Graduate Training Program in Hawaiian Conservation Biology

本提案旨在资助五名研究生研究实习生在夏威夷大学的生态、进化和保护生物学项目中进行研究和培训。学生的培训将使他们接触到世界上最壮观的适应性辐射范例之一，提供夏威夷本地生态系统的第一手经验，积极的保护政策，研究和实践，并将基础知识与实际情况中的保护实践相结合。目前正在与康奈尔大学谈判的一项交流协议将加强培训环境，发展一个保护研究和培训中心，密切相关的夏威夷进化生物学计划，扩大里昂植物园作为保护研究区域的作用，以及与土地管理机构合作的夏季实地课程。培训将包括两个学期的核心课程，该课程将提供对理解所有生物学基础的生物学领域的专业水平讨论。本已强大的少数民族招生将通过与现有的少数民族本科项目相结合来加强。将特别努力通过美国大学妇女协会和美国妇女从事科学工作来征聘妇女。主要的大陆候选人将飞往夏威夷接受评估。为了帮助保留和获得技能，学生将在第一年与相关的研究生教员轮流参加几个研究项目。

This proposal is for the funding of five Graduate Research Trainees to undertake research and training in the University of Hawaii's Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program. The students' training would expose them to one of the world's most spectacular examples of adaptive radiation, provide first- hand experience of Hawaii's native ecosystems, active conservation policies, research and practice and integrate basic knowledge with conservation practice in real situations. The training environment will be enhanced by an exchange agreement with Cornell University at present being negotiated, the development of a Center for Conservation Research and Training, the closely-related Hawaii Evolutionary Biology Program, the expansion of the Lyon Arboretum's role as a conservation research area, and a summer field course with collaborating land managing agencies. The training will include a two-semester core course that will provide professional level discussion of areas in biology that are fundamental to the understanding of all biology. Recruitment of ethnic minorities, already strong, will be enhanced through keying in with existing undergraduate minority programs. Special efforts will be made to recruit women by working through the American Association of University Women and the American Women In Science. Leading mainland candidates will be flown to Hawaii for assessment. To assist retention and the acquisition of skills students will in the first year be rotated through several research projects with associated graduate faculty.