REU Site: Ecological Research in the Northern Rockies, the Crown-of-the-Continent REU Program

大陆之冠REU计划为期10周，让10名高年级本科生沉浸在冰川国家公园及其周围的生态研究中。由蒙大拿大学平头湖生物站(FLBS)协调，这个基础广泛的野外生态学项目有丰富的研究项目组合，为REU学生在不同学科领域提供了许多机会：种群生态学、群落生态学、景观生态学、湖泊学、种群遗传学、保护生物学、生理生态学、微生物生态学、地貌学、遥感、生物多样性、信息学等。在流域到景观尺度的水生系统和陆地-水生相互作用的研究方面，FLBS处于国际领先地位。REU的学生与世界一流的科学家一起工作，扩展正在进行的研究的范围，跟进有趣的线索，探索新的领域。生物站研究项目的广度和跨学科性质为REU的学生提供了一个如何进行协作、综合研究的理解。REU的学生能够更好地从事科学事业，并更有能力理解社会背景以及科学与社会之间的互动。根据兴趣和教育，REU的学生与指导他们的科学家相匹配，他们带领他们度过概述和学徒阶段，并指导他们进行独立的研究项目。作为完整的团队成员，学生们沉浸在导师科学家的项目中，接触到研究的基本智力和后勤活动，从提出问题和假设，到设计实验研究，到开发实地采样和分析方法，再到通过书面报告和陈述进行沟通。暑期计划以REU研讨会结束，学生们在专业会议上展示他们的研究成果。研讨会在外研社的网页上做广告，并向公众开放。信息学部分提供了该REU计划的一个独特方面。每年夏天的10名学生中，有两名是因为他们对数据管理的兴趣而被挑选出来的，他们与他们的导师科学家和生物站的数据经理共同研究长期数据集。REU计划与FLBS已有100多年历史的暑期课程计划重叠。FLBS是一个全年的研究和教育社区，科学家、研究生、本科生和技术人员在大学的氛围中共同生活、学习和工作。夏季是一个特别充满活力的时间，REU的学生有多种机会在野外考察站的放松环境中与研究人员和其他学生互动。欲了解更多信息和申请材料，请访问www.umt.edu/flbs或通过jack.stanford@flbs.umt.edu联系杰克·斯坦福。

The Crown-of-the-Continent REU Program is a 10-week immersion for 10 upper-division undergraduate students into ecological research in and around Glacier National Park. Coordinated by the Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) of the University of Montana, this broad-based, field-ecology program has a rich mix of research projects offering many opportunities for REU students in different disciplinary areas: population ecology, community ecology, landscape ecology, limnology, population genetics, conservation biology, physiological ecology, microbial ecology, geomorphology, remote sensing, biodiversity, informatics and more. FLBS is an international leader in research of aquatic systems and terrestrial-aquatic interactions at watershed to landscape scales. REU students work alongside world-class scientists extending the scope of ongoing research, following up on interesting leads and exploring new areas. The breadth and interdisciplinary nature of the Bio Station's research program provides the REU students with an understanding of how collaborative, integrative research is conducted. REU students become better equipped to pursue a career in science, and more capable of understanding the social context and interaction between science and society. Based on interests and education, REU students are matched with mentor scientists who lead them through overview and apprenticeship phases and guide them in an independent research project. Students are immersed in the mentor scientist's projects as full team members becoming exposed to the basic set of intellectual and logistical activities of research, from the formulation of questions and hypotheses, to designing experimental studies, to developing field sampling and analytical methods, to communication via written reports and presentations. The summer program concludes with an REU Symposium where students present the results of their research as at a professional meeting. The Symposium is advertised on the FLBS web page and open to the public. An informatics component provides a unique aspect of this REU Program. Two students of the 10 in each summer's cohort are selected for their interest in data management and work jointly with their mentor scientist and the Biological Station's data manager on a long-term data set. The REU Program overlaps with FLBS's 100-plus year-old program of summer classes. FLBS is a year-round research and educational community where scientists, graduate students, undergraduate students and technicians live, study and work together in a collegial atmosphere. Summer is an especially dynamic time with multiple opportunities for REU students to interact with researchers and other students in the relaxed setting of a field station. For further information and application materials, please visit www.umt.edu/flbs or contact Jack Stanford at jack.stanford@flbs.umt.edu.