Three NSF Graduate Research Traineeships have been awarded for the first of five years of a new program supporting an integrated approach to the study of lake and stream ecology (see left and right column sidebars for abstracts of two).
The specific objective of the program, an outgrowth of NSF’s Freshwater Imperative effort, is to develop scientists who can work across environmental gradients and circumvent the intellectual barriers that traditionally have existed between lake and stream or river studies.
The traineeships are sponsored jointly by the Center for Streamside Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, and the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students will receive degrees from either institution, spending at least six months at the other university.
For more information:
- Washington: Rick Edwards, Center for Streamside Studies, 206/543-3507, ricke@pisces.fish.washington.edu
- Wisconsin: Charlotte S. Stein, Center for Limnology, 608/263-3264, stein@engr.wisc.edu