Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics for FY 2003

该行动为2003财政年度NSF跨学科信息学博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息、计算、数学和统计科学交叉领域的博士后研究和培训。该研究金的目标是向青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学方面的研究和教育相结合的职业做准备。这些奖学金为生物学和信息学的跨学科研究和教育活动提供了机会，以广泛的近期博士获得者。越来越需要在所有职业级别上进行生物信息学培训，预期通过这些研究金培训的研究员将在培训未来工作人员方面发挥重要作用。这项研究和培训计划的题目是“对气候突变的生物反应和反馈”。生物系统既依赖于气候，又控制着气候系统的关键要素。因此，对气候变化及其影响的预测取决于对这种双向相互作用的更好理解。本研究通过使用代表地球系统全球尺度过程的计算模型来考察生物圈在气候系统中的作用。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics for fiscal year 2003. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. These fellowships provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and educational activities in biology and informatics to a wide range of recent doctoral recipients. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training the future workforce. The research and training plan is entitled "Biological responses and feedbacks to abrupt climate change." Biological systems both depend on climate and control critical elements of the climate system. Prediction of climate change and the impacts that result therefore depends on better understanding of this two-way interaction. This research examines the biosphere's role in the climate system by using computational models that represent global scale processes of the earth system.