UMEB: Environmental Biology and Evolution of the Caribbean Basin

0102932 Francisco-Ortega位于迈阿密的两个机构，佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）和费尔柴尔德热带花园（FTG），计划一个多学科的两年计划，指导27名热带环境生物学的高级学生。该计划涉及13名FIU教师和FTG的教育专家。该计划的直接目标是让学生发展与环境有关的生物科学事业。为了实现这一目标，PI将指导一个关于加勒比地区自然历史、海洋和陆地环境以及保护生物学的指导方案。为了吸引高质量的学生，该计划将提供：助学金，三个新的上层课程，实地课程（在巴哈马和巴拿马），佛罗里达实地考察，实验室轮换，研究用品，旅行到专业会议，和职业定向活动。导师将提供学术，研究和职业建议。每个学生将产生并提出一个研究项目。该计划将由一个指导委员会进行内部和外部评估，两名外部评估人员和一个咨询委员会。FIU是美国领先的研究型大学之一，从科学代表性不足的群体中招收学生（71%是非洲裔美国人或西班牙裔）。从长远来看，这一方案将产生训练有素的环境生物学家谁将有一个积极的影响，对加勒比海-南佛罗里达地区的脆弱环境的保护。

0102932Francisco-OrtegaTwo institutions in Miami, Florida International University (FIU) and Fairchild Tropical Garden (FTG), plan a multidisciplinary, two-year program to mentor 27 upper-level students in tropical environmental biology. The program involves 13 FIU faculty and an education specialist from FTG. The immediate objective of the program is for students to develop careers in biological sciences relating to the environment. To achieve this objective the PIs will direct a mentoring program on the natural history, marine and terrestrial environments, and conservation biology of the Caribbean region. To attract high-quality students, the program will provide: stipends, three new upper-level courses, field courses (in the Bahamas and Panama), Florida field trips, laboratory rotations, research supplies, travel to a professional meeting, and career orientation activities. Mentors will offer academic, research and career advice. Each student will produce and present a research project. The program will have internal and external evaluations by a steering committee, two outside evaluators and an advisory committee.FIU is one of the leading U.S. research universities in recruiting students from groups that are under-represented in science (71% are African American or Hispanic). In the long term, this program will produce well trained environmental biologists who will have a positive impact on the conservation of fragile environments of the Caribbean - South Florida region.