Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Geosciences (REU Site)

地球科学本科生的研究经验（REU 网站）

• 批准号: 0097847
• 负责人: Douglas Christensen
• 金额: $ 6.63万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-04-01 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0097847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Experience; Undergraduates; Geosciences; REU

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.

克里斯滕森这项本科生研究体验 (REU) 现场资助将支持阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校地球物理研究所至少八名固体地球物理学本科生。该项目将为地质学、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各类研究的经验。该项目的目标是让本科生熟悉地球物理学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，并鼓励本科生继续进入这些或其他科学领域的研究生院。将特别鼓励妇女和少数族裔申请。在这个项目中，学生被分配与个别主要研究人员一起完成研究人员分配的项目。在与研究生的接触、参加研讨会和论文答辩中，学生将获得对研究生生活的准确看法。我们希望这个项目能够为本科生（许多来自小型文理学院）提供深入接触固体地球科学领域的机会，然后再做出关于研究生院的决定。此外，每周还会有一系列有组织的讲座和实地考察，让实习生接触到自己项目范围之外的其他研究领域。