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Resilience Internship

Projects:
IGERT: Global-Local Interactions: Resilience and Adaption...
Institution:
University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Primary Strategic Goal:
Learning: Build the Nation's research capability through critical investments in advanced instrumentation, facilities, cyber infrastructure, and experimental tools.
Secondary Strategic Goal:
Discovery: Foster research that will advance the frontiers of knowledge, emphasizing areas of greatest opportunity and potential benefit and establishing the Nation as a global leader in fundamental transformational science and engineering.

Achievement/Results

Student internships, typically completed during the first summer of study, continue to be a highlight of the program. Two examples of internships include D.Dayo, a Alaska Native PhD student, who spent the summer with First Nations of Yukon to compare the terms of land claims those of Alaska. C. Fabbri, also an IGERT Fellow, interned with the Yukon Inter-Tribal Watershed Council to develop an “Ecosystem Cycling Plan” that integrated the management objectives with science and traditional knowledge. We attribute the success of the internship to “learning contracts” written beforehand with on-site support people.

Address Goals

Many students report that internships shape their subsequent thesis research and provide insights into the challenges of translating the language of the academy to practitioners.

Posted By:
F. Stuart Chapin
Posted:
November 28, 2010