Global Sustainability Scholars for Sustainable Oceans: building a network of transdisciplinary scientists and practitioners that represent humanity’s future.

21世纪，人类面临深刻挑战。人口快速增长，气候变暖，对食物、纤维和水的需求增加，以及生物多样性和生态系统服务的迅速丧失，我们面临的环境问题比历史上任何时候都更加普遍和严重。全球海洋在地球系统中发挥着关键作用，以多种相互关联的方式影响着大气、地球化学、生态和社会系统。为了预测变化，了解其对自然和社会系统的影响，并制定方法，使我们能够适应和减轻影响，需要更综合的方法来研究海洋系统，而这反过来又需要跨学科，文化和国家边界的大规模合作。因此，下一代可持续发展领导者将需要广泛的技能，参与跨学科和跨学科的团队，以解决人类面临的复杂环境问题。该项目旨在通过一个合作奖学金项目，将本科生、研究生和博士后研究人员与当今跨学科可持续发展科学领袖联系起来，培养下一代国际跨学科可持续发展科学领袖。使用队列模型，参与者与国际跨学科研究团队合作，研究由贝尔蒙特论坛资助的海洋可持续性项目，在几个实地季节的过程中。通过这些研究机会和培训经验，该计划旨在为参与者提供跨文化，跨学科和跨国合作的机会，这对于产生和应用知识到行动中，加速向更全球可持续的未来过渡至关重要。该计划旨在帮助参与者灵活和流畅地跨越研究学科，并发展合作领导，沟通和谈判技巧。该项目将为来自代表性不足群体的学生和研究人员提供机会，让他们参与跨学科、以团队为导向的国际科学，与海洋可持续性中一些最具挑战性的问题直接相关。参与几个连续的现场季节，将进一步建立社区，这种社区可能会持续到项目生命周期之后，并有助于产生未来多样化的劳动力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Humanity faces profound challenges in the 21st century. From a rapidly rising population, a warming climate, increased demand for food, fiber, and water, and a rapid loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, we face environmental problems that are more pervasive and serious than at any time in our history. The global ocean plays a critical role in the Earth system affecting atmospheric, geochemical, ecological, and social systems in a multitude of interconnected ways. To predict changes, understand their impacts on natural and social systems, and develop approaches that allow us to adapt to and mitigate the impacts, requires more integrative approaches to the study of ocean systems, and this, in turn, will require large-scale cooperation across disciplinary, cultural, and national boundaries.Accordingly, the next generation of sustainability leaders will require a broad set of skills to engage in inter- and trans-disciplinary teams to solve the complex environmental issues that face humanity. This project seeks to develop the next generation of international trans-disciplinary sustainability science leaders through a collaborative fellowship program that connects undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers with today's trans-disciplinary sustainability science leaders. Using a cohort model, the participants work with international, transdisciplinary research teams on ocean sustainability projects funded by the Belmont Forum, over the course of several field seasons. Through these research opportunities and training experiences, the program seeks to provide the participants with trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary, and trans-national cooperative opportunities which will be essential in generating and applying knowledge to actions that speed the transition toward a more globally sustainable future. The program seeks to help the participants be nimble and fluent across research disciplines, and to develop collaborative leadership, communication, and negotiation skills. The project will provide opportunities for students and researchers from underrepresented groups to engage in transdisciplinary, team-oriented, international science with direct relevance to some of the most challenging issues in ocean sustainability. Engaging over several consecutive field seasons, will further build community that is likely to last well beyond the lifetime of the project and help generate the diverse workforce of the future.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.