NRT-IGE: Team Science Training for Coastal Ocean & Estuarine STEM Graduate Students

解决当今最具挑战性的社会问题需要超越单个学科的创新、综合突破和新颖的解决方案，达到更深层次的知识整合。然而，通过协作团队科学（由多个学科以相互依赖的方式进行的研究）实现这种集成已被证明是难以实现的，这在很大程度上是由于团队成员之间的关键专业、团队合作和领导技能的不足。威廉玛丽学院（W&amp；M）弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所（VIMS）的研究生教育创新（IGE）项目的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖旨在通过为沿海海洋和河口STEM研究生设计和测试团队科学专业发展培训来解决这些缺陷。该项目将通过弗吉尼亚海洋拨款学院实施，该学院由VIMS/W&amp；M、弗吉尼亚大学、弗吉尼亚理工大学、乔治梅森大学、詹姆斯麦迪逊大学、老道明大学和弗吉尼亚联邦大学组成。该项目组建了一个由教师辅导员组成的多学科团队，指导来自自然和物理海岸、海洋和环境科学、工程、设计以及社会和经济科学的各类博士和硕士学生。一个创新的研讨会系列训练学生团队科学的原则，协作领导，有效的自我反思的工具和策略，以提高团队合作。这个以社区为基础的气候适应能力项目与沿海社区合作伙伴（如市政当局、非政府组织）密切合作，使学生能够进行团队科学研究，并通过反思性实践提高他们的团队合作能力。对反思性实践的评估（使用团队反思性、团队成员有效性综合评估和专业知识协调措施）将提高对如何在短期内培养自我反思能力的理解，并建立团队科学研究的能力，从而提高学生的长期职业生涯。课程计划、培训模块和实施策略将被汇编成一个在线工具包，并通过研究生院院长的专业协会、多次会议演讲和研讨会广泛分享，并通过参与机构的校友网络进行同伴指导和高管培训。此外，与弗吉尼亚研究生院理事会的合作将有助于加强对不同参与者的招募，加强与研讨会校友的学习，促进全球传播，并将利益纳入现有课程和学位课程。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门用于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

Solving today's most challenging societal problems requires innovative, integrated breakthroughs and novel solutions that transcend individual disciplines, reaching a deeper level of knowledge integration. However, achieving such integration through collaborative team science (research conducted by more than one discipline in an interdependent manner) has proven elusive due in large part to deficiencies in key professional, teamwork, and leadership skills among the team members. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the College of William & Mary's (W&M) Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) seeks to address these deficiencies by designing and testing team science professional development training for coastal ocean and estuarine STEM graduate students. The project will be implemented through the Virginia Sea Grant College, which is composed of VIMS/W&M, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and George Mason, James Madison, Old Dominion, and Virginia Commonwealth Universities.The project assembles a multi-disciplinary team of faculty facilitators to guide a class of diverse doctoral and master's students from the natural and physical coastal, marine and environmental sciences, engineering, design, and social and economic sciences. An innovative workshop series trains students in the principles of team science, collaborative leadership, and effective self-reflective tools and strategies to improve teamwork. Working closely with coastal community partners (e.g., municipalities, NGOs), this community-based climate-resilience project enables students to practice team science research and use reflective practices to improve their competencies in teamwork. Assessment of the reflective practices (using team reflexivity, Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness, and expertise coordination measures) will improve understanding of how to nurture self-reflective competencies in the short-term and build capacity for team science research that will enhance students' careers over the long term. The lesson plans, training modules, and implementation strategies will be compiled into an online toolkit and shared broadly through professional societies of graduate school deans, multiple conference presentations, and workshops, and extended through alumni networks at the participating institutions for peer mentoring and executive coaching. Further, collaboration with the Virginia Council of Graduate Schools will help to enhance recruitment of diverse participants, reinforce learning with workshop alumni, promote global dissemination, and institutionalize benefits into existing courses and degree programs.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.