REU: Ecosystems Studies at the H.J.Andrews Experimental Forest

该奖项为俄勒冈州立大学生物系提供了一个为期十周的项目资金，该项目将为10名生物科学本科生提供安德鲁斯实验森林生态系统研究的研究经验。这是一个涉及多个跨学科项目的地点，包括美国国家科学基金会资助的长期生态研究计划。学生将学习和发展技能，因为他们与来自多个学科的科学家在更大的协调研究中的单个项目进行互动和密切合作。为了促进学生的发展并监督他们在完成项目后从事的职业，项目计划分为四个阶段：概述阶段，解释综合生态系统研究；学徒阶段，培养技能；个人研究阶段，以及评估和后续阶段。根据学生的兴趣，他们将加入第二和第三阶段的合作科学家。该奖项的首席研究员将协调项目，组织概述阶段、实地考察和研讨会，整合学生和合作科学家，促进独立问题的进展，并评估结果。学生们将与其他研究人员一起住在野外研究站，这种安排鼓励课后讨论，并有助于打破学科之间的障碍。该项目将把有前途的学生安置在一个风景优美的研究地点，与一个跨学科的科学家团队一起进行科学研究，培养他们对生物学研究的热情。

This award provides funds to the Biology Department at Oregon State University for a ten-week program that will provide ten undergraduates in biological sciences with research experiences in ecosystem studies at the Andrews Experimental Forest. This is a site which involves several interdisciplinary projects, including the NSF sponsored Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Students will learn and develop skills as they interact and work closely with scientists from several disciplines on individual projects within the larger coordinated studies. To foster student development and monitor what careers they pursue after they complete the program, a 4-phase program is planned: an overview phase which explains integrated ecosystem studies, an apprenticeship phase to develop skills, a personal research phase, and an evaluation and follow-up phase. According to their interests, students will join a collaborating scientist for the second and third phases. The principal investigator of this award will coordinate the program, organize the overview phase, field trips, and seminars, integrating the students and collaborating scientists, facilitate progress toward independent questioning, and evaluating results. Students will be housed at the field station with other researchers, an arrangement that encourages after hours discussions and helps break the barriers between disciplines. The project will place promising students at a scenic research site with an interdisciplinary team of scientists to produce good science and develop an enthusiasm for biological research.