IGERT: Climate Change, Water, and Society (CCWAS)

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将为新一代科学家提供解决气候变化对水资源影响的工具。美国西部的监测数据显示，气温、河流流量和积雪的趋势令人担忧。大气环流模型（GCM）显示，这些和其他气候驱动的趋势将继续并加速。目前，主要的科学差距和社会经济因素阻碍了对气候变化在次大陆尺度上对水资源、农业和自然生态系统影响的可靠预测（例如，加州、智利）。气候变化需要前所未有的科学学科的关注，包括大气科学，计算科学，生态学，经济学，工程学，水文学，政治学和土壤科学等。智力优势：气候变化、水和社会（CCWAS）项目将通过以下方式发展所需的协同作用：1）一个侧重于气候/水/社会科学关键界面的前沿研究框架; 2）一个前所未有的、综合的、灵活的教育和培训计划。CCWAS研究员将攻读“气候变化，水与社会”的特殊学位，水文气候学和不确定性下决策的核心和界面课程，网络支持的音频和视频教学，用于联合课程和校园之间的共享，以及创新的“世界咖啡馆”风格的顶点课程，每年定义气候变化，未来水资源可用性，和水资源管理。更广泛的影响：通过与智利同事的合作和比较研究，将扩大研究的变革质量，智利面临着与加州相似的气候变化和水资源挑战。实习计划将让学生与负责减轻和适应气候变化影响的政府机构接触。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在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新模式，在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 provide a new generation of scientists with the tools to address effects of climate change on water resources. Monitoring data in the Western U.S. show alarming trends in temperature, river flows and snowpack. General circulation models (GCMs) indicate these and other climate-driven trends will continue and accelerate. Currently, major scientific gaps and socioeconomic factors preclude reliable predictions of climate change impacts on water resources, agriculture, and natural ecosystems on a sub-continental scale (e.g., California, Chile). Climate change requires attention from an unprecedented range of scientific disciplines, including atmospheric science, computational science, ecology, economics, engineering, hydrology, political science, and soil science, among others. Intellectual Merit: The Climate Change, Water and Society (CCWAS) project will develop needed synergies through 1) a framework for cutting-edge research that focuses on key interfaces of climate/water/social sciences, and 2) an unprecedented, integrative, flexible education and training program. CCWAS fellows will pursue a special degree designation in "Climate Change, Water and Society," core and interface courses in hydroclimatology and decision making under uncertainty, cyber-enabled audio and video instruction for joint course offerings and sharing among campuses, and an innovative "world café" style capstone course that annually defines state of the art and research needs in climate change, future water availability, and water resources management. Broader Impacts: Transformative qualities of the research will be broadened through collaboration and comparative studies with colleagues in Chile, which faces similar climate change and water challenges as California. An internship program will engage students with the government agencies responsible for mitigating and adapting to climate change effects. 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.