IGERT Program in Adaptive Management

适应性管理是指通过从运营计划的结果中学习，不断改进管理政策和实践的过程。这种管理自然资源的方法需要工程师、生物物理学家和社会科学家之间的高度合作，将管理目标转化为可用于指导实施的研究框架。适应性管理IGERT项目的重点是研究和培训经验，将物理、生物和社会科学结合起来，解决水、湿地和流域的明智利用问题。这个IGERT项目的智力价值和目标是为科学家提供对人类和自然系统耦合的复杂问题的更好理解，以及一个将政策和科学结合起来管理它们的框架。在建立坚实的学科基础（每个学员的专业）的同时，该项目将覆盖互补学科的课程，并结合跨学科的培训和研究经验。该项目将佛罗里达大学的四个学院、十五个系和三个研究中心与非洲、墨西哥、南美、澳大利亚和南佛罗里达的国际湿地研究中心联系起来。一套跨学科团队授课的核心课程是我们学员教育经历的关键部分。此外，学员每年夏天将在其中一个国际研究中心进行研究和探索，第一手了解适应性管理以及推动适应性管理所需的科学、工程和政策框架。该项目更广泛的影响将是对科学家和工程师的教育和培训，这些科学家和工程师能够自适应地管理人类和自然系统，并在佛罗里达大学建立一个动态的、综合的学习环境。这两个结果都将通过致力于团队教学和研究概念的教师和管理人员的参与来实现，并且他们不会被研究生教育作为一种适应性的跨学科努力的前景所吓倒。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。

Adaptive Management refers to the process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs. This approach to managing natural resources requires a high degree of cooperation among engineers, biophysical and social scientists to translate management objectives into a research framework that can be used to guide implementation. This IGERT program in Adaptive Management focuses on research and training experiences that integrate the physical, biological and social sciences to address the wise use of water, wetlands, and watersheds. The intellectual merit and goal of this IGERT program is to provide scientists with greater understanding of the complex issues of coupled human and natural systems and a framework for interfacing policy and science to manage them. While building from a firm disciplinary base (each trainee's major), the program will overlay coursework in complementary disciplines and incorporate interdisciplinary training and research experiences. The program links four colleges, fifteen departments, and three research centers at the University of Florida with international wetlands research centers in Africa, Mexico, South America, Australia, and south Florida. A core set of interdisciplinary team taught courses is a key part of the educational experience of our trainees. In addition, trainees will spend each summer at one of the international research centers researching and exploring, first hand, Adaptive Management and the science, engineering, and policy frameworks that are necessary to drive it. The broader impacts of the program will be the education and training of scientists and engineers who can adaptively manage coupled human and natural systems, and the institutionalization at the University of Florida of a dynamic, integrative learning environment. Both outcomes will be accomplished by the involvement of faculty and administrators who are committed to the concept of team teaching and research and who are not intimidated by the prospect of graduate education as an adaptive, interdisciplinary endeavor. 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.