2021 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Annual Meeting SHAPING 21ST CENTURY STEM GRADUATE EDUCATION Jan. 28-29, 2021|Virtual Meeting Overview Agenda (Note: All times shown are Eastern Standard Time) * webinar Day 1: Jan. 28, 20201 10:00-10:45 am: Welcome Remarks, Meeting Logistics: DGE/NSF Officials* 10:45-11:45 am: Breakout Sessions - I Theme A: What do I know now that I wish I knew then? PI's Perspectives - I Moderators: Mujdat Cetin (Univ. of Rochester 1922591) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Kristen A Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1449785) Lessons from Six Years of NRT Colin Phillips (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1449815) This toothpaste won't go back in the tube: from training grant to culture change Claudia Gunsch (Duke Univ. 1545220) Lessons of Experience: Optimizing Programming for Maximum Impact Cagdas Onal (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1922761) Our first year

Theme B: How do we know our NRT is working? Evaluator's Perspectives - I Moderators: Mary Anne Sydlik (Univ. of Georgia 1545433) Vinod Lohani (NSF ) Speakers: Shirley Vincent (Colorado State Univ. 1828902) Building Food-Energy-Water-Systems Graduate Education Capacities Cheryl Schwab (Univ. of California Davis 1734999) Video Conferencing and Participation Vijay Kanagala (Univ. of Vermont & State Agricultural College 1735316) Transforming STEM grad ed with an asset-based framework Lorenzo Ciannelli (Oregon State Univ. 1545188) The benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary team science

Theme C: Creating Niches: Interdisciplinary STEM Success Stories - I Moderators: Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2021871) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Sarah Klain (Utah State Univ. 1633756) Reconciling indigenous ecological restoration goals with a changing climate: Co-production of a land stewardship plan at Boa Ogoi Cultural and Interpretive Center Kevin Leonard (Univ. of Kansas 1922649) Internet of Catalysis Erica Smithwick (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1828822) Expanding the solution space in the Chesapeake Bay Sennai Habtes (Univ. of the Virgin Islands 1735222) A description of the approaches by the Strong Coast program to integrate teaching and mentorship from partner institution USF into curriculum and graduate education programs at UVI. This is to fill needed gaps of faculty expertise in Environmental Engineering, Systems Modeling, Anthropology, and FEWS.

Theme D: Adapting to COVID-19 - I Moderators: Victoria DeRose (Univ. of Oregon 2022168) Elizabeth Webber (NSF ) Speakers: Surita Bhatia (SUNY at Stony Brook 1922639) Refocusing Efforts and Building a Community of Support Vuk Mandic (Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1922512) Developing an NRT program in a pandemic Kiona Ogle (Northern Arizona Univ. 1829075) Adapting to COVID-19 Challenges Andrea Bertozzi (Univ. of California Los Angeles 1829071) Harnessing the Data Revolution in the Age of COVID19

11:45 – 1:00 pm: Working Lunch/Poster Session 1 Group Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Materials Science Kenneth R Carter (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst 1545399) NRT: Soft Materials for Life Sciences Kai-Mei Fu (Univ. of Washington 2021540) NRT-QL: Accelerating Quantum-Enabled Technologies Margaret Kowalik (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1449785) CoMET: A NRT on Computational Materials Science Raymundo Arroyave (Texas A&M Univ. 1545403) NRT-DESE: Data-Enabled Discovery and Design of Energy Materials 1A Juan De Pablo (Univ. of Chicago 2022023) NRT-HDR: AI-enabled Molecular Engineering of Materials and Systems (AIMEMS) for Sustainability Harley Johnson (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1922758) NRT-HDR: Data and Informatics Graduate Intern-traineeship: Materials at the Atomic Scale (DIGI-MAT) Andrew Jenny (Univ. of Kansas 1922649) Internet of Catalysis Catherine Brinson (Duke Univ. 2022040) NRT-HDR: Harnessing AI for Understanding & Designing Materials (aiM) Eduardo (EJ) Chichilnisky (Stanford Univ. 1828993) NRT-FW: NeuroTech - Bringing Technology to Neuroscience Tim Rogers (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison 1545481) NRT-DESE LUCID: A project-focused cross-disciplinary graduate training program for data-enabled research in human and machine learning and teaching Walter Wu (Univ. of Minnesota 1734815) Student Research Highlights from the CogniSense NRT Program Thomas Bifano (Boston Univ. 1633516) Neurophotonics at BU 1B James Magnuson (Univ. of Connecticut 1735225) Science of Learning & Art of Communication Jorge Maldonado De-Jesus (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1735252) Miniature Brain Machinery: Year 3 Brian Burrell (Univ. of South Dakota 1633213) Reimagining STEM Graduate Education at The University of South Dakota Siddhartha Sikdar (George Mason Univ. 1922598) Community-engaged STEM graduate training in disability-related research Claudia Gunsch (Duke Univ. 1545220) Integrative Bioinformatics for Investigating and Engineering Microbiomes (IBIEM) Program Overview Kristin Powell (Univ. of Colorado 2022138) Integrated Data Science (Int dS): Teams for Advancing Bioscience Discovery Dalton George (North Carolina State Univ. 1828820) Relationships between crop diversity-area patterns, productivity, and GE crop adoption in USA Agriculture 1C Michael Scanlon (Cornell Univ. 1922551) Team training to develop new hardware and software applications for digital plant science: predicting genotype to phenotype relationships across multiple scales Laura Galloway (Univ. of Virginia 2021791) NRT-URoL: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Phenotype: EXPANDing Training in Research and Careers Julius Lucks (Northwestern Univ. 2021900) Synthesizing biology across scales – a convergent synthetic biology NRT training program Julia Bailey-Serres (Univ. of California Riverside 1922642) NRT-INFEWS: Plants-3D (Discover Design and Deploy): Training Diverse Graduate Student Cohorts in Plant Synthetic Biology

1/8/2021 2021 NRT Annual Meeting 1 of 5 Jyothi Kumar and Tammy Long (Michigan State Univ. 1828149) IMPACTS: an intersection of plant and computational science Nicole Scott and Julie Dickerson (Iowa State Univ. 1545453) Predictive Plant Phenomics 1D Daniel Serrano (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1632976) COMBINE: Computation and Mathematics for Biological Networks Eamonn Keogh (Univ. of California Riverside 1631776) Using Robots to Capture Insects (for under $40!) Scott Saleska (Univ. of Arizona 2022055) NRT-URoL: BRIDGES-Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences Toccara Houston (Georgia Tech 1545287) Building a Skill Set With ARMS Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt Univ. 1922697) NRT-FW-HTF: Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE) Nancy Gaudette (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1922761) Future of Robots in the Workplace Kristin Dana (Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick 2021628) Socially Cognizant Robotics 1E Laine Mears (Clemson Univ. 1829008) THINKER NRT: The importance of technology-human interaction Jonathan (Joff) Silberg (Rice Univ. 1828869) NRT: A Bioelectronics Incubator for Training Students (BITS) at the Cell/Material Interface Victoria DeRose (Univ. of Oregon 2022168) The University of Oregon NRT in Molecular Probes and Sensors Thomas Chen (Colorado State Univ. 1450032) GAUSSI: Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information – A Trans-Disciplinary Graduate Training Program

1:00-2:00 pm: Breakout Sessions- II Theme A: Leveraging Diversity in NRT Programs Moderators: Victoria Interrante (Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1734815) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Nathalie Duval-Couetil (Purdue Univ. 1735282) A Diversity and Leadership Course for Trainees Lois Trautvetter (Northwestern Univ. 1450006) Lessons Learned for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Trainees Caesar Jackson (North Carolina Central Univ. 1633094) Sustaining an MS Bridge-to-PhD Program after NRT Funding Michael Scanlon (Cornell Univ. 1922551) Strategies for Diversity and Inclusion

Theme B: How Would You Design NRT 2.0? Moderators: Jennifer Leestma (Georgia Tech 1545287) Vinod Lohani (NSF ) Speakers: Robert Weiss (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. 1735139) Life after NSF funding Emily Padston (Univ. of Chicago 1735359) Bootcamps for All Evan Kuras (Boston Univ. 1735087) NRT’s as Change Agents: Design Interventions for Broadening Participation Thomas Bifano (Boston Univ. 1633516) NRT 2.0: Winning strategies for NSF and proposers

Theme C: Is My NRT Providing Added Value? Student's Perspectives Moderators: Julie Leibenguth (Colorado State Univ. 1828902) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Matthew Krugh, Chris Flathmann (Clemson Univ. 1829008) Contributing to the NRT Structure and Content David Cwiertny (Univ. of Iowa 1633098) Trainees perceptions on the value of internships to inform career pathways in engineering graduate education Joseph Graves (North Carolina A&T Univ. 1735258) The value of the NCAT NRT Experience - Student Perspective Tanner Cook and Colleen Yanarella (Iowa State Univ. 1545453) Organizing a student-led symposium within a national conference

Theme D: Miscellaneous Topics Moderators: Shafiqul Islam (Tufts Univ. 2021874) NCC MEMBER TBD (NSF ) Speakers: Timothy Miller (Univ. of Connecticut 1735225) The Other Thing: Leveraging New Media Methodologies for Broader Science Impacts Laurie Yung and Sarah O’Keefe (Univ. of Montana 1633831) Building Translational Skills to Better Connect Science to Practice Ana Bento (Indiana Univ. 1735095) COVID-19 Pandemic as an ideal problem for interdisciplinary graduate training Valerie Shirley (Univ. of Arizona 1735173) Decolonizing FEWS STEM education

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Networking Moderators: PIs, Co-PIs, and Senior Personnel Vinod Lohani (NSF) Program Evaluators Raquel Robinson (NSF) Program Coordinators Daniel Denecke (NSF) Trainees Elizabeth Webber (NSF)

3:00 – 3:45 pm: Lightning Talks: Group A Theme A: Successful science communication activities Moderators: Liz Moyer (Univ. of Chicago 1735359) Elizabeth Webber (NSF ) Speakers: Laura Klopfenstein (Univ. of Texas at Austin 1828974) Communicating science to general audiences Amy Sapkota (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1828910) Translating Science to Policy: Writing Effective Policy Memos Daniel Serrano (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1632976) Peer-to-peer tutorials for practicing science communication skills Anne McKinney (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1735252) Practice, Practice, Practice Fred Gould (North Carolina State Univ. 1828820) First know why you want to communicate Sarah Ryan (Iowa State Univ. 1828942) Partnership with our graduate college to build science communication skills

Theme B: Successful approaches to broaden participation Moderators: Luis Rocha (Indiana Univ. 1735095) Vinod Lohani (NSF )

1/8/2021 2021 NRT Annual Meeting 2 of 5 Speakers: Donna Kashian (Wayne State Univ. 1735038) Broadening participation is a commitment beyond NRT: Changing the approach for success Athena Bertolino (Univ. of Washington 1922004) Breaking Down Silos in Academia Steven Allison (Univ. of California Irvine 1735040) Anti-racist strategies for NRTs Chaoyang Jiang (Univ. of South Dakota 1828288) Recruit NRT Trainees from Various Disciplines Tamra Mendelson (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County 1922579) Broadening Participation in the Environmental Sciences Kimberly Weems (North Carolina Central Univ. 1633094) How Graduate Internships Support STEM Degree Persistence

Theme C: Successful professional skill development activities Moderators: Courtney Carothers (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks 2022190) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez (Univ. of Kentucky 1922694) Towards a multi-institutional approach to the transferable skill training of STEM students Ranjit Koodali (Univ. of South Dakota 1633213) Collaborative Efforts for Graduate Student Success Thomas Chen (Colorado State Univ. 1450032) Communicating science to K-12 students Angela Slates (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1922758) Developing Professionals at the Graduate Level: A multifaceted approach Derek Patton (Univ. of Southern Mississippi 1449999) Professional Skill Development via NRT Seed Grants McCauley (SUNY at Stony Brook 1633299) Professional development in a scaled-up STRIDE

Theme D: Successful COVID-19 Response Strategies Moderators: Catherine Brinson (Duke Univ. 2022040) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Melanie Derby (Kansas State Univ. 1828571) Covid-19 recruiting strategies Daniel Quinn (Univ. of Virginia 1829004) How to Continue Hands-On Learning Amidst a Pandemic Jon Kellar (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 1828462) Virtual Entrepreneurial Boot Camp Linda Silka (Univ. of Maine 1828466) Building Resilience in Interdisciplinary STEM David Beck (Univ. of Washington 1633216) MISSING TITLE Toccara Houston (Georgia Tech 1545287) NRT Programming During A Pandemic

4:00 – 5:00 pm: Poster Session 2 Group Data-Enabled Science and Engineering, Harnessing the Data Revolution Eric McChesney (Ohio State Univ. 1922666) Effects of a Level-Setting Bootcamp for Interdisciplinary STEM Students Emily Padston (Univ. of Chicago 1735359) Data Science in Energy and Environmental Research at Uchicago Kimberly Samuels-Crow (Northern Arizona Univ. 1829075) The T3 PhD program in ecological and environmental informatics Hillary Thalmann (Oregon State Univ. 1545188) Evaluating the potential effects of multiple environmental stressors on the Gulf of Alaska Pacific Cod fishery using a dynamic Stress-scape framework 2A Thomas Turner (Univ. of New Mexico 2021744) Object-based science and opportunities for convergence in education and research Alec Thompson (Univ. of Georgia 1545433) Environment, exotic ticks, and infectious disease risk Duygu Pamukcu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. 1735139) Impact of Hurricane Maria: An Interdisciplinary Study to Quantify the Impact of an Hurricane Katie Brown (Auburn Univ. 1922687) NRT Climate Resilience Program Paul (Stan) May (Univ. of South Dakota 1828288) NRT-DESE: Cyber-Physical-Social System for Understanding and Thwarting the Illicit Economy Ashley Podhradsky (Dakota State Univ. 1828302) NRT-DESE: Cyber-Physical-Social System for Understanding and Thwarting the Illicit Economy Jon Kellar (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 1828462) Collaborative Research: Cyber-Physical-Social System for Understanding and Thwarting the Illicit Economy Brian Logue (South Dakota State Univ. 1828492) NRT-DESE: Cyber-Physical-Social System for Understanding and Thwarting the Illicit Economy Erika Exton and Arynn Byrd (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1449815) Paying it forward: developing mentoring skills through an undergraduate program inspired by NRT 2B Cole Smith (Clemson Univ. 1633608) NRT-DESE: Preparing Resilient + Operationally Adaptive Communities through an interdisciplinary, Venture-based Education (PROACTIVE) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. 1545362) NRT-DESE: UrbComp: Data Science for Modeling, Understanding, and Advancing Urban Populations Ding Ding Zheng (Arizona State Univ. 1828010) NRT Citizen-centered Smart Cities & Smart Living: Interdisciplinary Success Stories at Arizona State University Shafiqul Islam (Tufts Univ. 2021874) NRT-HDR Data Driven Decision Making to Address Complex Resource Problems Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2021871) NRT-HDR: Data-Driven Sustainable Engineering for a Circular Economy Madelen Hem (Univ. of California Los Angeles 1829071) NRT-HDR: Modeling and Understanding Human Behavior: Harnessing Data from Genes to Social Networks James Pfaendtner (Univ. of Washington 1633216) NRT-DESE: Data Intensive Research Enabling Clean Technologies (DIRECT) Caesar Jackson (North Carolina Central Univ. 1633094) NRT-DESE: Interdisciplinary Research Traineeships in Data-Enabled Science and Engineering of Atomic Structure - Collaborative Research Ashleigh Wright (North Carolina State Univ. 1633587) NRT-DESE: Interdisciplinary Research Traineeships in Data-Enabled Science and Engineering of Atomic Structure - Collaborative Research 2C Michelle Paulsen (Northwestern Univ. 1450006) IDEAS - Data Driven Discovery in Earth and Astrophysical Sciences Derek Patton (Univ. of Southern Mississippi 1449999) NRT-DESE: Training Next-Generation Scientists with Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Competencies for Complex Interfaces (INTERFACE) Harley Johnson (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1922758) NRT-HDR: Data and Informatics Graduate Intern-traineeship: Materials at the Atomic Scale (DIGI-MAT) Alexander Criswell (Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1922512) Binary neutron star mergers and their remnants John (Jack) Stankovic (Univ. of Virginia 1829004) A Graduate Traineeship in Cyber Physical Systems Ramesh Balasubramaniam (Univ. of California Merced 1633722) NRT-DESE: Intelligent Adaptive Systems: Training computational and data-analytic skills for academia and industry Robert Harrison (SUNY at Stony Brook 1633299) NRT-DESE: Interdisciplinary Graduate Training to Understand and Inform Decision Processes Using Advanced Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization Luis Rocha (Indiana Univ. 1735095) NRT-DESE: Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and Systems 2D Padhraic Smyth (Univ. of California Irvine 1633631) NRT-DESE: Team Science for Integrative Graduate Training in Data Science and Physical Science Julia Kempe (New York Univ. 1922658) NRT-FUTURE at NYU: Creating a PhD in Data Science Borko Fuhrt (Florida Atlantic Univ. 2021585) NRT-HDR: Graduate Traineeship in Data Science Technology and Applications Mujdat Cetin (Univ. of Rochester 1922591) NRT-HDR: Interdisciplinary Graduate Training in the Science Technology and Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality

1/8/2021 2021 NRT Annual Meeting 3 of 5 Day 2: Jan. 29, 2021 10:00 – 11:00: Plenary Session: Graduate Education and COVID-19 Impact and Response* Moderator: Vinod Lohani (NSF) Speakers: Debra W. Stewart (NORC) and Craig Ogilvie (Montana State)

11:00-Noon: Breakout Sessions- III Theme A: What do I know now that I wish I knew then? PI's Perspectives - II Moderators: Julie Dickerson (Iowa State Univ. 1545453) Vinod Lohani (NSF ) Speakers: Eamonn Keogh (Univ. of California Riverside 1631776) Challenges and opportunities of “ultra” interdisciplinary projects Jeff Kelly (Univ. of Oklahoma Norman Campus 1545261) Supporting Students as Interdisciplinary Leaders Steven Allison (Univ. of California Irvine 1735040) Key lessons learned in establishing NRT curriculum Sarah Ryan (Iowa State Univ. 1828942) The external evaluator is here to help

Theme B: How do we know our NRT is working? Evaluator's Perspectives - II Moderators: Kathy Haynie (Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick 2021628) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Ryan Watkins (Wayne State Univ. 1735038) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Your Partners in NRT Success Gili Marbach-Ad (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1828910) Using Formative Evaluation to Develop Accountable, Responsive, and Effective Graduate Training Around Global Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus Issues Mark Crocker (Univ. of Kentucky 1922694) Initial evaluation results from the University of Kentucky’s NRT program – what’s worked and what hasn’t? Sarah Goan (Univ. of Maine 1828466) Lessons from Reflective Journals: Perspectives on Student Experiences and Program Success

Theme C: Creating Niches: Interdisciplinary STEM Success Stories - II Moderators: Julia Stoyanovich (New York Univ. 1922658) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Elizabeth Elmstrom (Univ. of Washington 1922004) Linking land-use history, hydrologic regime, and nitrogen sources in rivers of Western Washington Erick Jones and Maria-Elena Giner (Univ. of Texas at Austin 1828974) Energy and Water Solutions for a Local Urban Farm John (Jack) Stankovic (Univ. of Virginia 1829004) Challenges and Successes in Interdisciplinary Education Jon Kellar (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 1828462) Interdisciplinary STEM Success Stories

Theme D: Adapting to COVID-19 - II Moderators: Martha Gillette (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1735252) Elizabeth Webber (NSF ) Speakers: Tamra Mendelson (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County 1922579) Launching an NRT During a Pandemic Michelle Girvan (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1632976) Network Epidemiology in the Time of Coronavirus Mirit Shamir (Kansas State Univ. 1828571) Nurturing the Development of a NRT Scholar Community virtually to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic – Benefits and Challenges Katie Brown (Auburn Univ. 1922687) How to Engage Trainees Virtually

Noon – 1:00 pm: Working Lunch/Poster Session 3 Group Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems, Navigating the New Arctic Courtney Hunt (Univ. of California Irvine 1735040) Solving environmental problems from Ridge to Reef: the R2R NRT at UC Irvine Evan Kuras (Boston Univ. 1735087) Boston University Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health (BU URBAN): Training PhD Students to Tackle Urban Environmental Challenges Mark Urban (Univ. of Connecticut 2022036) NRT-INFEWS: Building resilient landscapes for food, energy, water, and ecosystems in America's megalopolis 3A Cynthia Houston (Univ. of Maine 1828466) NRT Enhancing Conservation Science and Practice: A Transdisciplinary Graduate Program for Conservation Leaders Laurent Pilon (Univ. of California Los Angeles 1735325) NRT-INFEWS: Integrated Urban Solutions for Food, Energy, and Water Management Tamra Mendelson (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County 1922579) ICARE: Broadening Participation Across the Environmental Sciences in Baltimore Harbor Megan Wallen (Wayne State Univ. 1735038) Transformative Research in Urban Sustainability Training (T-RUST) in the time of COVID Nancy Huntly (Utah State Univ. 1633756) Curriculum changes to improve program continuity and the student experience Misa Saros (Univ. of Maine 1922560) NRT: One Health and the Environment (OH&E): Convergence of Social and Biological Sciences Sybil Sharvelle (Colorado State Univ. 1828902) The Interdisciplinary Training, Education and Research in Food-Energy-Water Systems (InTERFEWS) Program Lauren Ashlock (Univ. of Vermont 1735316) QuEST Interest Group Network Supports Mental Health in STEM Graduate Education 3B Alice Agogino (Univ. of California Berkeley 1633740) NRT-INFEWS: STEM Training for Actionable Research and Global Impact Sennai Habtes (Univ. of the Virgin Islands 1735222) NRT-INFEWS: Systems Training for Research ON Geography-based Coastal Food Energy Water Systems (STRONG-CFEWS) - Collab Maya Trotz (Univ. of South Florida 1735320) NRT-INFEWS: Systems Training for Research ON Geography-based Coastal Food Energy Water Systems (STRONG-CFEWS) - Collab Amy Sapkota (Universiy of Maryland College Park 1828910) UMD Global STEWARDS (STEM Training at the Nexus of Energy, Water Reuse and Food Systems) NSF NRT Robert Kopp III (Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick 1633557) C2R2: Supporting the Next Generation of Climate Resilience Experts Gordon Holtgrieve (Univ. of Washington 1922004) NRT-INFEWS: Future Rivers: Training a scientifically innovative communication savvy STEM workforce for sustaining food-energy-water services in large and transboundary river ecosystems Cindy Etchison (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1828822) LandscapeU: new approaches for regenerative solutions in the Chesapeake Bay 3C Karina Nielsen (was Stillman) (San Francisco State Univ. 1633336) NRT-INFEWS: RIP-TIDES: Research Intensive Pedagogical Training of InterDisciplinary Estuarine Scientists Pernille Sporon Bøving (Univ. of California Davis 1734999) Sustainable Oceans - From Policy, to Science, to Decisions Jasmine Saros (Univ. of Maine 2021713) NRT-NNA: Systems Approaches to Understanding and Navigating the New Arctic (SAUNNA) Courtney Carothers (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks 2022190) Tamamta (All of Us): Transforming Western and Indigenous Fisheries and Marine Sciences Together Annie Pennella (Syracuse Univ. 1449617) Career Development at the Water/Energy Nexus: Early Outcomes Matthew Lackner (Univ. of Massachusetts 2021693) NRT-INFEWS: Enhancing Resiliency and Increasing Equity in the Transition to a Sustainable Energy Future Michael Solomentsev (Univ. of Texas at Austin 1828974) Innovation in FEWS training 3D Julia Parker (Univ. of Kentucky 1922694) IN FElloWS & an Academy of Innovators at the Nexus of Food, Energy & Water Systems Aavudai Anandhi Swamy (Florida A&M Univ. 1735235) NRT: SFEWS: Lessons learnt Rakesh Agrawal (Purdue Univ. 1735282) NRT-INFEWS: Sustainable Food Energy and Water Systems (SFEWS) -Collaborative Laurie Yung (Univ. of Montana 1633831) NRT-INFEWS:UM BRIDGES: Bridging Divides across the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus

1/8/2021 2021 NRT Annual Meeting 4 of 5 Jeff Kelly (Univ. of Oklahoma Norman Campus 1545261) Aeroecology NRT Lauren Davis (North Carolina A&T Univ. 1735258) IS4Good: Improving Strategies for Hunger relief and Food Security using Computational Data Science Abolhassan Mohammadi Fathabad (Univ. of Arizona 1735173) Optimization of solar-driven systems for off-grid water nanofiltration and electrification 3E David Cwiertny (Univ. of Iowa 1633098) Sustainable Water Development at the University of Iowa Micah Cameron-Harp (Kansas State Univ. 1828571) Towards resilience: Investigating the impact of endgun removal on irrigation in Kansas Tim Neher and Tiffanie Stone (Iowa State Univ. 1828942) Rural and Urban Issues in Midwest Agriculture Craig Allen (Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln 1735362) NRT-INFEWS: Training in Theory and Application of Cross-scale Resilience in Agriculturally Dominated Social Ecological Systems

1:00 -1:45pm: Lightning Talks: Group B Theme A: Successful sustainability strategies Moderators: Kai-Mei Fu (Univ. of Washington 2021540) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Denis Gray (New York Univ. 1922658) Evaluation of Newly Launched NRTs Aavudai Anandhi Swamy (Florida A&M Univ. 1735235) DEVA framework Lisa Auermuller (Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick 1633557) Communicating with Decision Makers Elizabeth Dickey (North Carolina State Univ. 1633587) Graduate Certificate Programs as Sustainability Strategy Jonathan (Joff) Silberg (Rice Univ. 1828869) MISSING TITLE Tom Cech (Univ. of Colorado 2022138) Sustainability through Endowed Fellowships

Theme B: Successful industry partnerships/internships Moderators: Mario Teisl (Univ. of Maine 1922560) Vinod Lohani (NSF ) Speakers: Julie Dickerson (Iowa State Univ. 1545453) Industry partnership as job placement Pamela Templer (Boston Univ. 1735087) Boston University Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health (BU URBAN) Troy McDaniel (Arizona State Univ. 1828010) Building an Ecosystem of Collaboration with Industry Partners Raymundo Arroyave (Texas A&M Univ. 1545403) A Successful Internship Program with AFRL Robin Rank (Univ. of Montana 1633831) I Speak for the Trees: Recording and Communicating the Benefits of an Urban Forest Jannick Rolland (Univ. of Rochester 1922591) An Industry-Academia-Government Consortium on Freeform Optics

Theme C: Successful approaches to broaden participation Moderators: Michael Scanlon (Cornell Univ. 1922551) Elizabeth Webber (NSF ) Speakers: Diane Boghrat (Ohio State Univ. 1922666) Building a Strategy for Diversifying the Trainee Pool Karen McNeal (Auburn Univ. 1922687) Faculty and Trainee Mentorship and relationship building to promote diversity Julia Stoyanovich and Armanda Lewis (New York Univ. 1922658) Teaching Responsible Data Science: Charting New Pedagogical Territory Kaylee Arnold (Univ. of Georgia 1545433) Re-thinking outreach Betsy Arnold (Univ. of Arizona 2022055) Broadening participation in ecosystem genomics through industry partnerships Haley Wohlever (Univ. of California Berkeley 1633740) Encouraging Interdisciplinary Connection, Remotely

Theme D: Graduate Students Session Moderators: Juan De Pablo (Univ. of Chicago 2022023) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Rebecca Bates (George Mason Univ. 1922598) Engaging in virtual team science Heather Zhou (Univ. of California Los Angeles 1829071) Bipartite Spectral Graphs for Gene Clustering Nikhil Muralidhar (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. 1545362) COVID/ILI Forecasting Research Alison Hall (Univ. of Vermont & State Agricultural College 1735316) QuEST Trainee-led Interest Group Networks Build Community and Expand Networks Christina Morrisett (Utah State Univ. 1633756) Successful Internship Experiences MISSING NAME (UCI PhD Student TBD) (Univ. of California Irvine 1633631) MISSING TITLE

1:45 – 2:30 pm: Closing Session w/ NRT POs* Funding Opportunities Next steps for the NRT Program Survey

1/8/2021 2021 NRT Annual Meeting 5 of 5