REU Site: Undergraduate Field Geology and Environmental Science Research in Northern Arizona

该项目的目标是继续并扩大在科罗拉多高原和亚利桑那州过渡区的本科生研究工作，将有主要来自北亚利桑那大学的学生参与，但也有来自其他大学的学生。研究工作将集中在地质测绘和环境科学上。这个项目将为学生提供在由美国国家科学基金会和美国地质调查局资助的正在进行的合作研究项目网络的背景下制作、编辑和解释地质图的机会。测绘和地图汇编将通过传统技术和使用计算机辅助测绘设施进行。环境科学本科生需要实地经验来收集与环境问题相关的数据，并需要动手分析这些数据。指导将由每个学生与一名教师导师/导师配对提供，但要在科罗拉多高原和过渡区的部门研究重点内进行。连续性对于培养顶尖研究人员很重要；学生将被鼓励在大三(偶尔从大二开始)开始研究，并在整个本科课程中继续下去。

The goal of this project is to continue and expand an undergraduate research effort in the Colorado Plateau and Transition Zone of Arizona that will involve students primarily from Northern Arizona University, but also from other universities. The research effort will focus upon geological mapping and environmental sciences. This project will offer students the opportunity to make, compile, and interpret geological maps within the context of a network of on-going collaborative research projects funded by the NSF and the U. S. Geological Survey. Mapping and map compilation will be performed by conventional techniques and by using computer-assisted mapping facilities. Environmental sciences undergraduates need field experience to collect data relevant to environmental problems, and hands-on analytical experience to analyze these data. Supervision will be supplied by pairing each student with a faculty supervisor/mentor, but within the departmental research focus on the Colorado Plateau and Transition Zone. Continuity is important in developing top researchers; students will be encouraged to start research as juniors (and occasionally as sophomores and continue throughout their undergraduate program.