ERF99 Involvement of Undergraduate Students: Emphasis on Minority, Women and Disabled Persons Representation

这笔赠款为未获充分代表的本科生提供资金，让他们在河口研究联合会1999年会议(ERF99)上展示他们所参与的沿海海洋研究的科学海报。这次会议是科学家、政府资源管理人员和关注河口的教育工作者的杰出聚会，每两年举行一次。选定的学生与导师(河口研究和研究领域的知名人士)配对，作为一个小组聚集在一起，通过每天的活动讨论、分享和确保具有教育意义的独特和有益的学习经历。这一努力的长期目标是通过早期吸引本科生进入这些领域，增加少数族裔对近海研究、管理和政策的参与。

This grant provides the funding resources for undergraduate under-represented students to present a scientific poster of coastal ocean research they were involved in at the Estuarine Research Federation's 1999 meeting (ERF99). This meeting is the preeminent gathering of scientists, governmental resource managers and educators concerned with estuaries and occurs every 2 years. Selected students are paired with mentors (established individuals in estuarine research and studies) and gather as a group to discuss, share and ensure an educationally distinctive and rewarding learning experience through each day's events. The long range goals of this effort is to increase minority involvement in near-coastal research, management and policy through early attraction of undergraduate students into these fields.