CAREER: Watersheds and Fisheries as Foci of Human Impacts and Ecological Responses: A Research and Teaching Agenda

阿斯特拉克博士。卡琳·林堡的五年职业生涯奖将建立一个高度整合和跨学科的研究和教育计划，以发展在固定流域和连接的接收水域(包括淡水、咸水和沿海海洋)的研究和学习经验。指导专题问题包括社会驱动因素在土地利用变化中的作用，这种变化如何影响流域生态系统，特别是其接收水域，改变的流域和接收水域如何影响鱼类栖息地和渔业，以及我们如何确定亚稳定生态系统的阈值，超过这个阈值，它们将经历一种替代的稳定状态，特别是不利于社会和生态系统服务的状态。统一这些要素的方案主题是分水岭科学，它正在成为纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院(ESF)的一个主要重点。所有这些问题都是PI已经开始研究的问题，但仍有很多工作要做。国际渔业协会在渔业、生态系统分析和生态经济方面的专业知识将通过合作项目、教学、指导和研讨会得到发挥和进一步发展。拟议的计划将与现有的ESF在水系科学、渔业和水产科学、生态经济学和城市生态学方面的计划很好地结合在一起。通过与ESF内部和外部的系主任和一组导师合作，PI将评估该计划在产生有意义的、终身的学习和奖学金方面的成功。如今，研究和教学经常被分成几个狭窄的学科，因此，学生和研究人员经常发现很难处理复杂的环境问题。该计划将使新一代跨学科科学家能够接受广泛学科组合的培训，包括鱼类迁徙、生化标记物的使用和生态经济学。

ABSTRACTDr. Karin Limburg's five-year CAREER award will establish a highly integrated and interdisciplinary research and education plan to develop research and learning experiences in settled watersheds and connected receiving waters (including fresh, brackish, and coastal marine). Guiding thematic questions include the role of societal drivers in land use change, how such change affects watershed ecosystems and especially their receiving waters, how altered watersheds and receiving waters affect fish habitat and fisheries, and how we can determine thresholds in metastable ecosystems beyond which they will undergo a change to an alternate stable state, particularly one that is inimical to society and ecosystem services.Limburg proposes a bold agenda for integrating ecosystem science with fisheries and societal drivers in linked teaching and research projects. The programmatic theme that unifies the elements is watershed science, which is emerging as a major focus at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). All of these questions are ones the PI has begun to work on, but for which much remains to be done. The PI's expertise in fisheries, ecosystem analysis and ecological economics will be brought to bear and further developed by collaborative projects, teaching, mentoring, and workshops. The proposed program will interface well with extant ESF programs in Hydrosystems Science, Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Ecological Economics, and Urban Ecology. By working with the Department Chair and a suite of mentors both internal and external to ESF, the PI will assess the success of the program in its ability to produce meaningful, life-long learning and scholarship.Too often today, research and teaching are splintered into narrow disciplines, and as a consequence, students and researchers often find it difficult to deal with complex environmental problems. This program will enable a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists to be trained in a combination of a wide array of subjects, including fish migration, the use of biochemical markers and ecological economics.