REU Site: Fluids in the Earth from Surface to Core

这是一个本科生研究经验（REU）网站，用于地质流体的实地，分析实验和理论研究。这个项目的研究范围从地表和近地表流体系统到地幔再到地核。每年将在全国招收14名本科生。学生们将以地球上的流体为共同主题进行研究。他们将参与各种研究活动，包括人类活动对岩溶和裂隙岩石含水层地下水质量的影响，湖泊的湖泊地质研究，以了解区域环境动力学，变质和火成岩系统中流体的化学和机械效应的评估，熔融对地幔岩石流变学的影响，以及使用科学可视化的地幔对流和岩心动力学的数值实践经验。该项目有许多特点，可以培养学员的体验。特别是，实习生参加了两个专题讨论会，他们在会上向彼此和部门成员解释他们的项目和结果。此外，他们还通过参加中西部地区（洞穴，冰川湖泊/河流特征，中部大陆裂谷熔岩）的实地考察，通过参观明尼苏达大学及其附近地区的各种实验室设施（岩石磁学，同位素地球化学，岩石力学，电子显微镜），接触到夏季研究之外的学科。实习计划的一个重要目标是培养暑期学生的社区意识，因为他们与未来的地球科学同事和朋友互动，因此该计划包括周末活动，如野餐，在苏必利尔湖划船，在双子城的湖泊周围骑自行车，参观博物馆。项目活动强调在不同研究领域进行的研究的联系和共性，以帮助发展学生之间的沟通和对广泛问题的理解，这些问题可以用相同的实验、分析和计算工具来解决。

This is a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site for field, analytical experimental, and theoretical study of geological fluids. Research in this program range from surface and near-surface fluid systems to the mantle to the core. Fourteen undergraduate students will be recruited nationally each year.The students will investigate topics with the common theme of fluids in the Earth. They will be involved in various research activities, including the impacts of human activities on groundwater quality primarily in karst and fractured rock aquifers, limnogeolgogy research on lakes to understand regional environmental dynamics, evaulation of the chemical and mechanical effects of fluids in metamorphic and igneous systems, the effect of melt on rheology of mantle rocks, and numerical hands-on experience with mantle convection and core dynamics using scientific visualization.The program features many attributes that foster a cohort experience. In particular, interns participate in two symposia in which they explain their projects and results to each other and to members of the department. In addition, they are exposed to disciplines outside their summer research by participating in field trips to Midwestern sites (caves, glacial lake/river features, mid-continent rift lavas), by touring a wide range of laboratory facilities (rock magnetism, isotope geochemistry, rock mechanics, electron microscopy) at the University of Minnesota and vicinity. An important goal of the internship program is to foster a sense of community among the summer students as they interact with future Earth science colleagues and friends, and so the program includes weekend activities such as picnics, boating on Lake Superior, bike rides around the lakes in the Twin Cities, and visits to museums. Program activities emphasize the connections and commonality of research carried out in diverse research fields, in order to help develop communication between the students and an appreciation for the broad range of problems that can be addressed with the same experimental, analytical and computational tools.