SEES Fellows: Living with locusts: Training an ecophysiologist to incorporate bioeconomic modeling and collaborative with applied food security and agricultural agencies

在这个由美国国家科学基金会科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员计划）颁发的奖项中，来自亚利桑那州立大学的Arianne Cease博士将研究农业用地（放牧牲畜）和蝗虫群爆发之间有趣的动态耦合。该奖项由生物科学理事会、社会、行为和经济科学理事会以及综合和国际活动办公室支持。建议的工作将(1)通过对这一复杂系统的数学建模，建立一个生物经济模型来研究人类行为、昆虫-营养关系和粮食安全之间的相互作用；(2)研究牧场管理如何通过改变伊达勒斯蝗虫食物植物中可获得的大量营养素来影响其爆发和迁徙；(3)与利益攸关方合作，制定考虑到牲畜与蝗虫相互作用的政策，并通过援助机构向受蝗虫影响的人口传播这些发现。这项工作中提出的研究的目的是开发更好的土地管理实践，将农业活动和生态系统之间异常复杂的耦合考虑在内。他将与亚利桑那州立大学生命科学学院的Jon Harrison教授以及耶鲁大学林业与环境研究学院的Eli Fenechel教授合作。这项工作还将涉及与教授的合作。亚利桑那州立大学的James Elser和副院长Charles Kazilek；悉尼大学生物科学学院的Stephen J. Simpson教授和澳大利亚蝗灾委员会的James D. Woodman博士；以及美国国际开发署Yaajeenda项目的Todd Crosby博士和塞内加尔植物保护局的Aliou Diongue博士。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划支持，其目标是帮助实现必要的发现，为导致环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在see研究员的支持下，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续性相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的职业生涯。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program), Dr. Arianne Cease from Arizona State University will investigate the interesting dynamic coupling between land use for agriculture (grazing of livestock) and the outbreak of swarms of locusts. This award is supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and the Office of Integrative and International Activities.The proposed work will (1) develop a bioeconomic model to investigate the interactions between human behavior, insect-nutrient relations, and food security, via mathematical modeling of this complex system; (2) investigate how rangeland management impacts Oedalus locust outbreaks and migration through changes in macronutrients available in their food plants; and (3) work with stakeholders to devise policy which takes into account livestock-locust interactions and disseminate these findings through aid agencies to populations impacted by locusts.The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to develop better land management practices that take into account the unusually complex couplings between agricultural activities and ecological systems.Dr. Cease will be working with collaborators Prof. Jon Harrison of the School of Life Sciences of Arizona State University as well as Prof. Eli Fenechel at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies of Yale University. The work will also involve collaboration with Profs. James Elser and Asst. Dean Charles Kazilek at Arizona State University; Prof. Stephen J. Simpson of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney and Dr. James D. Woodman of the Australian Plague Locust Commission; and Dr. Todd Crosby of USAID/Project Yaajeenda and Dr. Aliou Diongue of the Plant Protection Service, Senegal. This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.