IGERT--Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训项目（IGERT）是内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的一个多学科研究生培训项目，研究压力流域的恢复力和适应性治理。解决复杂的水问题需要跨学科和综合科学提供最好和最清晰的科学信息。该项目将培养下一代自然资源科学家、管理人员和政策制定者，提高对弹性的科学理解，即在人与自然的复杂系统中如何产生弹性，即在不失去关键结构和功能的情况下承受多重压力的能力。它将为自然科学、社会科学和计算科学领域的不同群体的博士研究生提供跨学科的学术和经验培训，并为少数民族学生提供机会。更广泛的影响包括对影响水管理的生态和社会系统的复杂相互作用以及使用复杂的数学和计算工具进行决策支持的培训。IGERT的博士生将接受韧性和适应性管理方面的学术培训，并将参加实习和讲习班，使他们接触到以对决策者有用的方式传递知识的实际应用。地方、州和联邦机构将通过发展学生研究实习，帮助塑造自然科学、政策和法律方面的课程。学生将受益于比较美国大平原流域和欧洲流域的国际经验。该项目将通过将来自自然科学、社会科学、计算科学和法律的学生和教师聚集在一个共同的目标上，从根本上改变学术文化：对过度占用的流域进行负责任的管理。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 (IGERT) project is a multidisciplinary graduate training program in resilience and adaptive governance in stressed watersheds at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Resolving complex water issues requires the best and clearest scientific information from interdisciplinary and integrative science. This program will train the next generation of natural resource scientists, managers, and policymakers by increasing scientific understanding of how resilience - the ability to withstand multiple stresses without losing critical structure and function - is generated in complex systems of people and nature. It will provide cross-disciplinary academic and experiential training for a diverse group of doctoral graduate students in natural, social and computational sciences, and provide opportunities for minority students. Broader impacts include training in the complex interactions of ecological and societal systems affecting water management and in the use of sophisticated mathematical and computational tools for decision support. IGERT doctoral students will receive academic training in resilience and adaptive management and will participate in externships and workshops that expose them to real-world applications that transfer knowledge in a way that is useful to policymakers. Local, state and federal agencies will help shape curricula in natural science, policy and law by developing student research externships. Students will benefit from an international experience comparing compromised watersheds in the Great Plains of the United States to similarly challenged watersheds in Europe. This program will assist in fundamentally changing academic culture by coalescing students and faculty from natural science, social science, computational science and law around a common goal: the responsible management of over-appropriated watersheds. 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.