[Grad-postdoc-assn] [Fwd: Environmental Research Design Charrette
Announcement]
Maura Hagan
hagan at ucar.edu
Sun Apr 30 11:02:56 MDT 2006
Hi all-
Appended please find the announcement of an interesting opportunity
for graduate students. See the web site for additional details and pass
this information along as appropriate. Thanks.
--Maura
>
>In case you missed this, I wanted to draw your
>attention to a project I am running this summer
>that should be of interest to some of your
>students! It is called the Snowbird Charrette in
>Environmental Research Design.
>http://snowbirdcharrette.ssrc.org/ (see summary
>below sig line or attached to PDF).
>
>I hope you will circulate the announcement
>widely to relevant and interested parties.
>
>Best,
>
>Diana
>
>______________________
>
>*Diana Rhoten**, PhD*
>Program Director
>Knowledge Institutions
>Social Science Research Council
>810 7th Avenue, 31st Floor
>New York, NY 10019
>
>+1 212.377.2700 x605
>rhoten at ssrc.org <mailto:rhoten at ssrc.org>
>
>http://www.ssrc.org/staff/viewstaffmember.perl?sid=97
>
>*SNOWBIRD CHARRETTE IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGN *
>
>*The Objective*
>
>Complex environmental problems face the world in
>growing numbers. The sciences will be tapped
>like never before to generate effective and
>sustainable solutions. Research programs to
>develop the required knowledge will be radically
>interdisciplinary. And graduate students
>training in the environmental sciences today
>will be the driving force in their development.
>
>How can the environmental sciences employ the
>breadth of multiple scientific perspectives
>necessary to engage complex environmental
>problems while maintaining the scientific rigor
>necessary to produce new knowledge? How should
>researchers trained in different disciplines
>work together to produce ground breaking
>research? What innovations in environmental
>science will result from such collaborations?
>
>If the environmental sciences are to meet their
>challenges we will need answers to these
>questions. The Snowbird Charrette in
>Environmental Research Design is a unique,
>innovative project that aims to understand how
>environmental science can effectively engage in
>interdisciplinary problem solving. And we're
>asking young scientists interested in
>environmental research to help.
>
>*The Opportunity*
>
>From August 24-28, 2006, we will bring together
>graduate students from across the sciences to
>the Cliff Lodge resort in Snowbird, Utah to
>participate in an environmental science
>"charrette." A charrette is an intense exercise
>in tight-deadline problem solving. Since their
>inception by the faculty of architecture at the
>École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, charrettes have
>been used widely by architects, designers, urban
>planners, engineers, and researchers in the
>environmental sciences to generate bold new
>ideas in a limited timeframe.
>
>Participants will receive a multi-faceted
>environmental problem and have two and a half
>days to design a research program to address it.
>Participants will be assembled into small
>interdisciplinary teams whose members have
>diverse scientific training and interests.
>Working together they will design a research
>plan for a large scale interdisciplinary project
>complete with a proposed problem statement,
>hypotheses, and methods for collecting and
>analyzing data. The teams will convene to
>present their proposals to a panel of leading
>scientists with expertise from across the
>environmental sciences. Participants will:
>
> * exercise individual scientific talents in an intense collaborative
> project;
> * test their skills in research conceptualization, design and
> presentation;
> * meet other young scientists and future colleagues from around the
> country;
> * advance the environmental sciences through the improvement of
> graduate education and research;
> * engage leading scientists from the environmental research community;
> * travel all-expenses-paid to the Cliff Lodge resort in Snowbird, Utah;
> * receive a $200 stipend.
>
>The Snowbird Charrette is not a competition, but
>rather an exploration of innovative thinking in
>environmental research. The panel of experts
>will be looking for scientific inspiration,
>intellectual integrity, research novelty,
>project feasibility, and broader potential
>impact.
>
>*This project is co-hosted by the Social Science
>Research Council and Arizona State University
>with funding from the National Science
>Foundation.*
>
--
Maura Hagan
Director, Advanced Study Program
Senior Scientist, High Altitude Observatory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
+1-303-497-1537
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