Research Training Group in Linking Levels of Ecological Organization

该奖项将建立一个研究培训小组， 凯洛格生物学院的生态组织层次 密歇根州立大学站。 教师组有11名 成员来自5个部门。 获得的资金将提供 研究生和博士后实习生的津贴，将 支持本科生参与研究，以及 将支付学员研究的部分费用。 在 此外，资金将用于购买专门的研究 受训人员前往其他国家旅行所需的设备 密歇根州没有专门的培训机构 国家，并从其他研究和 学术机构到凯洛格站参加研讨会， 工作坊. 大学和其他资源将增加资金 由NSF在大多数这些类别中提供，并将有助于扩展 该计划包括高中生的参与。 需要培养科学家谁可以综合跨层次的 生态组织是重要的和不断增长的。 如果说有什么不同的话， 全球变化和维持 生物多样性似乎使这种培训越来越多地 紧急 该计划将提供这样的培训， 研究人员的技术和概念， 解决各种进化和生态问题， 基因水平，个体生物，种群，群落， 生态系统或整个景观。

This award will establish a Research Training Group in Linking Levels of Ecological Organization at the Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University. The faculty group has 11 members drawn from 5 departments. The funds awarded will provide stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, will support research participation by undergraduate students, and will defray part of the cost of the trainees' research. In addition, funds will be used to purchase specialized research equipment to be used by the trainees, for trainee travel to other institutions for specialized training not available at Michigan State, and to bring investigators from other research and academic institutions to the Kellogg Station for seminars and workshops. University and other resources will augment the funds provided by NSF in most of these categories, and will help extend the program to include the participation of high school students. The need to train scientists who can synthesize across levels of ecological organization is significant and growing. If anything, the pressing issues of global change and of maintenance of biological diversity appear to make such training increasingly urgent. This program will provide just such training, taking advantage of the techniques and concepts of researchers who address a variety of evolutionary and ecological problems at the level of genes, individual organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems or entire landscapes.