IGERT: Multidisciplinary, Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy

美国在21世纪面临着越来越多的水资源管理挑战。传统的单一学科研究生教育已不能适应21世纪复杂的水资源和流域管理问题的需要。南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分水岭科学与政策一体化教育与研究培训项目的目标是招收、指导和培养一批不同的优秀博士生，使他们成为未来解决问题的科学家、管理者和领导者？S将分水岭和流域尺度的科学、环境、社会、经济和技术挑战联系在一起。中心方法将是每年培训S IGERT班级，使其成为一名协作、跨学科的干部。每名干部将协作构建一个流域的综合评估和管理方案。拟议的IGERT项目的特点包括：(1)以团队为基础的合作；(2)从头开始强调多学科的流域问题和解决方案；(3)将未被充分代表的群体整合为学生、导师和受训者；(4)基于模型的数据合成和政策；(5)通过延长实习和指导教学经验获得实践经验；(6)接触跨界河流和国际流域管理问题；以及(7)在流域综合科学和管理方面接受过国内和国际最佳实践培训的毕业生。S项目的主要目标是培养新一代流域科学和管理专业的毕业生，他们接受过解决复杂现实问题的培训。通过这样做，将开发一种新的研究生教育模式，以跨越传统学科边界的基于团队的合作为中心。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 U.S. faces increasing water management challenges in the 21st century. Traditional single-discipline graduate education fails to meet the needs of complex water and watershed-management issues in the 21st century. The goal of the Integrative Graduate Educational and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in watershed science and policy is to recruit, mentor, and train a diverse group of outstanding Ph.D. students to become the scientists, managers, and leaders who will tackle tomorrow?s interconnected scientific, environmental, social, economic, and technical challenges at watershed and river basin scales. The central approach will be to train each year?s IGERT class as a collaborative, interdisciplinary cadre. Each cadre will collaborate to construct a comprehensive assessment and management plan for one river basin. Features of the proposed IGERT program include: (1) team-based collaboration; (2) a from-the-ground-up emphasis on multidisciplinary watershed issues and solutions; (3) integration of underrepresented groups as students, mentors, and trainees; (4) model-based data synthesis and policy; (5) practical experience via extended internships and mentored teaching experiences; (6) exposure to transboundary rivers and international watershed-management issues; and (7) graduates with training in national and international best practice in integrated watershed science and management. The program?s primary goal is to cultivate a new generation of watershed science and management graduates trained in solving complex, real-world problems. In so doing, a new model for graduate education centered on team-based collaboration across traditional disciplinary boundaries will be developed. 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.