IGERT: From Microbe to Global Climate: Research and Training in Cross-scale Biogeochemistry

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将建立在微生物、整个生态系统和全球尺度的生物地球化学进展的基础上，并将研究生培训从一个尺度的独家重点扩大到跨学科的原则、测量技术和多尺度定量方法的培训。智力价值：人类活动正在迅速改变地球？年代的气候。然而，模式对未来气候的预估存在很大的不确定性，这在很大程度上是由于缺乏关于生物地球化学控制和反馈的知识，这些控制和反馈决定了未来大气中主要温室气体的浓度。对未来气候的预测需要在空间和时间的多个尺度上对这些生物地球化学过程进行综合理解。这种培训还将改善经验主义者和建模者之间以及与公众之间的沟通。该项目从三个核心课程开始，包括跨尺度生物地球化学的原理、观测方法和定量方法，然后是三个短期强化模块，提供微生物方法（康奈尔大学）、全生态系统生物地球化学（卡里研究所）和全球建模（NCAR）方面的培训。培训之后是关于特定生物地球化学过程的讨论小组，其中明确包含多个尺度。讲习班将提供科学传播、指导和其他专业发展技能方面的培训，同时采取多管齐下的努力，招募和留住妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。更广泛的影响：通过与四个国际机构的合作，该项目丰富了全球视野：德国马克斯普朗克生物地球化学研究所；圣保罗大学（巴西）；威尔士班戈生态和水文中心；和埃塞克斯大学（英国）。这些伙伴关系和培训活动将共同为下一代研究生提供解决气候变化的生物地球化学驱动因素和应对措施的能力。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) award will build on advances in biogeochemistry at microbial, whole-ecosystem, and global scales, and broaden graduate student training from an exclusive focus at one scale to interdisciplinary training in the principles, measurement techniques, and quantitative approaches used at multiple scales. Intellectual Merit: Human activities are rapidly changing Earth?s climate. However, model projections of future climate have large uncertainties, due in large part to lack of knowledge about biogeochemical controls and feedbacks that determine future atmospheric concentrations of key greenhouse gases. Predictions of future climate require integrated understanding of these biogeochemical processes across multiple scales in both space and time. This training will also improve communication between empiricists and modelers and to the general public. The program starts with three core classes on the principles, observational methods, and quantitative approaches of cross-scale biogeochemistry, followed by three short, intensive modules providing training in microbial methods (Cornell), whole-ecosystem biogeochemistry (Cary Institute), and global modeling (NCAR). This training is followed by discussion groups on particular biogeochemical processes with an explicit inclusion of multiple scales. Workshops will provide training in science communication, mentoring, and other professional development skills, with multi-pronged efforts to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities. Broader Impacts: The project is enriched with a global perspective through collaboration with four international institutions: the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany; the University of São Paulo, (Brazil); the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Bangor, Wales; and the University of Essex (UK). Together, these partnerships and training activities will provide the next generation of graduate students with the ability to address the biogeochemical drivers of and responses to climate change.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.