IGERT: Adaptation to Change in Water Resources: Science to Inform Decision-making Across Disciplines, Cultures and Scales

这一综合性教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖项为爱达荷大学的博士生准备了应对气候变化和人类人口动态对物理、生态和社会系统的影响的工具。该方案为学员提供跨学科的水资源教育，促进在研究和开发解决问题的创新方法方面采取对社会负责的做法。智力价值：该IGERT项目的目标是培养未来的科学家，他们将为气候变化和人口动态对水供需的短期和长期影响制定适应战略。学员将把基础设施、法律和体制结构以及生态反应方面的变化纳入他们的适应战略。在研究美国和加拿大的哥伦比亚河流域以及智利的比比奥河流域时，学员将研究景观级别的水量和水质、受管制和不受管制的河流系统，以及将把科学用于决策的机构和组织的社会网络。该计划将为学员提供课程、研讨会和非正式活动，以促进合作。广泛的影响：学员将了解支持可持续水资源管理的各种专业如何在更大的社会、文化和法律背景下相互联系。学员还将在哥伦比亚河治理方面与大学联盟合作，在科学和政策之间架起一座桥梁。此外，通过该IGERT，爱达荷大学将与康塞普西翁大学、智利天主教大学、不列颠哥伦比亚省大学和萨斯喀彻温省大学合作。学生将从代表性不足的群体中招收，特别是直接受到盆地水资源问题影响的美洲原住民。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、对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。该项目旨在建立新的研究生教育和培训模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造一个肥沃的环境，并让学生了解将研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award prepares Ph.D. students at the University of Idaho with the tools to address the effects of climate change and human population dynamics upon physical, ecological, and social systems. The program provides trainees with an interdisciplinary water resources education that promotes socially responsible practice in research and the development of innovative approaches to problem solving. Intellectual Merit: The goal of this IGERT program is to train future scientists who will develop adaptation strategies for the short-term and long-term impacts of climate change and population dynamics on water supply and demand. Trainees will integrate changes in infrastructure, legal and institutional structure, and ecological responses into their adaption strategies. While studying the Columbia River Basin in the U.S. and Canada, and the Biobío River Basin in Chile, trainees will research landscape level water quantity and quality, regulated and unregulated river systems, and social networks of institutions and organizations that will use the science in decision making. The program will provide trainees with courses, workshops, and informal activities to foster collaboration.Broader Impacts: Trainees will learn about how the various professions supporting sustainable water resource management are interconnected within the larger social, cultural, and legal context. Trainees will also collaborate with the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance to bridge the discussions between science and policy. Additionally, through this IGERT, the University of Idaho will partner with the University of Concepción, Catholic University of Chile, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Saskatchewan. Students will be recruited from underrepresented groups, especially Native Americans, who are directly affected by water resources problems in the basins.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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.