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

该提案将资助10名本科生参加由杜克大学赞助的哥斯达黎加热带研究组织（OTS）的热带生物学研究项目的旅费、生活费、出版物和其他行政费用。这些学生将从经济上处于不利地位和代表性不足的人群中挑选出来，他们将被介绍到热带栖息地的多样性，并通过与资深科学家和研究人员的互动和实践学习，了解指导当前热带生态学研究的科学原理，以及各种研究技术。他们还将接触到发展中热带国家所面临的具有代表性的环境挑战。哥斯达黎加是开展这项活动的理想地点，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，为他们提供高质量的热带生物学国际经验。国家科学基金会的支持将有助于吸引有前途的学生研究热带生态学，并使他们熟悉国际舞台上的发展和保护问题。

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.