IRES: Behavioral Ecology Research Training in Australia

IRES 1460048摘要（卡鲁比安，杜兰大学）非技术性的合作国际合作在科学研究中变得越来越重要，但来自美国的学生和年轻研究人员在与国际同事建立富有成效的研究合作方面面临着重大障碍。这反过来又限制了美国进行顶级科学的竞争力。该IRES项目旨在通过为学生和年轻研究人员提供在其教育和职业轨迹早期接受国际培训的机会来帮助应对这些挑战。这个为期三年的项目将支持来自三所美国机构的21名本科生和研究生在澳大利亚进行研究培训和文化体验。学生将与美国PI和澳大利亚研究人员合作，研究动态环境因素如何影响小型鸣禽在未充分研究环境中的社会结构，行为和健康？干燥的森林--在布里斯班郊外。该项目将提供现代综合行为生态学方法的技术培训，并将培养IRES学生未来与外国合作者合作的能力。IRES学生还将使用一系列传播方式，包括在会议上的专业演讲，同行评议的期刊出版物，视频和互联网制作，以提高美国大学生，K-12学生和公众对国际研究的兴趣。参与者将在美国和澳大利亚高级研究人员的国际经验之前，期间和之后接受密集的指导。该项目将通过积极招募和留住代表性不足的群体的学生来扩大国际STEM研究的机会。通过这样做，它将实现IRES计划的目标，即培养能够在国际研究环境中进行全球参与的科学和工程劳动力。该IRES项目旨在培养一支能够在国际研究环境中表现出色的全球参与的科学和工程队伍。它将通过为个人在教育和职业轨迹的早期提供国际培训机会来实现这一目标，重点关注传统上在STEM中代表性不足的群体中的学生。这个为期三年的项目将为来自美国三所大学的21名本科生和研究生提供在澳大利亚的国际研究培训和文化体验。学生将与美国PI和澳大利亚研究人员合作，研究动态环境因素如何影响小型鸣禽在未充分研究环境中的社会结构，行为和健康？布里斯班外的干燥硬叶森林。IRES学生将利用NSF资助的自动遥测系统以及PI和澳大利亚主机在研究网站上的现有研究来制作高层次的学生主导的出版物。在此过程中，该项目将培养一批本科生和研究生，并激励这些学生以国际为重点从事科学研究事业，从而为美国科学劳动力做出贡献，并为代表性不足的群体的STEM教育做出重大贡献。

IRES 1460048 ABSTRACT (KARUBIAN, TULANE UNIVERSITY)NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONInternational collaborations are becoming increasingly important in scientific research, but students and young researchers from the US face significant barriers to establishing productive research collaborations with international colleagues. This in turn limits the competitiveness of the US to conduct top-level science. This IRES project is designed to help meet these challenges by providing students and young researchers with opportunities for international training early in their educational and professional trajectories. This three-year project will support a total of 21 undergraduate and graduate students from three US institutions for research training and cultural experiences in Australia. The students will work with the U.S. PIs and Australian researchers on how dynamic environmental factors influence the social structure, behavior, and fitness of small songbirds in an understudied environment?dry forests -outside Brisbane. The project will provide technical training in modern integrative behavioral ecology methods, and will build the capacity of IRES students to work with foreign collaborators in the future. IRES students will also use a range of dissemination modalities, including professional presentations at conferences, peer-reviewed journal publications, video, and internet productions, to increase interest in international research among US university students, K-12 students, and the general public. Participants will receive intensive mentoring before, during, and after their international experience from both U.S. and Australian senior researchers. The project will broaden access to international STEM research by actively recruiting and retaining students from under-represented groups. In doing so, it will fulfill the IRES program goals of educating a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of performing in an international research environment. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThis IRES project is designed to educate a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of excelling in an international research environment. It will achieve this goal by providing individuals with opportunities for international training early in their educational and professional trajectories, with a focus on students in groups that are traditionally under-represented in STEM. The three-year project will provide a total of 21 undergraduate and graduate students from three US institutions with international research training and cultural experiences in Australia. The students will work with the U.S. PIs and Australian researchers on how dynamic environmental factors influence the social structure, behavior, and fitness of small songbirds in an understudied environment?dry sclerophyll forests outside Brisbane. IRES students will leverage a NSF-funded automated telemetry system and existing research by PIs and Australian hosts on the study site to produce high tier, student-led publications. In doing so, this project will train a cadre of undergraduate and graduate students and motivate these students to pursue scientific research careers with an international focus, thus contributing to the U.S. scientific workforce and making a significant contribution to STEM education for under-represented groups.