IGERT: Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS)

阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的海洋生态系统可持续发展(MEAS)项目是一个综合性的研究生教育和研究培训项目(IGERT)，旨在培养未来基于生态系统的管理和海洋生物资源的可持续利用方面的领导者。这一跨学科的研究生课程将使用案例研究、课程和研讨会来教授渔业科学、海洋学、生态学、经济学、管理学、海洋政策和人类学的基本原理和分析工具。学生将在超越传统学科界限的研究上进行合作；他们将学习解决基于生态系统的管理的独特挑战，并了解其对社会的影响。该项目将挑战学生开发创新的方法来解决现实世界中的紧迫问题。学生将通过研究、教学和实习获得职业发展经验。MASAS将积极招募妇女和少数民族，特别是阿拉斯加原住民学生，并为研究生提供指导阿拉斯加原住民和阿拉斯加农村本科生的机会。法律和法规现在要求对海洋资源进行基于生态系统的公共管理，这将在全国范围内产生广泛的社会影响。阿拉斯加是培训在现代世界成功实施基于生态系统的管理所需的专家的理想环境。阿拉斯加-S生活的海洋资源，特别是其渔业，基本上是健康的，但也包括在近代历史上濒临灭绝或灭绝的物种。阿拉斯加-S渔业收获范围从小规模自给渔业和传统渔业到世界上最大和技术最先进的可持续渔业。海洋生态系统毕业生将做好充分准备，为可持续利用海洋生物资源所产生的关键研究和管理问题开发基于生态系统的解决方案，这些技能在未来几年将是至关重要的。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。

The Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS) Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT) that will educate future leaders in ecosystem-based management and sustainable use of living marine resources. This interdisciplinary graduate program will use case studies, courses, and seminars to teach the fundamental principles and analytical tools of fisheries science, oceanography, ecology, economics, management, marine policy, and anthropology. Students will collaborate on research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries; they will learn to address the unique challenges of ecosystem-based management and to understand its implications for society. The program will challenge students to develop innovative approaches to pressing real-world problems. Students will gain career-developing experience through research, teaching, and internships. MESAS will actively recruit women and minorities, especially Alaska Native students, and provide graduate students with opportunities to mentor Alaska Native and rural Alaskan undergraduates. Ecosystem-based public management of marine resources, now being required under law and regulation, will have broad societal effects nationwide. Alaska is an ideal setting for training the experts needed to implement ecosystem-based management successfully in the modern world. Alaska?s living marine resources, especially its fisheries, are largely healthy but also include examples of species that have dangerously diminished or have gone extinct within recent history. Alaska?s fishery harvests range from small-scale subsistence and traditional fisheries to the largest and most technologically advanced sustainable fisheries in the world. MESAS graduates will be well-prepared to develop ecosystem-based solutions to critical research and stewardship problems arising from the sustained use of living marine resources, skills that will be critically needed in the coming years. 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.