Achievement

This IGERT is stimulating new faculty collaborations and grant proposals and new ways of thinking about research in connection with other disciplines. Faculty report that they see the bridge between social and natural sciences in a new light and understand how important it is to communicate research to cross-disciplinary audiences more than ever before; and they are considering new dimensions to their research questions that reflect work in other fields. Examples include gathering and study of “local knowledge” to examine and triangulate natural science phenomena, studying the interplay between geophysical and marine systems and human cultures, historically and cross-regionally, and interdisciplinary collaboration on a study of observations of climate change in subsistence fisheries. Faculty report that IGERT graduate students brought examples of this type of integrative research to them, i.e., they were being introduced to new forms of scholarship through student work.