REU Site: Biogeochemical Educational Experiences-South Africa

REU 网站：生物地球化学教育经验 - 南非

• 批准号: 0244130
• 负责人: Susan Pfiffner
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-05-15 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0244130&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Biogeochemical; Educational; Experiences

This is a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site, a summer program with an international venue of South Africa. The purpose of this project is to recruit and encourage the retention of underrepresented undergraduates within the United States (and, concomitantly, South Africa) in the fields of Earth and Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Engineering. The project will address the critical need to engage underrepresented minority students in science in the U.S. It involves immersion of undergraduate students in a cultural, scientific, and interdisciplinary atmosphere that relies on teamwork. The students will expand their knowledge base and their field and laboratory skills. They will gain an appreciation for interdisciplinary research in biogeochemistry of the subsurface, develop international networks among themselves and with established scientists, give presentations at local and national scientific meetings, and possibly choose to continue their careers in science.Seven underrepresented undergraduate students with previous formal education in geoscience, chemistry, microbiology, and/or engineering will spend seven weeks during the summer doing hands-on, hypothesis-driven research projects with several international multidisciplinary mentors. The students will experience interdisciplinary research and learn first-hand how that research is accomplished in the field: at South African mines, tailing ponds, and hotsprings. Facilities include the existing NSF-field laboratory near several mines at Glenharvie, South Africa, and the laboratories at UOFS. The student education and research program will include brief general lecture/laboratory sessions followed by mini-group tutorial/laboratory sessions covering a range of topics within the interdisciplinary LExEn research program. During this research experience, the students will perform experiments to test their research hypotheses. Mentors will provide guidance and instruction as they work side by side with the students.This project is jointly funded by the Division of Earth Sciences and the Office of International Sciences and Engineering.

这是一个本科生（REU）的研究经验网站，与南非的国际场地夏季计划。 该项目的目的是招募和鼓励在美国（以及南非）在地球和生物科学，环境科学和工程领域的代表性不足的本科生的保留。 该项目将解决在美国从事科学的代表性不足的少数民族学生的迫切需要，它涉及本科生沉浸在一个文化，科学和跨学科的氛围，依赖于团队合作。 学生将扩大他们的知识基础和他们的领域和实验室技能。 他们将获得地下地球化学跨学科研究的赞赏，在他们之间以及与知名科学家建立国际网络，在当地和国家科学会议上发表演讲，并可能选择继续他们的科学事业。和/或工程将在夏季花七周时间与几位国际多学科导师一起进行实践、假设驱动的研究项目。 学生将体验跨学科研究，并了解第一手资料，研究是如何在该领域完成的：在南非矿山，尾矿池和温泉。 设施包括南非Glenharvie几个矿山附近现有的NSF现场实验室和UOFS的实验室。 学生教育和研究计划将包括简短的一般讲座/实验室会议，然后是小组辅导/实验室会议，涵盖跨学科LExEn研究计划中的一系列主题。 在这个研究过程中，学生将进行实验，以测试他们的研究假设。 导师将与学生并肩工作，提供指导和指导。该项目由地球科学部和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。