International Group Travel: Engaging students in science international decision making: Madrid, Spain - December 2019

解决全球环境问题涉及科学和决策的交集。然而，从事环境研究的研究生和早期职业研究人员在学术界几乎没有什么有意义的机会来获得关于如何将其研究用于社会创新和集体影响的知识和培训。PIS通过学生主导的演讲和在联合国国际环境问题国际会议上的宣传，为学生提供了一种创新和身临其境的体验，使他们能够通过学生主导的演讲和宣传来传播科学以促进决策。通过将培训与真实、真实的参与相结合，学生将学习如何在决策过程中驾驭环境问题，获得跨文化和外交技能，并建立专业网络。向决策者传达科学知识是培养研究生和早期职业研究人员的关键部分。使用基于团队的方法为决策者构建研究演示文稿可以为研究生提供职业发展机会。基于团队的项目可以将来自不同机构背景和不同学科的学生聚集在一起。来自三个不同机构的学生在COP25上共同向国际谈判代表介绍与他们自己的研究有关并与联合国可持续发展目标(SDGs)相关的科学主题。这些主题包括碳市场、大气科学、新兴技术、性别问题、生物多样性丧失、绿色职业等。提供关于复杂环境问题的数据，结合地球科学、大气科学和环境科学等学科，将为学生提供独特的国际和跨学科经验。此外，在国际背景下展示研究为学生进入职业生涯提供了跨文化体验。每个学生团队都收集了与可持续发展目标(SDGs)相关的主题的主要和次要数据，以便学生体验将研究问题与政策目标结果保持一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Part 1Addressing global environmental issues involves working at the intersection of science and decision making. Graduate students and early career researchers who engage in environmental research, however, have few meaningful opportunities within academia to gain the knowledge and training on how their research can be employed for social innovation and collective impacts. PIs propose an innovative and immersive experience for students on communicating science for decision making through student-led presentations and outreach at an international United Nations meeting on international environmental issues. By coupling training and authentic, real world engagement, students will learn how to navigate environmental issues in decision making, gain intercultural and diplomacy skills and build professional networks. Communicating science to decision makers is a critical part of preparing graduate students and early career researchers. Using a team-based approach to build research presentations for decision makers can provide graduate students professional development opportunities.Part 2Team-based projects can bring together students from different institutional backgrounds as well as from different disciplines. Students from three different institutions have worked together on presentations to international negotiators at the COP25 on science topics related to their own research and tied to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the UN. These topics include carbon markets, atmospheric sciences, emerging technology, gender issues, biodiversity loss, green careers, and many others. Presenting data on complex environmental issues that combines disciplines such as geosciences, atmospheric sciences and environmental sciences will provide students with unique international and interdisciplinary experience. In addition, presenting research in an international context provides students with cross cultural experiences as students move into professional careers. Each student team conducted primary and secondary data gathering on topics related to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) so students experienced aligning research questions with policy target outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.