Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Geosciences (REU Site)

这项面向本科生的研究经验(REU)现场资助将支持阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学地球物理研究所至少八名固体地球物理学本科生。该计划将为地质学、地球物理学、物理学和密切相关学科的本科生提供在地球物理研究所进行的研究类型的经验。该计划的目标是让本科生了解地球物理各个领域令人兴奋的研究机会，重点是地震学、火山学、地质年代学、地球化学、古地磁学、大地测量学、构造学、冰川和海冰以及遥感，并鼓励本科生继续在这些或其他科学领域研究生院学习。将特别鼓励妇女和少数族裔申请。在这个项目中，学生被指派与个别主要调查人员就调查人员布置的项目进行合作。在与研究生的接触中，通过参加研讨会和论文答辩，学生将对研究生的生活有一个准确的看法。我们希望，这个项目将使本科生，其中许多来自小型文科学院，在他们必须决定是否进入研究生院之前，有机会深入接触固体地球科学领域。此外，还将组织一系列每周讲座和实地考察，让实习生接触到他们自己项目范围之外的其他研究领域。

ChristensenThis Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site grant will support a minimum of eight undergraduates in Solid Earth Geophysics at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The program will give undergraduates majoring in geology, geophysics, physics, and closely related disciplines, experience in the types of research conducted at the Geophysical Institute. The program objective is to acquaint undergraduates with the exciting research opportunities in the various fields of geophysics concentrating on seismology, volcanology, geochronology, geochemistry, paleomagnetics, geodesy, tectonics, glaciers and sea ice, and remote sensing, and encouraging the undergraduates to go on to graduate school in these or other scientific areas. Women and minorities will be particularly encouraged to apply. In this program, students are assigned to work with individual principal investigators on projects assigned by the investigators. In their contacts with graduate students and by attending seminars and thesis defenses, the students will obtain an accurate perspective on graduate student life. It is our hope that this program will give undergraduate students, many from small liberal arts colleges, the opportunity for in-depth exposure to the fields of solid earth sciences before they must make decisions regarding graduate school. In addition there will be an organized series of weekly lectures and field trips to expose interns to other fields of research beyond the scope of their own project.