IRES Track II: Multidisciplinary Coastal Zone Hazards Institutes – France, Japan, Indonesia (NSF)
PI: Magaly Koch
The Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) program for U.S. graduate students is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF). It provides students with the opportunity to engage with global experts in coastal zone hazard research. Each year a cohort of 14 U.S. graduate students will participate in a two-week summer program to be held in one of the three participating research centers abroad, i.e., the University of South Brittany in France (2023), Tohoku University in Japan (2024), and the University of Diponegoro in Indonesia (2025). The program is jointly run with foreign site collaborators and U.S. collaborators at Boston University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Selected graduate students will participate in pre-travel virtual orientation, on-site orientation, two weeks of hands-on classroom, laboratory, field training, and cultural enrichment activities in the respective ASI sites. The training program will culminate with post-program follow-up activities.
BU website link: https://sites.bu.edu/nsf-asi/