River Basins Research Initiative NSF-REU Site

河流流域研究倡议（RBRI） NSF-REU站点将纳入15名大二或大三的本科科学专业学生，进行为期10周的跨学科研究项目，重点研究南卡罗来纳州北部河流系统的生物地球化学。其中9名学生将由NSF-REU资助，6名学生将由NSF-REU和波多黎各圣胡安大都会大学共同资助。参与该项目的教师来自地球与环境科学系、生物系和化学系，并开发了一个跨学科整合的模型系统。参与研究的学生将被介绍到各种分析系统，在跨学科团队中工作，并参与研究的各个阶段，从计划到样本收集，样本分析和数据分析。本研究项目的长期目标是量化人类对南卡罗来纳州北部布罗德河下游流域水生生物群的影响程度，并表征亚热带风化制度下的生物地球化学循环。

The River Basins Research Initiative (RBRI) NSF-REU Site, will incorporate 15 undergraduate science majors at the sophomore or junior level into an extensive 10-week interdisciplinary research program that is focused on the biogeochemistry of river systems in the upstate of South Carolina. Nine of the students will be funded by NSF-REU and six will be funded jointly by NSF-REU and the Universidad metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The faculty involved in this program are from the departments of earth and environmental sciences, biology, and chemistry and have developed a moded system for interdisciplinary integration. Students involved in the research will be introduced to a variety of analytical systems, work on interdisciplinary teams and participate in all phases of the research from planning, to sample collection, sample analysis, and data analysis. The long-term goals of this research program are to quantify the extent of human impact on aquatic biota in the Lower Broad River Basin in the upstate region of South Carolina and to characterize biogeochemical cycles in a subtropical weathering regime.