Collaborative Proposal: DISCCRS: Interdisciplinary Leadership Training for Early-Career Climate Scholars

气候变化研究促进论文倡议(DISCCRS)是一个领导力项目，旨在培训和装备来自所有研究领域的早期职业科学家，掌握关键知识、技能和工具，以建立或加强其职业生涯中的跨学科方法。DISCCRS的核心是一年一度的为期一周的研讨会，由几十名最近获得博士学位的科学家组成的小组聚集在一起，他们在气候变化跨学科研究领域得到了公认的科学导师。DISCCRS的目标是创建一个代表美国人口并与其全球同行社区建立良好联系的气候学者网络。参与是通过一个竞争性的申请过程。选择那些计划在气候变化及其影响和解决方案内或与气候变化相关的任何主题从事跨学科研究职业的申请者。虽然重点是美国的研究人员，但也可能邀请一些其他国家的申请者参加，他们有兴趣了解这家美国研究企业，并与美国研究人员建立联系。在每次研讨会期间，一群来自自然和社会科学的新学者与他们的同行和领先的科学家见面，发展跨学科的合作关系，从许多学科和视角了解前沿气候研究，并收集关于跨学科领导力和专业发展的见解。研讨会学者获得未来跨学科研究所需的基本关系、知识和技能。DISCCRS倡议还包括维护一个公共访问网站(可访问http://disccrs.org).该网站包含一个国际博士论文注册表，其中包含已在DISCCRS注册的与气候变化有关的论文摘要。该网站成立于2002年，已包含近1,000份以完全可搜索的电子格式提交的摘要。DISCCRS网站还包括职业发展资源、研讨会申请说明和报告。每周的时事通讯向对气候变化、影响和解决方案感兴趣的跨学科早期学者分发气候研究新闻、资源、会议和招聘通知以及其他感兴趣的信息。DISCCRS计划为科学家提供早期职业成功策略方面的培训，同时促进来自美国和其他地区众多学科和机构的气候科学家的合作网络的发展，这些科学家可以成为下一代高质量跨学科气候变化研究的领导者。DISCCRS旨在促进与政策相关的研究，同时促进对气候变化及其影响的基本科学理解，向公众传播这些知识，并产生精心设计的政策选项，供美国和国际政策制定者考虑。

The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS) is a leadership program that trains and equips early-career scientists from all areas of study with the critical knowledge, skills, and tools to establish or strengthen interdisciplinary approaches in their career. The core of DISCCRS is an annual week-long symposium that brings together small groups of a few dozen scientists who recently earned doctoral degrees with established scientific mentors in the world of interdisciplinary climate-change research. The goal of DISCCRS is to create a network of climate scholars that is representative of the U.S. population and is well connected with their global peer community. Participation is through a competitive application process. Selection favors applicants who plan to engage in interdisciplinary research careers in any subject within or relevant to climate change, including its impacts and solutions. While the emphasis is on the U.S.-based researchers, a few applicants from other countries who demonstrate an interest in learning about the U.S. research enterprise and connecting with U.S. researchers may also be invited to participate. During each symposium, a cohort of new scholars from the natural and social sciences meet their peers and leading scientists to develop interdisciplinary collegial relationships, learn about cutting-edge climate research from numerous disciplines and perspectives, and gather insights about interdisciplinary leadership and professional development. Symposium scholars receive the foundational relationships, knowledge, and skills needed for future interdisciplinary research.The DISCCRS initiative also includes maintenance of a public-access website (accessible at http://disccrs.org). This site contains an international Ph.D. dissertation registry with abstracts of dissertations related to climate change that have been registered with DISCCRS. Established in 2002, the site already contains nearly 1,000 submitted abstracts presented in a fully searchable electronic format. The DISCCRS site also includes career-development resources, symposium application instructions, and reports. A weekly newsletter distributes climate research news, resources, meeting and job announcements, and other information of interest to interdisciplinary early-career scholars with interests in climate change, impacts, and solutions. The DISCCRS initiative trains scientists in strategies for early-career success while fostering development of a collegial network of climate scientists from numerous disciplines and institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere who can be leaders in the next generations of top-quality interdisciplinary climate-change research. DISCCRS seeks to promote policy-relevant research that can simultaneously promote basic scientific understanding of climate change and its impacts, the dissemination of that knowledge to the public, and the generation of carefully designed policy options for consideration by policy makers in the U.S. and at the international level.