University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus IGERT Program: Natural-Human
Systems in the Urbanizing Tropics

Description: The NSF-funded IGERT program at the University of Puerto
Rico-Rio Piedras aims to train Ph.D. students to develop interdisciplinary
and collaborative research for environmental problems in urbanizing,
tropical landscapes. Puerto Rico has had a dynamic environmental history,
suffering nearly complete deforestation, then enjoying forest recovery,
and then experiencing urban sprawl as the economy modernized. This last
shift produced environmental problems, overlaid by changes in climate and
vulnerability to catastrophic storms, making Puerto Rico an ideal place to
conduct integrative research. IGERT research can focus on many topics
involving environmental themes in the urbanized tropics such as climate,
water, food security, renewable energy, waste management, biodiversity,
and urban system services. Fellows work together with natural and social
science faculty as well as government agencies, NGOs, and community groups
to develop dissertation questions that directed to environmental problems
in Puerto Rico and beyond.

Benefits: $30,000/year for two years; $2,000 for travel and education
materials; office, computer and software usage; reserved space in all
special courses and workshops

Website: http://envsci.uprrp.edu/igert
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Contacts: Rafael Rios Davila PhD, Program Director rafaelrios00...@yahoo.com
Sheila Ward, Program Associate Director sew...@hpcf.upr.edu
Colibrí Sanfiorenzo-Barnhard, Program Coordinator, uprrp.ig...@gmail.com

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Sheila Ward, PhD
Special Assistant to the Dean
College of Natural Sciences
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
PO Box 70377
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8377
sew...@hpcf.upr.edu
phone: (787) 764-0000 ext. 1-4735-#
fax: (787) 772-1413

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