Achievement

A group of eight IGERT trainees and associates organized a formal seminar in adaptive governance, a topic that they felt to be key to understanding social-ecological resilience, the theme of our IGERT. They selected and discussed key readings and invited outside speakers with hands-on experience in policy and natural resource governance to join them in these discussions. In this course, motivated students guided faculty in collaborative learning. This is the second course initiated and taught be IGERT students. The other course is a survey of key social- and natural-science methods that students wanted exposure to as they begin to design their thesis. This methods course is now in its third year and has been an important way in which the IGERT program opens its educational perspective to the broader university community.