The goal of the University of Connecticut’s National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grant is to use the northeastern U.S. megalopolis as a living laboratory to understand, predict, manage, and communicate risks to food, energy, water, and ecosystems (FEWES) in the face of global change. The Team-based Transdisciplinary, Estimation of Risks, Real-world Analysis (Team-TERRA) uses three novel, cross-cutting approaches to graduate education:

(a) active collaborating learning

(b) problem-based learning

(c) service learning, to achieve training and research goals.