REU SITE: Summer Research Opportunities in Enviromental Sciences in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of California

加州大学白山研究站这个REU项目将全国招募的本科生与有成就的学术科学家联系起来。将特别强调包括少数民族和女性学生，以便他们可以从研究和团队建设经验中受益。这些研究团队将在加州东部内华达山脉地区独特而具有挑战性的环境中工作，并将使用怀特山脉的四个实验室设施。这个REU站点将涵盖广泛的环境生物学研究，从高海拔生理学到种群生态学。这些项目将使学生接触到广泛相关的研究问题和最先进的技术，同时允许每个学生深入探索项目的一个特定方面。项目导师将通过支持学生的技术、后勤和组织需求来促进REU。在项目开始时，为期一周的指导将向学生介绍研究项目和导师，并为学生提供该地区的基本知识和团队建设过程。在教师导师的带领下，每周的研究小组会议将提供时间对前一周的工作进行传统的科学回顾。此外，学生还将以小组形式会面，讨论他们作为研究团队成员的进展情况。这个项目的一个重要重点是团队建设和积极的工作环境，以及学生在讨论和反馈过程中的直接作用。因此，这个REU计划的影响将是扩大学生对有效研究计划的理解和参与，同时产生有可能对特定领域做出重大贡献的研究

White Mountain Research Station, University of CaliforniaThis REU program will link nationally recruited undergraduates with accomplished academic scientists. Special emphasis will be placed on including minority and women students so they may benefit from the research and team building experience. These research teams will work in the unique and challenging environment of the eastern Sierra Nevada region of California and will use four laboratory facilities in the White Mountains. This REU site will encompass a wide range of environmental biology research, from high altitude physiology to population ecology. These projects will expose students to broadly related research questions and state-of-the-art technologies, while allowing each student to explore a particular aspect of a project in depth. Project mentors will facilitate the REU by supporting the technological, logistical, and organizational needs of the students. Week long orientations at the beginning of the program will introduce the research projects and mentors to the students, and provide the students with basic knowledge of the region and the team building process. Led by faculty mentors, weekly research team meetings will provide time for traditional scientific reviews of the previous week's work. Additionally, students will also meet as a group and discuss how they are progressing as members of their research teams. An important emphasis of this program will be team building and positive work environments and the direct role of students in the process through discussions and feedback. As a result, the impact of this REU program will be to expand a student's understanding of, and participation in, effective research programs while producing research that has the potential to contribute substantially to a particular