Dear all, Please share the following announcement with your research groups and networks. Best regards. João Azevedo -------- Mensagem reencaminhada -------- Assunto: NASA-MSU Awards Data: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:16:58 +0000 De: Liu, Jianguo (Jack) &lt;liuji(a)msu.edu&gt; Para: Liu, Jianguo (Jack) &lt;liuji(a)msu.edu&gt; Dear Colleagues and Friends, I would appreciate your help in sharing the following opportunity with potentially interested individuals (e.g., students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and researchers). Many thanks! *** NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards *** With support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Michigan State University (MSU), NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards <https://www.canr.msu.edu/csis/education/nasa_msu_award/> are given to students, postdocs, and junior researchers (e.g., assistant professors) to cover expenses associated with attending the meeting of IALE-North America <https://www.ialena.org/annual-meeting.html> (North America Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology), which will be held in Athens, Georgia, April 26-30, 2026. This will be the 25th anniversary of the NASA-MSU Program. The application materials include a cover letter, application form, abstract, resume/CV, and budget. *The abstract should also have been submitted to the IALE-NA meeting website <https://www.ialena.org/abstracts.html>*. Applications are judged based on the merits of the applicants' abstracts, financial needs, and professional backgrounds and goals. Presentations (oral or poster) should focus on telecoupling <https://www.canr.msu.edu/telecoupling/> (environmental-socioeconomic interactions over distances, such as human and animal migration, species dispersal, species invasion, disease spread, sound/noise transmission, spread of pollutants and wastes, trade of goods and products, flows of ecosystem services, environmental and hydrological flows, foreign investment, technology transfer, water transfer, and tourism) and/or metacoupling <https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/national-science-review-leveraging-the-metacoupling-framework-for-sustainability-science-and-global-sustainable-development>. Topics may include applications of the telecoupling framework <https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/framing-sustainability-telecoupled-world> or metacoupling framework <https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/integration-across-metacoupled-world> to address issues across landscapes or coupled human and natural systems (e.g., dynamics, pattern, process, structure, function, and sustainability). For more information about coupled human and natural systems, please see: Science <https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/complexity-coupled-human-and-natural-systems> and Ambio <https://www.canr.msu.edu/csis/archive/chans_ambio_2007.pdf>. Awardees will also have opportunities to interact with some leading scientists and other meeting attendees, including a special dinner on April 27, and telecoupling / metacoupling workshop #4  (_https://www.ialena.org/workshops-2026.html <https://www.ialena.org/workshops-2026.html>_ ) and symposium #5 (https://www.ialena.org/symposia-2026.html <https://www.ialena.org/symposia-2026.html>). Students, postdocs, and other junior scholars (e.g., assistant professors) from around the world (except former award recipients) are welcome to apply. Please apply here <https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9nsQ6KiZMNCyWFg> (https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9nsQ6KiZMNCyWFg <https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9nsQ6KiZMNCyWFg>) . The application deadline is *December 15, 2025*. Questions can be directed to: Dr. Jianguo (Jack) Liu <http://csis.msu.edu/people/jianguo-liu> Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Michigan State University East Lansing, MI  48824, USA liuji(a)msu.edu