Graduate Training Program
Regional Resilience and Adaptation
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Target Application deadline: Sunday, 1 February 2004
Application consideration will continue after this date.
For further information, please contact:
F. Stuart Chapin, III (terry.chapin [at] uaf.edu)
or go to:
http://www.regional-resilience.uaf.edu
OVERVIEW
The University of Alaska Fairbanks offers a graduate training program in
Regional Resilience and Adaptation (RR&A). The goal is to educate a new
generation of scholars, policy makers, and managers to integrate the
perspectives of natural and social sciences in addressing both the basic
understanding of regional systems and the application of this
understanding to management issues.
Our underlying assumptions are:
(1) The major problems facing the world must be addressed at the
regional scale
(2) No solution is tenable unless it is ecologically, economically, and
culturally sustainable
EMPHASIS
Students will focus on a major challenge facing humanity: the
sustainability of desirable features of Earth's ecosystems and society
at a time of rapid change in all of the major forces that shape their
structure and functioning.
The program emphasizes high-latitude ecosystems, where current
management issues require an application of the integrated understanding
of these disciplines.
The program also incorporates cross-cultural communication through heavy
involvement with the Alaskan Native American community and with
managers, businesses, and conservation groups.
PROGRAM ELEMENTS
The RR&A program provides training at the PhD and Masters levels.
It integrates the tools and approaches of ecology, economics,
anthropology, climate dynamics, philosophy, and community and regional
development in a systems framework to understand the functioning of
regional systems.
The RR&A program is associated with numerous research programs at the
University of Alaska and in state and federal agencies. These research
programs provide interdisciplinary research opportunities for RR&A
students.
PROGRAM SPECIFICS
The program provides training to graduate students from the University
of Alaska and other universities who wish to enroll for one year of
intensive course work. A seminar program is provided as well. Faculty
mentorship and internships in areas outside each student's parent
discipline are available.
FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
NSF-funded fellowships to PhD candidates entering the program are
offered. Additional funding is available to both PhD and Masters
students through participating departments.
Target Application deadline: Sunday, 1 February 2004
Applications will continue to be considered after this date.
Ethnic minorities and other under-represented groups are strongly
encouraged to apply.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
F. Stuart Chapin, III (terry.chapin [at] uaf.edu)
or go to:
http://www.regional-resilience.uaf.edu