UMEB: Anthropogenic Stresses on Natural Ecosystems

该项目为少数民族学生提供丰富的教育和研究经验，重点研究人类对自然生态系统的影响。目标是为学生提供研究技能和基于他们的成就的信心，从而鼓励他们追求环境生物学的职业生涯。教师将参加研讨会，以促进与少数群体学生的有效指导关系。在最初的学生培训（包括实验室轮转）之后，学生将与他们选择的导师密切合作。学生将参与严格但支持性的研究设置，从而完成并展示一个独立的项目。为了促进社区意识，学生和教师将参加小组活动，讨论科学的实践和影响，并探索主题。人类压力对环境的影响仍然是一个迫切需要深入调查的问题。这些后果包括土地（农业、林业和城市化）和海洋（拖网捕鱼、疏浚和倾倒废物）的转变，以及生物地球化学循环的改变和生物多样性的减少。学生们将直接推进积极的研究项目来解决这些影响。参加该项目的学生将来自受人类活动高度影响的城市社区。他们将积极参与与他们的环境有关的科学研究，研究的好处将是显而易见的。这群城市学生将有更大的可能性在项目之外继续他们的学习，并为环境生物学领域带来独特而重要的视角。

0080288WrubelThis program provides underrepresented minority students with an enriched educational and research experience, focused on the theme of human impacts on natural ecosystems. The goal is to provide students with research skills and with confidence based on their accomplishments, thus encouraging them to pursue careers in environmental biology. Faculty will participate in workshops to facilitate effective mentoring relationships with students from minority groups. After an initial student orientation including laboratory rotations, students will work closely with their chosen mentor. Students will engage in rigorous yet supportive research settings, leading to the completion and presentation of an independent project. To promote a sense of community, students and faculty will participate in group activities discussing the practice and implications of science, and exploring the theme. The consequences of human stresses on the environment remain a pressing issue requiring intense investigation. These consequences range from transformation of the land (agriculture, forestry and urbanization) and sea (trawling, dredging and waste dumping) to alterations of biogeochemical cycles and reduction of biodiversity. The students will directly advance active research programs addressing these impacts. The students joining the program will be drawn from urban communities with environments highly influenced by human activities. They will be keenly engaged in science involving their environment and the benefits of the research will be apparent. This urban cohort of students will have a greater likelihood of continuing their studies beyond the program and brings a unique and important perspective to the field of environmental biology.