US-Costa Rica Cooperative Research: Participation of US Undergraduates in a Research-Oriented Biology Program

0000477 Hartshorthy的提案将资助10名本科生参加一个以研究为导向的热带生物学项目的差旅费、生活费、出版物和其他行政费用，该项目将在哥斯达黎加的热带研究组织（OTS）举行，由杜克大学赞助。 学生，从经济上处于不利地位和代表性不足的人群中选择，将被引入到热带栖息地的多样性，并通过与高级科学家和研究人员的互动和动手学习，指导当前热带生态学研究的科学原则，以及各种研究技术。他们还将接触到发展中热带国家面临的典型环境挑战。 哥斯达黎加是开展这一活动的理想地点，因为它拥有丰富的生态系统和生物多样性。 这项活动的目标是提高本科生的数量和多样性，为他们提供热带生物学方面的高质量国际经验。 国家科学基金会的支持将有助于吸引有前途的学生学习热带生态学，并熟悉国际竞技场的发展和保护问题。

0000477HartshornThis proposal will fund travel, subsistence expenses, publications and other administrative expenses for the participation of ten undergraduate students in a research oriented tropical biology program to take place at the Organization of Tropical Studies, (OTS), Costa Rica, under the auspices of Duke University. The students, chosen from economically disadvantaged and underrepresented populations, will be introduced to a diversity of tropical habitats, and through interactions with senior scientists and researchers and hands-on learning, to the scientific principles that guide current research in tropical ecology, as well as to a variety of research techniques. They will also be exposed to the representative environmental challenges facing developing tropical nations. Costa Rica is an ideal place for this activity because of its astonishing richness of ecosystems and biodiversity. The goal of this activity is to improve the number and diversity of undergraduate students being provided with a quality international experience in tropical biology. Support from NSF will aid the effort to attract promising students to tropical ecology and to become familiar with development and conservation issues in the international arena.