UCT - UEA Newton PhD Partnership on Understanding the Climate system and Coping with Climate Change

发展中世界预计将不成比例地受到气候变化的影响。在世界可能经历的条件方面，例如在当地降雨量方面，以及这种变化对农业、渔业、卫生和工业发展的影响方面，仍存在许多不确定性。这是今天的早期职业研究人员谁将在未来应对这些挑战的任务。为了培养必要的技术人才，我们建议在开普敦大学（UCT）和东安格利亚大学（UEA）之间建立一个国际博士学位合作伙伴关系，合作领域包括（1）了解气候系统，包括海洋和大气，以及（2）发展科普气候变化的能力。拟议的伙伴关系将交换气候科学（例如气候建模、海洋科学、大气科学）、气候影响（例如社会科学、国际发展、人类健康、农业、渔业）和适应战略等领域的博士生。UEA和UCT是两所在这些学科方面拥有强大专业知识的大学。这些强大和互补的中心和学者首次在正式安排中聚集在一起。博士研究人员将受益于UEA和UCT在一系列关键和现代方法方面的强大专业知识。他们将学习作为研究人员充分发展所需的技能，并在其领域的全球研究环境中运作。我们的伙伴关系包括洋流测量、海洋生物地球化学和生态学、渔业调查和大气痕量气体方面的世界专家，以及进行适应气候变化和流行病学实地工作的专家。我们还拥有全球数据集（如全球温度（CRUTEM）和全球海洋CO2（SOCAT））的综合和分析方面的专业知识，以及物理气候建模，地球化学以及影响和适应方案综合评估方面的专业知识。重要的是，我们的许多学术人员在跨学科团队中工作经验丰富，这是一种越来越重要的技能，以解决与气候变化有关的问题，使用最佳的解决方案。每方10名博士生的交流将在3-4名学生的年度队列中进行，UEA学生的初始队列将于2016年2月左右前往南非，南非学生的年度队列将于9月左右来到UEA。学生将与双方兴趣相似的人配对。这种安排将为学生创建一个支持小组，帮助他们快速融入社会和专业，并在快速推进他们的知识，技能和联系方面富有成效。此外，来自UEA和UCT的至少三名学术人员也将参加交流，每年一次。设想从已经在进行的项目中进行更多的交流。该小组将通过与东英吉利大学的廷德尔中心和西英吉利大学的非洲气候与发展倡议的整合，与制定国际未来地球平台的工作人员联系，以及与在国际努力中发挥关键作用的工作人员联系，如政府间气候变化专门委员会和世界研究计划，从而受益于国际知名度。

The developing world is projected to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change. Many uncertainties remain in the likely conditions the world will experience, for example in local rainfall, and the effects of such changes on agriculture, fisheries, health and industrial development. It is today's early career researchers who will be tasked with tackling these challenges in future. To generate the skilled people necessary, we propose an international PhD partnering between the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the areas of (1) understanding the climate system, including the ocean and atmosphere, and (2) developing capacity to cope with a changing climate. The proposed partnership will exchange PhD students in the fields of climate science (e.g. climate modelling, ocean science, atmospheric science), climate impacts (e.g. social science, international development, human health, agriculture, fisheries) and adaptation strategies. UEA and UCT are two universities with strong expertise in these disciplines. These strong and complementary centres and academics are brought here together in a formal arrangement for the first time. The PhD researchers will benefit from strong expertise in both UEA and UCT in a range of key and modern methods. They will learn the skills needed to fully develop as researchers and operate in a global research environment in their field. Our partnership includes world experts in the measurements of ocean currents, marine biogeochemistry and ecology, fisheries survey, and atmospheric trace gases, as well as experts in conducting fieldwork on climate change adaptation and on epidemiology. We also have expertise in the synthesis and analysis of global datasets such as the global temperature (CRUTEM) and global ocean CO2 (SOCAT), and expertise in the modelling of physical climate, biogeochemistry, and integrated assessments of impacts and adaptation options. Importantly, many of our academic staff are experienced in working in interdisciplinary teams, a skill that is becoming increasingly important to address issues related to climate change using the best possible solution. The exchange of 10 PhD students on each side will take place ideally in annual cohorts of 3-4 students, with an initial cohort of UEA students going to South Africa around February 2016, and an annual cohort of South African students coming to UEA around September. Students will be paired with someone of similar interests on both sides. This arrangement will create a support group for the students both for helping to quickly integrate socially and professionally and to be productive in advancing their knowledge, skills and connections quickly. Furthermore, at least three members of academic staff from each of UEA and UCT will also take part in the exchange, one each year. Additional exchanges are envisaged from projects that are already on going. The group will benefit from international visibility through their integration with the Tyndall Centre at UEA and the African Climate and Development Initiative at UCT, contacts with the staff developing the international Future Earth platform, and connections with staff members that play key roles in international efforts, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Research Programme.