NSF IGERT Fellowship Opportunities
Polar Environmental Change
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
For further information, please go to:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~igert/
Or contact:
The IGERT Program Administrator:
Email: IGERT [at] dartmouth.edu
Ross Virginia, Principal Investigator
Email: Ross.Virginia [at] dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth is seeking fall 2012 applicants for the National Science
Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
(IGERT) program in Polar Environmental Change. The program is based in
Hanover, New Hampshire.
Polar systems are at the forefront of global change science research.
IGERT is an interdisciplinary PhD graduate program in polar sciences and
engineering that merges expertise and facilities from science (earth
sciences and ecology, and evolutionary biology) and engineering science
departments at Dartmouth College with the U.S. 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 and organizations 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
produce scientists with an advanced knowledge of the role of science in
policy and the ethics of conducting research with indigenous people.
Research training is coupled with a coordinated core curriculum that
focuses on three components of arctic or Antarctic systems responding to
rapid change in climate:
- The cryosphere - glacial ice, snow, and sea ice systems;
- Terrestrial ecosystems and biogeochemical linkages between the
soil, plant, and animal system; and
- Human systems - the process of policy making in political and
social systems where Western science and traditional knowledge
provide information.
Applicants should visit the Dartmouth IGERT website first for
information on participating departments, requirements, and application
procedures: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~igert/.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~igert/.
Or contact:
The IGERT Program Administrator:
Email: IGERT [at] dartmouth.edu
Ross Virginia, Principal Investigator
Email: Ross.Virginia [at] dartmouth.edu