和参与越来越有必要。为了满足这一需求，气候领袖学院(CLA)将通过一种队列模式，将来自不同机构和背景的本科生和研究生聚集在一起，使跨学科的气候培训和专业发展正规化。PIs将直接让参与者参与国家和国际气候变化框架，并提供财政支持、正式的指导、建立的持续支持网络以及可转移的本科生和研究生课程学分。气候变化是我们这个时代最困难的社会挑战之一，几乎需要来自所有研究领域的专业知识和领导。我们国家学院和大学的毕业生需要新的培训和技能，为他们在气候变化问题上发挥领导作用做好准备，其中包括对美国参与的国家和国际框架的理解。此外，美国的某些人群在美国气候研究中的代表性仍然不成比例地偏低，这意味着有大量尚未开发的潜在领导者人才库。该计划建立了气候领袖学院，以(I)培养对国家和世界应对气候变化能力的乐观态度；(Ii)培训学生在制定气候变化解决方案(包括法律、政策、科学和工程)所需的许多领域的互动中；(Iii)促进社会对气候变化、其影响和潜在解决方案的理解；(Iv)以国际气候变化谈判为学习平台，培训美国学生跨文化、跨国家和跨不同研究领域参与。该项目将使参与者做好准备，以便在日益苛刻的全球劳动力大军中竞争，并为受过气候教育的毕业生提供更好的机会。该项目与计划、机构和行政部门的优先事项独特地保持一致。最重要的是，为参与者提供国际谈判技巧的实时培训机会，该计划认为这是一项创新技能，将使研究生为围绕气候变化这一关键主题进行国际合作的必要性做好准备。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。

Climate change is the most pressing societal challenge of our time, and students within higher education need new training and skills to prepare them to lead on climate solutions—both in their professional careers and as global citizens. The geosciences are central to climate leadership, but for the geosciences to contribute meaningfully to policy solutions, understanding of and engagement across a range of disciplines is increasingly necessary. To meet this need, the Climate Leaders Academy (CLA) will formalize interdisciplinary climate-training and professional development through a cohort model that brings together undergraduates and graduate students from a diverse set of institutions and backgrounds. The PIs will directly engage participants in national and international climate change frameworks, and provide financial support, formalized mentoring, an established network of ongoing support, and transferable undergraduate and graduate-level course credits. Climate change is one of the most difficult societal challenges of our time, and expertise and leadership from nearly all fields of study are needed. Graduates from our nation’s colleges and universities need new training and skills to prepare them to lead on climate change issues, which includes an understanding of the national and international frameworks of which the U.S. is a part. In addition, certain populations in the U.S. are still disproportionately under-represented in U.S. climate studies, meaning there is a substantial un-tapped talent-pool of potential leaders. This program establishes a Climate Leaders Academy to (i) foster optimism regarding the nation’s and the world’s capacity to address climate change; (ii) train students in the interactions across many fields that are necessary to develop climate change solutions, including law, policy, science, and engineering; (iii) advance societal understanding of climate change, its impacts, and potential solutions; and (iv) using the international climate change negotiations as a learning platform, train U.S. students to engage across cultures, countries, and different fields of study. The project will prepare participants to compete in a global work force that is increasingly demanding and providing better opportunities for climate-educated graduates. The project is uniquely aligned with Program, Agency and Administration priorities. Most importantly, providing real-time training opportunities for participants in international negotiation techniques which the Program sees as an innovative skillset that will allow grad students to be prepared for the necessities of international collaboration around the critical subject of climate change.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.