SOE Faculty Bell and Evans are part of team awarded nearly $3 Million by NSF to train future Arctic scientists

SOE Faculty Kathleen P. Bell and Keith Evans are part of an interdisciplinary research team that was awarded nearly $3 Million from the National Science Foundation to develop a new graduate program to train future Arctic scientists. Led by PI Jasmine Saros (Associated Director of CCI and EES Director), the interdisciplinary team will train 60+ graduate students to help address the socio-environmental challenges resulting from the world’s most rapidly changing environment. The new UMaine initiative, Systems Approaches to Understanding and Navigating the New Arctic, is funded by the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. Student training will include an interdisciplinary curriculum, Arctic field experience, and research focused on changes in Maine, southwest Greenland and the Arctic–North Atlantic. Kathleen and Keith will collaborate with colleagues from the Climate Change Institute (Jasmine Saros, Paul Mayewski, Kristin Schild, Sean Birkel), Department of Anthropology & Native American Programs (Darren Ranco), School of Marine Sciences (Lee Karp-Boss) and the University of Maine School of Law (Charles H. Norchi). We are excited to see the synergies between this NRT project and the active NRT project led by Dean/SOE Faculty Mario Teisl (One Health & Environment Initiative).

For more details about this new graduate training program, click here to access the full UMaine news release.