Collaboration to Integrate Research and Education in Marine and Environmental Science and Biotechnology

该奖项提供资金，以启动海洋科学硕士研究生课程，并进一步发展萨凡纳州立大学（SSU），历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和海洋学研究机构斯基达韦海洋研究所（SkIO）之间的教育伙伴关系。该计划将大大扩大少数民族学生在研究生阶段进行海洋研究的机会，同时参加HBCU。SSU和SkIO在过去三年中合作为本科生开发了一个非常成功的海洋科学项目。现有的计划包括SSU本科生在SkIO完成研究实习和SkIO教师在SSU任教的机会。这两个机构都从该方案中受益匪浅，该方案是在国家科学基金/人力资源开发的资助下启动的。 在承认本科课程的增长和成功，格鲁吉亚（USG）的大学系统批准了一个新的MS。在SSU的海洋科学学位课程。USG将提供新的师资队伍和资金建设一个新的建筑，以支持这一计划。该奖项提供资金，以启动MS。计划，而额外的国家资源被带到网上，而研究生的资金是通过传统的研究奖寻求。该计划可以为成功的合作提供一个重要的模式，这将增加少数民族对科学的参与。该计划的联合资金将由NSF的IGERT计划和海军研究办公室（ONR）提供。该计划的智力价值在于HBCU和主要海洋科学研究机构之间的合作研究生教育计划的发展。这种合作对这一领域来说是独一无二的，可以为地球科学和其他科学领域的这种努力提供一个模式。这个奖项应该产生两个重要的社会影响。首先，将建立一个独特的海洋科学研究生课程，并应在五年内制度化。其次，如果这个项目能够吸引那些不想读研究生或想进入其他领域的少数民族学生，那么获得海洋科学硕士学位的少数民族学生人数将大大增加。与IGERT计划的联系加强了最终这些学生可以选择继续在地球科学领域攻读博士学位的可能性。由于少数民族学生获得"物理科学"* 硕士学位的比例约为2.8%，（NSF出版物#00 - 327，表4 - 6），获得海洋或海洋科学博士学位的学生人数通常为每年一到两人（NSF出版物#00 - 327，表4 - 12），该计划可能会在五到十年的时间内对海洋科学毕业生的多样性产生重要影响。

This award provides funding to initiate a master's level graduate program in Marine Sciences and further develop an educational partnership between Savannah State University (SSU), a Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and Skidaway Insitute of Oceanography (SkIO), an oceanographic research institution. This program will greatly expand the opportunities for minority students to conduct marine research at a graduate level while attending an HBCU. SSU and SkIO have collaborated for the past three years to develop a highly successful program in marine science for undergraduate students. The existing program includes opportunities for SSU undergraduates to complete research internships at SkIO and for SkIO faculty to teach at SSU. Both institutions have benefited greatly from this program, which was initiated with funding from NSF/HRD. In recognition of the growth and success of the undergraduate program, the University System of Georgia (USG) approved a new M.S. degree program in marine science at SSU. USG will provide new faculty lines and funds for construction of a new building in support of this program. This award provides funding to initiate the M.S. program while additional state resources are brought on-line and while funds for graduate students are sought via traditional research awards. The program could provide an important model for successful collaborations that will increase minority participation in science. Joint funding for this program will be provided by NSF's IGERT program and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).The intellectual merit of this program lies in the development of a collaborative graduate education program between an HBCU and a major marine science research institution. Such collaboration will be unique to this field and may provide a model for such efforts, both in geosciences and other scientific fields. Two important societal impacts should be realized from this award. First, a unique graduate program in marine sciences will be established and should become institutionalized within five years. Second, if this program is able to attract minority students who either would not have attended graduate school or who would have gone into other fields, it should greatly increase the number of minority students receiving Master's degrees in ocean sciences. The link to the IGERT program strengthens the possibility that ultimately these students may choose to continue in the field of geosciences for a PhD. Since the percentage of minority students who receive Master's degrees in the "physical sciences"* is about 2.8% (NSF Publication #00-327, Table 4-6), and the number of students who receive PhD's in ocean or marine sciences is typically one or two per year (NSF Publication #00-327, Table 4-12), this program could have a very important impact on diversity of ocean sciences graduates within a five to ten year time-frame.