Fellowship Opportunities Available
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
Polar Environmental Change
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
For further information, please go to:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~igert/
Or contact:
Lee McDavid
Email: Lee.Mcdavid [at] dartmouth.edu
Or:
Ross Virginia
Email: Ross.Virginia [at] dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, seeks applicants for the
new National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. Polar systems are at the forefront
of global change science research. This program supports the development
of an interdisciplinary graduate program in polar sciences and
engineering by merging expertise and facilities from science and
engineering departments at Dartmouth College with the U.S. Army Cold
Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), creating one of the
premier centers of scientific expertise in polar research.
The investment of Dartmouth's Dickey Center for International
Understanding and its Institute of Arctic Studies in forming
relationships with Greenlandic institutions and Inuit leaders provides
the opportunity for intensive field training in Greenland where science,
policy and indigenous issues of the north can be explored. Collectively
these experiences provide rigorous training in polar and related
sciences and will produce young scientists with an advanced knowledge of
the role of science in policy and of the ethics of conducting research
with indigenous people.
Research training will be coupled to a coordinated core curriculum that
will focus on three components of Arctic or Antarctic systems responding
to rapid change in climate:
1) The cryosphere - glacial ice, snow, sea ice systems;
2) Terrestrial ecosystems and biogeochemical linkages between the soil,
plant, and animal system; and
3) Human systems - the process of policy making in political and social
systems where western science and traditional knowledge provide
information.
Interested applicants should visit the Dartmouth IGERT website for
information on participating departments, requirements, and application
procedures: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~igert/.
For further information, please contact:
Lee McDavid, IGERT Administrator
Email: Lee.Mcdavid [at] dartmouth.edu
Or:
Professor Ross Virginia, IGERT Principal Investigator
Email: Ross.Virginia [at] dartmouth.edu
The Dartmouth IGERT encourages applications from minorities, women, and
individuals with disabilities. They especially seek to engage with
Native American students, as is Dartmouth's tradition, by offering a
graduate science program that is relevant to individual and community
needs.