UCT - UEA Newton PhD Partnership on Understanding the Climate system and Coping with Climate Change

UCT - UEA牛顿博士合作伙伴关系了解气候系统和应对气候变化

• 批准号: ES/N013948/1
• 负责人: Corinne Le Quéré
• 金额: $ 19.42万
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN013948%2F1
• 关键词: UCT; UEA; Newton; PhD; Partnership

The developing world is projected to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change. Many uncertainties remain in the likely conditions the world will experience, for example in local rainfall, and the effects of such changes on agriculture, fisheries, health and industrial development. It is today's early career researchers who will be tasked with tackling these challenges in future. To generate the skilled people necessary, we propose an international PhD partnering between the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the areas of (1) understanding the climate system, including the ocean and atmosphere, and (2) developing capacity to cope with a changing climate. The proposed partnership will exchange PhD students in the fields of climate science (e.g. climate modelling, ocean science, atmospheric science), climate impacts (e.g. social science, international development, human health, agriculture, fisheries) and adaptation strategies. UEA and UCT are two universities with strong expertise in these disciplines. These strong and complementary centres and academics are brought here together in a formal arrangement for the first time. The PhD researchers will benefit from strong expertise in both UEA and UCT in a range of key and modern methods. They will learn the skills needed to fully develop as researchers and operate in a global research environment in their field. Our partnership includes world experts in the measurements of ocean currents, marine biogeochemistry and ecology, fisheries survey, and atmospheric trace gases, as well as experts in conducting fieldwork on climate change adaptation and on epidemiology. We also have expertise in the synthesis and analysis of global datasets such as the global temperature (CRUTEM) and global ocean CO2 (SOCAT), and expertise in the modelling of physical climate, biogeochemistry, and integrated assessments of impacts and adaptation options. Importantly, many of our academic staff are experienced in working in interdisciplinary teams, a skill that is becoming increasingly important to address issues related to climate change using the best possible solution. The exchange of 10 PhD students on each side will take place ideally in annual cohorts of 3-4 students, with an initial cohort of UEA students going to South Africa around February 2016, and an annual cohort of South African students coming to UEA around September. Students will be paired with someone of similar interests on both sides. This arrangement will create a support group for the students both for helping to quickly integrate socially and professionally and to be productive in advancing their knowledge, skills and connections quickly. Furthermore, at least three members of academic staff from each of UEA and UCT will also take part in the exchange, one each year. Additional exchanges are envisaged from projects that are already on going. The group will benefit from international visibility through their integration with the Tyndall Centre at UEA and the African Climate and Development Initiative at UCT, contacts with the staff developing the international Future Earth platform, and connections with staff members that play key roles in international efforts, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Research Programme.

预计发展中国家将受到气候变化影响的不成比例的影响。世界可能经历的情况仍然存在许多不确定性，例如当地降雨量，以及这种变化对农业、渔业、卫生和工业发展的影响。今天的早期职业研究人员将肩负着在未来应对这些挑战的任务。为了培养必要的技术人才，我们建议开普敦大学(UCT)和东英吉利大学(UEA)在(1)了解气候系统(包括海洋和大气)和(2)发展应对气候变化的能力方面建立国际博士学位。拟议的伙伴关系将在气候科学(如气候模型、海洋科学、大气科学)、气候影响(如社会科学、国际发展、人类健康、农业、渔业)和适应战略等领域交流博士生。UEA和UCT是在这些学科方面拥有强大专业知识的两所大学。这些强大和互补的中心和学者第一次以正式安排聚集在一起。博士生研究人员将受益于UEA和UCT在一系列关键和现代方法方面的强大专业知识。他们将学习作为研究人员充分发展所需的技能，并在各自领域的全球研究环境中开展工作。我们的伙伴关系包括洋流测量、海洋生物地球化学和生态学、渔业调查和大气痕量气体方面的世界专家，以及开展气候变化适应和流行病学实地工作的专家。我们还拥有合成和分析全球数据集，如全球温度(CRUTEM)和全球海洋二氧化碳(SOCAT)的专门知识，以及物理气候模拟、生物地球化学和综合影响评估和适应选择方面的专门知识。重要的是，我们的许多学术人员在跨学科团队中工作经验丰富，这项技能对于使用可能的最佳解决方案解决与气候变化相关的问题正变得越来越重要。双方最好每年交换10名博士生，每年3-4名学生，最初的一批学生将在2016年2月左右前往南非，每年的南非学生将在9月左右来UEA。学生将与双方兴趣相似的人配对。这一安排将为学生创建一个支持小组，帮助他们迅速融入社会和职业，并在快速提高他们的知识、技能和人脉方面富有成效。此外，UEA和UCT各至少三名教职员工也将参加交流，每年一名。预计将从已经在进行的项目中进行更多的交流。该小组将通过与东非大学廷德尔中心和联合技术大学非洲气候与发展倡议的整合，与开发国际未来地球平台的工作人员的联系，以及与在政府间气候变化专门委员会和世界研究方案等国际努力中发挥关键作用的工作人员的联系，受益于国际知名度。

项目成果

Enabling acceptance and use of ecological intensification options through engaging smallholder farmers in semi-arid rural Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa

通过让南非林波波省和东开普省半干旱农村地区的小农参与进来，促进接受和使用生态集约化方案

• DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2019.1638336
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Rusere F

Investigating the potential impact of 1.5, 2 and 3 °C global warming levels on crop suitability and planting season over West Africa.

调查全球变暖 1.5°C、2°C 和 3°C 对西非作物适宜性和种植季节的潜在影响。

• DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8851
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: PeerJ
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Egbebiyi TS

Developing pathways to improve smallholder agricultural productivity through ecological intensification technologies in semi-arid Limpopo, South Africa

在南非半干旱林波波省开发通过生态集约化技术提高小农农业生产力的途径

• DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2018.1550936
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
• 作者: Rusere F

Role of jellyfish in the plankton ecosystem revealed using a global ocean biogeochemical model

使用全球海洋生物地球化学模型揭示水母在浮游生物生态系统中的作用

• DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-1291-2021
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Biogeosciences
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: Wright R