UC Davis Receiving $3 Million Award to Train STEM and Marine Science Ph.D. Students
This article originally appeared as UC Davis news.
The University of California, Davis, is receiving a nearly $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to train the next generation of marine scientists under a new paradigm that puts a focus on policy at the front end of research.
Beginning in fall 2018, the research traineeship, “Sustainable Oceans: From Policy to Science to Decisions,” will train scientists to generate their research questions by first asking what decisions are facing policymakers. The program’s creators envision a future where researchers, policymakers and educators seamlessly integrate natural and socioeconomic information, and improve the scientific basis of decision-making in managing coastal natural resources.
Over five years, the $2,999,884 program anticipates training 60 Ph.D. students, including 30 funded trainees, from science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields. This includes ecology, conservation biology, economics, geology, physiology, biogeochemistry and oceanography.