Collaborative Exchange Program
Integrated Network for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research on Feedbacks to theAtmosphere and ClimatE (INTERFACE) is an NSF-funded network that aims to improve projections of climate change by bringing together researchers working on climate models, ecosystem models, and on field based climate change experiments. To further facilitate collaboration in the research community, INTERFACE plans to sponsor a limited number of collaborative exchanges for US-based graduate students, in which students who primarily work with models spend a brief period (up to one month) working in an experimental setting, or students who primarily work on global change experiments spend a brief period (up to one month) working in an ecosystem or Earth system modeling setting. These exchanges should ideally allow the student to continue working on a similar topic, but from a different perspective. Interested graduate students should identify a laboratory in which they would like to work, and should secure approvals from their advisor and the exchange labs PI. To apply, students should submit as a SINGLE PDF file that contains (in this order): (1) a two-page proposal explicitly stating the questions being addressed and why the collaboration will facilitate answering them, (2) an NSF-style CV, (3) a one-page budget justification, and (4) brief letters of support from the advisor and the PI of the lab the student will visit. Files should be saved as APPLICANTS LAST NAME_FIRST NAME. Applications should be sent to Aimée Classen <[email protected]>. Applications will be reviewed starting on the fourth Monday of April and travel is expected to happen between May and September. Allowable expenses include airfare, meals while traveling to and from the exchange location, and housing. These funds cannot be used to cover classes at the host institution or student/ PI salary. Exchanges may be partially or fully sponsored by INTERFACE.
