IGERT: Global-Local Interactions: Resilience and Adaption of Social-Ecological Systems in a Rapidly Changing North

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训计划（IGERT）支持整合社会科学和自然科学的研究生培训，并考虑跨越时间和空间尺度的变化动态。阿拉斯加和环北极是培养研究社会生态系统动态的学者的合适地点，因为它们的气候、文化和社会经济变化速度明显。本IGERT的课程和研究为学生提供了弹性理论、脆弱性分析和可持续性科学的理论和应用基础。这次更新建立在阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学（UAF）以前的IGERT的基础上，增加了：(1)关注全球与地方的联系，形成各种规模的可持续性；(2)与UAF农村校区的桥梁项目使阿拉斯加本土学生更容易获得博士课程；(3)研究生有机会参与国际极地年的活动。IGERT建立了新的机构伙伴关系，并培训了一批具有跨学科技能的新学者，以应对可持续发展的复杂挑战。这些学者将通过他们在整合知识和向决策者通报缓解和适应方面的技能，为社会做出贡献。这个IGERT大力支持在该地区培训阿拉斯加本土博士，他们需要担任大学教员、研究人员、教育工作者和社区领袖。这个IGERT代表了美国对国际极地年的贡献，通过建立一个研究生项目联盟，重点关注北方社会生态恢复能力。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 Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) supports graduate training that integrates social and natural sciences and considers the dynamics of change across temporal and spatial scales. Alaska and the Circumpolar North are appropriate places to train scholars to research the dynamics of social-ecological systems because of their pronounced rates of climatic, cultural and socio-economic change. The curriculum and research of this IGERT prepares students in the theoretical and applied underpinnings of resilience theory, vulnerability analysis, and sustainability science. This renewal builds on the previous IGERT at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) by adding: (1) a focus on global-local linkages that shape sustainability at all scales, (2) a bridging program with UAF rural campuses makes this PhD program more accessible to Alaska Native students, and (3) opportunities for graduate students to participate in activities of the International Polar Year. This IGERT establishes new institutional partnerships and trains a new cadre of scholars who have the interdisciplinary skills to address the complex challenges of sustainability. These scholars will contribute to society through their skills in integrating knowledge and informing policy makers in mitigation and adaptation. This IGERT strongly supports the training of Alaska Native PhDs in this area who are needed to serve as university faculty, researchers, educators, and community leaders. This IGERT represents a US contribution to the International Polar Year through the establishment of a consortium of graduate programs with a focus on northern social-ecological resilience. 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.