Research Experiences for Undergraduates - REU: The HERO REU Site

作为人类环境区域观测站项目(HERO)的一部分，该奖项为REU站点提供支持。HERO正在开发基础设施，以研究和监测当地全球环境变化的人类原因和后果。当地英雄将从宾夕法尼亚州、马萨诸塞州、堪萨斯州和亚利桑那州挑选三名学生参与该网站。学生们将通过参加为期两周的短期课程来开始他们的暑期研究活动，这些课程将向他们介绍研究全球环境变化的局部层面所需的概念和工具。短期课程结束后，REU的学生将返回他们的家乡州，在那里他们将在当地的英雄们进行平行的研究活动。由三人组成的REU学生团队将与一名教师研究导师、其他教师、博士后研究人员和在当地Heros工作的研究生一起工作六周。将向学生介绍地理信息系统、航空照片、遥感图像和地理定位系统等工具。这些活动将包括以下方面的测绘和实地检查：土地覆盖和土地利用；自然和技术危害；基本设施；可能易受伤害的社会经济群体、企业、工厂、资源开采和加工设施以及其他商业场所；以及重要的生物栖息地。学生们还将参加面试和焦点小组。他们将通过HERO远程协作(协作室)工具与其他当地英雄的同事保持联系。该奖项有助于基金会继续努力，通过活跃的本科生研究经验吸引有才华的学生进入科学职业生涯。

This award provides support for an REU-Site as part of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO). HERO is developing the infrastructure to study and monitor the human causes and consequences of global environmental change in local areas. Local HEROs will select three students from Pennsylvania, from Massachusetts, from Kansas, and from Arizona to participate in the Site. The students will start their summer research activities by taking a two-week short courses that will introduce them to the concepts and tools needed to study the local dimensions of global environmental change. After the short course, the REU students will return to their home states where they will conduct parallel research activities at the local HEROS. The three-person REU student teams will work for six weeks with a faculty research mentor, other faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students working at the local HEROs. Students will be introduced to such tools as geographic information systems, aerial photographs, remote sensing images, and geo-positioning systems. The activities will include the mapping and field checking of: land cover and land use; natural and technological hazards; essential facilities; potentially vulnerable socioeconomic groups, businesses, factories, resource extraction and processing facilities, and other commercial sites; and critical biological habitats. Students will also engage in interviews and focus groups. They will stay linked to their colleagues at the other local HEROs through HERO remote collaboration (collaboratory) tools.This award contributes to the Foundation's continuing efforts to attract talented students into careers in science through active undergraduate research experiences.