Student Opportunity Announcements
IGERT Graduate Fellowships - Stressed Watersheds
UNL IGERT is looking for Ph.D. applicants interested in
ecology, limnology, or hydrology.
The University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) was recently
awarded an Integrative Graduate Education and Research
Traineeship (IGERT) grant from the National Science
Foundation. The UNL’s IGERT project is a multidisciplinary
graduate training program in resilience and adaptive
governance in stressed watersheds. Resolving complex water
issues requires the best and clearest scientific information
from interdisciplinary and integrative science. This program
will train the next generation of natural and social scientists,
managers, and policymakers by increasing scientific
understanding of how resilience – the ability to withstand
multiple stresses without losing critical structure and function
– is generated in complex systems of people and nature. It
will provide cross-disciplinary academic and experiential
training for a diverse group of doctoral graduate students in
natural, social and computational sciences. We envision
critical contributions from students in ecology, limnology,
and hydrology.
IGERT doctoral students will receive academic training in
resilience and adaptive management and will participate in
externships and workshops that expose them to real-world
applications that transfer knowledge in a way that is useful to
policymakers. Local, state and federal agencies will help
shape curricula in natural science, policy and law by
developing student research externships. Students will
benefit from an international experience comparing
compromised watersheds in the Great Plains of the United
States to similarly challenged watersheds in Europe. This
program will assist in fundamentally changing academic
culture by coalescing students and faculty from natural
science, social science, computational science and law around
a common goal: the responsible management of over-
appropriated watersheds. IGERT is an NSF-wide program
intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D.
scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary
background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the
technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the
career demands of the future. Stipends for graduate study are
$30,000 per year, for up to three years, along with tuition
remission.
For more information about the UNL IGERT project, see
http://www.igert.org/projects/220 and/or
http://snr.unl.edu/igert/. For questions or more information
please contact Dr. Craig Allen at callen3@unlnotes.unl.edu or
any of the other members of the coordinating committee
listed on the website.