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Monday, January 10, 2011

University of Florida Water Institute Graduate Fellows

Overview

Watershed Management in the face of EPA's New Numeric Nutrient Criteria for Florida Waters

The goal for the inaugural Water Institute Graduate Fellows cohort is develop the new knowledge, and creative engineering, management and policy solutions needed to establish and achieve numeric nutrient criteria (NNC) for Florida’s waters. The education and research of each Fellow will evolve from specific problems and research questions related to management of Florida’s water and watersheds under NNC. The unique cross-disciplinary environment of our program will allow an integrated whole that will reflect disciplinary facets associated with this complex problem. Current components include Paleolimnology, Nutrient Best Management Practices, Hydrologic Processes, Riverine Nutrient Processing, Ecologic Consequences of Nutrient Enrichment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy and Governance and Systems Modeling. Elements of the program include:


Education - We will cultivate an educational experience to complement the disciplinary focus of each student’s research. The educational experience will blend experiential learning, academic course work, research, training and service. Each student will be required to take a set of interdisciplinary core courses. A special seminar, involving both faculty and students, will focus on social, ethical and scientific domains as they relate to the program’s focus.


Research – Each Fellow will have a disciplinary home and will craft a dissertation around a topic and disciplinary facet of interest to them while contributing to the team’s overall research theme of watershed management and policy in the face of Numeric Nutrient Criteria. Research will be conducted in an intellectual environment of shared learning that fosters integrative thinking and cross-training in engineering and the biophysical and social sciences. Each participating faculty and fellow will bring her/his disciplinary expertise to the team and will be fully committed to developing an integrative, cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving and management.


Service - We will foster ethical responsibility and civic involvement through core coursework and the special seminar. We will involve undergraduate students in classes, research and field activities under the mentorship of Fellows. We will engage Fellows in outreach activities as part of the Water Institute’s Programs and Symposia.

Application Procedures


Students in the social sciences, natural sciences and engineering who are 1) interested in integrative, cross-disciplinary research, 2) have a passion for understanding interactions between human and natural systems, and 3) are interested in watershed nutrient dynamics, management and policy are encouraged to apply for this PhD Fellowship program. Persons from groups traditionally under-represented in science and engineering professions are particularly encouraged to apply.

Note that the application process involves applying to both the University and the Water Institute Graduate Fellows program separately. Application deadline February 11, 2011.

Part 1: University Application

Doctoral students are admitted to the University through a department, not to the Water Institute Graduate Fellows program directly. Therefore you must contact a faculty member from our list of affiliated faculty, whose interests and departmental affiliation are consistent with your interests, and make an application to the University of Florida Graduate School through their academic department. See http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/prospectivegraduate.html for Graduate School information.

Part 2: Water Institute Graduate Fellow Program Application

Timeline

Applications will be accepted through February 11, 2011. Promising applicants will be invited to visit University of Florida to meet the program faculty and other potential students during March 4-6th, 2011. Students will be notified of decisions by E-mail no later than March 15, 2011. SELECTED STUDENTS WILL HAVE TO REPORT TO THE UNIVERSITY BY AUGUST 8th, 2011.

Part 3. Online Application

Click here to begin on-line application.


http://waterinstitute.ufl.edu/WIGF/Overview.html


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