IGERT: Polar Environmental Change

这一综合性研究生教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖通过将达特茅斯学院的专业知识和设施与美国陆军寒区研究与工程实验室和格陵兰岛的机构相结合，支持极地科学和工程领域跨学科研究生项目的发展。这个项目的目的是培养博士生对极地系统有一个跨学科的观点，并理解他们研究的社会和伦理影响。更广泛的影响包括侧重于极地系统的组成部分的培训和研究，这些系统响应和促进环境的快速变化，包括冰冻圈(冰川、雪和海冰系统)以及植物、土壤和动物之间的生物地球化学联系。核心课程包括极地系统导论和第二门可持续科学、政策和伦理学课程，该课程将培训学生利用西方科学和传统生态知识的视角，构建与北极居民和政策相关的研究问题。根据学生的研究兴趣，学生将在格陵兰实地研讨会期间接受陆地生态系统或冰冻圈动力学方面的培训，然后在努克、格陵兰大学所在地和因努伊特环极点理事会讲授北极变化的人类层面。IGERT学生将通过与Dickey中心北极研究所举办的关于极地科学和政策的系列研讨会和其他相关活动、准备赠款提案的研讨会、年度计划评估和研究研讨会、跨IGERT活动以及在其他机构或实地地点接受专门培训的机会，接受持续的跨学科培训。将特别努力与美洲原住民学生接触。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the development of an interdisciplinary graduate program in polar sciences and engineering by merging expertise and facilities from Dartmouth College with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and institutions in Greenland. The purpose of this program is to train doctoral students to have an interdisciplinary view of polar systems and to understand the social and ethical implications of their research. Broader impacts include training and research focused on the components of polar systems that respond to and contribute to rapid environmental change, including the cryosphere (glacial ice, snow, and sea ice systems) and the biogeochemical linkages between plants, soils, and animals. The core curriculum includes an Introduction to Polar Systems and a second course on Sustainability Science, Policy and Ethics that will train students to frame research questions that will have relevance to Arctic residents and policy by using perspectives from western science and traditional ecological knowledge. Depending on their research interests, students will be trained during the Greenland Field Seminar in either terrestrial ecosystem or cryosphere dynamics, followed by instruction in the human dimensions of Arctic change in Nuuk, the site of the University of Greenland and the Inuit Circumpolar Council. IGERT students will receive continuing interdisciplinary training through a seminar series and other related events on polar science and policy organized with the Dickey Center Institute of Arctic Studies, a workshop on preparing grant proposals, an annual program evaluation and research symposium, cross-IGERT activities, and opportunities for specialized training at other institutions or field sites. A special effort will be made to engage with Native American students. 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.