Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Kellogg Biological Station.

该奖项提供资金，用于在密歇根州立大学的W. K. Kellogg生物站（KBS）建立本科生研究经验网站。该计划将为本科生提供参与生态实地研究综合项目的机会，这被认为是培养具有解决复杂环境问题技能的科学家的重要组成部分。学生将接触到各种子学科的概念和技术，生态组织（从基因到景观），尺度和栖息地，通过每周由常驻和访问研究人员领导的研讨会。每周的小组会议将提供一个论坛，讨论研究思路和方法，生态学和进化生物学的概念方面，以及项目建议。每位学生将在教师导师的指导下开发并进行一个独立的项目，该项目将包括科学探究的所有阶段：识别和改进问题、实验和抽样设计、实地工作、数据分析和展示。研究结果将在今年夏末举行的REU研讨会上向KBS业界发表，并以论文的形式发表在科学杂志上。＊＊＊

9322378 Newman This award provides funds to establish a Research Experience for Undergraduates site at the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) of Michigan State University. The program will provide undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in an integrative program in ecological field research, which is considered an essential part of the education of scientists with the skills to address complex environmental problems. Students will be exposed to concepts and techniques from a variety of subdisciplines, levels of ecological organization (genes to landscapes), scales, and habitats through weekly seminars led by resident and visiting researchers. Weekly group meetings will provide a forum to discuss research ideas and approaches, conceptual aspects of ecology and evolutionary biology, and project proposals. Each student will develop and conduct an independent project under the guidance of a faculty mentor, which will include all stages of scientific inquiry: identification and refinement of questions, experimental and sampling design, field work, and data analysis and presentation. Results will be presented to the KBS community at an REU symposium at the end of the summer, and written up in the form of a manuscript for publication in a scientific journal. ***