Research Training Group in Paleorecords of Global Change

该奖项为建立全球变化古记录研究培训小组提供资金。教师团队是来自不同学科的优秀高级和初级研究人员的混合体。该基金将为研究生和博士后提供津贴，支持高中生和本科生参与研究，将支付学员研究的部分费用，并将使学员参加科学会议。此外，资金将用于购买专门的研究设备，供学员使用，并将其他研究和学术机构的调查人员带到明尼苏达校园参加讲习班和专题讨论会。现在非常需要训练在环境研究方面有技能的新研究人员。从各种物理和生物学科中提取的新技术的使用正在彻底改变环境及其随时间变化的研究。对过去环境变化的定量分析，包括对特定生态系统及其对环境压力的反应的研究，与目前对全球变化的关注特别相关。

This award provides funds for the establishment of a Research Training Group in Studies of Paleorecords of Global Change. The faculty group is a mixture of outstanding senior and junior investigators who come from a variety of disciplines. The funds will provide stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, will support research participation by high school and undergraduate students, will defray part of the cost of the trainees' research and will enable the trainees to attend scientific meetings. In addition, funds will be used to purchase specialized research equipment to be used by trainees, and to bring investigators from other research and academic institutions to the Minnesota campus for workshops and symposia. There is now a significant need for the training of new researchers skilled in study of the environment. The use of new techniques taken from a variety of physical and biological disciplines is revolutionizing studies both of the environment and of its variation over the course of time. The quantitative analysis of past changes in the environment, including the study of particular ecosystems and their response to environmental stress, is of particular relevance to the current concerns about global change.