REU Site: Interpreting Paleoenvironments -- A Mulidisciplinary, Field and Laboratory Study of Florida's Late Neogene Record

通过8周的现场工作，结合实地工作、实验室调查和综合活动，每年从旨在提高妇女和少数民族地位的机构招募的12名本科生将接受多学科科学的方法、优势和目标的培训，利用佛罗里达州新近纪晚期的地层建立高分辨率地层框架，在其中可以调查海洋环境变化。该项目的教学目标将通过实地工作和实验室分析相结合的方式实现，由两名PI持续指导，外加三名额外的教员和一名经验丰富的研究生助理，提供2：1的学生与导师比例。为了促进指导过程和创造一个多学科的研究环境，两到三个学生组成的小组将参与有重点的研究项目，以测试广泛的假设，这些假设将导致陈述，并在适当的情况下发表论文。

Through 8 weeks on site, combining field work, laboratory investigations, and synthesis activities, 12 undergraduate students per year, recruited from institutions targeted to enhance women and minorities, will be trained in the methods, strengths, and aims of multidisciplinary science, using Florida's Late Neogene strata to erect a high-resolution stratigraphic framework within which oaleoenvironmental change can be investigated. The pedagogic goals of this project will be accomplished through a combination of field work and laboratory analysis, with constant mentoring by the two PIs plus three additional faculty members and an experienced graduate assistant, providing a 2:1 student:mentor ratio. To facilitate the mentoring process and create a multidisciplinary research environment, groups of two or three students will engage in focused research projects to test wide-ranging hypotheses that will result in presentations and, where appropriate, publications.