[Ecoed] Research and Teaching Opportunity

[Margaret Connors]

*Research and Teaching Opportunity** at NCEAS: Distributed Graduate (and 
Undergraduate) Seminars*


The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, at the 
University of California, Santa Barbara (NCEAS), invites PI’s to submit 
applications for a unique research and teaching opportunity. Distributed 
Graduate Seminars involve faculty and students at multiple universities, 
distributed nationally or globally. Initially the scientific leaders of 
the seminar meet at NCEAS to collaboratively plan seminar courses that 
will take place at their own institutions, on the same topic, to address 
an overarching research question. Students at the participating 
institutions are then enrolled in these courses held simultaneously 
across sites, and each seminar leader teaches the seminar course 
in-person at his or her own institution. Each group works with local or 
regional data, interacting with other groups through web-based 
collaborative spaces (e.g., data entry portals). At the end of the 
seminar course representatives from each group come to NCEAS to conduct 
a “grand synthesis”. The seminar affords students the opportunity to use 
data-sharing tools, and to participate in collaborative and synthetic 
research. Seminar leaders benefit from the opportunity to collaborate 
with their colleagues at widely distributed universities while engaging 
in meaningful and creative pedagogy at their home institutions. A 
relatively high level of participation (~25%) from Minority-Serving 
Institutions is expected, and the participation of undergraduates is 
encouraged. PIs may be faculty, professional researchers, postdoctoral 
associates or graduate students. Proposals may originate from and 
include undergraduate institutions.

Previously funded DGS projects can be reviewed at:

http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/research/dgs

Proposal deadlines are twice a year. The next deadline is *July 14, 
2008. *Prospective PIs are encouraged to contact Deputy Director 
Stephanie Hampton hampton at nceas.ucsb.edu <mailto:hampton at nceas.ucsb.edu> 
during proposal development. For additional information and application 
instructions, go to:

http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/opportunity/rfp.html


Or, contact the Center:
Telephone: (805) 892-2500
Fax: (805) 892-2510
Email: proposal at nceas.ucsb.edu <mailto:proposal at nceas.ucsb.edu> 
<mailto:proposal at nceas.ucsb.edu>

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Margaret Connors
Outreach/Communications Coordinator
National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis
735 State St., Suite 218
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3351
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu
connors at nceas.ucsb.edu
Tel (805) 892-4728
Fax (805) 892-2510