REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学山区研究站每年夏天将接待10名学生参加为期10周的REU行为、生态和进化课程。 我们的目标是为学生提供理解和进行生物学研究所需的工具，并鼓励学生，特别是那些来自教授中代表性不足的群体的学生，攻读生物学研究生学位，并最终在高校从事教学和研究工作。一个多元文化的学生参与者群体的招聘将基于他们的教师导师，职业目标和学术成就的适当学科的兴趣。该计划的学生将参加为期一周的实地研究密集方向，然后将在夏季的剩余时间里从事教师指导的个人项目。 教师导师来自博尔德科罗拉多大学生态学和进化生物学系，有活跃的研究项目，并致力于指导本科生。 学生的项目可以集中在诸如水质和高山湖泊和溪流的社区生态学，高山和亚高山陆地生态系统的地球化学和社区生态学，植物适应在山地环境中繁殖和生存的进化，社会昆虫和鸟类的行为生态学，以及鱼类择偶的进化等问题。我们对待我们的REU学生作为同事，期望他们将加入研究界，并能够在与研究生，博士后和教师平等的基础上作出贡献。 我们为希望在科学领域发展自己职业的学生提供背景和经验。 我们计划的成功取决于让学生完成十周的科学过程的全面知识，并在他们的能力，以实施过程中完全有信心。 夏季在学生展示他们的结果在一个科学的会议格式达到高潮。山区研究站位于落基山脉前山脉海拔3000米处，距离大学博尔德校区45分钟路程。 邻近的尼沃特岭生物圈保护区是国家科学基金会长期生态研究基地的所在地。 我们的参与者住在一个营地的乡村小屋里，那里经常有鹿，麋鹿和其他野生动物，但可以使用车站和博尔德校区的世界一流的研究设施。欲了解更多信息和申请材料，请联系教授迈克尔品种在michael.breed@ colorado.edu，（303）492-7687，或访问http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/EEBprojects/reu/。

The Mountain Research Station of the University of Colorado at Boulder will host 10 students each summer in a 10-week REU program in Behavior, Ecology and Evolution. Our goal is to give students the tools needed to understand and conduct biological research, and to encourage students, particularly those from groups that are under-represented in the professoriate, to pursue graduate degrees in biology and, ultimately, careers in teaching and research in colleges and universities. Recruitment of a culturally diverse group of student participants will be based on interest in the appropriate disciplines of their faculty mentors, career goals, and academic achievement. Students in the program will participate in a one-week intensive orientation to field research and then will work on faculty-mentored individual projects for the remainder of the summer. Faculty mentors are drawn from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, have active research programs, and are committed to mentoring undergraduate students. Student projects may focus on issues such as water quality and community ecology in alpine lakes and streams, biogeochemistry and community ecology of alpine and subalpine terrestrial ecosystems, the evolution of plant adaptations for reproduction and survival in montane environments, the behavioral ecology of social insects and birds, and the evolution of mate choice in fish. We treat our REU students as colleagues, with the expectation that they will join the research community and be able to contribute on an equal footing with graduate students, post-docs, and faculty. We provide background and experience to students who wish to advance their careers in science. The success of our program hinges on having students finish the ten weeks with a full knowledge of the scientific process and with complete confidence in their ability to implement the process. The summer culminates in student presentations of their results in a scientific meeting format. The Mountain Research Station, located at 3000 meters elevation in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, is 45 minutes from the University's Boulder campus. The adjacent Niwot Ridge Biosphere Reserve is home to an NSF-Long Term Ecological Research site. Our participants live in rustic cabins in a camp that is frequented by deer, elk, and other wildlife, but have access to world-class research facilities at the Station and the Boulder campus. For further information and application materials, please contact Prof. Michael breed at michael.breed@colorado.edu, (303) 492-7687, or visit http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/EEBprojects/reu/.