A BIO Research Training Group in Ecological Complexity

有抱负的科学家将在新墨西哥大学（UNM）接受培训，研究生态系统的复杂性、规模以及时空变化问题。这些学生将从代表性不足的群体和具有不同学术背景的人群中招募。他们将通过提供专业的指导教师、理论和经验培训，以及调查广泛的基础和应用环境问题所需的数学、统计和分析工具，支持他们追求个性化、多学科和合作的论文研究项目。这些学生将增加新墨西哥大学现有的研究生数量，其中许多人被新墨西哥大学吸引是因为它在人口和社区生态学，景观和生态系统生态学，生物地理学，进化，系统学和行为学方面的强大研究项目，或者是因为新墨西哥大学的NSF- LTER项目（塞维利亚站）提供的机会以及生物学家和：a)新墨西哥大学的计算机科学家，他们正在开发最先进的模拟建模、图像分析和信号处理软件；b)圣达菲研究所的自然、社会和计算机科学家，他们正在研究复杂系统。

GER-9553623 Brown Aspiring scientists will be trained at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to investigate questions of complexity, scale, and spatial and temporal variation in ecological systems. These students will be recruited from underrepresented groups and populations with unusual academic backgrounds. They will be supported in their efforts to pursue individualized, multidisciplinary, and collaborative thesis research projects through the provision of brad-minded faculty advisors, theoretical and empirical training, and the mathematical, statistical, and analytical tools they need to investigate a wide array of basic and applied environmental problems. These students will augment the existing pool of graduate students at UNM, many of who were drawn to UNM because of its strong research programs in population and community ecology, landscape and ecosystem ecology, biogeography, evolution, systematics, and behavior or due to the opportunities provided by UNM's NSF- LTER program (Sevilleta station) and multidisciplinary training opportunities among biologists and: a) computer scientists at UNM who are developing state-of-the-art software for simulation modeling, image analysis, and signal processing, and b) natural, social, and computer scientists at the Santa Fe Institute who are studying complex systems.