IGERT: Non-equilibrium Dynamics Across Space and Time: A Common Approach for Engineers, Earth Scientists, and Ecologists

这项研究将把生态学、土木工程和地球科学的学者聚集在一起，研究景观变化和生态系统过程之间的相互作用，跨越广泛的空间和时间尺度，跨界面，重点是非平衡动力学。非生物和生物世界的变化发生在广泛的时间和空间尺度上。特别是，人类活动大大加快了物理和生物世界因运输过程的变化而受到干扰的速度。明尼苏达大学位于伊塔斯卡州立公园的研究设施和国家地球表面动力学中心（NCED）将提供研究生教育和跨越这些学科和问题的研究机会。主要的教育和培训特点是为期一年的综合性、团队授课的课程，强调使用现代仪器收集数据、数据分析、数据解释以及跨时空尺度和跨界面的模型构建。合作项目、与国际伙伴的虚拟研讨会、道德培训和专业准备将增强这种经验。基础科学和工程的核心训练也将包括历史、社会和经济主题。这个IGERT培训计划将从广泛的领域招收学生，并为他们成为国际协作的劳动力做好准备。这一IGERT的更广泛影响包括与大学和研究生预科学校合作，从代表性不足的群体中招聘实习生。与国家发展与发展中心的伙伴关系将通过与明尼苏达州科学博物馆和明尼苏达州历史学会的合作，为公共宣传活动提供机会，例如根据明尼苏达州的历史记录编写K-12教学材料。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This IGERT training grant will bring together scholars of ecology, civil engineering, and the earth sciences to study the interplay between landscape changes and ecosystem processes across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and across interfaces with an emphasis on non-equilibrium dynamics. Changes in the abiotic and biotic world have taken place over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. In particular, human activities have greatly accelerated the rate at which the physical and biological world is perturbed through modifications in transport processes. Opportunities for graduate education and research spanning these disciplines and issues will be provided at the University of Minnesota research facilities at Itasca State Park and the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED). Key education and training features are a one-year comprehensive, team-taught course that emphasizes data collection using modern instrumentation, data analysis, data interpretation, and model building across spatial and temporal scales and across interfaces. Collaborative projects, virtual seminars with international partners, ethics training and professional preparation will enhance this experience. The core training in the basic sciences and engineering will also include historical, social, and economic topics. This IGERT training program will recruit students from a broad spectrum and prepare them for an international and collaborative workforce. The broader impacts of this IGERT include partnerships with colleges and pre-graduate school internships to recruit from underrepresented groups. The partnership with NCED will provide opportunities for public outreach activities through collaborations with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society, such as development of teaching materials for K-12 based on historical records in Minnesota. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.