IGERT: C-CHANGE: Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment

这项综合研究生教育与研究培训（IGERT）奖支持堪萨斯大学与哈斯克尔印第安民族大学合作开展跨学科气候变化研究项目。“全球环境中的气候变化、人类和自然”奖由美国国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）颁发。21世纪的“重大挑战”：气候变化及其对地球的影响？中国的生态和社会系统。该项目将为社会科学、自然科学和工程专业的博士生提供进入堪萨斯大学先进科学基础设施的机会。美国生物多样性研究所、政策与社会研究所以及哈斯克尔环境研究中心的冰盖遥感研究。学员将获得研究气候变化的人类和自然维度、减缓其轨迹和影响的战略以及政策在形成气候变化驱动因素和应对气候变化方面的作用所需的概念和技术工具包，包括遥感、建模和跨学科缩放。更广泛的影响包括多学科研究培训，与哈斯克尔学院的师生和部落学院网络合作，以评估气候变化对土著社区的影响；参加气候政策实习；设立气候变化研究研究生证书；为跨学科综合研究和教育编制便携式课程；对于受训者来说，学习未来气候变化科学、工程和政策领域的领导者所需要的协作技能、以问题为中心的跨学科培训和对科学政策的理解。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 Training (IGERT) award supports the development of an interdisciplinary climate change studies program at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Haskell Indian Nations University. The Climate Change, Humans & Nature in the Global Environment award addresses one of the National Academy of Sciences? "grand challenges" of the 21st century: climate change and its impact on the planet?s ecological and social systems. The program will provide Ph.D. students in the social and natural sciences and engineering access to the advanced scientific infrastructure at the University of Kansas?s remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Biodiversity Institute, and Institute for Policy & Social Research, and the Haskell Environmental Studies Research Center. Trainees will acquire the conceptual and technical toolkit, including remote sensing, modeling, and scaling across disciplines, needed to study the human and natural dimensions of climate change, strategies for mitigating its trajectory and effects, and the role of policy in shaping the drivers of and responses to climate change. Broader impacts include multidisciplinary research training, collaboration with students and faculty at Haskell and a network of tribal colleges to assess the impacts of climate change in indigenous communities; participation in a climate policy internship; establishing a graduate certificate in climate change studies; developing a portable curriculum for interdisciplinary integrative research and education; and for trainees, learning the collaborative skills, problem-centered interdisciplinary training, and understanding of science policy needed by future leaders in climate change science, engineering, and policy. 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.